Self-driving cars need teachers too, and artificial intelligence (AI) can efficiently teach those vehicles to avoid accidents – probably even better than humans.
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One of the best ways to get cars into Driver’s Ed is by using artificial intelligence. Tesla recently unveiled its new supercomputer that will be used to train the neural networks that power Tesla’s Autopilot and upcoming self-driving AI. And as cars become more autonomous, it turns out they’re going to need a lot of training.
“By exposing AI to driving data, AI can start to recognize patterns,” Chris Nicholson, CEO of Pathmind, a company that applies AI to industrial operations, said in an email interview. “Show it images and it can learn what pedestrians look like. Show it sequences of actions on the road and it can learn what causes accidents and how to prevent them.”
“With the right data, AI can make very accurate predictions about what it’s looking at,” Nicholson added. “And what the consequences of a particular action, like turning left or accelerating in the rain, might be.”
