Navigating the Future: Lidar and Autonomous Vehicles

This chapter explores the debate over lidar technology's role in self-driving cars and its safety implications compared to non-lidar systems. It discusses the financial dynamics of ride-hailing services and the potential for peer-to-peer car sharing to offset ownership costs. The conversation emphasizes the evolving landscape of autonomous vehicle integration within ride-sharing platforms and critiques the feasibility of open-source solutions in advancing autonomous driving technology.

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Timestamps:

(0:00) Sunny joins Jason to dive into this week’s AI news and demos.

(1:52) Various user-driven enhancements to Llama 3

(8:28) Abacus runs Llama-3 locally on your iPhone.

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(11:54) ChatGPT's new memory feature

(18:43) Deep dive into the advancements in self-driving car technology and Tesla’s FSD

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(24:30) Sunny breaks down how far we are away to different degrees of self-driving cars. (29:22) Wistia - Try Wistia for free at https://wistia.com/startups

(33:48) Sunny weighs the possibility of a Robotaxi death in the next couple of years.

(37:11) Sunny’s theory that the leader in autonomous cars will be the one to use the Uber model.

(46:02) Jason has producer Cort jump on the pod to try out an “AI Death Calculator”.

(51:10) Sunny demos Vibecheck.

(59:49) Sunny demos Wisdolia.

(1:02:25) Sunny demos Globe Engineer

Check out Groq: https://groq.com/

Check out the tweet about Llama-3: https://twitter.com/minchoi/status/1784907752659161432?s=42&t=79J_alIF_jrz1wn1s5pboQ

Check out vibecheck: https://vibecheck.market/

Check out Globe Engineer: https://explorer.globe.engineer/

Check out qobuz: https://www.qobuz.com/ca-en/discover

Check out Waymo: https://waymo.com/