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Fortune
Christiaan Hetzner

Mercedes trials ChatGPT to help its cars sound more human

Mercedes-Benz plans to trial the integration of OpenAI's ChatGPT in potentially over 900,000 U.S. vehicles. (Credit: Courtesy of Mercedes-Benz)

The crime-fighting Pontiac Firebird Trans Am immortalized in the 1980s action series Knight Rider featured an artificial intelligence that sounded every bit as human as its partner behind the wheel.  

Decades later some cars can in certain conditions already drive themselves, just like KITT, but A.I. hasn’t yet been able to give us a convincing dashboard assistant that can carry a conversation naturally. 

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