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Now imagine Clippy on a car touchscreen.


NIO sells cars with a tiny cute robot that moves on the dashboard, named NOMI.

A lot of people hate it as it’s closer to Google assistant than GPT4 and it makes mechanical noise when it rotates but I don’t think it’s a terrible idea.

Anthropomorphism, the attribution of human traits to things, is common with cars.

I would like my car to run a LLM instead of being so stupid at understanding my voice commands.




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