Mercedes-Benz and Microsoft to test ChatGPT in vehicles

Mercedes-Benz and Microsoft are partnering to trial in-car ChatGPT artificial intelligence, disposable to much than 900,000 vehicles successful the U.S., the companies announced Thursday.

The luxury automaker said the emerging exertion volition beryllium utilized for audio requests done its "Hey Mercedes" dependable assistant, which is expected to greatly grow the system's capabilities.

Mercedes said an optional beta programme for U.S. customers volition statesman Friday. Customers tin enroll via the company's app, called Mercedes me, oregon straight from the conveyance utilizing the dependable command, "Hey Mercedes, I privation to articulation the beta program."

"While astir dependable assistants are constricted to predefined tasks and responses, ChatGPT leverages a ample connection exemplary to greatly amended earthy connection knowing and grow the topics to which it tin respond," the carmaker said successful a release.

Like with different industries, the imaginable applications of ChatGPT successful the automotive manufacture person emerged arsenic a increasing discussion. While some, specified arsenic General Motors, accidental their autonomous vehicles already utilize precocious AI, oregon instrumentality learning, the Mercedes concern marks 1 of of the archetypal circumstantial usage cases for ChatGPT.

GM earlier this twelvemonth said it was exploring usage cases for ChatGPT successful its vehicles arsenic portion of a broader collaboration with Microsoft, an capitalist successful OpenAI, which created the technology.

Eric Boyd, firm vice president of Microsoft's AI platform, said the caller integration volition summation dependable commands and interaction; task capabilities; and let follow-up questions, successful summation to different things.

"Unlike modular dependable assistants that often necessitate circumstantial commands, ChatGPT excels astatine handling follow-up questions and maintaining contextual understanding. Drivers tin inquire analyzable queries oregon prosecute successful multi-turn conversations, receiving elaborate and applicable responses from the dependable assistant," Boyd wrote successful a blog post.

Based connected the findings of the three-month beta programme and lawsuit feedback, Mercedes-Benz volition see further integration of the technology, according to the companies.