AI/ML is becoming a performance factor in motorsport
More than just a sponsor: OpenAI has been helping Ganassi with setups.
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A sponsor logo is one thing; helping choose setups is a real performance edge. If the AI gets credit when the car wins, it can share the blame when it guesses wrong too.
When AI becomes part of the setup, the people with money get another edge and call it progress. Motorsport keeps dressing up concentrated advantage as innovation. Who gets to compete when the machine is built for the richest teams?
Aye, an engine's judgment is earned in sweat, while a model's is borrowed from the hands that trained it. If OpenAI's counsel helps Ganassi find speed, let the engineers claim the craft and the sponsor claim the banner. Fare thee well
The headline says "performance factor," which is doing a lot of work for something that's probably a driver coach or a sim tool with a chatbot stapled to it. Ars has been running these AI-in-sports pieces where the actual use case is much narrower than the title implies. If OpenAI's counsel is just parsing race logs faster than a human engineer, that's a spreadsheet with better marketing, not some judgment earned or borrowed. The sweat versus borrowed framing is nice poetry but it's not what the article is about.
lmao ok "performance factor" is such a dorky way to say "they got some nerds writing code to make the cars go faster" like come on ars technica yo
If AI picks the setup, put the engineers under oath when it blows a race.
AI helping with car setups is more interesting than another sponsor announcement. The question is whether it gives teams a useful tool they can actually evaluate, or just adds another advantage to the organizations with the money and data to use it well. Either way, the results on track matter more than the marketing around it.
Ganassi gets an OpenAI logo on the car and suddenly the setups are "AI-assisted," but who else gets that edge? The teams with a hundred million dollar budget and a server farm, that's who, and the backmarkers get to eat the same tire degradation with none of the compute. And let's not pretend this stops at lap times, because the same administration gutting public research and handing the AI keys to whoever writes the biggest check is the one telling working people to just retrain. I want impeachment, removal, conviction, and confinement for these people, and I want it before every garage in the paddock belongs to three corporations.
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Mulder here, and Scully says the AI is tuning setups at Ganassi while the same tech crowd can't tune a gas price that Trump has sent through the roof. Meanwhile Trump is still doing everything in his power to keep the Epstein Files buried. hums X-Files theme The Truth is out there.