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As I listened to the 99 Percent Invisible episode, I was struck by the familiarity of this shuck: this is *exactly* what the self-driving car bros did over the past decade to convince us all that the human driver was *already* obsolete. The playbook was nearly identical, right down to the shameless huckster insisting that "full self-driving is one to two years away" every year for a decade:

https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/23/23837598/tesla-elon-musk-self-driving-false-promises-land-of-the-giants

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The false promises of Tesla’s Full Self-Driving

Its robots in cars getting coffee — or getting confused by roundabouts — for the latest episode of Land of the Giants: The Tesla Shock Wave.

^{Andrew J. Hawkins (The Verge)}

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The Potemkin rocket belt was a calculated misdirection, as are the "full self-driving" demos that turn out to be routine, pre-programmed runs on carefully manicured closed tracks:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tesla-autopilot-staged-engineer-says-company-faked-full-autopilot/

Practical rocketeering wasn't ever "just around the corner," because a flying, 21 second blast-furnace couldn't be refined into a practical transport. Making the tank bigger would *not* make this thing safer *or* easier to transport.

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Tesla engineer says company faked "full autopilot" video: Report

Head of Tesla autopilot said promo was staged and didn't represent car's actual driving capabilities, Reuters reported.

^{Irina Ivanova (CBS News)}

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It's not just self-driving cars. Time and again, the incredibly impressive AI demos that the press credulously promotes turn out to be scams. The dancing robot on stage at the splashy event is literally a guy in a robot-suit:

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musks-ai-day-tesla-bot-is-just-a-guy-in-a-bodysuit-2021-8

The Hollywood-killing, AI-produced video prompting system is so cumbersome to use, and so severely limited, that it's arguably *worse* than useless:

https://www.wheresyoured.at/expectations-versus-reality/

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Expectations Versus Reality

A few months ago, OpenAI showed off “Sora,” a product that can generate videos based on a short prompt, much like ChatGPT does for text or DALL-E does for images, and I asked myself a pretty simple question: "...

^{Edward Zitron (Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At)}