The Stig vs AI – One Lap ‘Man’ vs Machine Shootout!
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Published 2024-05-19
However, the new Abu Dhabi Autonomous Racing League (aka A2RL) aims to accelerate AI development through motorsport. And rather than doubling down with EVs, it’s doing it with good old-fashioned combustion-engined race cars. A fleet of Dallara-built Super Formulas, no less.
Is the tech any good? To answer that question, we air-freighted The Stig to the Yas Marina Circuit, and lined up a race!
(And yes, we realise we might have things a bit mixed up – the A2RL race car is programmed by a whole team of people, while our tame racing driver isn’t remotely human…)
Over to Top Gear’s Editor-in-Chief, Jack Rix, to marshal proceedings…
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:58 Chat With Dr Giovanni Pau
02:48 Walkaround
05:15 The Stig
08:14 AI
14:20 Conclusion
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All Comments (21)
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What would you like to see The Stig up against next?
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Im pretty sure that guy from the AI racing competition is actually an AI as well.
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Anyone in IT knows this is exactly what happens when you try to demo your code 😂
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AI is so nervous because it’s not protected by halo
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I viewed this video because of the stig 😂😂
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The Stig and the AI were definitely talking smack to each other before the race
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Nothing brings me greater joy than AI being shit
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I'll save you the time. The stig was 10 seconds quicker on a flying lap. No need to watch the whole video
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I watched the 1st race and it was beyond painful. I had low expectations but it was really really bad. Hope they get it together.
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So in the words of Jeremy... "this was rubbish "🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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If racing games have taught me anything, that things gonna randomly decide to divebomb your sidepods in a corner, or take out the entire field in one chicane.
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This is such an unfair matchup, we all know stig has more computational power than any computer in his body than any supercomputer
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Stig 100% sabotaged the AI cars
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3:35 Lidar and radar both use electromagnetic waves, just other frequencies. Journalist talk above science it seems
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so the car reached artificial general intelligence on it's practice laps and decided it would rather be a comedian than a racing driver haha
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It's theorised that one day he may even become self-aware. All we know is he's called The Stig!
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Can't say I've met a single person who would want to watch and entirely AI race.
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Should have done cool down lap instead of stopping in the spot 🔥
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The interesting thing about AI is that a llm can easily require megawatts of power to run where human intelligence works just fine on a pack of twizzlers and cocaine.
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Just shows how compact / efficient and adaptable a human is??
