[theqoo] UPDATE ON THE NEW TECHNOLOGY THAT TESLA IS INTRODUCING

Elon Musk came up with a pretty incredible idea during the Q3 Earnings Call, that no one is really talking about.

His words: “Actually, one of the things I thought, if we've got all these cars that maybe are bored, while they're sort of, if they are bored, we could actually have a giant distributed inference fleet and say, if they're not actively driving, let's just have a giant distributed inference fleet.

At some point, if you've got tens of millions of cars in the fleet, or maybe at some point 100 million cars in the fleet, and let's say they had at that point, I don't know, a kilowatt of inference capability, of high-performance inference capability, that's 100 gigawatts of inference distributed with power and cooling taken, with cooling and power conversion taken care of. That seems like a pretty significant asset.”

So basically, each car has ~1 kilowatt of high-performance AI inference capability, Tesla wouldn’t need to build giant data centers — the fleet is the data center.

Tesla could turn their entire fleet into a giant distributed inference network, spread across the world, powered by the batteries and AI in the car already.

Mind blown.

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1. Wow, he's indeed a genius

2. Wow, this is f*cking scaary...

3. It feels like Black Mirror

4. You're telling me that the machine I'm charging is being used by Musk?

5. Looking at Elon Musk's performance-related pay scheme, achieving those targets seems far more monumental than the actual sums involved

6. Daebakㄷㄷ Will Tesla's stocks go up?

7. So if I buy a car, Tesla will just get to use my car freely? Will I even be able to protect my personal data in that case?

8. That's my car though

9. What the f*ckㅋㅋ I bought the car but he's the one using it at his content while it's not on and he's boldly bragging about it

10. And what about the charging? And the battery?