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AI Engineers Use GPT-6 Astra to Drive Car Through Drive-Thru

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Three AI engineers from Axiom successfully used OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra model to navigate a Toyota Corolla through a drive-thru at In-N-Out Burger. This experiment, conducted in the San Francisco Bay Area, demonstrated a language model's ability to interact with the physical world without specific prior training for driving. While the stunt highlighted the potential for general-purpose AI in real-world applications, the engineers acknowledged the inherent risks of using such models for controlling vehicles. AI

IMPACT Highlights the growing capability of language models to interact with the physical world, potentially accelerating robotics and autonomous systems development.

RANK_REASON Demonstration of a general-purpose language model controlling a physical vehicle, which is a novel application but not a core AI release or major industry shift.

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AI Engineers Use GPT-6 Astra to Drive Car Through Drive-Thru

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COVERAGE [2]

  1. Wired — AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Will Knight ·

    These Researchers Made AI Drive a Toyota Corolla to Get In-N-Out

    Three engineers put GPT, Claude, and Grok in charge of a real car. Only one of them was successful.

  2. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    These Researchers Made AI Drive a Toyota Corolla to Get In-N-Out https://www.wired.com/story/ai-is-driving-cars-now-oh-boy/ # AI # AutonomousVehicles # Tech

    These Researchers Made AI Drive a Toyota Corolla to Get In-N-Out https://www.wired.com/story/ai-is-driving-cars-now-oh-boy/ # AI # AutonomousVehicles # Tech

    LINKS wired.com/…/ai-is-driving-cars-now-oh-boy

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