Neural networks, a humanoid robot and a new chip: the main thing from the presentation of Tesla AI Day

More than an electric car company

During the presentation of new products, Elon Musk

He said it was necessary for Tesla to be seen as "more than just an electric car company."He described Tesla as a company with "deep AI activity in hardware at the inference level and at the learning level" that cancan be used in the future for applications other than self-driving cars.

The D1 chip in the Dojo supercomputer

One of the main events of the event was the presentation of a Tesla computer chip designed to operate the Dojo supercomputer.Much of Tesla's AI architecture depends on it.It will be used to run the Dojo supercomputer.The company said that the Dojo will become athe most powerful tool for training artificial intelligence.

Tesla has previously mentioned the development of a supercomputer. Most notably, Elon Musk shared some information about Dojo on Twitter last year.

Its task is to process huge flowsvisual data that is collected from Tesla cars to train cars more effectively. The D1 chip is built on a 7-nanometer process technology. It features 362 teraflops of computing power. Tesla puts 25 chips in one training module. At the same time, 120 such modules fit together in server racks, in total more than one exaflop of power is obtained for the Dojo supercomputer (this is 1x1018 flops).

Let's remember that FLOPS is a non-system unit,used to measure computer performance, indicating how many floating point operations per second a given computing system performs.

During the presentation of the chip, senior director ofdevelopment of equipment for the autopilot, Ganesh Venkataramanan said that the assembly of the first server cabinets will begin in the near future. Elon Musk added that they should launch Dojo next year. Since Dojo is Tesla's first attempt to develop its own supercomputer, the company believes there is a lot of room for improvement and expects significant performance improvements for some components in its next version.

Driver Assistance isn't just for Tesla

Musk at Tesla AI Day in detailtalked about the latest developments underlying the company's autonomous driving system. Asked if Tesla would agree to open source for its software, Musk replied, “Well, basically, building a system is extremely expensive, so you have to pay for it somehow. Unless people want to work for free. "

But I have to say:if other car companies wanted to license the driver assistance system and use it in their cars, that would be cool. It is not just for Tesla vehicles.

Elon Musk, CEO Tesla 

Such a move would allow competingcar manufacturers to incorporate a certain degree of autonomous driving into their models without investing the huge sums of money needed to develop such a system from scratch.

In any case, most industry expertsbelieve that truly autonomous vehicles will not appear for decades, and complex legal and insurance issues must be resolved before such technologies are allowed to be used on a global scale.

However, Musk claims that the systemfull self-government Next-generation Tesla "will be able to achieve complete self-government with a level of security much higher than human, probably 200 or 300% better than human."

He added: “Then there will be 4 Full Self-Driving Computer 2, which we will probably introduce with Cybertruck. In about a year or so. "

Recall that just a month later, Musk announced thatThe Tesla Supercharger Network, often considered the most reliable and widely available in the world, will open for the first time to third-party vehicles this year.

Tesla Bot: a real humanoid robot

After Tesla engineers and executivestalked about computer vision, the Dojo supercomputer and the Tesla chip, there was a short pause in which an alien dancer appeared on the screen. On stage in a white suit with a shiny black mask on his face. Thus began the presentation of Tesla Bot, the humanoid robot of the automaker company.

According to CEO Elon Musk, inIn the future, he envisions a world where humanoid robots such as the Tesla Bot will take over the work “people least like to do”. His height is 173 cm, his weight is almost 57 kg, and his walking speed is 8 km / h. Instead of a face, the robot will have a screen to display information. Hands and feet will be controlled by special servos - there will be about 40 of them.

At the same time, the robot will be able to see.Cameras for self-driving Tesla cars installed instead of eyes will help him with this. According to the head of Tesla, the robot will take on not only boring tasks for humans, but also extremely dangerous ones. Musk promised to build a Teslabot prototype in 2022.

According to Musk, Tesla Bot will befriendly, and also quite slow and weak. As the head of the company explained, this is insurance against the “rebellion of the robots,” a favorite theme of science fiction writers. Tesla Bot will receive an advanced artificial intelligence system, which will be as complex as the autopilot for the company's electric vehicles. This will allow the robot to move without needing to receive step-by-step instructions.

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