Funny enough if you ask AI it actually gives you the correct answers.
if you ask something about let's say FSD, it is often wrong because it pulls anecdotal comments from social media.
But if you ask about the underlying technology it knows a lot
Lucid assistant is lagging further and further behind
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if you ask something about let's say FSD, it is often wrong because it pulls anecdotal comments from social media.
But if you ask about the underlying technology it knows a lot
Like I said, hogwash! One sensor suite better than 3 for safety? Hogwash!
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It's unclear to me how the Lucid Assistant made it out to production. It's awkward, largely unhelpful, non-intuitive.
Things to improve:
#1: Actual and complete control integration: "Open the glovebox" "open the frunk" etc. should just make that happen. The whole car is software driven - every control is "soft". There are buttons in layers of menus that aren't all that hard to find - but why make me find them when we supposedly have an "Assistant"
#2: Speech recognition/parsing needs to handle sentences that aren't perfect, etc. Just like very other competitive voice assistant. This includes asking questions to clarify - not make me ask twice.
Bottom line: I should be able to talk to it to get operate anything in the car.
Reading the tea leaves - an AI assistant being in the works might well be making any fix here a waste... Concern: does the car have the computes to do this without some datacenter powering it? If not, what happens when you've got no cell service...
Things to improve:
#1: Actual and complete control integration: "Open the glovebox" "open the frunk" etc. should just make that happen. The whole car is software driven - every control is "soft". There are buttons in layers of menus that aren't all that hard to find - but why make me find them when we supposedly have an "Assistant"
#2: Speech recognition/parsing needs to handle sentences that aren't perfect, etc. Just like very other competitive voice assistant. This includes asking questions to clarify - not make me ask twice.
Bottom line: I should be able to talk to it to get operate anything in the car.
Reading the tea leaves - an AI assistant being in the works might well be making any fix here a waste... Concern: does the car have the computes to do this without some datacenter powering it? If not, what happens when you've got no cell service...
In this case, yes because cruise control radar doesn't do anything useful and ultrasonics are only for short range.
And this ignores the fact that cameras are the highest resolution sensor available
Waymo has problems seeing thin chains (same as tesla) because with lidar they are not very visible
If you are compute limited less is always more.
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I think it's typical for connected cars to fall back on a limited local model for voice response and control when a network link is absent.
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We've strayed pretty far from the OG topic here, so let's swing it back.
Lucid did demo a much improved AI assistant early this year. They have not yet shipped it. That's unfortunate, but I'd rather they get it right than ship something that's broken.
Personally, I don't have much of a need for such things, since I generally use CarPlay, and Siri generally does whatever I need to do with my calendar appointments, navigation, etc.
But I do think given the competition, a solid AI assistant is important. I'm sure Lucid knows this. And I hope when it does ship, it knows how to control just about anything in the car. Being able to set various settings with your voice can be convenient when you are mid-drive. Rear seat temps, seat heaters, etc. in particular. As your guest passengers might not be familiar with how to set those.
Lucid did demo a much improved AI assistant early this year. They have not yet shipped it. That's unfortunate, but I'd rather they get it right than ship something that's broken.
Personally, I don't have much of a need for such things, since I generally use CarPlay, and Siri generally does whatever I need to do with my calendar appointments, navigation, etc.
But I do think given the competition, a solid AI assistant is important. I'm sure Lucid knows this. And I hope when it does ship, it knows how to control just about anything in the car. Being able to set various settings with your voice can be convenient when you are mid-drive. Rear seat temps, seat heaters, etc. in particular. As your guest passengers might not be familiar with how to set those.
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Another thing that an AI assistant would be great for: Mid-road trip changes in plans.
If you don't like the EV charging station it picked out, it would be nice to say "Find me another station; I'd rather use Ionna" or whatever. Or questions like "If we decided to take a quick detour and go along the coast through Santa Barbara, would we still be able to make it without charging?"
I know AI is perfectly capable of this stuff; I hope Lucid gets that these sorts of car-specific, practical uses are a hell of a lot more important than demo pie-in-the-sky stuff.
Just make it practical and accurate. It doesn't have to do astrophysics. Or analyze my dreams. Just set the damn fan speed, please.
If you don't like the EV charging station it picked out, it would be nice to say "Find me another station; I'd rather use Ionna" or whatever. Or questions like "If we decided to take a quick detour and go along the coast through Santa Barbara, would we still be able to make it without charging?"
I know AI is perfectly capable of this stuff; I hope Lucid gets that these sorts of car-specific, practical uses are a hell of a lot more important than demo pie-in-the-sky stuff.
Just make it practical and accurate. It doesn't have to do astrophysics. Or analyze my dreams. Just set the damn fan speed, please.