British self-driving car startup Wayve is heading west. The company’s cars learned to drive on the streets of London. But Wayve has announced it will also begin testing the technology in San Francisco and surrounding areas, which brings new challenges. The AI needs to switch from driving on the left to driving on the right.
As visitors to or from the UK know, making the transition is harder than you might think. The way you look at the road, the way the vehicle turns, etc. are all different. The move to the US will be a test of Wayve’s technology. The company claims its technology is more general-purpose than what many of its competitors offer.
For the first time, Wayve will face off against heavyweights in the growing self-driving car industry, including Cruise, Waymo and Tesla. Senior AI Editor Will Douglas Heaven accompanied us on a visit to the company’s offices. Read on to find out what he thought.
Children are learning how to create their own little language models.
“It’s very exciting to learn and understand more about how this new AI technology works,” says 10-year-old Luca, a young AI model builder.
Luca was one of the first children to try Little Language Models, a new application from Manuj and Shruti Dhariwal, two PhD researchers at the MIT Media Lab. This app helps children understand how AI models work by building small-scale versions of themselves.
This program introduces the complex concepts that make modern AI models work without the ramblings of a theoretical lecture. Instead, children can see and visualize the concepts in action, which helps them understand the concepts. Read the full story.
