The Download: Wayve’s driverless ambitions and AI models created by kids
The UK’s driverless car startup Wayve is heading west. The cars of the company learned how to drive in London. Wayve announced it would begin testing its technology in San Francisco, too. This will bring a new challenge, as the AI will have to change from driving to the left to driving to the right. It’s all a different experience. Your view of road, the way the vehicle turns — it’s all a bit different. Wayve claims that the technology it uses in the US is more versatile than many of its competitors. Will Douglas Heaven, senior AI editor at The Next Web, took a ride with the company. Read on to find out what he thought.
Kids are learning how to make their own little language models
“This new AI technology–it’s very interesting to learn how it works and understand it more,” says 10-year-old Luca, a young AI model maker.
Luca is one of the first kids to try Little Language Models, a new application from Manuj and Shruti Dhariwal, two PhD researchers at MIT’s Media Lab, that helps children understand how AI models work–by getting to build small-scale versions themselves.
The program is a way to introduce the complex concepts that make modern AI models work without droning on about them in a theoretical lecture. Kids can build and visualize the concepts to help them understand them. Read the complete story.
