🪩The State of AI 2023 is now here. Our 6th installment is one of the most exciting years I can remember. The #stateofai report covers everything you *need* to know, covering research, industry, safety and politics. There’s lots in there, so here’s my director’s cut 🧵

📣 Calling Papers (2nd track) to the Machine Learning for Autonomous Driving Symposium 2023! 📚 Submit by 16th Nov: ml4ad.github.io 🗓 When: 14th Dec 2023 📍 Where: Hilton Garden Inn @ New Orleans Convention Center (co-located with NeurIPS) 🤝 Sponsored by: Waymo and TRI

We’re thrilled to sponsor this year’s ML for Autonomous Driving Symposium on December 14. ML4AD 2023 will see researchers, industry experts, and practitioners come together to redefine the future of autonomous driving technologies. Join us in New Orleans! ml4ad.github.io

Rodney Brooks' annual predictions for robotics and AI: rodneybrooks.com/predictions-sc… While there's many predictions on twitter, I love that Rodney timestamps and dates his predictions, and later scores past predictions, to help gauge confidence in his future predictions

Leveraging AI for semantic understanding of complex driving scenes is a key capability of the #WaymoDriver. Check out this example of it autonomously interpreting and adhering to a police officer directing traffic in Los Angeles.

A black swan event for AVs (Perth, Australia)

Waymo for pets! 🐱🐶 youtube.com/watch?v=ljbeFp…

Autonomous vehicles in San Francisco: what it's like 🤖🚗🌉

AV gesture recognition 👋🤖 (LA, source: reddit.com/r/SelfDrivingC…)

Some fun videos on how Waymo's fleet response works: how human agents can inform or guide Waymo vehicles in ambiguous situations: waymo.com/blog/2024/05/f…

We’ve avoided a meaningful number of injuries over Waymo’s 10M+ rider-only miles. Sometimes a specific instance can be more eye-opening than the stats. We’re not perfect, but our driver never gets distracted and can react faster than a human. From waymo.com/blog/2024/05/f…

waymo dodges an occluded oncoming left turner

Everyone can hail robotaxis in SF now, no more waitlists or invite codes, the Waymo One app lets you summon robot cars anytime, anywhere here: waymo.com/blog/2024/06/w…

I’m happy to share that I’ve started a new position as Assistant Professor at The University of Toronto! I'll lead the Learning, Embodied Autonomy, and Forecasting (LEAF) Lab. Find us at leaf-lab-utoronto.github.io

Part of being a good driver is driving defensively while reasoning about things occluded from your view, and reacting quickly to any sudden changes in the scene. This is exactly what we’ve trained the Waymo Driver’s AI to do and happy to see validation in real-life scenarios.

Excited to share that I will be joining Princeton University as an Assistant Professor in ECE & Robotics next academic year! 🐯🤖 robo.princeton.edu I am recruiting PhD students for the upcoming admissions cycle. If you are interested in working with me, please consider applying.

Super motivating seeing reduced bodily injury rates, and why AVs are such amazing robots to work on

So excited to be co-organizing a workshop on computational models of human road user behavior at #iavvc2025 this year! Join us! (link below) 📅 Key deadlines: 🔹 abstracts (including abstract-only & full papers): Feb 16, 2025 🔹 full papers: Mar 30, 2025

See the pedestrians? Easier with lidar + vision + radar!

At TRI’s newest division: Automated Driving Advanced Development, we’re building a clean-slate, end-to-end autonomy stack. We're hiring, with open roles in learning, infra, and validation: tri.global/careers#open-p…