Oliver Cameron

Oliver Cameron is the Co-Founder and CEO of Voyage. Before that he was the lead of the Udacity Self-Driving Car program that made ideas in autonomous vehicle research and development accessible to the world. For more lecture videos on deep learning, reinforcement learning (RL), artificial intelligence (AI & AGI), and podcast conversations, visit our website or follow TensorFlow code tutorials on our GitHub repo.

Outline:

0:00 - Lex introducing Oliver
0:39 - Oliver background
4:40 - Udacity self-driving car engineer nanodegree program
14:10 - Autonomous trip from Mountain View to San Francisco
23:11 - Open source challenges
26:48 - Birth of Voyage
31:58 - Retirement communities
38:35 - Sensor and technology stack
40:45 - Example challenge for perception (foliage)
41:58 - Survey of recent perception research
45:51 - Lessons learned
48:45 - Q&A

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Oliver Cameron and Voyage are shipping a practical robo-taxi that is up and running today. They're a robotaxi service for senior citizens in some of the largest senior living communities in the world. They've built a practical robo-taxi company that is poised to drive real revenue now, not decades in the future.

Ford Motor created the mass produced car, and did it with minimal startup capital. Our contrarian view is that Voyage will create the first practical robo-taxi as a standalone company— and they'll do it without spending Mission-to-Mars style R&D budgets to get there? How? You'll have to watch to find out.

00:00 Intro
00:44 Meet Oliver Cameron
01:17 Demo of Voyage driving today
04:32 Inside view of the brains of the software
05:29 Voyage is live and in use today
07:33 How Voyage built practical autonomy without spending billions
08:38 The dangers of science projects raising billions
11:44 Constraints generate great innovation
12:35 Revolutionary idea: Make money
16:19 Building autonomous vehicles should be more like building Ford than NASA
17:05 What Oliver wish he knew first starting out
21:02 Voyage is hiring

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