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Posted by xnx 11 hours ago

The Waymo World Model(waymo.com)
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anigbrowl 6 hours ago|
Seems relevant: Waymo exec admits remote operators in Philippines help guide US Robotaxis

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46918043

KeyBoardG 6 hours ago||
and I literally just saw the other headline "Waymo says its robotaxis get help from remote workers in the Philippines"
PeterStuer 10 hours ago||
Imagine driving in a Waymo 'out of a raging fire'.

Talk about edge cases.

But, what would you do? Trust the Waymo, or get out (or never get in) at the first sign of trouble?

breckinloggins 9 hours ago||
Interesting question. If the Waymo was driving aggressively to remove us from the situation but relatively safely I might stay in it.

This does bring up something, though: Waymo has a "pull over" feature, but it's hidden behind a couple of touch screen actions involving small virtual buttons and it does not pull over immediately. Instead, it "finds a spot to pull over". I would very much like a big red STOP IMMEDIATELY button in these vehicles.

bragr 9 hours ago|||
>it's hidden behind a couple of touch screen actions involving small virtual buttons and it does not pull over immediately

It was on the home screen when I've taken it, and when I tested it, it seemed to pull to the first safe place. I don't trust the general pubic with a stop button.

tensor 9 hours ago||||
Can you not just unlock and open the door? Wouldn't that cause it to immediately stop? Or can you not unlock the door manually? I'd be surprised if there was not an emergency door release.
arctic-true 6 hours ago||||
I feel like this ends with drunk morons accidentally creating Waymo barricades and totally ruining Mardi Gras
phainopepla2 7 hours ago|||
Imagine how many drunk/careless passengers might press it. Stopping in the middle of the street or highway could be a serious safety hazard.
kylehotchkiss 9 hours ago||
I can! If the Waymo got you into one on the way home because Google didn’t integrate with watch duty yet, that’s plausible
LowLevelKernel 8 hours ago||
Instructions to load it on WAYMAX simulator?
threethirtytwo 6 hours ago||
What if we put this mechanism of recording the world on people. We have mics listening to people talking to us and noises we hear.

Also we record body position actuation and self speech. As output then we put this on thousands of people to get as much data as Waymo gets.

I mean that’s what we need to imitate agi right? I guess the only thing missing is the memory mechanism. We train everything as if it’s an input and output function without accounting for memory.

ge96 8 hours ago||
What is the 5/3 tiles? Cameras?
spaceywilly 7 hours ago|
The model generates camera and Lidar data. As if it was a Waymo car that drove through the simulated scenario with its cameras running. This synthetic training data can then be used to train the driving models.
ge96 7 hours ago||
Wonder how it'll do. The trees change shape (presumably the Lidar patterns do too). I get the premise/why but it seems odd to me (armchair) to use fake data. Real trees don't change shape (in real time) although it can be windy.

It probably doesn't matter though, "this general blob over there"

LightBug1 5 hours ago||
Have been seeing Waymo test vehicles regularly around central London recently, operating at speed.

For shits and giggles, I did stop randomly while crossing the road and acted like a jerk.

The Waymo did, in fact, stop.

Kudos, Waymo

AndrewKemendo 8 hours ago||
For whatever it’s worth World models is going to be the dominant computing structure of the future

I started working heavily on realizing them in 2016 and it is unquestionably (finally) the future of AI

01100011 8 hours ago||
Nvidia has had this for years. What am I missing?
tgrowazay 8 hours ago|
This page crashes my browser.

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