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GPT-6 Astra has gained the ability to drive a car

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  1. valine · · focus · HN ↗
    The bitter lesson is finally coming for the self-driving cars. The vision stack, 3D maps, lane selection grammar, occupancy networks, it’s maybe all about to give way to a single GPT looking at camera feeds and predicting the next steering wheel adjustment.

    It’s mostly a latency problem at this point. The models are too big to run locally, but given that open-weight models like Qwen already exist, an open-weight, low latency equivalent to Astra can’t be too far out.

    1. ed_balls · · focus · HN ↗
      I think this a slight different lesson. There is one algorithm that is called transformer, rest is irreverent/performance optimization.
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