I guess our car is not our private space anymore, and we are not given a choice when buying a car from Volkswagen.
The article says they delete any questions after they’re asked, but I’d prefer to disable any ChatGPT features put in front of me.
VW vehicles to converse with drivers via ChatGPT by mid-year
Submitted 10 months ago by esaru@beehaw.org to technology@beehaw.org
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TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
esaru@beehaw.org 10 months ago
Ask anyone who works in IT and they’ll confirm nothing gets ever deleted from all records and backups.
Thevenin@beehaw.org 10 months ago
So let me get this straight. VW’s US sales (EVs in particular) have failed to meet expectations because people don’t like their overdependence on buggy, outsourced software.
…and VW’s response is to outsource even more software while incorporating a technology base known for being unreliable.
sonori@beehaw.org 10 months ago
Well yes, if management isn’t seeing the success they planed to see with a C level’s brilliant strategy, the only possible reason is that they failed to implement it hard enough after all./s
lightrush@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
- Hey ChatGPT, is it normal for my A4 to be burning this much oil? …
- Yes.
perishthethought@lemm.ee 10 months ago
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“Hi car. Tell me what data about me you’re sending back to VW.”
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I’m sorry perishthethought. I can’t do that."
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TheBaldness@beehaw.org 10 months ago
I have a fantasy where I’m a powerful executive at Volkswagen. I’m in a meeting where this idea is presented. I ask who thought of it. Someone raises their hand. I smile broadly. I ask who else thinks it’s a good idea. Others raise their hands. I call security and have all those people escorted out of the building. Those of us who remain set about manufacturing small, efficient & affordable electric vehicles with manual windows & door locks, and a not a single touchscreen anywhere. The End
maynarkh@feddit.nl 10 months ago
Then your stock crashes in spite of your good sales because trading bots short your stock as you said negative things about the new thing in vogue and are thus considered “unable to innovate”. Some other company acquires yours despite the good actual sales you might be having, and before you realize, what was once your company is back on the current hype train.
The system works because no one man, not even a “powerful executive” can change it easily.
TheBaldness@beehaw.org 10 months ago
I take my ill-gotten gains and fuck off to other country, perhaps the USA, and buy up a small little-known automotive start up that has some promising IP. When my car company is bigger than all the others combined, I don’t spread the love around and allow them all to stew in the juices of their mistakes. While I’m at it, I might buy a social media company and totally mess it up.
jaykay@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
What happened to “don’t talk to the driver”? Can’t wait for accidents with “I was focusing on what ChatGPT was saying” explainations
perishthethought@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Stillhart@lemm.ee 10 months ago
In case we needed yet another reason to avoid that company. I have no idea why they’re so successful despite being absolutely despicable.
DdCno1@beehaw.org 10 months ago
They have a knack for building cars that people want, are usually late to new developments, but then blow the competition out of the water in terms of sales, because their cars (prior to the infotainment debacles and cost-cutting measures of recent years) tend to be extremely polished, are comfortable, economical and handle very well. The Golf GTI in particular is perhaps the perfect embodiment of the company’s capabilities.
Personally, I think some of their past clout, especially in regards to quality, has been overstated though. We’ve considered new VWs long before recent quality problems, but they left a worse impression than comparable French cars and in absolutely every way. Still, they have been very consistent for a long time and appealed to buyers with a “no experiments” kind of mindset, who just want a predictable rolling appliance.
Stillhart@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Yeah I knew someone was going to respond to my rhetorical “I have no idea” and explain it like I actually care. It’s like saying I have no idea why people buy Microsoft or use Twitter despite them being despicable. Obviously there are lot of things about them that a lot of people like. Obviously not everyone knows about all the despicable things these companies have done and continue to do. Obviously not everyone would care enough to stop using them even if they did know.
But it still frustrates me. I wish the world was a place where companies like VW couldn’t possibly exist because their own employees would never let them do the things they did, much less their customers or the regulators who are supposed to protect us despite ourselves. But, alas, we do not. And I have no idea why. (<— Rhetorical! Nobody has to try to explain why.)
ThePJN@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
“We put ChatGPT into this hammer!”
“Why?”
“FIRST!”
Vodulas@beehaw.org 10 months ago
I have an ID.4, and their software is pretty trash. I can’t imaging adding GPT will help with anything at all. Good news is that Android Auto works really well on their vehicles. The only reason I have to use the VW is climate.
megopie@beehaw.org 10 months ago
Good! The less people buying new cars the better.
HisNoodlyServant@beehaw.org 10 months ago
I have been spending a ton of time with Chat GPT 4 and really losing faith in what it can do reliably. Like I guess it could be fine if it is used like Google Assistant but I wouldn’t trust it about anything important. Been doing math refreshers and the AI just made up a solution that was totally wrong. After I called it out it just added another number randomly into the equation and wouldn’t acknowledged it lol. The point I am making man it is getting rushed into everything when it can’t be relied on.
realcaseyrollins 10 months ago
Why not use an offline LLM? Internet coverage can be fickle, licenses may expire, etc.
Thalestr@beehaw.org 10 months ago
I don’t know if this is hilarious or pathetically sad. AI has become the current “must have” craze in the tech world and it’s baffling watching every company try and find a way to shoehorn some form of it into their products and then try and justify its existence.
Why the hell would I want this?
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
How much you want to bet this means its answer to everything car related is “take it to the dealership for service”?
maynarkh@feddit.nl 10 months ago
Specifically chatbots. AI was already in vogue, with companies calling simple hand-made decision trees about as complex as a phone answering menu AI.