Nvidia Car Learns To Drive By Watching Humans - InformationWeek

Nvidia researchers have created a convolutional neural network which has learned the rules of the road by observing video from cars operated by human drivers. The achievement demonstrates one reason there's so much excitement about artificial intelligence in the tech industry at the moment: When AI systems can learn, they require less programming. Danny Shapiro, Nvidia's senior director of automotive, said in a blog post that the company wanted to create a robust system for driving on public roads without the need to write code to handle every specific condition a driver might encounter, a requirement he considers impractical. Nvidia's nine-month-old project, dubbed DAVE2, represents an effort to expand on DARPA Autonomous Vehicle (DAVE) research, which aimed to create a system that could navigate public roads. DAVE ran from September 2003 through June 2004.