Meet Ollie: A mini bus that runs on Artificial Intelligence

Self-driving cars are a rapidly evolving technology which just a couple of years back was considered science fiction. Envision getting in your car, typing or speaking a location into your vehicle's interface, then giving it a chance to drive you to your destination while you read a book, surf the web or rest. Self-driving vehicles – the stuff of science fiction since the principal roads were paved – are coming, and they're going to radically change what it’s like to get from point A to point B.

An automobile technology firm based out of US has made a self-directed mini bus that will be driven around Washington DC exclusively by artificial intelligence.

Arizona-based Local Motors has made Olli, a self-driving mini bus made using 3D printed parts that will be autonomously controlled by the IBM Watson supercomputer. It can carry up to 12 individuals and the mini bus will likewise interact specifically with passengers.

Olli utilizes four of Watson's advancement APIs to interact with passengers: Speech to Text, Text to Speech, Natural Language Classifier, and Entity Extraction. It likewise utilizes cloud-based processing to break down the data accumulated by the 30 onboard sensors and learn from that data. Those sensors as a part of the Internet of Things, can utilize streaming data from connected devices.