All i'm trying to get across is that the idea that Tesla is the only company running deep neural networks is mistaken. Elon is the only one who blabs constantly about it though. Which leads to his fans making erroneous statements.
In referring to your comments, for example: deep learning neural network are simply a buzz word for neural network with many hidden layers. The most popular network today which is CNN was developed in the 90s.
So its wrong to say that eyeq4 is running nn models and eye5 is running deep learning neural networks because they are the exact same thing. Also the word model in this context is interchangeable with network. You can either call it a network or a model which is short for neural network model.
In short to reply to your statement, yes eyeq4 runs deep learning neural networks.
And no you won't need eyeq5 for Level 5, that's just marketing by mobileye. The only difference between eyeq5 and eyeq4 is that 5 has a boat load of TFLOPS for OEM to run any algorithm and even their own networks with.
All you need depending on your sensor size (some oem have like 10+ radars, 10+ cameras, 5+ lidar configuration) is two eyeq4.
And then a second intel/nvidia chip to run all your custom algorithm and driving policy if you wanted. Its similar to what Audi did with the L3 A8, they use an eyeq3 for all the vision stuff and then they use another chip to run their own custom algorithms for control actuation.
While you can run driving policy and your own custom algorithm in eyeq4 and that's what its made for. Some companies like waymo use intel chips with 50 TFLOP processing power.
Its kinda interesting how people would watch the above video and would rather take a project in its infancy rather than a product that is already finished. We know that Tesla is in the early stages of building their networks. Early early stages.
But because Elon has convinced alot of people that their cars are actually getting better even though when you look at the overall picture. You find out that you purchased a car with half its standard features missing which is being installed 2-3 years later through OTA. That's not a benefit that's a negative.
Saying that AP2 will keep improving and eyeq4 is static is not a positive to Tesla.
Its a huge negative. Its like having two people take a test and one finished first and got a 99.99% and the other is still taking the test and is just 20% through it. A bystander was asked to place bets on who would score better and he says the person whose not finished yet because he is able to improve but the guy whose finished will always be stuck at 99.99%.
