Honda has a new AI car for you, to "reflect the emotions and intentions of the occupants"

[highplainsdem]

Video review and excerpt from promo material. My thanks to SheltieLover for pointing this out.

https://global.honda/en/tech/Honda_SDV_ASIMO_OS/

Another value that Honda is striving to offer with its SDVs is the creation of an attractive “space” for people’s mobility. In addition to minimizing various stresses related to the use of a car, such as driving and getting in and out of the vehicle, Honda SDVs will offer new value that maximizes the fun of using a car. To this end, Honda will further advance existing connected vehicle technologies and incorporate multimodal generation AI to utilize a variety of data obtained from cameras and other sensors inside and outside the vehicle to offer in-vehicle experiences that reflect the emotions and intentions of the occupants. Honda SDVs will proactively make suggestions that they deem most appropriate at the time. For example, when the user is taking a long drive with their pet, the vehicle will find pet-friendly cafes and restaurants and suggest the users to take a break; when the vehicle detects a crying child in the cabin, it will suggest to play music that would be fun for children; and the vehicle will suggest switching to a mode that prioritizes riding comfort in coordination with the integrated dynamics control technology.

The greatest features of the value of a Honda SDV as a “space” for people’s mobility is the fact that the more the user drives it, the more the vehicle advances to achieve the “ultra-personal optimization.” The AI accumulates a history of what the occupants have selected in various situations and, just like a smartphone’s predictive texting feature, the vehicle will make predictive suggestions. The more history the Honda SDV accumulates, in other words, the more the customer uses their vehicle, the better suggestions the vehicle will offer tailored to the preferences of the user. Honda SDVs will eventually grow to be a “partner” that understands the user the most and supports comfortable and convenient daily use of the vehicle.

[RandySF]

1. Oh that's not good.

[highplainsdem]

13. Definitely not.

[Disaffected]

2. Great, an AI backseat driver... nt

[highplainsdem]

5. LOL! Exactly...

[0rganism]

12. SDV -- the AI can do your front-seat driving too

In 20 years, humans won't be qualified to drive

[highplainsdem]

14. They certainly won't be if AI drives for them. One more way for AI to dumb down and deskill people.

[0rganism]

19. Not like humans were such fantastic drivers anyway, but it's going to be weird when there's nothing left for us to do

AI's kind of like a capstone project for society, it's going to cost us more than money and it's already taking down payments.

[highplainsdem]

22. It's not a capstone project, even if some people working on AI imagine it is, and it in no way helps

much of society or shows off the skills of AI users. Generative AI is the theft of the world's knowledge and culture for the profit and power of the AI companies and those who control/own them.

It's not only the most harmful non-weapon tech ever developed, it's the stupidest because of those harms.

It's a bad trip into a tech dystopia.

And if you could go back in time even 10 years to a science fiction convention and tried to.explain to the SF writers there that the most-hyped tech in a decade would be AI that always hallucinated so its results always had to be checked, and that worked even some of the time only because of the ripoff of the world's intellectual property, they'd have a hard time believing it would ever be popular (and the IP theft really wouldn't go over well).

The biggest "accomplishment" of AI bros like Sam Altman has been conning too many people into.thinking it's a great product.

[SheltieLover]

28. Absolutely,, HPD!

[0rganism]

36. Could also be considered a "headstone project" or a "dig your own grave project"

Agree with you about "generative AI" being, in itself, an unhelpful theft of culture. Currently, what we see of it cannot be trusted. However, I would note that what the public is allowed by host foundations to see and use is largely smokescreens and hogwash, it's major use beyond concept normalization is to create training data for expert systems and test vectors for better AIs that people aren't seeing yet outside of particular niche products, like SDVs. Much of the "real" AI work continues along these lines, while humanity at large is given access to the lightweight sloppifiers for farting-around purposes -- as you say, "conning too many people into thinking it's a great product."

[rampartd]

3. i don't want it

i don't need it

i'm never gonna have it.

so their cameras can tell if you are smoking a reefer or guzzljin a pbr? makin' out after midnite in the backseat of my accura? none of some ai's business.

"might i suggest you are smoking too much state approved prescription after giving it up fit up r new years.

[highplainsdem]

17. Now everyone can pay $50K plus for their own rolling surveillance device.

[flvegan]

4. Ads. It's all about ads. Marketing. You are for sale. n/t

[SheltieLover]

7. Can you imagine driving down the road and some ad is yammering at you, the way they do at gas pumps?

No. Never going to happen here. Ever.

[flvegan]

9. For $19.95/mo, you can turn off ads in your $50,000 vehicle that you own. Oh

believe you me, that's coming.

[SheltieLover]

16. Not happening here

I'll stick with my classic Hondas.

[flvegan]

31. Good plan.

Besides, they'll run forever.

[SheltieLover]

32. They do & getting 50 mpg

[highplainsdem]

18. We'll be lucky if it's only $19.95.

[flvegan]

33. You're probably right. $19.95 to start, zero ads, first 90 days.

Then you'll have your per month tiers:
Free: $0.00, all the ads, so many ads there's no speaker time for anything else, just set the car on fire
Bronze: $14.95, lots of ads but not ALL the ads
Silver: $19.95, some ads but not lots of ads
Gold: $24.95, just the ads we really want you to have
Platinum: $49.95, no ads except the mandatory ads on initial car startup each day
Unobtainium: $59.95, subliminal ads only, you won't hear them but damn you'll want some Arby's

[gAI Obsession]

6. Oh no!

[highplainsdem]

10. Welcome to DU! Interesting choice of smilies. A tinfoil hat to mock people not liking a car with too many AI features?

I noticed another post of yours seemed to suggest you felt there were too many posts about AI in LBN: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220902313#post10

You will see a lot of threads about AI here, including in LBN, because the AI bros and companies are a threat, just as Trump and Musk (also mentioned in that thread) are. There was another strong reminder of that yesterday: https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143591926

Is your generative AI (gAI) obsession pro or con? I don't think I've seen anyone else here with AI in their user name.

[LudwigPastorius]

21. "I don't think I've seen anyone else here with AI in their user name."

She should probably have "LG" in her user name.

[highplainsdem]

23. Those are initials a lot of us recognize.

[SheltieLover]

8. Thx for the mention, HPD.

You might want to xpost to Auto Enthusiasts Forum.

Wht a nightmare, hu?

And it's not just Honda, they will ALL be doing this crap.

[highplainsdem]

11. Yvw! And thanks - I will crosspost.

Yeah, this car is a nightmare. Nonstop surveillance and interference/distractions while driving.

[SheltieLover]

15. Thx!

[LudwigPastorius]

20. "Honda SDVs will proactively make suggestions that they deem most appropriate at the time."

No one wants this.

[Buns_of_Fire]

24. And when the SVD decides that it knows enough about you,

it'll helpfully suggest that you take a ride to your parent's house.

"Sure," you say, climbing in.

12.7 miles later, the car arrives. With no passengers inside...

("OOOOOOO! Scary stuff, huh, kids?" as Count Floyd would say.)

[hatrack]

25. What a bunch of shit . . .

AI - mass intellectual theft, so that we can enjoy yet another shitty search engine or six, but with more effective ad targeting.

To say nothing of final nails in the global warming coffin.

Oh, and a useless digital thing that lets you car talk to your toaster and which will be expensive to fix when it fails.

[scipan]

26. I have a question

Can you turn it off.

[Tommy Carcetti]

27. Nope. nt

[GiqueCee]

29. And the more the car learns about you...

... the more likely it is to rat you out when you annoy it. No thanks.
We have a Honda and it's a great car, but this AI crap is an option I don't need or want.

[nilram]

30. Parents will just love getting a phone menu of music choices while kiddo is pitching a screaming fit.

As fun as a regular phone menu tree, times four!

[jmowreader]

34. Hang on..."reflect the emotions and intentions of its occupants"?

What if my emotion is "I'm going to run that motherfucker off the road if he doesn't get his ass out of the fuckin' passing lane?"

[sakabatou]

35. Someone smack the heads of Honda's c-suite.