When will AI become a Personal Car Shopping Assistant?

[Alex Snyder]

I'm still wondering when the real costs of AI will hit us. The behemoth systems draw insane amounts of power. If the current administration can "unlock" cheap fuel, we may continue to see AI availability remain a low bar for individuals.

I'm saying this in this thread because all these dots may become disconnected if we cannot keep AI economically feasible for the peasants (you and me). Thus, I have to wonder if AI will be smooth enough for my mother-in-law to use as an assistant. It is mostly used like this by the Uncle Joe's of the world.

 

[joe.pistell]

I'm saying this in this thread because all these dots may become disconnected if we cannot keep AI economically feasible for the peasants (you and me). Thus, I have to wonder if AI will be smooth enough for my mother-in-law to use as an assistant. It is mostly used like this by the Uncle Joe's of the world.

DeepSeek absolutely changed everything. DeepSeek claims their models are significantly more efficient than GPT-4, using about 5-7x less computational power. This means for every 5-7 servers that ChatGPT (GPT-4) needs, DeepSeek might only need 1 server to accomplish similar tasks.

AI is going to shape shift itself. Giant AI models can help health care by automating paperwork, read images, or assist in cancer research and drug dev. Or, AI can get so small and cheap that AI models can run on small battery operated appliances.

1. The massive expensive cloud-based systems will solve massive problems.
2. Smaller, specialized models will run on 'smaller, dumber, more focused LLMs'.
3. 'Model Compression" is real, they're running locally tiny devices now.

AI assistants on on your mother in laws phone will have fully engaging natural -NON TECHNICAL- conversations to help her with the simple things in life.

 

[DjSec]

The problem is that this looks nothing like what real customers send. It's kind of like how we know every time we get a test lead from the OEM. They sound nothing like actual customers. I've been doing this 10 years now and never seen anything like this from a real customer.

Would that prevent you from answering it?
What would a email from a customer normally look?
How would a dealership take advantage of this technology?

I guess dealerships would need to make sure their websites are fast, and setup correctly for Technical SEO to make it easy for the bots to find and use, something they aren't currently setup for.