The researchers at Purdue University found that ChatGPT can help passengers in autonomous vehicles (AVs). The researchers said that self-driving vehicles and the ones without drivers can use ChatGPT to better communicate with passengers and listen to their demands. Right now, passengers have to press a button to command autonomous vehicles. But LLMs don’t need that because they can naturally understand everything a human is saying and then interpret it to fulfill their demands.
Researchers did an experiment by training ChatGPT on different commands like “Drive fast”, “Raise the temperature” etc., and found that ChatGPT could easily respond to those commands. Researchers also asked ChatGPT to consider everything like traffic rules, weather, road conditions and everything one needs to consider while driving a car. A vehicle with autonomy 4 capabilities meaning without any driver supervision was given access to LLMs through cloud and those LLMs responded to the commands perfectly.
The experiment also found that passengers felt less discomfort in level 4 autonomy vehicles with LLMs too. The LLMs responded well with direct as well as indirect commands too. The researchers say that it will be a good thing to integrate LLMs into automatic vehicles but the car manufacturers should consider AI hallucination too. There should be a lot of tests done to make sure LLMs are safe for the vehicles.
Keep in mind that LLMs are being used in the auto industry for several purposes. Integrating chatbots into vehicles is also something that is seriously being considered. In the future, there is a possibility that these LLMs will be able to tell information about the car too like the tire pressure and other things.
Image: Purdue University / Credit: John Underwood
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