Roderick Bauer

LINGO-1 just keeps getting better! Here's our latest AI breakthrough enabling the ability to now "show and tell" while we drive.

Pleasure to host Transport Secretary @Mark_J_Harper for an autonomous drive from DfT to Parliament (in pouring rain on a complex route we'd never done before!) to demonstrate the opportunity to improve road safety and celebrate the UK's announcement of self-driving legislation.

This is a huge moment for self-driving in the UK! I am delighted that an Automated Vehicles Bill was included in the King’s Speech today. This legislation gives companies like Wayve the green light to grow our businesses in the UK and bring the benefits of this transformative technology here first. #KingsSpeech #selfdriving #autonomousvehicles

A big week for AI policy! The Bletchley Agreement is a good starting point for a unified international approach to AI regulation—it’s encouraging to see a more measured tone on the risks with a commitment to innovation. But… ⚖️ It's crucial that any legal frameworks are sector specific as domain-expert regulators are best placed to assess the benefits and navigate the risks of AI while encouraging innovation 📍The hard work starts now. We need to make sure our sector regulators can support the huge opportunity AI presents to bring new products to market safely 🤔 Further consideration is needed on how increased transparency might overly impact SMEs and start-ups in protecting their intellectual property, especially across different jurisdictions gov.uk/government/publicatio…

This week, the UK Govt hosts the AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park (home to Alan Turing’s work pioneering the field of AI). Balancing innovation and safety is a complex, ongoing debate and I’m not sure anyone has figured out how to regulate general purpose frontier AI models yet. However it’s crucial not to let this distract us from unlocking extraordinary value AI can provide in specific verticals like transport, health, and education. Take self-driving vehicles for example. 🚙 This technology will eliminate the daily serious injuries/deaths we see on our roads – tragically 1 serious injury/death every 22 minutes in the UK costing the NHS £2.3bn. Over the last decade, the industry has recognised that AI is required to achieve self-driving at scale, the problem is too complex to solve with hand-coded rules and maps. Most of the debate around how to regulate AI focuses on cross-sectoral regulation. For self-driving, this won’t work. We need regulation designed by the sectoral experts themselves in government, industry and academia to address the specific opportunities and challenges of self-driving. And, we’re already doing that! As an industry, we must follow rigorous standards and testing to ensure the technology is deployed in a safe and responsible way. For example, we use systems engineering to ensure our technology has appropriate fail-safes and we rigorously test our performance to understand our AI's capabilities. But that’s not to say there’s no work to do for Government. AI will transform our sectors and our sectoral regulators need support. Instead of risking wasted resources on new sweeping regulators, we need to properly fund and build AI expertise in our sector-specific regulators. This will help us understand the benefits of AI and bringing new products to market safely. We’ll be continuing to talk about the importance and benefits of AI regulation over the next week across my profile and @wayve_ai's. Watch this space! 📍

Awesome pitch on stage, @gates_sj !

It was great chatting to my friend @misssaxbys on this week's @Siftedeu podcast about building @wayve_ai and our vision of propelling the world forward with Embodied AI

We scaled our world model GAIA-1 480x larger and the results are incredible: