Toyota announced Friday it would invest $50 million in research facilities at Stanford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to study and develop artificial intelligence for future safety and autonomous driving.
The facilities will teach computers to recognize and monitor objects — a swerving car vs. a parking one was provided as one example — on the road that drivers are too busy for because “Candy Crush.”
The joint programs at MIT and Stanford will first develop enhanced safety systems designed to “share control” with drivers and computers. Eventually, researchers believe, people will just forget that they care and give up driving to the robots.
“AI-assisted driving is a perfect platform for advancing fundamental human-centric artificial intelligence research while also producing practical applications,” Fei-Fei Li, an associate professor of computer science at Stanford, director of SAIL and the director of the new AI center, said according to the manufacturer. “Autonomous driving provides a scenario where AI can deliver smart tools for assistance in decision making and planning to human drivers.”
The Stanford lab was created with the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab, which helped create chess-playing computers in the 1960s, pioneered AI in the 1970s and recently competed in the 2007 DARPA urban challenge for autonomous cars.
(H/T to David for sending this over.)
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