Category: Artificial Intelligence

If you are a fan of AI, then I think Tesla’s second AI Day in Palo Alto will be interesting to watch. I think Tesla is one of the companies at the forefront of AI development.

Dana Hull writes about the upcoming AI Day in Bloomberg

On Friday, Musk will host Tesla’s second AI Day in Palo Alto, California, formerly the home to its global headquarters. The invitations that went out recently promised the latest developments in the company’s artificial intelligence efforts, including:
• Full Self-Driving, or FSD, the in-beta system that still needs an attentive human driver minding the wheel at all times;
• Tesla Bot, aka Optimus, the humanoid Musk has said will one day take over dangerous, repetitive and boring tasks from humans;
• and Dojo, the supercomputer Musk has said Tesla’s FSD team may utilize to improve the “brains” behind its driving systems, using the massive volume of video footage that the company’s cars capture.

I always knew Formula 1 was more about technology than the personalities. Teams are in a constant feedback loop looking for ways to improve and gain a slight edge over their competition with data.

Stephanie Cain writes in Fortune:

Racing at speeds of more than 200 miles per hour requires extremely quick decision-making, which is why McLaren uses Splunk, a software platform designed to analyze big data. James Hodge, Splunk’s chief strategy adviser, explains that Splunk streams data in real time from each race car’s 300 sensors, which monitor details including fuel levels, tire pressure, speed, and battery health. Those sensors generate more than a terabyte and a half of data each race weekend.

Over the course of a Formula 1 season, it tops out at 11.8 billion telemetry data points, derived from more than 440 car configurations and approximately 6,300 track laps.

Correlating this data and presenting meaningful information to teams can be a competitive advantage.