General Motors announced Tuesday it is leaning heavily on artificial intelligence to develop an "eyes-off" autonomous vehicle within two years, hoping the software can generate a viable product faster than its overseas competitors.
Executives in Detroit confirmed they have effectively handed core system development over to an enterprise language model, asking it to rapidly output a vehicle capable of safely ignoring the road at 70 miles per hour. The unprecedented acceleration of the company's timeline comes as Chinese automakers like BYD and NIO continue to ship new models at a pace GM’s human engineers can no longer match.
If we're going to keep pace with China's production cycles, we simply do not have the time to look at the road, and neither do our customers.
The automaker noted that by leveraging AI to write the vehicle's safety protocols, GM can cut years of tedious physical testing out of the development cycle. Representatives confirmed the resulting software will be pushed directly to the vehicles via an over-the-air update, allowing the company to beta-test high-speed autonomous driving at scale on the American interstate system.
To further speed up the rollout, GM confirmed it will also use the artificial intelligence model to rapidly generate the press releases for the resulting traffic fatalities.