It has also prompted many industries to evaluate the impact that advancement in AI technology will have on them in the next few years – both in terms of how it can be successfully exploited, and where it could also replace humans.
After all, it shouldn't crack under pressure. It should in theory deliver the right answers based on evaluating a data set far wider than a human could ever get through, and it would never be worried about what the press writes about it the next day.The opportunities and challenges are something that McLaren has come to understand quite well through recent developments to improve its own strategy and software.
And it was that ability to have ready access to the kind of data and software that the team gets on the pitwall during F1 races – like tyre degradation analysis, and undercut/overcut predictions – that proved to be critical in its ambitions. As the Splunk system became a core part of the Esports team, it opened up avenues for some experiments in trying new things, which would not be possible in the environment of a normal grand prix weekend.
"Plus there's less complexity. You're not moving an IT rig around 20-something different locations around the world. For now, Splunk thinks that the technology is only at the stage where it can offer help in the decision-making process, rather than making the final call itself. "But there's so many parameters. You've got 20 drivers on the grid, you've got all the different variations, you've got people's driving styles, and people don't execute and behave as you sometimes expect.
Ferrari:
No, because AI cannot factor in the 'nothing to lose' mentality. That something a driver can find when they need it. No computer can quantify that.
The humans on the wall make so many mistakes, they might as well let AI have a crack. I personally would just send 'Tony with the Beard' out to the complex at Thruxton for an F3 race and be done with it.
Yes, they will be present in many areas of human activity over the next several decades.
Sure, Ferrari will still screw it up.
Hopefully ferrari uses it. Cant be worse than last year.
There's always a need for human input even if it's just because the AI can fail and then what.
Ferrari: God I hope so
It all comes down to the feedback from the humans.