[wds]

> I think we’re close to AI substantially contributing to scientific discovery.

The new "Full Self-Driving next year"?

[Velorivox]

"AI" already contributes "substantially" to "scientific discovery". It's a very safe statement to make, whereas "full self-driving" has some concrete implications.

[mort96]

"AI" here means language models. Machine learning has been contributing to scientific discovery for ages, but this new wave of hype that marketing departments are calling "AI" are language models.

[Aperocky]

Well I also think full self-driving contribute substantially to navigating the car on the street..

[oceanplexian]

I know it’s a meme but there actually are fully self driving cars, they make thousands of trips every day in a couple US cities.

[elefanten]

The capitalization makes it a Tesla reference, which has notoriously been promising that as an un-managed consumer capability for years, while it is not yet launched even now.

[bigyabai]

> in a couple US cities

FWIW, when you get this reductive with your criterion there were technically self-driving cars in 2008 too.

[manmal]

I thought FSD has to be at least level 4 to be called that.

[kakapo5672]

As an aside, that is happening in China right now in commercial vehicles. I rode a robotaxi last month in Beijing, and those services are expanding throughout China. Really impressive.

[tim333]

We have Waymo and AlphaFold.