The Future of the Automotive Industry Might be Talking Cars

In the near future, you might be able to speak with your car.
Huh?
Allow me to explain.
One of the coolest, if not the coolest, applications of AI is autonomous driving.
Until last year, autonomous driving systems were considered the most advanced AI models in the world.
But, despite this fact, they are, far and wide the least trusted models in the world.
And according to Forbes, not only this trust issue not decreasing as models get better, but it’s actually increasing up to 55% from last year alone, to the point that only 9% of Americans trust them.
Out of the many reasons for this distrust, one of the most common ones mentioned is the lack of transparency in the model’s decisions.
Now, Wayve, a UK company that specializes in this sector, has announced their LINGO-1 model, a Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model that can explain and reason the decisions behind driving actions taken by an autonomous driving system.
As you’ll see below, the model reacts to real-life observations and is able to predict what the actions of the car will be based on those observations.
And not only that… you can actively chat with it.
But first and foremost, just why?
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