More than autonomous cars, whose technology is no longer advancing as quickly as we have been promised for several years, this is a good thing artificial intelligence, which is at the center of attention of car manufacturers this CES. Mercedes, Volkswagen, BMW, Hyundai and Kia presented their vision of integrating artificial intelligence into our cars of the future. Although some have decided to develop their own system, others are based on the established technologies of Amazon Alexa or, above all, ChatGPT. But everyone wants to use artificial intelligence to increase the relationship between passengers and their car, which therefore becomes a supercomputer on wheels. This was also beautifully illustrated at CES by Honda CEO Izumi Kawanishi, who took the stage to present the first electric car developed in partnership with Sony with… a simple video game controller !

All brands participate

Coming back to AI, all the manufacturers are saying more or less the same thing: the capabilities of these new “personal assistants” or “chatbots” far exceed those of previous systems. Volkswagen, which is integrating ChatGPT into its electric cars as well as the facelifted Golf from the second half of this year, explains that “The IDA voice assistant can be used to control the infotainment systems, navigation and air conditioning or to answer. general knowledge. In the future, artificial intelligence will provide additional information in response to other questions as part of its ever-expanding capabilities.” The same story in Mercedes, where the new assistant wanted to be more “human” than ever “includes empathic features that adapt to your driving style and mood” and in BMW, where Amazon Alexa technology is built-in enables “human interactions and dialogues.”

Let the machine get to know us better

However, this is still quite vague. But in the future, the car will allow it to get to know you better as its possibilities for interaction and learning are limitless and will evolve as you use it. “This can come in handy in many ways when traveling by car: enrich conversations, answer questions, communicate in intuitive languagereceive information about the car and much more – and all this without using hands,” says Volkswagen.

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