• katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      or like from 6 years ago when elon replied to someone saying tesla was emphatically pro lgbt and if you didn’t like that, go elsewhere.

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        Tom from MySpace did it right. Took a massive paycheck and then fucked off.

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    The company’s profit and loss sheets back that up—Tesla was spending heavily on GPUs from Nvidia rather than on new car lines, although that was followed by news that Musk has had many of those GPUs redirected to his social media company X. And over the past few years, we’ve seen more demonstrations of humanoid robots—with varying degrees of verisimilitude—than new cars.

    So, let me get this straight… Tesla, a publicly owned company, of which Musk is an employee (and major shareholder) is buying GPUs to be used by Twitter, a privately held company of which Musk is the owner?

    How is that not embezzlement?

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    Additionally, Musk announced a full self driving robot driver to make the robotaxis look more authentic

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    Elon could have spun off Tesla’s AI (FSD) into a separate company or created a new AI company that Tesla uses for their FSD. Instead, he’s pivoting Tesla, a fairly successful, if troubled car company that uses AI, away from producing cars. Why? I mean, this is consistent with his firings and division layoffs, but it seems like a dumb decision from the board’s/investors point of view.

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    I saw a cyber truck in person for the first time this week. One thing I can say with certainty is that they are definitely NOT a truck company.

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    Tesla has always been an AI company. They’ve had tons of machine learning going on in their cars basically as long a they’ve existed. What exactly is changing? Are they going to start trying to use generative models like GPTs in their cars?

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      “We are a car company we sell cars. We have machine learning for self driving”

      to

      “We are an AI company”.

      It hasn’t always been an AI company. They are an automotive company suddenly shifting gears

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        I guess if you think AI and car are mutually exclusive. I would have described Tesla as an AI car company.

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          What AI products, except their broken self driving feature, does tesla sell?

          Is every other manufacturer of cars with any self driving type functionality now an “AI” company to you?

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            Tesla has always invested heavily in their software. Just because it has always been shitty doesn’t diminish that it was an outsized part of their business model, especially compared to other car companies

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              always invested heavily in their software

              So wait, are you now saying they are a technology company? Can you please try and keep your mental gymnastics consistent?

              Are you implying all car manufacturers are now AI or Technology companies? And are no longer automotive manufacturers?

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                Why must tech company and car company be mutually exclusive? Certainly the amount of technology (including ML) present in cars has increased exponentially in the last decade.

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                  by your own definition (implements custom ML), BMW, AUDI, etc are all now AI companies. as well has thousands of analytic firms.

                  a ceo is hyping a tool, and its not even fucking AI.

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            Ugh you guys can be so deliberately obtuse. Yes, if a company makes revenue from an AI offering, and spends a significant amount of their money developing that AI offering then yes, it can be considered an AI company. Just because the feature is stupid or dangerous doesn’t invalidate that accounting.

            Enjoy a little nuance from time to time.

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              What? you entirely missed the point. you are adding nuance where none is required.

              Tesla is a car company. Just because musk says “we are AI now” doesn’t just magically make it so.

              I could form a company that makes shoes. Can I suddenly announce I am an AI company?

              Sure, maybe I use AI in my production, and maybe even develop my own models.

              But its still a shoe company.

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      For the most part what kind of company you are is what kind of product you’re selling or making money off of.

      So you could contend that Tesla is a battery company or a car company feasibly. Nobody ahead of the AI bubble would have mentioned Tesla and artificial intelligence in the same category.

      Besides, if it’s what he makes money selling Tesla is a tax credit company.

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      By this logic, any car company with any advanced driving aids are “AI” companies, and therefore the likes of VW, Toyota, Honda, Mercedes, BMW, Hyundai, Jaguar, etc aren’t actually car companies.

      Come off it. They’re car companies. It’s just that one of their car’s features is some function that relies on machine learning.

      You may as well call Ford a cup holder company by this logic - after all, they’ve had cup holders for so long now!

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        aren’t actually car companies.

        You’re making the same assumption many others in this thread do that “AI company” and “car company” are non-overlapping circles on a Venn diagram. In my view this is as ludicrous as saying that “Apple is a phone company, not a software company”

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      To reply to your edit.

      You can mentally categorise whatever you like into whatever you want. It doesn’t mean anyone else will agree with you, or even understand what you’re saying. You have the right to express your categorisation. But don’t whinge and whine when no one else agrees with it.

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        Who’s whinging and whining? I’m just explaining my reasoning. I actually am fascinated by the discussion that’s developed here. I’m amazed at how upset people are getting about this. I made the above comment as a genuine question about what exactly is meant to change about Tesla following this statement from Elon. Like what exactly it means that he’s acknowledged his company is heavily invested in AI development. I never would have guessed the semantics would be so controversial as to give me maybe my most heavily downvoted comment ever.

        People are saying I’m using mental gymnastics, logical fallacies, bringing up completely irrelevant examples including Amber Heard and 1984 for some reason (???). People just love to find any reason to get outraged I guess.

        Maybe people interpret any comment in a thread about Tesla as supportive if it doesn’t begin with a virtue signalling “Fuck Elon” (which TBF, I agree with. Fuck that guy. But I don’t really think it needed to be said for my comment)

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          No one is “upset” by your comments. If anything, it’s been a wonderfully pointless discussion over semantics, and how one person saying one thing can mean something entirely different to everyone else. And then watching you repeatedly double down is crazy.

          edit - i brought the amber heard example up to demonstrate how one person saying one thing, and believing they can use two different words synonymously doesn’t make it synonymous.

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      There are no AI companies until anyone can demonstrate actual intelligence. LLMs are not intelligent. Self-driving car systems are not intelligent. Machine learning is not intelligence.

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        Confusing intelligence for sentience/self awareness? You can absolutely have systems which display intelligence without there being anything behind it. Ant colonies, for example, when lookex at as a whole instead of individual ants. The individual ants have no idea what they are doing. Collectively, they manage the colony, hunt for food, defend the nest, adapt to changes in the environment, etc.

        It’s called emergent behavior.

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      Honestly the closest thing I can think of is the fact that techically every Tesla is a compute node for Tesla that can be tasked to not only process local data but also other cars data.

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        That’s a great observation. They’ve put a lot of resources into their OTA update system. They could abuse that for lots of other things like distributed computing if it were profitable for them to do so, even if it introduces additional risk for their drivers.

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      For them to be an AI company, they first have to sell self driving and not a pipe dream.