AI Day coming in a Month (aka, “Or so.”)

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Elon Musk: Tesla will hold ‘AI Day’ to show progress and recruit talent
Fred Lambert
- Jun. 21st 2021 1:12 pm PT
@FredericLambert


Elon Musk announced that Tesla will hold an ‘AI Day’ in about a month to show its progress in software and hardware related to artificial intelligence.

However, the main goal is to recruit talent.



Over the last few years, Tesla started holding events, not really to unveil new products, but to present new technologies that it has been working on in certain fields.

For example, it held a ‘Tesla Autonomy Day’ back in 2019 and a ‘Tesla Battery Day‘ last year.

Now, CEO Elon Musk announced on Twitter that the automaker is planning a ‘Tesla Ai Day’:

“Looking at holding Tesla AI Day in about a month or so. Will go over progress with Tesla AI software & hardware, both training & inference. Purpose is recruiting.”

Musk has long been arguing that people interested in artificial intelligence should be interested in working at Tesla for the company’s ability to quickly deploy products using AI.

The CEO wrote:

“In general, anyone interested in working on physical-word AI problems, should consider joining Tesla. Fastest path to deploying your ideas in real life.”

He made the comment after Andrej Karpathy, Tesla’s head of AI, held a presentation about Tesla’s computer vision effort to build a full self-driving system.

We reported on his presentation earlier today, focusing on Tesla’s latest supercomputer, which is the predecessor to Tesla’s upcoming Dojo.

Electrek’s Take

I get that the focus is on recruiting, but people are going to be looking at it for more than that.

With Elon claiming that Tesla can achieve level 5 full self-driving by the end of the year and this event happening as that timeline gets fairly close, Tesla owners are going to want to see a clear path for Tesla sticking to its goal.

The timing works with Tesla releasing FSD Beta v9 and the wider release of city street driving under the FSD package.

Recently, Tesla mentioned that a true full self-driving system could be deployed after the automaker achieves 1 or 2 million miles per driver interaction under the FSD beta program.

https://electrek.co/2021/06/21/elon-musk-tesla-ai-day-progress-recruit-talent/

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Electrek’s Take

I get that the focus is on recruiting, but people are going to be looking at it for more than that.

With Elon claiming that Tesla can achieve level 5 full self-driving by the end of the year and this event happening as that timeline gets fairly close, Tesla owners are going to want to see a clear path for Tesla sticking to its goal.

The timing works with Tesla releasing FSD Beta v9 and the wider release of city street driving under the FSD package.

Recently, Tesla mentioned that a true full self-driving system could be deployed after the automaker achieves 1 or 2 million miles per driver interaction under the FSD beta program.

(Fred Lambert is the editor-in-chief of Elektrek.co)

Fred, Fred, Fred... When will you learn? Elon says what he means and means what he says. He's often wrong about the future but he meant it when he said it. He's got no PR/Media department and that puts extra work on you(Fred) . He needs talented people and you(Fred) want news about FSD. He misses deadlines and that makes your(Fred) job harder. We all get it, well, except for you because you(Fred) continue to bring it up.

 

[Newton]

machine learning is where the big money is, was talking to a recruiter at facebook last year? no, pre-covid so in 2019. she was saying finding good AI engineers is super hard and they are basically hiring everyone they can, im sure google, russia, china, and just about every1 else its too. VERY competitive

 

[rr6013]

These are early days. AI is basic research and development in turning PURE vision into TeslaVISION, a product.

AI and Robotics are separate silos. Robotics, Tesla is implementing on the factory level, motors and machine vision applications.

Elon will integrate AIRobotics. So exciting for Millennials and Gen Z who have the aptitude to tackle the rough edges of technology.

A SteveJobs style liberal arts thinker could innovate after Elon and Andrej have done the heavy lift of R&D and integration. So many applications TeslaVISION+AIRobotics enables.

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