Generating content and code. Creating images and videos. Testing algorithms with synthetic data.
Generative AI is a force multiplier enabling leaps in productivity and creativity for nearly every industry, particularly transportation, where it's streamlining workflows and driving new business.
Across the entire auto industry, companies are exploring generative AI to improve vehicle design, engineering, and manufacturing, as well as marketing and sales.
Beyond the automotive product lifecycle, generative AI is also enabling new breakthroughs in autonomous vehicle (AV) development. Such research areas include the use of neural radiance field (NeRF) technology to turn recorded sensor data into fully interactive 3D simulations. These digital twin environments, as well as synthetic data generation, can be used to develop, test and validate AVs at incredible scale.
Merge Ahead: Transformative Use Cases Generative AI, large language models and recommender systems are the digital engines of the modern economy. - Jensen Huang
Foundational models - like ChatGPT for text generation and Stable Diffusion for image generation - can support AI systems capable of multiple tasks. This unlocks many possibilities.
Much like when early iPhone app developers began using GPS, accelerometers and other sensors to create mobile applications, AI developers now can tap foundation models to build new experiences and capabilities.
Generative AI can help tie different data streams together, not just text to text, or text to image, but also with inputs and outputs like video or 3D. Using this powerful new computing model, a text prompt could return a physically accurate layout of an assembly plant.
Toyota, one of the world's largest automakers, has developed a generative AI technique to ensure that early design sketches incorporate engineering parameters.
Meanwhile, Mercedes-Benz has demonstrated a ChatGPT-enabled voice assistant.
Other automotive industry players are also looking to generative AI to help accelerate design iterations and provide better results.
Designer and Artist Workflows Poised to Benefit Currently, it takes designers and artists months of preparation and design reviews to progress from early concept ideation and sketching through to the development of full scale models. This is often hampered by incompatible tools, siloed data and serial workflows.
Artists often begin the design process by looking for scrap, or visual references, based on trends in automotive styling. They seek inspiration for design cues, pulling from image libraries based on keywords.
The process involves looking at vehicles across the industry, whether existing or historic. Then, with a great deal of human curation, some blend of popular designs and fresh inspirations based on a company's stylings emerge. That forms the basis for artists' 2D hand-drawn sketches that are then recreated as 3D models and clay prototypes.
These linear and time-consuming design concept processes are utilized for exterior parts like grilles, hoods and wheels, as well as interior aspects such as dashboards, seats, ergonomics and user interfaces.
To develop these 3D models, automotive styling teams work with engineers in tools like Autodesk Alias or Maya to develop NURBS models, short for non-uniform rational B-splines. The resulting mathematical representations of 3D geometry capture the shapes from 2D drafts. The end deliverable is a 3D representation that's the result of bespoke styling, design and engineering work and can be used in computer-aided design applications to define surfaces.
The automotive industry now has an opportunity to use generative AI to instantly transform 2D sketches into NURBS models for leaps in productivity. These tools will not replace designers, but enable them to explore a wide range of options faster.
Generative AI Riding Shotgun on Concept and Styling Design-oriented enterprises can use visual datasets and generative AI to assist their work across many fronts. This has already been achieved with coding tools such as GitHub Copilot - trained on billions of lines of code - and similarly promises to help compress lengthy design timelines.
In particular, when looking for scrap design elements, generative AI models can be trained on an automaker's portfolio as well as vehicles industrywide, assisting this workflow. This can happen first by fine-tuning a small dataset of images with transfer learning, and then by tapping into NVIDIA TAO Toolkit. Or it might require a more robust dataset of some 100 million images, depending on the requirements of the generative AI model.
In this bring-your-own-model setup, design teams and developers could harness NVIDIA Picasso - a cloud-based foundry for building generative AI models for visual design - with Stable Diffusion.
In this case, designers and artists prompt the generative AI for design elements, such as rugged, sophisticated or sleek. It then generates examples from the external world of automakers as well as from a company's internal catalogs of images, vastly accelerating this initial phase.
For vehicle interiors, large language models for text-to-image generation can enable designers to type in a description of a texture, like a floral pattern, and the generative AI will put it onto the surface of a seat, door panel or dashboard. If a designer wants to use a particular image to generate an interior design texture, generative AI can handle image-to-image texture creation.
Smart Factories Getting Generative AI Edge Manufacturers developing smart factories are adopting Omniverse and generative AI application programming interfaces to connect design and engineering tools to build digital twins of their facilities. BMW Group is starting the global rollout of NVIDIA Omniverse to support its vision for a factory of the futu
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