Karpathy Talks Tesla Vision, Supercomputer + AI Day, Leaked Email, Subscriptions, Plaid, Berlin (06.21.21)
Tesla Daily: Tesla News & Analysis
Rob Maurer
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🗓️ 22 June 2021
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
➤ Tesla’s Senior Director of Artificial Intelligence, Andrej Karpathy, presents at CVPR’s 2021 workshop on autonomous driving, sharing new details about Tesla’s progress on autonomy, the decision to remove radar, Tesla’s supercomputer, and more
➤ Link to full presentation: https://youtu.be/eOL_rCK59ZI?t=28292
➤ Previous episode on Tesla’s supercomputer: https://youtu.be/M7git-yhtno
➤ Elon Musk provides update on Tesla’s AI Day
➤ What to expect from Tesla’s AI Day: https://youtu.be/ceYK-0sgO2k
➤ Reported leaked email from Elon Musk ahead of quarter end
➤ Tesla updates mobile app to include subscription upgrades
➤ Motor Trend reports more details on Model S Plaid
➤ Giga Berlin timeline from newly published documents
➤ Jerome Guillen sells TSLA stock after departure
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, Rob Mauer here, and today we're going to be talking about a new presentation |
| 0:11.1 | over the weekend by Tessel's director of Artificial Intelligence, Andre Carpathy. |
| 0:15.5 | Andre shared some thoughts and new details on Tessel's transition over to pure vision, |
| 0:19.4 | the removal of radar from the autonomy hardware suite, and some new details on what Tessel |
| 0:23.2 | is doing outside of the vehicle to help push autonomy forward. |
| 0:26.8 | So I'll recap the main points from there we'll pull a couple of clips out as well, but |
| 0:29.9 | I would recommend watching the entire talk, it's about half an hour long, I'll put |
| 0:33.4 | the link to that in the show notes. |
| 0:35.4 | We've also got an update from Elon Musk on Tessel's AI Day, another leaked email from |
| 0:39.0 | Elon S quarter and approaches, some news on subscription offerings from Tessel, a couple |
| 0:42.9 | more data points on the plaid model S, and Gigabur Lint. |
| 0:46.5 | Up and down day for Tessel's stock today, but couldn't quite make it to four positive |
| 0:50.2 | days in a row, finishing down four tenths of a percent to $620.83, that did compare to |
| 0:55.6 | the NASDAQ, which was up 8 tenths of a percent. |
| 0:58.4 | Alright, so getting into this Andre Carpathi presentation, these are always really fascinating |
| 1:02.0 | to listen to. |
| 1:03.0 | He kicked it off talking about just how it's kind of silly that we have these multi-ton |
| 1:07.2 | metal vehicles driving people around being controlled by meat computers as he puts it. |
| 1:11.7 | And that Tesla thinks that they can replace that and should replace that with a silicon |
| 1:15.3 | computer. |
| 1:16.3 | So one of his first slides here just clearly lays out the advantages of that, namely |
| 1:19.8 | reduced latency and increased awareness, both in terms of perspective and attentiveness. |
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