Nvidia uses AI to make it snow on streets that are always sunny
The sunny weather in California is ideal for training self-driving cars, but it does have its drawbacks. After all, if your autonomous vehicle has only ever driven in perfect visibility, what happens when it runs into a bit of rain or snow? Researchers at Nvidia might have a solution, publishing details this week of an AI framework that lets computers imagine what a sunny street looks like when it’s raining, snowing, or even pitch-black outside. That’s important information for self-driving cars, but the work could have many more applications besides.
The research is based on an AI method that’s particularly good at generating visual data: a generative adversarial network, or GAN. GANs work by combining two separate neural networks —…
