M3 estate's a hit.. but Mr Chat is a miss

ROBOT DOESN’T GET IT WRITE ABOUT BRILLIANT NEW BMW

Just out of interest I gave a robot that’s hit the headlines the chance to write the column this week –ChatGPT is a new AI (artificial intelligence) tool that can be trained to write content using huge amounts of web data.

It also has a link to motoring itself – ChatGPT was dreamed up by a tech start-up co-founded by Tesla inventor Elon Musk.

So I sat back (honestly not with a G and T) and asked it for 700 words on the car I’d tested – the new BMW M3 Touring – in the style of motoring journalist Colin Goodwin. It came out of the blocks rather faster than me– going from 0 words to 700 in a dazzling 43 seconds. But unfortunately (or fortunately for my continued employment), it was a bit rubbish.

First, it didn’t tell us that in the 37-year lifetime of the M3 this is the first time a Touring or estate version has been built.

There have been M5 Tourings before (only a couple of generations came to the UK, though) but never BMW’s smaller M car.