These Researchers Made AI Drive a Toyota Corolla to Get In-N-Out

A team of researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, and the National University of Singapore tested three AI systems - GPT, Claude, and Grok - on a real-world driving task, specifically navigating a Toyota Corolla to an In-N-Out Burger. The experiment aimed to determine which AI system could successfully drive the car to the destination. GPT, a large language model, and Claude, a multimodal AI model, were both unable to complete the task, whereas Grok, a deep reinforcement learning model, successfully navigated the car to the In-N-Out Burger. The researchers' goal was to evaluate the capabilities of these AI systems in real-world driving scenarios, and the results suggest that Grok's performance was the most successful.