AI is now deciding the fate of your wrecked car

AI is now deciding the fate of your wrecked car in the junkyard.

That’s right, even the scrapyard is using AI these days.

Copart CEO Jeff Liaw admitted that the company was using AI in various forms.

One such way is to determine whether or not a car is totaled.

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How AI is being used in junkyards to decide the fate of your wrecked car

When we think of junkyards, we think of them being very physical places.

You know, cars being hauled around, being crushed, all that business.

But believe it or not, artificial intelligence is now being rolled out at junkyards.

This admission came from Copart CEO Jeff Liaw during a recent earnings call.

It’s not quite like the AI is inspecting the cars in a physical sense.

So there’s no robot going up to each car with a keen eye or scouring over it like a gearhead Terminator.

The AI is basing its assessments on whether cars are totaled from data.

“We equip many of our sellers with tools to allow them to make instantaneous total loss decisions informed by literally millions of similar vehicles we’ve sold over the years,” Liaw said on the call.

“Those decision support tools are very much empowered by current generation large language model technologies.

“Beyond that, certainly in the obvious arenas, such as customer support and also in agent support here at Copart.”

Cars that are deemed to be totaled mostly get sent overseas, where cheaper labor gets the car back on its wheels.

The future of artificial intelligence

There’s barely a day that goes by without a news story about artificial intelligence and its advancements.

Microsoft recently released a study of 40 jobs that will be most affected and the ones that are safest.

This is a topic that is constantly being debated in different spheres.

The tech industry is particularly wise to this development – the CEO of Anthropic, Dario Amodei, recently warned the public that up to half of all entry-level white-collar jobs could disappear in five years.

Over at Mercedes-Benz, the head of design claimed that artificial intelligence would replace him within 10 years.

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