9 - Autonomous Vehicles with Boris Sofman from Waymo

What’s the deal with autonomous vehicles? For starters, saving 40,000 lives per year and answering some of the most interesting questions in artificial intelligence.

Boris Sofman, Head of Perception and Trucking Engineering at Waymo, came in to discuss the methods used to train autonomous vehicles, covering where datasets are gathered, how performance is evaluated, and how knowledge gained through AV can be leveraged across different industries.

Monte's speaking at some cool events! He'll be presenting at the Feature Store Meetup and TWiMLCon. Find out more at mlminutes.com/events.

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Our intro music is Funkin' It by the Jazzual Suspects, and our outro music is Last Call by Shiny Objects, both on the OM Records label.