Agents · Updated 8 Oct, 12:15 am IST
Engineers used GPT-6 Astra to steer a Toyota Corolla to an In-N-Out drive‑thru
Why it matters for readers: It’s an unusual demo that shows language models can do more than text — they can influence the physical world with human oversight.
- Axiom engineers Aditya Ramabadran, Simon Mahns, and Tobias Gessler connected a chat interface to a server tied to windscreen cameras and the car’s power steering.1
- They asked OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra, normally used for text and code, to control the vehicle and it navigated up to the take‑out window.1
- A safety driver kept one foot above the brake during the lunchtime run to the drive‑thru.1
- The experiment was done on the fly without prior coaching of the model specifically for driving.1
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