Announcement: Tesla AI Day Watch Party - Friday at 5:30PM PDT

We will be live streaming a Tesla AI Day watch party this Friday at 5:30PM PDT. In this clip @nebusoft @SteelClouds and @doug discuss what they expect to from Tesla, and what they plan to do for the stream.

The above clip was taken Tesla Motors Club Podcast #21.

The watch party live stream will be available in the following YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO1k_GRYwe0

 

[Krash]

Happy Watch Party Day. Here are some topics that might be at the party. Be There or Be Square…

Speculation: HW4 at Tesla AI Day 2 and already being installed

Interesting speculation from Dave Lee regarding HW4 at Tesla AI Day 2 and the possibility it is already being installed in production vehicles. The follow-up comments in the Twitter thread add additional context and makes this very interesting.

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Elon Musk said that Tesla AI Day 2 will include "hardware demos" and a tonne of technical information.

Musk gave a tease on what will be happening during the company's Artificial Intelligence Day 2 event this Friday. Artificial Intelligence Day 2 will be filled to the brim with exciting discussions and demos of next-generation tech, as indicated by Musk's recent comments. Elon Musk said that...

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HW4 Technical Discussion

Possible unveiling today:

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[hw13]

Does anyone at Tesla speak English? I couldn't understand a single word anyone said.

 

[Bitdepth]

It was mostly just a rethread of last AI day but with the new Tesla bot added. Still an interesting watch.

 

[JulienW]

Does anyone at Tesla speak English? I couldn't understand a single word anyone said.

 

[goRt]

It was mostly just a rethread of last AI day but with the new Tesla bot added. Still an interesting watch.

Yep, just a rehash with an unrelated distraction, no mention of auto wipers, auto high beams, active matrix headlights - disappointingly no new fart scenarios

 

[DanCar]

I enjoyed it. I loved the optimism of the Tesla team. The dojo guy says they hope with the next version of dojo it will be 10x faster. Will be interesting next year's episode when they have HW4 they can talk about.
The robot was very unimpressive. Looked like boston dynamics from more than 5 years ago. What is impressive is Elon's will to succeed. So like Elon said 3+ years down the road it will be impressive.
With fool self driving, I think the theme at the presentation was fail fast. They will continue to fail fast until they succeed.
Also thought it funny their sim environment. They were touting it heavily. Just a couple of years ago, Elon was saying they don't need a sim environment because the real world environment is better.

 

[2101Guy]

I enjoyed it. I loved the optimism of the Tesla team. The dojo guy says they hope with the next version of dojo it will be 10x faster. Will be interesting next year's episode when they have HW4 they can talk about.
The robot was very unimpressive. Looked like boston dynamics from more than 5 years ago. What is impressive is Elon's will to succeed. So like Elon said 3+ years down the road it will be impressive.
With fool self driving, I think the theme at the presentation was fail fast. They will continue to fail fast until they succeed.
Also thought it funny their sim environment. They were touting it heavily. Just a couple of years ago, Elon was saying they don't need a sim environment because the real world environment is better.

Elon says lots of things he usually gets wrong or backtracks on later.

The next one Im watching is this statement:

• We will never surrender/settle an unjust case against us, even if we will probably lose.

And will see if that holds up with the twitter case. Since he has this new, hardcore litigation team and all. Lets see them fight that case in court. NO SETTLEMENT's ELON!

 

[emmz0r]

Nothing new on "single stack" , and when the FSD beta stuff will trickle down to normal AP?

 

[Supcom]

Nothing new on "single stack" , and when the FSD beta stuff will trickle down to normal AP?

Most of the less technical, FSD-related news came in the Q&A session:

• Single-stack to release in Oct
• Improved cross traffic speed estimation in Oct
• Parking lot capability and, presumably, autopark improvements in Oct
• Musk doubled down on vision-only in an answer to a question on sensors for Tesla semi.

Of course, as with any Tesla timelines, take with a grain, or two, of salt.

Presentations were, as expected, highly technical with the goal of attracting new engineering talent.

 

[sjg98]

Most of the less technical, FSD-related news came in the Q&A session:

• Single-stack to release in Oct
• Improved cross traffic speed estimation in Oct
• Parking lot capability and, presumably, autopark improvements in Oct
• Musk doubled down on vision-only in an answer to a question on sensors for Tesla semi.

Of course, as with any Tesla timelines, take with a grain, or two, of salt.

Presentations were, as expected, highly technical with the goal of attracting new engineering talent.

OK so basically everything FSD he was asked about is going to be available this month? LOL, cmon.

 

[2101Guy]

And for those who consider themselves impressed with his little robot

From over a year ago

 

[andy92782]

Tesla's well known mission statement is "To accelerate the world's transition to sustainable energy." Genuine question: How do humanoid robots contribute to this?

 

[DanCar]

Tesla's well known mission statement is "To accelerate the world's transition to sustainable energy." Genuine question: How do humanoid robots contribute to this?

Elon said that once the bot is out that an update to the mission statement is in order.
New mission statement: Make life good?

 

[EVNow]

And will see if that holds up with the twitter case. Since he has this new, hardcore litigation team and all. Lets see them fight that case in court. NO SETTLEMENT's ELON!

Not Tesla related. Not AP/FSD related. Not AI day related.

Yet, mods object if I call this trolling

 

[nvx1977]

Tesla's well known mission statement is "To accelerate the world's transition to sustainable energy." Genuine question: How do humanoid robots contribute to this?

That was asked during the Q&A, and Musk didn't give a very good answer.

 

[Krash]

…With fool self driving…

This was the best thing in this entire thread.

 

[nvx1977]

The robot was very unimpressive. Looked like boston dynamics from more than 5 years ago. What is impressive is Elon's will to succeed. So like Elon said 3+ years down the road it will be impressive.

Boston Dynamics has been spending a ton of their time on fluid kinematics. But their robots require lots of heuristic programming to be useful. As stated at AI Day 2, Tesla is aiming for 'as useful as possible as quickly as possible.' So we know Tesla is never going to program their bot to do a back flip unless that is somehow useful. This is the classic form (BD) vs function (Tesla). Most people are going to judge the bots on how pretty they walk because that's all their intellect can handle.

With fool self driving, I think the theme at the presentation was fail fast. They will continue to fail fast until they succeed.

This is just standard Agile practice. The general idea is to work in short iterations so that you can be adaptable to market changes, requirement changes, and of course failures.

Also thought it funny their sim environment. They were touting it heavily. Just a couple of years ago, Elon was saying they don't need a sim environment because the real world environment is better.

Not a correct characterization of their past stance on sims. Musk said there's a place for sims, but warned of an overreliance on sims. Not sure they've changed their stance on this, since for both AI Day 1 & 2, they spoke of sims in context of being particularly useful in 1) rare situations that would take too long to encounter in the real world; 2) situations too dangerous to test in the real world.

 

[SpartanToJo]

And for those who consider themselves impressed with his little robot

From over a year ago

That is very impressive. I wonder how it goes if you move one of those boxes 6”…

 

[DanCar]

...
Also thought it funny their sim environment. They were touting it heavily. Just a couple of years ago, Elon was saying they don't need a sim environment because the real world environment is better.

Looks like I didn't remember it quite correctly. Here is what I found related:

It’s Elon Musk vs. everyone else in the race for fully driverless cars

The Tesla CEO is forging his own path toward full autonomy.

www.theverge.com

The simulation programs engineers use to run their virtual self-driving cars through millions of “edge case” scenarios to rack up billions of driving miles are good but not good enough, Musk said. “We have quite a good simulation, too, but it just does not capture the long tail of weird things that happen in the real world.”