The Globe and Mail reports in its Wednesday edition that generative artificial intelligence is moving from digital applications such as ChatGPT and into the physical world, including helping to power self-driving vehicles -- a sector that has been rife with setbacks that even Apple could not overcome. The Globe's Joe Castaldo writes that Waabi Innovation, an autonomous vehicle company in Toronto, has adapted concepts from generative AI and large language models into its autonomous driving system. Problems with generative AI, including accuracy, mean that there are still hurdles to overcome. Waabi in March detailed its Copilot4D, an AI model that the company says can help self-driving cars and trucks predict the behaviour of surrounding vehicles and pedestrians more accurately than existing approaches. The model works owing in part to strategies from the generative AI applications that produce text and images, but customized by Waabi. The field has seen numerous flameouts and failures. GM's Cruise suspended U.S. operations in October after regulators found the company's driverless taxis posed a risk to public safety. Apple recently abandoned its efforts to build an electric vehicle with autonomous capabilities.