- [Emcee Adam] Oh, he's now going for real speed,
Matty K's bottling it in.
- The biggest competitor is from a billion dollar bank.
- Wow this is fast!
- [Emcee Adam] Here on track two, we've got Krystle.
Hungry for speed.
- I am currently developing an automated hydroponic garden.
- Wow, this is a great model.
- Chris is teaching himself.
- Wow, let's walk before you run, dude.
(audience cheering and applauding)
- [Emcee Adam] The first man to go under ten seconds.
It's going to come right down to the wire here
at DeepRacer Sydney.
That right-hand turn, devil's corner.
(crowd groans)
- It flies, I'm thinking it's going to go off the end.
It's turned, on a wheel's length,
as it comes 'round the final corner.
(intense music)
Vegas is literally, that far away.
(upbeat music)
- [Announcer] Welcome to the world's first
autonomous racing league.
Developers of every skill level.
From all corners of the globe.
Compete for the ultimate prize.
In machine learning.
Welcome, to DeepRacer TV.
(intense music)
(electronic music)
- Sydney, Australia, is truly an international city.
With it's iconic beaches and modern architecture.
It's one of the top 10 visited cites in the world.
Sydney also boasts the most tech startups in Australia,
and some of the most talented developers in the world.
(electronic music)
- Ladies and gentlemen,
we are about to send off our first racer
in the Sydney leg
of the DeepRacer International Autonomous Racing League.
Don't just watch ladies and gentlemen,
get involved.
This might be your first ever interaction
with machine learning.
- [Girl I already did two models.
They failed.
I killed them.
So, I'm tweaking the reward function.
- Okay.
- With racing open on three tracks, over two days,
this is the biggest event yet for AWS DeepRacer.
Each developer, will have four minutes
to place their best time.
They need to complete one full circuit around the track
with less than three faults
in order for their time to qualify.
- It's Matty K, he's here on track three.
Looking good, Matty K.
Wow, he's now going for real speed.
Matty K throttling it here.
All four wheels on green.
There we go.
Our second competitor at DeepRacer Sydney.
Matty, how did you find that?
- Difficult!
- We have it confirmed,
Matty K has logged a successful lap!
23. 72 seconds.
Can you handle just having people hunting you down
for the next couple of days.
You look ready, my friend.
- I'm Matt and I'm an IT manager.
I'm here with four guys from GJI.
I live back on the Brisbane River.
I take out a jet ski whenever I can.
I've always been interested in racing.
I guess this is taking it to the next level, autonomously.
- [Emcee Adam] Ellen Lockley from GJI.
(crowd groans)
- [Emcee Adam] That right-hand turn, devil's corner.
- My name's Alan, I also work for GJI group,
and I'm a senior systems engineer,
looking at the cloud technologies.
I live in Brisbane.
Always passionate to learn new tech.
- What would you say, 40?
- Yeah, go for it.
I have a nine year old son.
He's already talked about learning Python.
I'm like, wow, let's walk before you run, dude.
- Oh yeah. That looks good.
(Alan laughs)
- We're a really small close-knit family,
and I think the biggest competitor is from
a billion dollar bank.
- [Emcee Adam] Wow this is a great model!
Wow this is fast!
Solid times on this!
I heard a bit about the NAB team,
doing a fair bit of work offline,
pre DeepRacer.
- My name is Allen Qin.
I work as a data scientist for the
National Australia Bank.
Months ago, NAB actually launched an internal
DeepRacer competition.
Fortunately, I won the internal competition.
So, that's the model I use today, actually.
- [Emcee Adam] Allen, from NAB, in the top position.
It's a lot of NAB!
It's a lot of GJI!
- The National Australia Bank,
they've had a chance to play with these models for a while.
If you're handicapping this race, NAB is the team to watch.
- [Emcee Adam] Ladies and gentlemen, here on track two,
Chris NAB zero one.
- My name's Chris Rhodes,
I currently work for National Australia Bank
as an intern software engineer.
There is about 70 National Australia Bank employees,
at the summit,
and there is about six participating in the race.
I get very competitive.
I think my family would describe me as intelligent,
and empathetic.
I volunteer for Headspace,
an Australian organization that is focused on
counseling and psychology services for youth.
- [Man Off-Screen] You're slowing down, man.
- My first model was actually a dud,
it didn't stay on the track properly,
and that model was actually a bit more experimental.
- A mistake a lot of people run into
is believing that the center line is the safe line,
but by over incentivizing the center-center,
you're forcing the DeepRacer to almost slow down,
so the wheels will just kind of,
(man garbling)
Just little jitters, shaking back and forth.
You're not going to get anywhere fast that way.
Tell me about the model you used.
- It was trained quite a lot.
- Okay, how long did you train it?
- For about 30 hours.
- Chris is just finished a model that took 36 hours
to train.
The problem there, is a problem called over-fitting.
By training the same model,
on the same virtual track for so many hours,
the model gets really good at exactly that track,
and exactly that conditions.
But any variance on that, and the model gets confused,
like, I'm sorry, I'm a dog,
I'm taught to sit, but only if I'm in the kitchen.
I'm in the living room now,
I don't know how to sit in the living room,
I only know how to sit in the kitchen.
(dog whimpering)
(upbeat music)
- These are impressive opening times.
We could see some people knocking on the door
of the magic 10 second mark.
- Right now, as we're looking at how
this day is progressing,
we've got two major teams, NAB and GJI,
both of which are committed to win this competition.
But one of the great things about DeepRacer,
is it's engineers to truly democratize
this technology of machine-learning.
DeepRacer is not just a remote-controlled car.
It's a mobile computer,
that runs on an open-source Intel platform,
that developers are already comfortable using.
You don't have to come in with years of experience,
and a whole team behind you,
anybody can do it.
- Chris from Vision is currently sitting in fifth place,
he just arrived in a day, did the workshop,
and had a couple of goes.
- [Man Off-Screen] Go, go, go.
Good luck.
- We have a new number one, 10.14 seconds, Chris.
Yeah, come on people, get in there around him,
get around big Chris from Vision.
Ladies and gentlemen, that's the new number one.
10.14 seconds.
Good luck, Chris.
- Thank you.
- My main man, yeah.
- [Man In AWS Shirt] Chris, how you doing?
- [Chris] Good, thanks.
- Do you use machine learning at all,
outside of DeepRacer?
- I'm using machine learning for my gardens.
- Nice.
This is the first time I've seen this for gardening.
- My name is Chris Garces.
I work for a telecommunications company, I'm an RF engineer.
I'm also currently doing part-time studies.
So, I've done machine learning.
Now I have three children, so I'm currently juggling
studies, family, and work.
Here I grow some tomatoes.
I am currently developing an automated hydroponic garden.
I have a dual lens camera
that monitors the health of the plants.
So, it will adjust the amount of nutrients,
based on what it sees.
Yeah, what it would mean to me if I win this competition,
is just an affirmation of my abilities,
and a trip to Las Vegas.
So, it's quite exciting.
I have never been to that place before.
- Okay, I like the sound of that.
Alright, good luck with that.
- Thank you.
- Chris is teaching himself,
and that real world experience may just leap-frog him,
over these juggernauts,
that have come in prepared as a team.
This individual just might be the one to spoil
everyone else's day.
(dramatic music)
- [Emcee Adam] Ladies and gentlemen, here on track two,
we've seen him already on our leaderboard.
- I looked at how it performed earlier today,
and I noticed it was trying to turn a lot,
trying to do minor corrections.
I'll just try and learn, and keep going.
- Now, in the guise of Chris Nab zero two,
we might have some action on the leaderboard to reveal,
in just a couple of seconds.
(dramatic music)
9.23 seconds.
The first man to go under 10 seconds at DeepRacer Sydney.
You have to be happy with that, Chris.
- Yeah, I'm happy I broke the 10 second mark,
but also I'm happy I beat the other NAB employee.
- Yeah, there's a fair bit of NAB love going on, mate.
Congratulations, we will see you tomorrow,
looking sharper and better.
Great stuff.
- Thank you.
- Would have won Dubai, would have won Amsterdam,
would have won Paris.
And we logged it here in Sydney, on day one.
(upbeat music)
- We're back at the Innovation Convention Center,
for day two of AWS DeepRacer Sydney.
(upbeat music)
- Yeah, ready.
- Here on track two, we've got Krystle.
Good luck, Krystle.
Hungry for speed.
Wow, there you go.
12.7 seconds, let's give Krystle a round of applause,
ladies and gentlemen.
Currently sitting in seventh place.
(upbeat music)
- I'm Krystle Whittaker.
I work for Champion Data,
we're a sport data broadcast company.
I enjoy all sport games.
I love video gaming,
which is always a bit of a shock to people when I say that.
I play a lot of the story character games,
so like Red Dead Redemption,
and Unchartered's one of my favorite ever.
I did notice, there's less girls here,
but I think it will slowly change,
more females will get involved.
- I'm hearing some word,
that there might be a bit of activity,
about to take place on the leaderboard,
ladies and gentlemen.
- We placed, I think, fourth, fifth, and seventh, yesterday.
And we want to try and get on the podium.
- [Emcee Adam] Has the sleepless nights, and the Red Bulls,
and pizza, paid off?
We'll find out on track three, in just a couple of seconds.
- During our little Hackathon on Tuesday night,
we threw some models into
different iterations info training
on multiple accounts.
- We also started looking online at the previous
Summit winners,
to see if we could get any tips from them.
I actually reached out to Matthieu from the French Summit,
and he emailed me back straight away,
thank you very much.
(intense music)
- Matt's getting ready to go,
and then all of a sudden,
(man snaps fingers)
he hits it.
It flies, I'm thinking it's going to go off the end.
It's turned.
It's then gone through the kink in the track,
finished the lap,
with a margin, on literally a wheel, a wheel's length,
as it comes around the final corner.
There's some questions as to whether it stayed on the track,
or not.
(intense music)
- [Emcee Adam] We have some movement
near the very, very top, here on track three.
(all cheering)
After consulting with the judges,
we have a time of 8.29 seconds.
- We had three different judges go, that's on,
that's good.
It's an absolute blinder of a lap.
Eight seconds.
There's some rumors,
that it's one of the fastest in the world.
- [Emcee Adam] Matty from GJI, ladies and gentlemen.
Throwing down the gauntlet to the two Chris's,
who are in line.
- We then realize, first place, Las Vegas is in our reach.
- [Emcee Adam] Ladies and gentlemen,
there is officially one hour to go.
Can anyone go under 8.29 seconds?
- Seems like the top guys in the leaderboard
are iterating as much as they can,
so I don't think any spot is safe.
(intense music)
- [Emcee Adam] My man Chris from Vision's Dream,
just recorded an 8.97 and rocking into second place.
Chris.
- I'm now sitting at the second position.
Looking at the time difference from first to second,
it's only a fraction of a second.
I feel that I still have a chance to be on top.
- Can you take another point seven off?
Can you get under 8.29?
- Yeah, I'll try.
- Go to the back of the line, mate.
- I am committed to win this race.
(tense music)
- [Emcee Adam] We stop the clocks at 3.45.
- Last fifteen minutes of the day, it's intense.
There's a lot of energy in the room.
Hundreds of people watching.
- [Emcee Adam] Chris, from NAB,
about to have his final shot at the title.
- There's a guy from National Australia Bank.
I've scoped him out.
- And I can see, he's got a run coming up.
We're not sure, if he's got something up his sleeve,
if he's got a new improved model.
He needs one lap, that's all he needs.
- [Emcee Adam] You can see some nervous looks now.
- I'm pretty stressed.
This last model is a bit experimental,
been training it,
basically the entirety of last night, and today.
(tense music)
Added a higher throttle, that would be more unstable,
but potentially achieve a quicker track time.
(tense music)
- I'm watching his lap.
I'm not sure which way to look.
It looks like, whatever he's done with his model,
it hasn't worked.
- Come back here.
- The model wasn't ready.
It would just continuously go off the track,
and I would hit that three limit,
and have to re-set to the start.
- From his face, it seems he's a little bit disappointed,
in his result.
- But you gave it your absolute best.
You've quite possibly got a podium finish,
you must be proud of that?
- Yeah, it's good.
It was a complete and utter failure.
- Unfinished business, I like it about you.
Gie him another round of applause,
this guy's been absolutely epic
over the last couple of days.
Well done, mate.
- It's my chance now.
- This is the last race of the day.
- The guy in second place,
was just able to get on the track,
extremely nerve-wracking.
This is the final hurdle.
- Vegas is literally, that far away.
(intense music)
- [Emcee Adam] Chris from Vision's Dream's got a couple
of minutes left,
to post a winning time.
- The car seems to start really slow.
So, I made an adjustment on the speed.
Goes up to 60%, and it performs one complete lap.
- [Emcee Adam] He put one very zingy lap down already.
Coming down to a final 30 seconds, so let's do this.
- So I increase the speed to 85%,
and seems like the car is a little bit wobbly.
- [Emcee Adam] It's going to come right down to the wire here
at DeepRacer Sydney.
(intense music)
- And it went straight to the fence.
That was my last chance.
(upbeat music)
- In third place, Chris from NAB.
- I definitely feel like I did NAB a justice.
My team members were very happy for me,
and they were very proud.
- In second place, this guy was a real crowd favorite,
he went so close, bring Chris from Vision's Dream up here.
Chris, my man.
- It's a little bit disappointing,
because I told my kids that we could be in Las Vegas.
(Chris laughs)
- Hold that trophy up there mate.
Yeah.
- Second is like the first loser.
(Chris laughs)
- With the second fastest time in the history
of the DeepRacer League, worldwide,
8.29 seconds,
Matt from GJI,
give him a cheer, ladies and gentlemen.
(audience cheering and applauding)
Your winner.
- We were all very surprised.
We certainly weren't planning on getting to number one.
We were just hoping to get into the top 10,
to walk home with a DeepRacer.
- Congratulations, you're off to Reinvent,
you must be pumped about that too.
- Very.
- Give him a round of applause.
Your winner, for the DeepRacer League in Sydney.
- The time we got is the second fastest in the world.
- So it's already not good enough.
- There'll be a few late nights, leading up to Reinvent,
because we're going to have to knock a few seconds off.
We want to represent Australia, and take home the gold.
(upbeat music)
- That closes us out, for AWS DeepRacer Sydney,
remember, there are two ways to punch your ticket
for the AWS DeepRacer Champion's Cup, at Reinvent 2019.
Win first place at a AWS Summit,
or place atop the leaderboard
on the AWS DeepRacer Virtual Circuit,
now open for racing, at DeepRacerLeague.com.