Subject: Re: A thought about AI
Anything operating in a real world environment has to be infinitely better than the Roomba bumping around the house

I can't speak to robotaxis, which I intend to avoid for as long as possible - but modern low-end robovacs, like my Xiaomi S20+ "Xiulan", are much cleverer than the original Roomba algorithm and deal pretty well with alterations in their environment - avoid and return later, etc. Also much more powerful drive systems and able to leap over obstacles that blocked earlier models. Though I suspect mine would not deal with with being off-net since starting it requires an app for anything except the most basic modes, which is annoying.

A far cry from avoiding children running into traffic, true.