Musk just dropped a car tire nuclear bomb: FSD can be opened up for other car companies to use! Musk is being completely transparent: the strongest autonomous driving technology is right here, come and get it if you like!
Elon Musk also said that the CHatGPT for autonomous driving is accelerating its arrival.
“Suddenly, you will find that there are 3 million cars that can fully drive themselves, followed by 5 million, 10 million!”
“FSD opens up to other car manufacturers”
General Motors CEO Mary Barra is similar to Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess, both of whom are staunch supporters of the intelligent vehicle revolution. She recently gave a speech publicly admitting and praising Tesla as the leader in electric vehicles.
Musk was very happy and immediately started chatting on Twitter based on General Motors CEO’s words:
Tesla has always been committed to helping other car companies!
A few years ago, we opened our patents for free, and now we are starting to share our Supercharger network.
We are also willing to authorize Autopilot or FSD for use by other car companies, and of course any Tesla technology will do!
ChatGPT Moment of Autonomous Driving
Many car companies and users may just laugh it off: Musk is talking nonsense again.
The FSD V11 Beta currently being tested is far from reliable and smooth. Moreover, from the perspective of landing in China, major autonomous driving companies, as well as Chinese electric vehicle companies, have already implemented their NOA functions on highways, and are racing to land their urban NOA functions. The premise for FSD to enter China has not been met yet…
But in an interview with CNBC, Musk gave his latest view: the arrival of autonomous driving ChatGPT is accelerating.
Musk believes that although ChatGPT was born as a language model, its kernel actually already has the shadow of AGI – general artificial intelligence.
Musk cited Tesla’s Optimus humanoid robot as an example. Currently, its underlying perception and recognition algorithms are connected and reused with FSD. This indicates that the FSD algorithm itself has also begun to evolve towards AGI. Therefore, the “arrival of autonomous driving ChatGPT” is imminent.
Once the model scale and data accumulation of FSD pass a certain threshold, it will naturally explode like ChatGPT. The scale of 3 million, 5 million, or 10 million fully automated vehicles can be achieved almost instantly.
Moreover, Musk specifically added that currently no car manufacturer or technology company can be called “second only to Tesla.”
How powerful is Musk’s nuclear bomb?
Musk has not stopped boasting, and of course, there is such an element in this one. But the greatness of Musk is that he doesn’t make baseless claims. History has always proven that Musk’s flags may be late, but they will eventually be realized.
From a technical perspective, Musk’s nuclear bomb still has a significant impact. The reason why ChatGPT has caused a sensation and become a milestone in AI development is that the accumulation of a large-scale model has changed from quantitative to qualitative, and AI’s cognitive ability has made a leap.
First of all, it has a basic understanding of almost all human-involved fields. This makes AI applications that used to imitate humans can now truly complete complex creative tasks and begin to replace humans in some fields.
Similarly, in the field of autonomous driving, ChatGPT and other similar algorithms represent a shift from perceptual intelligence to cognitive intelligence. By autonomously generating high-value scenarios, rather than relying on real road data collection, they can efficiently cover a wide range of edge cases, rapidly improving the reliability of autonomous driving. Another layer of value for generative models lies in the realm of autonomous driving regulation and control.
Many years ago, Musk said that only AI was used in the perceptual stage, while traditional algorithms were still used in the regulation and control stage. To put it simply, this involves setting different thresholds for different scenarios, triggering corresponding actions once the conditions are met.
Autonomous driving can still be achieved using this method, but it is not in line with human driving habits, making people reluctant to use it.
However, generative models, based on the driving patterns of experienced drivers, can automatically generate different driving scenarios and select the safest and most comfortable option.
That is to say, when Musk talks about the moment of autonomous driving with ChatGPT, it is fully AI-powered, allowing algorithms to understand and recognize driving tasks and road conditions, and have the same basic driving skills as human drivers.
At the same time, AI can avoid low-level errors such as human distractions and road rage. Therefore, the obstacle of large-scale replacement of human drivers by autonomous driving is gone.
So the real power of Musk’s “open FSD” nuclear bomb is that most automakers around the world are still questioning the value of autonomous driving or still developing and iterating AI algorithms, and Tesla suddenly made a breakthrough in AGI and came up with revolutionary results.
On the downstream side of the industrial chain, in order to avoid repeating the fate of “Nokia,” automakers can only accept Tesla’s FSD cooperation requirements. Otherwise, their traditional cars will only be downgraded.
“FSD opening” may possibly “blow up” and level the billions or trillions of research and development investments of their peers. For example, NIO, XPENG, and LI AUTO’s research and development investments last year accumulated to 22.8 billion yuan. Their investment in research and development since their establishment is undoubtedly in the trillions.
As for autonomous driving companies, taking Mobileye, another company that is both software and hardware integrated like Tesla, as an example, their annual research and development investment is about $800 million, or about 5 billion yuan. And high-intensity research and development investment began when Mobileye was established in 1999…
Of course, the premise for the establishment of FSD’s “nuclear bomb” is massive data, supercomputing power, automated data processing capabilities, and so on. It is also difficult to predict the specific day when this goal will be achieved. However, Tesla is currently the closest to achieving this goal.
Source：AI4AUTO
