For Episode 8, Pieter Abbeel interviews Alex Kendall, the co-founder and CEO of Wayve, the London-based company pioneering AI technology to enable autonomous vehicles to drive in complex, never-seen-before environments. Alex is a world expert in deep learning and computer vision. Before founding Wayve, Alex was a research fellow at Cambridge University where he earned his Ph.D. in Computer Vision and Robotics.
Wayve is building global momentum for the use of deep learning to solve self-driving. Alex and his team are building AV2.0-a next generation autonomous driving system that can quickly and safely adapt to new driving domains anywhere in the world.
The interview spans a range of topics including Wayve's technological approach, its metrics for success, and Wayve's latest milestones.
What's in this episode:
00:00:00 - Introduction
00:02:18 - The early days of Wayve and Alex's education
00:09:51 - The vision of AV 2.0, end-to-end learning explained
00:17:41 - Last-mile grocery delivery trial
00:25:19 - How Wayve measures progress & the challenge of objective function, the metric of miles per human intervention
00:34:28 - Building trust between humans and machines
00:40:18 - The camera sensor debate
00:46:05 - How Wayve's tech stack differs from Tesla & Waymo
00:57:24 - What the future will bring
Links:
Website: wayve.ai/
AV 2.0 explained: wayve.ai/blog/a-new-approach-...
Twitter: / alexgkendall
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Host: Pieter Abbeel
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