ITREALMS:
A new ITU Focus Group on 'AI for autonomous and assisted driving' will
work towards the establishment of international standards to monitor and assess
the performance of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) 'Drivers' steering automated vehicles, reports
ITREALMS.
The group, ITREALMS gathered, is open to all interested
parties and is expected to build public trust in automated vehicles as the
prerequisite to their success in reducing the 1.3 million deaths on roads each
year.
Also, the Focus Group's primary objective is to validate the
driving behaviour of automated vehicles so as to present evidence to justify
this public trust.
Its ultimate aim is to meet the public expectation that:
- AI
never engages in careless, dangerous or reckless driving behaviour
- AI
remains aware, willing and able to avoid collisions at all times
- AI
meets or exceeds the performance of a competent, careful human driver
"Connectivity and automation show great promise to
improve road safety," said ITU Secretary-General Houlin Zhao. "This
Focus Group is a welcome initiative to ensure that assisted and autonomous
driving technologies exhibit the behaviour required to fulfil this
promise."
"Standards support new partnerships," said Chaesub
Lee, Director of the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Bureau. "This
Focus Group builds on over a decade of ITU work to ensure that the convergence
of the ICT and automotive industries is rooted in mutual trust and
understanding."
"Should there be an equivalent of a Turing Test for AI
on our roads? Absolutely," said the Focus Group's Chairman, Bryn Balcombe,
Autonomous Drivers Alliance (ADA). "Especially when all drivers, human or
AI, need a shared understanding to predict both behaviours and risks."
The motivations for the project were first elaborated at the
third edition of the AI
for Good Global Summit in Geneva, 28-31 May 2019, where
discussions led by ADA highlighted the public expectation that AI Drivers
should be held to the same legal standards as human drivers.
The original Turing Test is a test of a machine's ability to
exhibit intelligent behaviour equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of
a human.
The proposed Turing Test for the road could become the basis
for an International Driving Permit for AI. The right hold to this permit would
be assessed continuously, based on the AI Driver's behavioural performance on
the road.
ITU Focus Groups accelerate ITU studies in fields of
growing strategic relevance to ITU membership. They establish a basis for
related international standardization work in ITU Study Groups. The ITU Focus
Group on ‘AI for autonomous and assisted driving’ will report to ITU-T Study
Group 16 (Multimedia).
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