we know that not everyone has heard of AI. It looks like AL but it stands for Artificial Intelligence. when I studied it in the early days it was more like pattern recognition for bottles speeding by on a conveyor looking for a cap off. Today we have generative AI, large language models LLM’s and agents. Generative was trained on what it saw when it read all the internet, all Amazon’s customer reviews, all of twitter, every book published. It uses math to predict the next thing you’ll want, see, think of or should be thinking of. When it gets really good in a couple years it will think as well as the best scientists, materials engineers and chemist. It will take a while to think like a race driver, although our sister company is working on that at the ASI League. ASI is what comes after AGI (as good as us). AI has exhibited signs of creativity in playing games against masters, producing moves never seen. The same will be true for chemical combinations, fatty acids, amino acids.
Now agents and ASI is where it gets interesting. ASI is Superintelligence, much beyond any human, any book we wrote. This may happen with the help of Agents. These are specially trained AI programs that can go on tasks, search the internet, book your flights, test your drug molecule and keep the robot running all night. These agent will likely battle each other on the race track paired with the best robots made. We intend to use them to do things we want to see, but don’t want a human to try. By pushing the boundaries we find new solutions for every day. Our oil research has already shown that we can save 62% of CO2 emissions from large freight trucks. In a couple years we will cut that by half again. Those robots will either drive along in those trucks as back up or as primary driver, contantly adjusting the ECU. Which is another project we are working on, because not every road, hill or weather is the same.
So there is no need to be afraid of AI, just yet. Go watch the movie Her and you might just like having an AI agent of your own. If you want to try it go to www.sesame.com and give her or him a test. You’ll be amused and amazed. Will an AI Agent beat the likes of a Karl Kinser, no because they can’t lick the dirt and determine tire choice. Much of racing is hidden in the minds of those that keep secrets well. But we are racers and we are whispering to the AI and she or he is taking us further than we thought possible. It almost feel like AGI is here because it is talking back in the details of every smarter chemical engineer and researcher.
These robots don’t tire of testing, they don’t need to go to the hospital after a bad fall, but will they have the character of Freddie Spencer that I used to work with. Will they be a character like an Al Unser, and AJ Foyt? Well we have a project to try to do just that in our sister company. We are asking the best racers of our early days to come forward and put their knowledge into our systems and let it be replicated in these robots. Now don’t go all Johnny Dep in the Transcendence movie on us. The voice, the memory the driving style because one day we’ll lose them to time, an illness or accident. Not all will want to do it, but just think if we could talk with Big Daddy Don Garlits or Shirley Muldowney at several races each year. The kids can quiz them, the racers can learn from them, they make keep some of us safe. Will it be fun? You bet your ASI…
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