Comment on Elon Musk says Tesla is an AI company now. Here’s how plausible that is.
darganon@lemmy.world 3 months agoYeah, their powerwall, and the Mega pack. Also yes, they brand themselves as an energy company. They make really, really big batteries. They also operate superchargers, which if you have experience with electric vehicles are streets ahead of any other charging networks.
www.tesla.com/support/…/virtual-power-plant
And no, they don’t sell FSD for other cars, but it’s still an AI product they are selling to people for money, right now. Maybe in the future they’ll license it out to other people, but that’s pure speculation on my part.
I’m not sure if you can buy their car batteries individually, haven’t looked into it, although I have looked into buying a used one and using that as a power wall, as it would be cheaper for shitloads of storage.
I don’t like Musk either, but you’re willfully ignoring quite a lot of what Tesla does and has accomplished because of their mouthpiece. Talking about it requires nuance because they have done a tremendous amount of good, while making some suboptimal changes.
breadsmasher@lemmy.world 3 months ago
And you are missing the nuance of musk literally saying “We are an AI company now”.
Quoting musk from the article
Pertinent point if you value us otherwise - if you value them as a car company, battery company, solar company, energy company the right answer is impossible to the questions being asked
Literally his words. You are arguing to add nuance that musk literally stated wasnt there.
He is saying “Tesla is an AI and robotics company” and to not value them any other way. I don’t understand how to make this any clearer.
darganon@lemmy.world 3 months ago
This is what I’m talking about, that was from the investor call, which you didn’t read the transcript to, and have a cherry picked paraphrase.
I can’t do the fancy formatting, but here’s the quote:
Here’s the question he was answering:
So for your nuance, I see something along the lines of “Our value isn’t in simply the vehicles, it’s in the FSD/robotaxi concept, so speculating on someone copying our car it won’t eat into our business because autonomous driving will be the best of everything.”
Now, I don’t agree with all of that, but get some nuance in your life.
breadsmasher@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Again, you are putting meaning and assumptions that aren’t there.
darganon@lemmy.world 3 months ago
See, you are incapable of nuance.
Also, you said he “literally” said something twice that is plain wrong. Enjoy your alternate reality.