√DriveGPT: Artificial intelligence the next step in autonomous cars

New technology called DriveGPT aims to use artificial intelligence to learn how humans drive, and use the data to develop autonomous cars.

A Chinese company says it plans to gather artificial intelligence to learn how humans drive – and, in-turn, use the data to develop autonomous driving technology.

Called DriveGPT, the system uses ‘reinforced learning with human feedback’ technology to learn how to drive, according to a report from China Car News.

While existing semi-autonomous driving systems are guided via software code – a set of instructions the car’s computer system can understand and respond to – this new approach instead observes how cars are driven safely by real people and learns from their actions.

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According to the report, DriveGPT is able to navigate difficult scenarios such as U-turns and roundabouts with an increased rate of success of “30 per cent” compared to other autonomous driving technologies, according to overseas reports.

DriveGPT is the brainchild of Haomo.ai – a company specialising in artificial intelligence, with significant financial backing from Great Wall Motors – which says it will have announcements on the technology’s progress during a presentation day in April 2023.

In January 2023, the company launched Mana Oasis – the largest autonomous driving computing centre in China – which it says will allow its technology to self-train using large volumes of data gathered from vehicles during being driven on the road.

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