Computer Vision News - October 2022

14 AI Spotlight News Computer Vision News has found great new stories, written somewhere else by somebody else. We share them with you, adding a short comment. Enjoy! Lyft, Argo AI begin robotaxi rides in Austin Almost there: after hitting Las Vegas and Miami, Lyft and Argo AI are deploying their robotaxi also in Austin, Texas. Does it mean that the era of autonomous cars has officially started? Not yet. These Ford-built vehicles are still hosting not one, but two safety drivers in the front seats. Rides are requested via the Lyft app and ride prizes will be the same as regular Lyft rides. The goal is to scale up to at least 1,000 autonomous vehicles on the Lyft network over the next five years. Of course, the company aims at offering fully autonomous rides in the future. When? When regulatory environment, safety data and community acceptance will permit it. Read More Intel Launches Geti OpenVINO- Optimized Computer Vision Platform, Early-Access Developer Cloud We already hinted at this 3 months ago on our annual BEST OF CVPR report : the great folks at Intel , still aiming at being considered a software company (with 20,000 software developers!), have launched Geti, a new computer vision platform, designed specifically for OpenVINO. Geti provides a single unified interface for data upload and annotation, model training, and retraining; while OpenVINO is Intel’s Open Visual Inference and Neural-network Optimization toolkit. Why is this so important? Do you want to know more? Drop us a word and we’ll invite the Intel folks to tell us more in one of our next issues. Read More Understanding reality through algorithms This astonishing youngwoman - Fernandade laTorre is her name–was born inMexicoand immigrated very young to theUSA. She is nowa Neuroscience PhD student at MIT and she uses complex algorithms to investigate philosophical questions about perception and reality , “ to understand how the mind works, and how it is that we can all be in the same environment and feel very different things. ” Fernanda is now engaged in what she describes as more philosophical questions about how one develops a sense of self as an independent being. Watch the Inspiring Video!