[ExI] Disruptive AI

[Keith Henson]

On Sat, Aug 3, 2024 at 8:05 PM Kelly Anderson via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>  and in the process they
> are going to knock out Yellow and some of the other big shippers.

Not Yellow, they went bankrupt a year ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Corporation

Worth reading.  It sounds a bit like they were trying what you suggested.

Keith



> There's too much money for the invisible hand not to get involved at
> some point. The whole industry is absolutely full of low hanging
> fruit. I guess it's not a sexy enough problem for young programmers to
> want to solve. Too "yesterday" for the folks in Silicon Valley. But I
> feel such a NEED for more efficient use of a smaller and smaller
> number of drivers. And yes, autonomous trucks are just around the
> corner, but that's not the problem as I see it. It's how to connect
> shippers to trucks going in the right direction efficiently. A vast
> number of trucks go driving around half empty. It's a horrible waste.
>
> -Kelly
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