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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 12 points 3 days ago (4 children)

The only AI named Kit I accept lives in a 1982 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 14 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I understand the reference and know the source, so I'll second you on that.

But... It was K.I.T.T.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 9 points 3 days ago

I took some artistic liberties. This isn't even an AI agent but just a mascot.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I always meant to look it up, but never got around to it. Today's the day I learn what it stood for!

"Knight Industries Two Thousand." Huh. Kind of a letdown, but at least now I know!

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

And then there was its evil twin, K.A.R.R.

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 1 points 3 days ago

Knight Automated Roving Robot

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 1 points 3 days ago

Huh, I thought it was Kybernetic Intelligence Thingy Thing.

[–] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

This isn't an AI. Kit is just the name of their redesigned mascot. They literally said in the article that it wasn't designed with AI and isn't an AI chatbot.

[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

as much as llms suck. if I had the money, I'd restore a 1982 Pontiac firebird and it an llm with a voice model based on kit. that can control the infotainment and had access to the car's odb and other functions.

all running on a gpu inside the car. using a local model

[–] LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 2 points 3 days ago

If it's a locally running model trained from ethically sourced data, you'd already be doing better than 99.9% of the piece of shit techbro CEOs out there even if it barely understood how to turn the radio on...

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth -1 points 3 days ago

I'm torn on which is worse.