Everything you need to know about Tesla AI Day 2022

Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and Space X, took to Twitter last year to announce the first AI celebration Day at Tesla, which seeks to lure top tech talents to join the company & also highlight the year-on-year progress made at the automobile company. 

During the keynote presentation, Elon Musk emphasized the significance of AI technologies to the automobile industry and how it’s driving change at the Electric Vehicle(EV) company, Tesla, with its self-driving cars.

According to him, Tesla is more than just an electric vehicle company. It is the “leader of real-world AI” as it applies to real-world activities, such as how Tesla Neural net uses deep AI activities to learn how to drive(full self-driving cars) and solve real-life problems with the humanoid bots.

“Tesla is much more than just an electric car company. We have Deep AI activity on hardware and inference level, training level and arguably the leaders in real-world AI as it applies to the real world.” 

In today’s guide, we will be looking at all you need to know about the Artificial intelligence Day celebration at Tesla.

Highlights from the Previous AI Day celebration 

According to Musk, Tesla’s vision is to go beyond self-driving cars and use AI to solve real-world problems. 

To achieve that, the EV company needs to hire/recruit promising talents around the globe; another reason why it organizes such events; is to lure these talents to join its AI team.

Here are some key highlights from the event

1. Solving computer vision problems

One of the key points of the presentation was made in Andrej Karpathy‘s presentation. He is the Head of the Tesla AI team; He stressed how versed Tesla is in helping solve computer vision problems.

According to him, Tesla is now using a vision-based approach for its vehicles in other for them to achieve an “auto-pilot” system for their cars to be able to function anywhere around the world.

The vision-based approach on its vehicles comprises eight(8) cameras around the vehicle that detects and processes all items it finds on the road including cars, pedestrians, bins, etc. that will help the autopilot system detect where best to route without causing road accidents.

He described Tesla’s architecture as an “animal from the top ground” that moves around and senses its environment and acts intelligently and autonomously based on what it sees.

He explained how Tesla is able to achieve computer based-vision with a central nervous system (brain) which can process visual information so that it flows into the system more intelligently.

Tesla is currently working on two(2) major things to make computer vision better understand its environment. 

They are: 

• How to make computer vision architecture solve temporary occlusions on the roads; like (cars at a busy intersection blocking autopilot view of the road beyond).

• How to interpret road signs or markings that appear earlier in the road; like( if a sign 100 meters back says the lanes will merge, the computer once upon a time had trouble remembering that by the time it made it to the merge lanes).

2. Introducing a new Chip for Dojo

The event saw a debut and an announcement of the homemade Tesla supercomputer chip that will power Dojo. The chip is entirely developed in-house. 

Dojo is responsible for running the entire AI Neural network for Tesla. It is getting a hardware upgrade that will facilitate the day-to-day AI network training. It understands neural net and how to navigate through the world.

The supercomputer will be able to process vast amounts of camera imaging data that is four times (4x) faster than other computing systems.

The “D1” chip as its popularly called, contains a 7nm technology with nine(9) petaflops per tile and 36 terabytes per second of bandwidth. 

The chip has a GPU-level compute with CPU connectivity which is twice the I/O bandwidth of the “state-of-the-art networking switch chips” that are already on the market today.

3. Tesla Humanoid robot(Opimus)

During the presentation interlude, there was a brief dance display by the Tesla bot(humanoid) that is still under development.

“It is intended to be friendly, of course, and navigate a world built for humans.

It also “eliminates dangerous, repetitive boring tasks for humans,” -like grocery shopping, said Musk.

“Were setting it such that at a mechanical and physical level you can run away from it and most likely overpower it”.

The prototype for the Tesla bot(Optimus) is expected to be ready in the next few months. 

It will be using Tesla neural networks and powered by the new D1 Dojo supercomputer chip. It has a screen to display useful information, its lightweight, and has human-level hands.

Conclusions

Although this year’s event had to be postponed because work on the Optimus bot had to be completed, the tech mogul remains resolute and promises viewers to expect cool updates during the next edition of the conference.

The next Tesla AI day is scheduled for September 30, 2022. It will be streamed live on the company’s Youtube channel.

But most importantly, Tesla is still recruiting talents to join its AI team. Join now to also help solve real-life problems with Artificial Intelligence. 

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