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
@niccruzpatane There are literally millions of PCs, phones, Playstations, Xboxes...whatever... and nobody is computing anything. So ask yourself why this would work?
@Kicom21 Tesla will be making some the greatest AI chips ever. Phones, PlayStations, etc are not on this level.
@niccruzpatane It will be a big deal long term
@elonmusk Absolutely.
@niccruzpatane Elon Musk revolutionizes free speech: “Yeah, but screw that guy.” Elon helps paralyzed people walk: “Yeah, but screw that guy.” Elon perfects reusable rockets: “Yeah, but screw that guy.” Elon expands global internet access: “Yeah, but screw that guy.” Elon disrupts the auto
@moment_mirthful EXACTLY.
@niccruzpatane He’s been talking about that for 2 years
@charlesfortugn Cool, I missed him saying that. Important nonetheless.
@niccruzpatane Thanks for raising this. I’ve seen some comments on this thread that he’s been talking about this for two years. I think your point is not many are talking about it. The idea is interesting to say the least!
@IstellarFossil Yeah, pretty crazy to wrap your head around.
@niccruzpatane Do Tesla owners get paid for the electricity that uses?
@niccruzpatane as long as i get paid for the electricity i put in the car to power that inference
@niccruzpatane Yeah, they're going to have to pay be to rent the vehicle I own.
@niccruzpatane Elon's been thinking about this for a while. But this is my additional interpretation (speculation) AI4 chips will need to spend 100% of their time driving the car. If they are not driving they can be working on solving other AI problems. AI5 chips may be so powerful that
@niccruzpatane there is no way this is feasible, it will be a very lossy endeavor. Not only in coordination of task and also the unknown duration, imagine we send a task to a vehicle, and it loses its wifi connection / battery /driven etc even if we have redundancy it will be very wasteful and
@niccruzpatane Did y’all know this?
@niccruzpatane Wonder how this value would trickle down to the owner of the car?
@niccruzpatane Issue is he doesn’t seem to want individuals to be involved. At first he said robotaxi could be used by Tesla owners to earn money and expand the network. They never mention it anymore because it seems he wants to keep it all in house. Same issue here. Tesla doesn’t have a
@niccruzpatane One day a solar flare will come. How do you handle that situation? A question from a friend.
@niccruzpatane Yeah just what electric cars need, constant drain of the batteries
@niccruzpatane @grok explain this to me like I’m a fuckin retard
@niccruzpatane Maybe I don’t want my car to be a data center for someone else. Who pays for the electricity to power this? Sounds like a recipe for disaster and govt control.
@niccruzpatane If I add my car to the Inference Fleet, I’d like to get something in return. Like credit for Supercharging. I would assume that Tesla could create more value than the cost of the power they are consuming.
@niccruzpatane The main question is...at what price point will the car owners agree to this? Because every inference cycle would mean battery degradation. Owners won't sacrifice range/resale value without serious compensation. Also, thermal management wasn't designed for this. Cars sitting in
@niccruzpatane it’s a simple “not new” insight… phase 1: breakthrough computing capability (eg Cray) phase 2: solve massive “central demand”; distribute to edge we’ve been through several rounds of this over the last several decades ask anyone who was around amidst the transition from
@niccruzpatane So now the owners are paying for Tesla's "inference" gigawatts on their electric bill? What a dick move.....but par for the course....
@niccruzpatane I was thinking 🤔, you could have them all arrange themselves in a giant picture, that you could see from space! 🤠
@niccruzpatane Throughout history, the greatest achievements by man has been with God by his side and the outright determination to focus not on the critic but on the solution. If we all listened to the negative comments, we’d have no innovation.
@niccruzpatane Wow that dude is a genius
@niccruzpatane Don't forget that it can all be connected via Starlink.
@niccruzpatane Wouldn't that increase the drain on the battery rising the cost of owning a Tesla with no benefit to the owner?
@niccruzpatane Back around 1999 or so, you could have your home PC search through outer space radiation waves for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence. Did they ever find any?
@niccruzpatane Grok: "The idea of Tesla turning its fleet into a distributed AI inference network is intriguing but limited. Key issues: poor connectivity (cellular vs. data center speeds), hardware not suited for general AI, power drain on batteries, orchestration challenges at scale, high
@niccruzpatane That’s what Theta Labs is already doing with the Theta Edge Nodes & the Theta Blockchain provides the incentive program w TFuel tokens! Their tech patents are strong. Tesla should be their next partner!! @Theta_Network @mitchliu
@niccruzpatane I wonder which nameless soul he stole this idea from too?
