Harvard B-School academic, Prof Julian De Freitas pitted humans against AI in a gaming simulation that ” tested the players’ ability to find themselves and respond appropriately amid environments that required increasingly more flexible self-orienting”.

And humans won 4-0.

Bottom-line- AI struggles with geo-spatial self-orientation—a fundamental skill ingrained in humans from childhood.

This deficiency poses significant implications for autonomous driving AI, where spatial awareness is crucial. Humans, with years of experience navigating roads, excel at anticipating unexpected hazards. This casts doubt on the near-future viability of fully autonomous driving. “Self-driving cars would have to clock billions to hundreds of billions of miles using their current methods to achieve a fatality rate in line with that of human drivers: one per 100 million miles…Tesla’s beta version of FSD, according to Elon Musk, has covered some 300 million miles; the company would have to scale up mileage by 100 to 1,000 times to create a system that is as good as human” per Michael DeKort (https://lnkd.in/eJwwyygJ).

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