Important Innovations

  D AILY INNOVATION BRIEF                                                                                                          By Journalists Edward Kane & Maryanne Kane CHATTING WITH YOUR MER CEDES Source:  Mercedes Mercedes has added ChatGPT, the large language model developed by Open AI, to a large swathe of its cars to enable you to have conversations with your car The technology is available to 900,000 customers whose cars are equipped with the MBUX infotainment system, first in the US to test and preview it, before MB gives consideration to rolling it out permanently in other global markets With ChatGPT, the "Hey Mercedes" voice assistant will become much more conversational and intuitive It takes the car's conversational skills beyond answering questions to carrying on a natural conversation on any subject Mercedes is using Microsoft's Open AI Service that brings the natural language model to the car's voice assistant Mercedes is also considering Ch