Elon Musk's Announcements Reveal What To Expect from Tesla's AI Day

Based on Elon Musk's announcements we should expect recruitment, robots and really power supercomputers from the upcoming Tesla AI Day on Aug. 19.

From now on, CEO Elon Musk no longer wants to attend the quarterly conference calls on Tesla's business figures regularly, as he said at the latest this week, but he is taking more time for live appearances this year. In mid-June, Musk was on a stage at the Fremont electric car plant to celebrate the handover of the first 25 Model S plaids. Shortly afterwards, he announced an information day on artificial intelligence (AI) at Tesla, and now he has also given a specific date for it.

Third official Tesla day in August

The first event Tesla referred to as "Day" took place in April 2019 and was titled Autonomy Investor Day. Officially, it was aimed at investors who should be informed about Tesla's progress in autonomous driving, including the FSD computer it had developed itself. This was followed by Battery Day, which was postponed many times in September 2020, on which Musk presented the long-term strategy for masses of cells in its own 4680 format (see photo above with technology boss Drew Baglino). Fans had expected even more from it, as well as later from the plaid deliveries this June, which were only announced as an event instead of a full day.

In any case, the third official Tesla Day is to be held on August 19, a Thursday, Musk now wrote on Twitter. He called it AI Day, which is the abbreviation for artificial intelligence. The Tesla boss did not initially name the place, time or other circumstances. But perhaps to avoid exaggerated expectations and thus new disappointments, shortly after the announcement he repeated an important caveat: The “only goal” of the day is to attract the best AI talent for Tesla, he wrote.

On Tuesday, Tesla began sending out invitations for the company's AI Day on August 19, announced by CEO Elon Musk, for an information event on the topic of artificial intelligence (AI). In the run-up, Musk had tried to dampen high-flying expectations by stating that Tesla's AI day was solely intended to attract new staff. But the invitation that has now been sent aroused new speculations.

Tesla AI not just for electric cars.

The event will therefore take place from 5 p.m. local time in Palo Alto and is only open to invited guests. Musk is to give a keynote speech, Tesla engineers are to demonstrate hardware and software, and test drives with the Model S Plaid are announced. And Tesla is suggesting that it has even more plans: Participants should also get an “inside look” at what is planned with AI beyond the vehicle fleet.

The last point in particular aroused curiosity. This is all the more true as a photo of a chip system (probably generated in a computer) can be seen on the invitation (see above). According to analyzes by knowledgeable Twitter commentators, it could show the Dojo chip announced by Musk, with which Tesla wants to build a supercomputer with an exaflop of computing power for training its neural autopilot networks. At about the same time, the photo was also published by a robotics professor who suggested a partnership with Tesla.

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[NachmanRotzak]

I congratulate you on the new video shooting angle. Excellent

[LouisonAutomotive]

The future looks exciting, let's go Tesla and Elon.

[altonriggs]

If governments would just get out of his way, Elon would change the world.

[privateerburrows]

Arman, a "dojo" is a space for training in martial arts. In the movie The Matrix, Neo gets training in a virtual dojo. So Dojo is a reference to training its neural networks in sort of a virual reality environment, where thousands or millions of driving situations are trained for at the same time.
As far as the final question, I think that indeed level 5 autonomy will require Hardware 4. I say this because I see how progress of the AI is slowing down over time; makes me think it is almost at the limit of what Hardware 3 can do.
On the other hand, I'm of the Not So Humble Opinion that the AI could have been better structured than it was. Before you jump, just imagine this:
1) A base AI level that simply knows the physics of driving. Can't read signs; can't interpret road markings; can't tell a car from a house from a bat from a hole in the ground; but can see them all, can avoid them if required. Knows how quickly avoid objects on the road, how to get around an accident happening in front of it, and would even know from experience if a flooded road can be crossed or not, or how safe it is, probabilistically.
2) An intermediate level AI that recognizes moving objects, cars and people, and makes predictions based on physics, kinematics, and experience of driver and pedestrian behaviors. This AI level would model how other drivers might think, would "put itself in their shoes", be able to predict lane changes, be able to implement basic driving etiquette, such as NOT turn the turn flasher ON when a car is in that lane coming to pass us, scaring them, but wait until the car has passed. It would also know to NOT be passing cars when highway exits are approaching, as those are times when drivers often jump lanes to try and not miss their exits. So this AI level would be a wisdom and etiquette level.
3) A top level AI for rules, signage, planning and driving strategy.
Now, each of these AI levels would be able to drive the car alone, different priorities notwithstanding; but under normal circumstances level 1 would do the driving, with input and recommendations by level 2, and with directions from level 3.
This, I submit, would be a much more efficient neural network structure, in my opinion, than trying to do all 3 levels with a single neural network; and might have allowed full autonomy with Hardware 3.

[blackmoresarchangel]

AI day is about recruiting young talented engineers.This is where the OEM's get left light years behind

[billkohl]

What time tomorrow will Tesla’s AI day be?? Thanks very much

[jayholm]

What time is AI Day today??? Ok ...so 7pm my time (TX).

[nickylacambra]

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[grahammewburn]

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Praise JAH
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