Originally Posted by
retswerb
I wanted to hate this as another example of AI being incorporated into something that doesn't need it simply because it's the new hot thing... but honestly this looks pretty useful.
It isn't AI being incorporated into something that doesn't need it. It's more or less routine functioning of computer technology being called AI for marketing purposes. There is no AI ... yet. The world does not yet have true AI technology. We aren't even close! What is being called AI is just fast processing of existing data sets by processers operating in the single digit gigahertz but to our 3Mhz brains (albeit CONSCIOUS brains), the computers seem 'intelligent'.
It does not take AI to color an image. Photoshop has been doing that for years. Deep fakes have been made for years. The ability to offload the processing of image data to a mainframe somewhere have it do whatever processing is necessary and send the results back to you over the internet is what makes things like ChatGPT possible. America still uses the T1 Internet bandwidth standard. Europe and Asia use the E1 standard. It is VASTLY faster. Unimaginably faster. You still would need a way to communicate with the server and the Copilot has absolutely no way to remote process the data it receives from its camera and believe me, or not, a Rasberry Pi is simply not up to any real
predictive analysis of the behavior of vehicles behind you.
Even if it was, human reflexes are simply not fast enough to act on the information. Collision avoidance systems in aircraft alert the pilots to the emergency as a courtesy! Without any AI involved, computers in each closing aircraft coordinate a response such that the aircraft move away from each other. At a closing speed of Mach 1.5 there is no time to correct for both aircraft altering their paths in a way that keeps them on a collision course.
The collision avoidance systems in cars that alert you if you are drifting out of your lane do not require AI. Neither do the ones that guide your car back into its lane without your involvement. When, and if, Copilot like devices can actually DO SOMETHING about the overtaking car on a collision course (apply its brakes!) then a consumer has a device worth paying $400 for. As it stands. Someone is out to make lots of money at our (the cycling consumer) expense.