Huawei’s Mate 10 Pro, a smartphone made by the company that has the ability to use artificial intelligence or AI, recently learned how to drive a car, specifically the Porsche Panamera.
The engineers responsible for teaching the AI used the phone’s NPU, the part of the Kirin 970 chipset that accelerates machine learning tasks, along with the two Leica cameras. This was part of Huawei’s “RoadReader” driverless car experiment that aids a smartphone in detecting obstacles in their paths and evade them when necessary.
In regards to the project, Huawei Western Europe’s Chief Marketing Officer, Andrew Garrihy also mentioned the following statement:
“Our smartphone is already outstanding at object recognition. We wanted to see if in a short space of time we could teach it to not only drive a car, but to use its AI capabilities to see certain objects, and be taught to avoid them. If our technology is intelligent enough to achieve this in just 5 weeks – what else can it make possible?”
Huawei will be presenting the the RoadReader experiment during the MWC 2018. Not only will the project be demonstrated, the people attending will also get a chance to take a ride and experience it for themselves.
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