Locating Landmarks on the Fly: AI model identifies stationary objects from radar scans.
Autonomous Vehicles

Locating Landmarks on the Fly: AI model identifies stationary objects from radar scans.

Directions such as “turn left at the big tree, go three blocks, and stop at the big red house on your left” can get you to your destination because they refer to stationary landmarks. New research enables self-driving cars to identify such stable indicators on their own.

March 4, 20202 min read
Locating Landmarks on the Fly: AI model identifies stationary objects from radar scans.
Autonomous Vehicles

Locating Landmarks on the Fly: AI model identifies stationary objects from radar scans.

Directions such as “turn left at the big tree, go three blocks, and stop at the big red house on your left” can get you to your destination because they refer to stationary landmarks. New research enables self-driving cars to identify such stable indicators on their own.

March 4, 20202 min read
Imitation Learning in the Wild: How a drone's obstacle avoidance system works
Autonomous Vehicles

Imitation Learning in the Wild: How a drone's obstacle avoidance system works

Faster than a speeding skateboard! Able to dodge tall trees while chasing a dirt bike! It’s … an upgrade in the making from an innovative drone maker.

February 26, 20202 min read
Imitation Learning in the Wild: How a drone's obstacle avoidance system works
Autonomous Vehicles

Imitation Learning in the Wild: How a drone's obstacle avoidance system works

Faster than a speeding skateboard! Able to dodge tall trees while chasing a dirt bike! It’s … an upgrade in the making from an innovative drone maker.

February 26, 20202 min read
Phantom Menace: Fake images can fool some self-driving cars.
Autonomous Vehicles

Phantom Menace: Fake images can fool some self-driving cars.

Some self-driving cars can’t tell the difference between a person in the roadway and an image projected on the street. A team of researchers used projectors to trick semiautonomous vehicles into detecting people, road signs, and lane markings that didn’t exist.

February 12, 20202 min read
Phantom Menace: Fake images can fool some self-driving cars.
Autonomous Vehicles

Phantom Menace: Fake images can fool some self-driving cars.

Some self-driving cars can’t tell the difference between a person in the roadway and an image projected on the street. A team of researchers used projectors to trick semiautonomous vehicles into detecting people, road signs, and lane markings that didn’t exist.

February 12, 20202 min read
AI Steals CES: A roundup of the AI products showcased at CES 2020
Autonomous Vehicles

AI Steals CES: A roundup of the AI products showcased at CES 2020

Artificial intelligence was everywhere at the biggest, buzziest consumer-technology showcase in the U.S. AI ruled the convention floor at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, as numerous media outlets proclaimed.

January 15, 20202 min read
AI Steals CES: A roundup of the AI products showcased at CES 2020
Autonomous Vehicles

AI Steals CES: A roundup of the AI products showcased at CES 2020

Artificial intelligence was everywhere at the biggest, buzziest consumer-technology showcase in the U.S. AI ruled the convention floor at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, as numerous media outlets proclaimed.

January 15, 20202 min read
Anima Anandkumar — The Power of Simulation: How simulation can be useful for supervised learning
Autonomous Vehicles

Anima Anandkumar — The Power of Simulation: How simulation can be useful for supervised learning

We’ve had great success with supervised deep learning on labeled data. Now it’s time to explore other ways to learn: training on unlabeled data, lifelong learning, and especially letting models explore a simulated environment before transferring what they learn to the real world.

January 1, 20202 min read
Anima Anandkumar — The Power of Simulation: How simulation can be useful for supervised learning
Autonomous Vehicles

Anima Anandkumar — The Power of Simulation: How simulation can be useful for supervised learning

We’ve had great success with supervised deep learning on labeled data. Now it’s time to explore other ways to learn: training on unlabeled data, lifelong learning, and especially letting models explore a simulated environment before transferring what they learn to the real world.

January 1, 20202 min read
Simulation Substitutes for Data: When simulation works wonders with deep learning
Autonomous Vehicles

Simulation Substitutes for Data: When simulation works wonders with deep learning

The future of machine learning may depend less on amassing ground-truth data than simulating the environment in which a model will operate. Deep learning works like magic with enough high-quality data. When examples are scarce, though, researchers are using simulation to fill the gap.

December 24, 20191 min read
Simulation Substitutes for Data: When simulation works wonders with deep learning
Autonomous Vehicles

Simulation Substitutes for Data: When simulation works wonders with deep learning

The future of machine learning may depend less on amassing ground-truth data than simulating the environment in which a model will operate. Deep learning works like magic with enough high-quality data. When examples are scarce, though, researchers are using simulation to fill the gap.

December 24, 20191 min read
Seeing the World Blindfolded: The observational dropout technique, explained
Autonomous Vehicles

Seeing the World Blindfolded: The observational dropout technique, explained

In reinforcement learning, if researchers want an agent to have an internal representation of its environment, they’ll build and train a world model that it can refer to. New research shows that world models can emerge from standard training, rather than needing to be built separately.

December 11, 20192 min read
Seeing the World Blindfolded: The observational dropout technique, explained
Autonomous Vehicles

Seeing the World Blindfolded: The observational dropout technique, explained

In reinforcement learning, if researchers want an agent to have an internal representation of its environment, they’ll build and train a world model that it can refer to. New research shows that world models can emerge from standard training, rather than needing to be built separately.

December 11, 20192 min read
What the Watchbot Sees: How Knightscope security robots use AI for surveillance
Autonomous Vehicles

What the Watchbot Sees: How Knightscope security robots use AI for surveillance

Knightscope’s security robots look cute. But these cone-headed automatons, which serve U.S. police departments and businesses, are serious surveillance machines.

November 20, 20192 min read

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