I guess our car is not our private space anymore, and we are not given a choice when buying a car from Volkswagen.
I have a fantasy where I’m a powerful executive at Volkswagen. I’m in a meeting where this idea is presented. I ask who thought of it. Someone raises their hand. I smile broadly. I ask who else thinks it’s a good idea. Others raise their hands. I call security and have all those people escorted out of the building. Those of us who remain set about manufacturing small, efficient & affordable electric vehicles with manual windows & door locks, and a not a single touchscreen anywhere. The End
Then your stock crashes in spite of your good sales because trading bots short your stock as you said negative things about the new thing in vogue and are thus considered “unable to innovate”. Some other company acquires yours despite the good actual sales you might be having, and before you realize, what was once your company is back on the current hype train.
The system works because no one man, not even a “powerful executive” can change it easily.
I take my ill-gotten gains and fuck off to another country, perhaps the USA, and buy up a small little-known automotive start up that has some promising IP. When my car company is bigger than all the others combined, I don’t spread the love around, but instead allow them all to stew in the juices of their mistakes. While I’m at it, I might buy a social media company and do everything possible to run my entire empire into the ground.
Hey I’ve seen this one before!
I don’t know if this is hilarious or pathetically sad. AI has become the current “must have” craze in the tech world and it’s baffling watching every company try and find a way to shoehorn some form of it into their products and then try and justify its existence.
Cerence Chat Pro from technology partner Cerence Inc. is the foundation of the new function, which offers a uniquely intelligent, *automotive-grade *ChatGPT integration.
Why the hell would I want this?
AI has become the current “must have” craze
Specifically LLM chatbots. AI was already in vogue, with companies calling simple hand-made decision trees about as complex as a phone answering menu AI.
Why the hell would I want this?
You don’t, investors do. This is SEO for investors. They are looking to invest into LLMs, and as such, news with a company name and AI or LLM in the title will tick off trading bots to buy the stock of the company in question. The “economy” is mostly bots at this stage.
The article says they delete any questions after they’re asked, but I’d prefer to disable any ChatGPT features put in front of me.
Ask anyone who works in IT and they’ll confirm nothing gets ever deleted from all records and backups.
If it’s free ChatGPT everything is recorded and can’t be deleted or removed from their database. You can however delete data and opt-out of saving conversations, sharing conversation data with OpenAI if you have a paid account.
Maybe deleted from the productive database (if at all, as Reddit for example just flagged “deleted” comments apparently in the past).
But Backups, does data really get removed from backups? I don’t think so.
For ChatGPT Enterprise it’s one of their selling points. It implicitly states that individual and free accounts lack any of these privacy protections.
