{"id":165857,"date":"2023-06-16T01:24:51","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T06:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/mercedes-is-adding-chatgpt-to-its-infotainment-system-for-some-reason"},"modified":"2023-06-16T01:24:51","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T06:24:51","slug":"mercedes-is-adding-chatgpt-to-its-infotainment-system-for-some-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/mercedes-is-adding-chatgpt-to-its-infotainment-system-for-some-reason","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes is adding ChatGPT to its infotainment system, for some reason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mercedes-is-adding-chatgpt-to-its-infotainment-system-for-some-reason2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mercedes owners in the U.S. will soon add a new luxury to their already luxurious vehicles: <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/05\/18\/chatgpt-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-ai-powered-chatbot\/\">ChatGPT<\/a>. The automaker is adding OpenAI\u2019s conversational AI agent to its MBUX infotainment system, though what it could possibly be needed for is hard to say.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. owners of models that use MBUX will be able to opt into a beta program starting tomorrow, June 16, activating ChatGPT functionality. This will enable the highly versatile large language model to augment the car\u2019s conversation skills. You can join up simply by telling your car \u201cHey Mercedes, I want to join the beta program.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not really clear what for, though. After all, a car is a pretty well constrained environment. People need to drive, navigate, and control their media and the car\u2019s basic functions, and certainly a voice interface is sometimes the safest or best option for doing so without taking their eyes off the road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercedes owners in the U.S. will soon add a new luxury to their already luxurious vehicles: ChatGPT. The automaker is adding OpenAI\u2019s conversational AI agent to its MBUX infotainment system, though what it could possibly be needed for is hard to say. U.S. owners of models that use MBUX will be able to opt into [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}