How AI struggles with bike lanes and bias

We've been so worried about whether AI-driven robots will take our jobs that we forgot to ask a much more basic question: will they take our bike lanes? That's the question Austin, Texas, is currently grappling with, and it points to all sorts of unresolved issues related to AI and robots. As revealed in Anaconda's State of Data Science 2021 report, the biggest concern data scientists have with AI today is the possibility, even likelihood, of bias in the algorithms. Leave it to Austin (tagline: "Keep Austin weird") to be the first to have to grapple with robot overlords taking over their bike lanes. If a robot that looks like a "futuristic ice cream truck" in your lane seems innocuous, consider what Jake Boone, vice-chair of Austin's Bicycle Advisory Council, has to say: "What if in two years we have several hundred of these on the road?" If this seems unlikely, consider just how fast electric scooters took over many cities.