Introducing Ford AI Assistant in the Ford App 📱

[MaverickDragon]

I would love walk away door locking! I miss that from my Honda Ridgeline.

What if your passenger has the fob and gets into the vanpool you dropped her/him off for, and as you walk back to the Maverick, after saying bu-bye you discover it has conveniently locked itself with your phone inside...

Probably not something you would miss.

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[TNFurb]

What if your passenger has the fob and gets into the vanpool you dropped her/him off for, and as you walk back to the Maverick, after saying bu-bye you discover it has conveniently locked itself with your phone inside...

Probably not something you would miss.

That would suck for sure. But through 4 years of owning a Ridgeline, that scenario never happened to me. Nor did I ever once get locked out of the truck. I just wish Ford had it as an option for those who want it like Honda did. I found it to be very convenient and meant I pretty much never had to take the fob out of my pocket whenever I was out and about. But the feature could be turned off in settings for those who were not interested in it for whatever reason.

 

[edmc]

Also, the chat bots takes virtually nothing in resources to train and run. Can actually be really good when used correctly to get people straight to the relevant information. It's the agentic workloads that are the big driver of why are there suddenly all these datacenters vaporizing our power and water.

If it was an old school, dumb chat bot yes. Those are fairly simple and are preprogrammed for a handful of paths/tasks that it can help you with.

That does not seem to be what this is though. Ask it off topic questions and see how it responds. There are a ton of things that happen before your input even reaches the LLM. Has to be checked for harmful intent, prompt injection, and so on. Then when it does generate something to send back to you, LLM A checks the output of LLM B to try and make sure it doesn't tell you that you are a transcendent being and taking meth is a good thing.

There is ALOT of compute happening. Water and electricity resources are pretty much doomed with the direction we are heading.

See this post that confirms this is your typical AI slop, seems great until it isn't.
https://www.mavericktruckclub.com/forum/threads/ford-pass-ai-button.84989/post-1415339

 

[zen_]

There is ALOT of compute happening. Water and electricity resources are pretty much doomed with the direction we are heading.

It's a drop in the bucket compared to the token usage of agents running 24/7 doing deep data analysis, code review, etc. I can't imagine owners actually needing to use this much anyway, but it's nice to have the answers in your pocket if you're doing something like changing wiper blades in an Autozone parking lot.

I get the environmental angle as well, as it's infuriating to see these datacenters being built as quickly as we can build gas turbines to power them with no regard to the cost, but again these little chat bots are not driving the usage.

 

[edmc]

Drop in the bucket argument sucks. It's still bad. And when every single company is adding this BS to their websites and apps it adds up and contributes to the problem.

Also it is such a typical AI use case, solving a problem that does not exist.

 

[zen_]

Drop in the bucket argument sucks. It's still bad. And when every single company is adding this BS to their websites and apps it adds up and contributes to the problem.

Also it is such a typical AI use case, solving a problem that does not exist.

I get that, but what do you think the compute cost of the old method of searching on your phone, then opening a bunch of web pages full of adds and text is?

 

[MaverickDragon]

That would suck for sure. But through 4 years of owning a Ridgeline, that scenario never happened to me. Nor did I ever once get locked out of the truck. I just wish Ford had it as an option for those who want it like Honda did. I found it to be very convenient and meant I pretty much never had to take the fob out of my pocket whenever I was out and about. But the feature could be turned off in settings for those who were not interested in it for whatever reason.

My point was there could be a downside with potential legal consequences in an extreme case.
Not saying it's likely to happen, but it could.
There was a similar scenario on another forum where it turned into a royal pain.

Myself, I liked keyed ignitions, and I would not want the car to lock itself.
At worst, with RKE it's a button push, so not exactly a major inconvenience.

 

[Traegorn]

Maybe I should uninstall the ford app.

 

[JazznSF]

What if your passenger has the fob and gets into the vanpool you dropped her/him off for, and as you walk back to the Maverick, after saying bu-bye you discover it has conveniently locked itself with your phone inside...

Probably not something you would miss.

That's why I have a phone - albeit much smaller - in the hollow heel of my shoe, just like Maxwell Smart.

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