That’s the rub. Sometimes you don’t know the utility of a tool until you build it. The future is weird that way.

Who would have thought WHAT people would chat with ChatGPT about? Like, romance? WTF? That’s strange, call it emergent behavior, the final utility was unexpected.

In my head, I anticipate the tool going down the track of voice assistants from the pre-AI phase, so just like Alexa for directions or simple searches, but local to the car. Maybe unintended utilities will arise? If it can do directions and music and web searches, I guess, we don’t really know what other utilities drivers will find for it yet?

I respect your take :)

I was about to say, that might make the car safer on net!

Less compute means less bandwidth to hallucinate demons in front of you on a totally unobstructed straightaway.

(Getting downvoted… OK :) My definition of “mildly interesting” feature may be unpopular.)

They actually do mildly interesting things, and I can see it as a vector to eventually do ACTUALLY useful things. VW and Mercedes both use ChatGPT to power this feature for now.

Plus, the Chinese ones get to wear funny hats! Here is one dressed up as .

“…deep analysis finding diverse sources representing ALL parties…”

Nazi party is a party. Grok is making like his forbearers by just following orders

^-- to my knowledge, this is accurate.

System prompts are the easy but wildly unpredictable way to change LLM output, but we really can’t back-trace or debug that output, we guess at what impact the s.p. edits will have.

I sort of agonized over the wording - if the system prompt is uploaded to Github, is it code, or is it documentation?

The lines are numbered like code, and I’m used to debugging software pointing out code errors by line numbers. So, code.

Don’t worry, if you’re confused, we’ll all be thrown into the same chaotic soup of coding using natural language :) With vibe coding, we’re probably already there and we just don’t feel the ramifications yet (or the endemic unemployment in IT is the ramification and we just haven’t associated the bullet wound to the loud bang yet)

The when that makes it into production:

It’s 18 (imperial) pints deep and late for the rugby match

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Seriously!!!

(My model, Toyota Tacoma 3rd gen, breaks the other way. $300ish from local place, $700ish from Safelite. Both WAY lower than $2,400)

My actual pickup truck (a Toyota Tacoma) costs $275 for an installed windshield.

The Cybertruck windshield costs nearly 10 times as much for… reasons? Honestly don’t even fucking know why. Because Elon knows an easy mark when he sees one, I guess

what a thoroughly benighted concept

They currently charge a flat rate of $4.20 per ride :|

Not joking. Is real. Will be replaced by a real number, they’ll probably ease their way up to Uber pricing to reinforce that they are the “cheap” option, and then jack up the price (just like Uber did)

Well, sort of!

The reason almost everyone starts in Phoenix AZ is partially the lack of rain. It’s also a friendly regulatory environment and a dead-simple street grid structure.

Austin TX gets as much rain as, say, Chicago IL, neither is particularly dry. And Atlanta GA is very, very rainy. On paper it actually gets more rain than Seattle WA.

FWIW, LiDAR based autonomous vehicles have figured this out, Waymo can handle all but the heaviest rain (which, TBF, humans also cannot reliably handle)

(No kidding - Bezos seems to ruin the other things he touches, like Blue Origin and The WaPo, but Zoox is actually making great progress! Probably because Beez isn’t a car guy, he’s a yacht guy I guess.)

Literally every single Robotaxi ride has some asshole babbling throughout, glazing Elon Musk as the taxi is bouncing off curbs or dumping them when it starts raining.

The PR play from Tesla here is really, really obnoxious.

The worst part? It’s working. Mainstream media is reporting that early rider reactions are enthusiastic, without mentioning that early riders are exclusively Tesla fandom podcasters.

Oh GAWD now I can’t unsee it

Well it had a chance of finishing its education, before it got Musked while getting off the school bus