GM produced a self-driving car prototype…in 1958. There’s a short documentary about it. Required wires in the road rather than machine learning.
Presumably their PR machine said, "They’ll be commercially viable by 1959."
Decision Machines
A recent article on the Harvard Business School’s Digital Initiative blog argues that we need to move beyond prediction to create "decision machines".
It is decisions, not predictions, that have consequences.
I couldn’t agree more. However, I’m not sure that the current focus on statistical machine learning is going to lead us there.