Comment on Elon Musk says Tesla is an AI company now. Here’s how plausible that is.

• bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I suppose I define AI company differently than you do. In my mind if a company is investing a large chunk of its operations in developing AI, it is an AI company.

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  • breadsmasher@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    By your logic tesla is also a logistics company (shipping cars), an industrial manufacturer of plant machinery (the machines to build the cars), a battery company (buying and investing in battery technology).

    what do you call tesla? “An automotive, AI, logistics, industrial plant manufacturing, battery company”?

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    • darganon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Tesla sells a shitload of batteries outside of their cars, so yeah I’d say they’re a battery company.

      They also sell the FSD software, which is “AI” so they do have an AI offering, for some definition of AI.

      Also, they sell solar panels, so they’re a solar panel company.

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      • breadsmasher@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Can I buy a battery for my EV from Tesla? Or do you mean their integrated home battery pack?

        Can I buy FSD for my vehicle even though it isn’t a tesla?

        Sure, they sell solar and a home battery pack.

        Has tesla ever advertised themselves as an Energy Company? Have they ever advertised themselves as anything other an automotive company until musk decided to say “We AI company now”?

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    • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I would absolutely call Tesla a battery company. Would you not? They’ve invested a huge amount in battery R&D and sell them direct to consumers as well as use them in their cars. The rest of that stuff isn’t something they invested heavily in developing, ie. they didn’t invest R&D in developing new logistics technology for shipping cars.

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      • breadsmasher@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Any company that invests money into something is suddenly also part of that entire industry and they can label themselves whatever they please. Gotcha.

        The supermarket I used to work for is now a software company, as they build software in house

        The insurance company I used to work for is now an AI company, as we internally developed and used machine learning models.

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