Kawasaki reveals more about its motorcycle AI

This seems a little out of 2001: A Space Odyssey, but Kawasaki has revealed that the motorcycles it makes in the future will be able to recognise words the rider speaks, the tone they are spoken in, and adapt to the rider’s skill level and mood via the internet to result in a motorcycle that will be perfect for that particular individual. Yes, it gobsmacked us as well.

Details are (understandably) sketchy at the moment, but it has said that a number of technologies will work together to achieve the desired results. One is an ‘Emotion Generation Engine’ (or ECE) that will link to a Natural Language Dialogue System (or NLDS). Both these systems will be able to look up answers on the internet that the rider asks of the motorcycle and adapt into what the rider best prefers from the motorcycle. This tech will be called ‘Rideology’. 

We sure hope that the AI bikes of the future are able to help a rider extract the best out of his machine, and keep him safe. Whether the best way to go about doing this is via speech recognition (a difficult prospect in a car even today, where is much better noise insulation) is a question we’ll reserve for the future as well.