Hey everybody Rob, Maui here and today we're going to be mostly talking about some takeaways

from a recent interview of Tesla's director of Artificial Intelligence, Andre Carpathi,

on a podcast called The Robot Brains Podcast, which I will link to in the show notes.

The whole conversation is about an hour and five minutes, I would highly recommend listening

to all of it, I thought it was very approachable, and hopefully it helps set the stage for

a conversation we're going to have later this week.

Back look at the stock, Tesla today finished down 1.2% to $662.16, not a bad day overall considering

the NASDAQ itself, finished down 1.1%.

Alright, so getting into the Carpathi interview, again great interview, I think it's super

interesting in terms of timing right now because this is so current, Tesla is obviously

working on the FSD beta right now, Andre did share some thoughts on that which we will

get to.

I do want to give just a little bit of background now for people that aren't familiar

with Andre's background, so he has a history and education and research, he gained a lot

of notoriety in the field of artificial intelligence and specifically in deep learning because

of his course at Stanford about deep learning, which was really the first of its kind.

And those lectures were also shared on YouTube gained a ton of traction there.

So Andre was teaching that class at Stanford, got his PhD there.

After that he joined OpenAI as a research scientist, spent a couple of years there, but

at that point in his life he had been doing research for about a decade, reading papers,

writing papers, so he talks about that period of time in this interview and joining Tesla,

saying, quote, I was definitely getting a little bit restless at that time.

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