Artificial Intelligence
mark94
Arizona
The method doesn’t use computer code. They took millions of hours of driving video from Tesla cars and put it into a massive AI computer. The computer analyzed the data and learned to drive, matching what it saw on video.
The central computer then trains the computer in each car how to drive. Each car essentially has a brain that simulates the way our brain knows how to drive.
Beyond cars, this method can be used to train a machine how to do any task that can be recorded on video. Tesla already has robots that it is training to work in factories. The progress on these robots should now happen rapidly.
Science fiction has become reality.
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Billionaire like Elon Musk have made fortunes by monopolizing huge industries through the formation of trusts, engaging in unethical business practices, exploiting workers, and paying little heed to their customers or competition.
In the USA both political parties served the interests of these corporate robber barons, fat cats, capitalist pigs.
The idea that computer controlled autonomous vehicles will ever be as good as any healthy, sane human driver ignores the fact that computer software and hardware are just plagued with quality control issues and full of defects, and these types or issues grow as the systems become more and more complex.
There still millions and billions of people suffering hunger, war and slavery/exploitation in the world, thanks to the greed of few, you can call it whatever you want, it is just greed, envy, hatred, ignorance…
THE UNDENIABLE REALITY IS:
“It is the sufferings of the many which pay for the luxuries of the few.”
Wealth inequality in the world, also known as the wealth gap, is the unequal distribution of assets among residents of the world.
When can we start talking about the fact that exorbitant profits are merely unpaid fair wages?
An ideal distribution of the world’s wealth is one that assures that no individual human being is entirely without the means of housing and sustenance.
Most of our past and current “Economic Systems” Kingdoms, Feudalism, Capitalism etc etc create Poverty, Greed, Violence, Disease, and Environmental Destruction
"There is enough in the world for everyone's
need, but not enough for everyone's greed."
~ Frank Buchman aka (Franklin Nathaniel Daniel Buchman)
~ Decorated by the French and German governments for his contributions to Franco-German reconciliation after World War II.
~ Born June 4, 1878 Pennsburg, Pennsylvania
~ Died August 7, 1961 Freudenstadt, West Germany
Imagine a place like Bombay/Mumbai where the polluting cars, owned by the wealthy, are replaced by affordable robotaxis. Suddenly, a clerk in a store can afford a safe, comfortable ride to their home after a day of working.
Productivity and technology benefit all classes.
~ Eugene Victor Debs
Productivity and technology benefits the oppressors and exploiters at the cost of the suffering of the working people.
I mean really, if you can train an autopilots using good drivers you can also train one using drunken ricks. Hell, I’ve already perfected the autorick1.0, which emulates a rick driving after 2 to 3 bottles of Jack. I really enjoy turnin’ on the autorick so I can drink with two hands while the hairless apes bounce off the hood of my Tesla.
The hard part was getting the autorick to avoid cubs and apelings. We ricks respect the cubs and apelings for they are the future.
Anyhoo, I’ve been talkin’ to Elon ‘bout mass-producing the autorick. It won’t be truly mass produced because it’ll be a high end feature. For discriminating clients who enjoy the fun of death race 2000 but really don’t want to bother with aiming at the normies. ROAR!!!
Imagine this: you and Mark runnin’ down the street while I pursue you in a Tesla that plays “La Cucaracha” when I honk the horn. I’m behind the wheel with a gin rickey in one hand and a bottle of Jack in the other, roaring at the top of my lungs. You can try to dodge the rickmobile but the autorick1.0 is drivin’. Looks like things ain’t gonna end well for the non-ricks. ROAR!!!
There's a fine line between artificial intelligence and artificial stupidity, and we're currently on the wrong side of it.
It doesn’t matter if you or your robot drive your car to work. It does matter that people are poor, un-housed, without healthcare, yadda yadda.
As Gill Scott Heron said:
I can't pay no doctor bill.
(but Whitey's on the moon)
Ten years from now I'll be payin' still.
(while Whitey's on the moon)
Or, mark94=Musk, and he's on here drumming up optimism.
- EVs
- Large scale energy storage
- Robots/Factory automation
- Robotaxi
- Self driving subscription and licensing
- Artificial intelligence services
Among these businesses, the Robotaxi and Robots have the biggest potential. I mean, crazy, unbelievable upside. Maybe 5 times as big as the EV business. It will be 2-4 years for most of these businesses to prove themselves.
Depending on where you live, the Model 3 is much less expensive than a Corolla or Civic when you factor in fuel savings.
If they realistically made a car that could drive on the interstate, I could sleep, and no worry about getting killed, I would take the car over flying if the driving distance was under 6 hours.
- The car itself costs $25,000 and lasts for 10 years
- No driver
- very low fuel cost
- operates 24/7 except for refueling
Elon estimates a robotaxi would cost $.18 per mile. It would be much cheaper to use a robotaxi than own a car, especially in urban areas.
At the rate science is going, it won't be too long before they start making babies in a dish and there won't be any need for fucking.
Already happening in San Francisco. What's awesome is people are fucking in them: https://sfstandard.com/2023/08/11/san-fr… (if someone already posted this in another thread, sorry about that). shailynn's got sensitivity to human drivers with "cigarette or marijuana or body odor." In the robotaxis, there'll be cigarette odor and weed odor left by the riders, and now shailynn can add splooge on the seats to his list of annoyances.
Waymo and Cruise have dozens of driverless cars at any given time in SF accumulating AI learning to drive. If you're driving within 2 miles of SF city center, guaranteed you'll see many (2 nights ago I saw 10 driverless cars in less than 10 blocks of driving).
There's ways to sabotage the robocars if you're into that. Currently popular method in SF is to put road cone on the hood: https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/06/robota….
- The hardware in each car is super expensive. Tough to make it economically viable.
- Their software is the old hard code. If/then. Makes for a clunky, unreliable ride.
- Geofenced. Can only operate in a very limited area.
Tesla solves all this with vision based AI as the source of its software.
At some point, each of the Tesla businesses will have enough momentum that it could thrive without him. Like post-Jobs Apple. I’d like to see him stay involved for 4 more years. Fingers crossed.
Doing this is cheaper than building plants to meet peak demand. It makes so much economic sense that nearly every utility has plans to do this. The demand far exceeds supply.
The profit margin on these batteries is about 30%. Tesla is increasing its manufacturing capacity for energy storage at 50% to 100% per year. Within a few years, the revenue for storage will exceed the auto revenue.
As an atypical asshole Tesla driver I take exception to that. ROAR!!!
Almost.
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