Archive - Wondrous Robotic Futures

Full Autonomy is Harder Than I Thought

Jul 18, 2023 •

Yarrow Bouchard

October 2022

The Age of Auto-Labeling is the Age of Automation

A paradigm shift for AI

Oct 6, 2022 •

Yarrow Bouchard

July 2022

Visual Transformers Are Becoming the New Paradigm in Computer Vision

Across the AI industry, convolutional neural networks (or ConvNets) are being replaced with Visual Transformers (or ViTs) for computer vision tasks — or…

Jul 3, 2022 •

Yarrow Bouchard

June 2022

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Pay what you want for "Wondrous Robotics Futures", the mini-ebook

Jun 11, 2022 •

Yarrow Bouchard

New mini-ebook published

With the advent of deep neural networks, AI systems have become neurobiologically plausible models of intelligence. AI researchers and engineers now use…

Jun 6, 2022 •

Yarrow Bouchard

February 2022

A Simple Calculation About Tesla's AI Data Advantage Over Waymo

Tesla has at least an 50% performance advantage

Feb 20, 2022 •

Yarrow Bouchard

January 2022

Tesla's Ace in the Hole: 60,000 Full Self-Driving Beta Testers

The age of AI robotics cometh

Jan 28, 2022 •

Yarrow Bouchard

June 2021

Tesla and the Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data

Why does the size of Tesla’s training fleet matter?

Jun 3, 2021 •

Yarrow Bouchard

June 2020

Tesla: When Every Input is a Label

Weak supervision and automatic human labelling

Jun 14, 2020 •

Yarrow Bouchard

March 2020

Why I'm becoming more bullish on self-driving cars

Eighteen months ago, I viewed the near-term technological feasibility of self-driving cars as a largely unsolvable mystery.

Mar 27, 2020 •

Yarrow Bouchard

Are Zoox's self-driving vehicles already superhuman drivers?

In an interview released on Friday, Jesse Levinson, the Chief Technology Officer of the self-driving car startup Zoox, made a remarkable comment about…

Mar 8, 2020 •

Yarrow Bouchard

Waymo is valued at $30 billion by its investors

And the fact of computer science that markets are missing

Mar 6, 2020 •

Yarrow Bouchard

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