Sony is working on an AI-powered taxi system

Sony is leading an alliance of taxi companies to create an AI-powered hailing system. While Uber brought us on-demand taxi rides at the press of a button, Sony wants to use AI to further improve on the model. By studying conditions such as traffic, weather, and current events — taxis can be dispatched automatically where needed. One example, which many of us will have experienced, is the frustration of getting transport home after a concert. Sony’s algorithm would ensure a fleet of...

20 February 2018 | Connected Cars

Nuance exhibits conversational AI-powered solutions at CES 2018

Nuance Communications is exhibiting a range of conversational AI-powered solutions for connected vehicles/devices and smart homes at CES 2018. Nuance’s artificially intelligent automotive assistant - Dragon Drive - which has won the CES Innovation Award -  is upgraded with new AI-powered features that diminish the gap between in-car and outside-the-car experiences and adds more human like experience to the automotive platform. Dragon Drive now incorporates conversational AI with...

12 January 2018 | Connected Cars

Nvidia seeks pole position in AI for connected cars with DRIVE Xavier SoC

Nvidia has announced its first Xavier autonomous machine processors are up and running for the company’s self-driving car platform, DRIVE. Xavier is designed to power the NVIDIA DRIVE software stack which has been expanded to a trio of AI platforms covering every aspect of the experience inside next-generation automobiles. DRIVE AV — This part of the DRIVE platform was also available in the previous generation and uses neural networks to perform the calculations required for...

8 January 2018 | Connected Cars

Musk: Tesla is building its own AI chips

In an unsurprising revelation, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has finally admitted his company is building its own AI chips. Tesla is a pioneering and forward-looking company and, as our readers know well, AI is the future of just about everything. It would have been a safe bet Tesla intends to be at the forefront. During a Tesla-hosted party at the NIPS intelligence conference in Long Beach, which has been called ‘draft day’ for how AI companies use it to recruit talent, Musk told attendees: "I...

8 December 2017 | Connected Cars

NVIDIA unveils Pegasus AI-powered supercomputer for self-driving robotaxis

NVIDIA has unveiled an AI-powered supercomputer called Pegasus to power ‘Level 5’ self-driving vehicles. The announcement was made during the company’s GTC Europe event in Munich, Germany, with the intention of making self-driving ‘robotaxis’ a reality. Pegasus is powered by four high-performance AI processors. It couples two of NVIDIA's newest Xavier system-on-a-chip processors — featuring an embedded GPU based on the NVIDIA Volta architecture — with two next-generation...

10 October 2017 | Connected Cars