The world cried out for ever-present ChatGPT and VW heard that cry.
Not something I'd want but probably still better than Ford's billboard -reader-tech to let you know what you are missing as you focus on the infotainment center driving.
From The Register, January 9:
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CES Volkswagen says it intends to inject ChatGPT into its vehicles in Europe this year, allowing drivers to ask questions about life, the universe, and everything, and have them answered by the software, maybe.
Announced to coincide with the CES show in Las Vegas this week, the German automaker said the OpenAI chatbot will be accessible via VW's Ida voice-controlled assistant, which launched in 2023.
Ida is bundled with Volkswagen's ID.7, ID.4, ID.5, and ID.3 all-electric rides, plus its latest Tiguan, Passat, and Golf models. If you have a vehicle with Ida, it'll automatically be able to use ChatGPT, we're told, with no need to open an account, install an app, or, er, opt-in. Prior to Ida's arrival, the automaker had been adding voice-based controls to its cars; Ida seemingly grew from that, and now has ChatGPT plugged in.
Ida can already answer some spoken natural-language questions about the weather, stock prices, sporting events, and the like – just what you want to know while driving around town. It is activated by pressing a button on the steering wheel or by waking it up with: "Hello Ida."
Some reviewers previously warned not to say the word "idea" inside your VW, or you might accidentally stir the bot from its slumber. You can also ask the software to adjust the temperature in the car, change whatever the infotainment system is doing, set a route, and so on....
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ABSTRACT
( 21 ) Appl. No.: 16 /472,483
(22) PCT Filed: Dec. 21 , 2016
(86) PCT No.: PCT/US2016/ 068131
$ 371 (c ) ( 1 ) ,
( 2 ) Date : Jun . 21 , 2019
Publication Classification
( 51 ) Int . Cl.
G06Q 30/02 ( 2006.01 )
GO6K 9/00 ( 2006.01 )
Method and apparatus are disclosed for billboard interface
for display of vehicle. An example method for generating a
billboard interface for a vehicle display includes obtaining ,
via a camera, an image of a billboard and identifying, via a
processor, a segment of the image . The example method also
includes determining an event associated with the segment
and generating a billboard interface to include a hyperlink of
the segment that initiates the event. The example method
also includes communicating, via a communication module,
the billboard interface to a vehicle display for presentation
to a user.
