This isn’t an AI. Kit is just the name of their redesigned mascot. They literally said in the article that it wasn’t designed with AI and isn’t an AI chatbot.
as much as llms suck. if I had the money, I’d restore a 1982 Pontiac firebird and it an llm with a voice model based on kit. that can control the infotainment and had access to the car’s odb and other functions.
all running on a gpu inside the car. using a local model
If it’s a locally running model trained from ethically sourced data, you’d already be doing better than 99.9% of the piece of shit techbro CEOs out there even if it barely could turn the radio on…
The only AI named Kit I accept lives in a 1982 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am.
I understand the reference and know the source, so I’ll second you on that.
But… It was K.I.T.T.
I took some artistic liberties. This isn’t even an AI agent but just a mascot.
I always meant to look it up, but never got around to it. Today’s the day I learn what it stood for!
“Knight Industries Two Thousand.” Huh. Kind of a letdown, but at least now I know!
And then there was its evil twin, K.A.R.R.
Knight Automated Roving Robot
Oh, I remember him! I never looked that one up, either…“Knight Automated Roving Robot.” Better!
Huh, I thought it was Kybernetic Intelligence Thingy Thing.
That would be better than abbreviating 2000 as TT instead of 2K!
This isn’t an AI. Kit is just the name of their redesigned mascot. They literally said in the article that it wasn’t designed with AI and isn’t an AI chatbot.
as much as llms suck. if I had the money, I’d restore a 1982 Pontiac firebird and it an llm with a voice model based on kit. that can control the infotainment and had access to the car’s odb and other functions.
all running on a gpu inside the car. using a local model
If it’s a locally running model trained from ethically sourced data, you’d already be doing better than 99.9% of the piece of shit techbro CEOs out there even if it barely could turn the radio on…
I’m torn on which is worse.