Greetings from Dubai, where we’re reporting on a few stories.
There are a few very minor changes to Lucire’s back end. Our header images are a bit bigger than they used to be—we’ve noticed that the extra kilobytes required to download them don’t seem to matter as much as they used to.
Secondly, we announced earlier on the fediverse (Mastodon) and Facebook that we would no longer be sending OneSignal updates for our features, as these are done manually. The news ones will continue.
We’ve noticed the number of subscribers on OneSignal decline, and even we don’t receive notifications any more, nor can we find a way to sign back up to them (we test these technologies before we make them available to readers). If you have concerns about this, please get in touch.
In other tech news, Peugeot has announced it will integrate ChatGPT into its entire European range, at least all its models with the voice command option. In French, chat, j’ai pété means something not technical at all, though it is, like the Peugeot badge, still feline-related.
Our tests of ChatGPT and its ilk have shown it to be far from accurate, so we wonder how Peugeot’s integration will fare. Sometimes, technology can go too far if it is untested. Maybe simple things will be all right, but our experience is that ChatGPT only works when you know the answer, and you can argue with the prompts to give it the result you want. It’s hardly a time-saving service, and we can foresee frustrated motorists and passengers worldwide being led astray.
Peugeot, however, says it has had a large-scale pilot programme, presumably to iron out all the likely bugs it might face, and has integrated the service into its I-Cockpit and its OK Peugeot voice assistant.
Seventeen markets and 12 languages across Europe will have ChatGPT deployed, and new cars will get the program automatically with an over-the-air update.
The company notes that the data its version of ChatGPT employs is current to January 2022. It is part of the Connect Plus pack, which Peugeot begins charging €12 per month or €120 per year for, after the first six months of the car’s purchase.
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