• breadsmasher@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    “We are a car company we sell cars. We have machine learning for self driving”

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    “We are an AI company”.

    It hasn’t always been an AI company. They are an automotive company suddenly shifting gears

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      2 years ago

      I guess if you think AI and car are mutually exclusive. I would have described Tesla as an AI car company.

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        What AI products, except their broken self driving feature, does tesla sell?

        Is every other manufacturer of cars with any self driving type functionality now an “AI” company to you?

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            What? you entirely missed the point. you are adding nuance where none is required.

            Tesla is a car company. Just because musk says “we are AI now” doesn’t just magically make it so.

            I could form a company that makes shoes. Can I suddenly announce I am an AI company?

            Sure, maybe I use AI in my production, and maybe even develop my own models.

            But its still a shoe company.

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          Tesla has always invested heavily in their software. Just because it has always been shitty doesn’t diminish that it was an outsized part of their business model, especially compared to other car companies

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            always invested heavily in their software

            So wait, are you now saying they are a technology company? Can you please try and keep your mental gymnastics consistent?

            Are you implying all car manufacturers are now AI or Technology companies? And are no longer automotive manufacturers?

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              Why must tech company and car company be mutually exclusive? Certainly the amount of technology (including ML) present in cars has increased exponentially in the last decade.

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

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                    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”?

                    Do you agree with amber heard “I use pledging and donating as the same thing” when they clearly are not the same thing?