All,
I know a lot of you have good insight into the inner workings of F1 teams and the sport itself and was wondering if anyone was aware of how Artificial Intelligence is being used. I imagine it is being used to design cars (evaluate wind tunnel data, for instance, or design airflow), but I also wonder if teams use it to do things like race sims.
It is a topic I haven't seen discussed here so I wanted to bring it up and see what people know or can speculate.
Teams have been using genetic algorithms for car design for many years now. The teams also use these sorts of things for race sims, to evaluate many different scenarios and come up with the best results. Ultimately, F1 teams are more concerned with computing techniques that can rapidly optimise solutions.
In terms of what we see a lot of in popular AI today, they’re pattern recognition machines that look for patterns and collate to create a passable work, and aren’t really of that much use in car development. They can’t create new ideas, only mishmashes of existing material.