The Big Ways Full Self Driving & Machine Learning Differ From Our Brains

In a previous article, I discussed my long-term plan to learn more about machine learning, starting with the Elements of AI courses. While I'm only at the beginning of this journey, what I've learned so far has been very enlightening. It's tempting to see systems like Tesla's Full Self Driving (FSD) beta as a child that is learning by doing while we supervise and keep things safe. Eventually, we think, the "child" will grow up and be like us, and then maybe even be better at human driving than humans. After studying the basics more, it's clear that this isn't what machine learning does.