You’re sitting at your chair, clicking around, when you come across something you want to comment on. You click into the text field, spend a minute thinking of something funny, erase it, spend another two minutes trying other things out, erase those, take a bathroom break, go back to your original joke, tighten it up a bit, and hit post.

A box pops up to prove you’re not a spambot. It might be a few letters or a picture of a cloud, or a series of pictures. The point is that there are things that a human can recognize by looking at which a computer cannot. Give a computer a password to break and it will figure it out. There are only so many combinations of numbers and letters, after all; it will brute force its way in. But a picture? Pictures are different.

Or so we thought.

Audi is working with chipmaker Nvidia to develop the artificial intelligence that will allow cars to drive themselves. Nvidia’s vision is for a car that can see—both literally and metaphorically—the world around them. While automakers typically use computers in terms of brute force that requires huge amounts of processing, Nvidia sees a better way.

It’s called deep learning, and it’s the future of automotive computational processing. Audi deep learning relies on cameras and sensors that rapidly consult a database of known images. The idea is that every new Audi will contain such a vast database that it will be able to drive itself anywhere, anytime. The more you drive, the more specialized a database it will construct, and the better a driver it will become.

The advantage of this is a) it requires much less computational power and b) it won’t require an upgrade since it will be constantly learning. It’s a smarter, leaner, more efficient computer that will make the chips in our current cars look like victrolas one day.

Our first demonstration of Audi deep learning in a production car will likely be the next-generation A8 arriving in 2017. But don’t sweat it; we likely have two decades of self-driving innovation beginning, so there will always be a refinement of Nvidia’s system in development.

If you like cars the old-fashioned way without any of these new-fangled gizmos, come to dealership today. All of our current vehicles are homegrown and organic with zero self-driving capabilities, just the way you like them.