Speaker: Ben Snyder, Director of AI Research for Autonomous Vehicles, General Motorsx000D
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GM’s driver-assistance systems now power millions of vehicles across North America, logging over half a billion hands-free miles with zero reported crashes—demonstrating the safety and scalability of autonomy at unprecedented consumer scale. Following GM’s acquisition of Cruise earlier this year, the combined teams now bring together a decade of experience to accelerate progress toward full, generalized autonomy. This talk will dive into the open research challenges ahead—from model architecture and the balance between imitation and reinforcement learning, to leveraging vision-language models for long-tail, common-sense reasoning, and advancing the training, deployment, and simulation infrastructure needed to scale truly generalized autonomy.