Elon Musk: Officially a fraud and piece of shit. Official or unofficial war criminal?

[Goredho 17,510]

Guys, he's going to revolutionize cloud computing with his intardnet of shitty things.  What could possibly go wrong with the world's first completely decentralized and fully mobile data center?

https://www.theverge.com/24139142/elon-musk-tesla-aws-distributed-compute-network-ai

Elon Musk wants to turn Tesla’s fleet into AWS for AI — would it work?

Musk, who loves to riff on earnings calls, compared the unused compute power of millions of idle Tesla vehicles to Amazon’s cloud service business. If they’re just sitting there, he mused, why not put them to good use to run AI models? (Also, have you ever really looked at your hands? No, I mean really looked?)

“There’s a potential... when the car is not moving to actually run distributed inference,” Musk said. “If you imagine the future perhaps where there’s a fleet of 100 million Teslas and on average, they’ve got like maybe a kilowatt of inference compute. That’s 100 gigawatts of inference compute, distributed all around the world.”

So, to summarize, you buy a Tesla. It’s your property. But Musk wants to freely use the unused compute power in your vehicle for... something? Possibly AI-related? Hopefully not the blockchain. (Tesla is an AI company now, by the way. Musk said so himself during the call.)

[texasdago 7,589]

To be honest... they all suck but wrapping them hides a little bit of the suck so, regardless of the color, the wrap is an improvement

 

[F250 28,944]

1 hour ago, Upgrayedd said:

Saw my first one in the wild yesterday.  Del Mar.

 

[SydneyCarton 48,304]

6 minutes ago, Goredho said:

Guys, he's going to revolutionize cloud computing with his intardnet of shitty things.  What could possibly go wrong with the world's first completely decentralized and fully mobile data center?

https://www.theverge.com/24139142/elon-musk-tesla-aws-distributed-compute-network-ai

Elon Musk wants to turn Tesla’s fleet into AWS for AI — would it work?

Musk, who loves to riff on earnings calls, compared the unused compute power of millions of idle Tesla vehicles to Amazon’s cloud service business. If they’re just sitting there, he mused, why not put them to good use to run AI models? (Also, have you ever really looked at your hands? No, I mean really looked?)

“There’s a potential... when the car is not moving to actually run distributed inference,” Musk said. “If you imagine the future perhaps where there’s a fleet of 100 million Teslas and on average, they’ve got like maybe a kilowatt of inference compute. That’s 100 gigawatts of inference compute, distributed all around the world.”

So, to summarize, you buy a Tesla. It’s your property. But Musk wants to freely use the unused compute power in your vehicle for... something? Possibly AI-related? Hopefully not the blockchain. (Tesla is an AI company now, by the way. Musk said so himself during the call.)

I honestly can't believe this guy is on an earnings call citing plot points from fucking Silicon Valley. 

[Francisco 2.0 32,432]

1 hour ago, Upgrayedd said:

Saw my first one in the wild yesterday.  Del Mar.

 

One of the reasons these chucklefucks bought the damn thing is it was made of stainless; it looked cool and shit.  Like nothing else on the road!

Then some of them promptly decide to cover the thing in a giant sticker.

[Prepuce of Doom 21,115]

They're gullible morons with too much discretionary cash, Frank. 

[BrickHorn 18,318]

26 minutes ago, Goredho said:

“There’s a potential... when the car is not moving to actually run distributed inference,” Musk said. “If you imagine the future perhaps where there’s a fleet of 100 million Teslas and on average, they’ve got like maybe a kilowatt of inference compute. That’s 100 gigawatts of inference compute, distributed all around the world.”

I’m still trying to figure out what Musk is claiming here. Maybe it makes sense to CS/CE types. But it seems like he’s muddling power and computational capacity. In other words, that’s just fancy technobabble to say “Our cars have a battery and a computer and we can use those when they’re not being driven.”

[Captain Ron 12,959]

15 hours ago, Neonmoon said:

Musk will say anything to pump the stock. 

This. Earnings were shit for the 3rd straight quarter, so what does he do? Promises the moon.

 

And some fools eat it up, so we see a 10% bump today on ... nothing.

[Captainant 27,972]

45 minutes ago, Goredho said:

Guys, he's going to revolutionize cloud computing with his intardnet of shitty things.  What could possibly go wrong with the world's first completely decentralized and fully mobile data center?

https://www.theverge.com/24139142/elon-musk-tesla-aws-distributed-compute-network-ai

Elon Musk wants to turn Tesla’s fleet into AWS for AI — would it work?

Musk, who loves to riff on earnings calls, compared the unused compute power of millions of idle Tesla vehicles to Amazon’s cloud service business. If they’re just sitting there, he mused, why not put them to good use to run AI models? (Also, have you ever really looked at your hands? No, I mean really looked?)

“There’s a potential... when the car is not moving to actually run distributed inference,” Musk said. “If you imagine the future perhaps where there’s a fleet of 100 million Teslas and on average, they’ve got like maybe a kilowatt of inference compute. That’s 100 gigawatts of inference compute, distributed all around the world.”

So, to summarize, you buy a Tesla. It’s your property. But Musk wants to freely use the unused compute power in your vehicle for... something? Possibly AI-related? Hopefully not the blockchain. (Tesla is an AI company now, by the way. Musk said so himself during the call.)

 

16 minutes ago, BrickHorn said:

I’m still trying to figure out what Musk is claiming here. Maybe it makes sense to CS/CE types. But it seems like he’s muddling power and computational capacity. In other words, that’s just fancy technobabble to say “Our cars have a battery and a computer and we can use those when they’re not being driven.”

Yeah this reads as technobabble hoping to trick investors into jumping onto a thing that's just an idea. Edge compute is nothing new. Your cell phone or laptop is gonna be significantly more capable in general compute tasks than your car. 

But yes, Tesla's have a big ass battery integrated into their chassis. You could use that to power compute infrastructure. But that's not some groundbreaking innovation 

[Celery Man 21,026]

it also takes it a step further from... you can purchase a Tesla and own the car, and it has capabilities that you cannot access without paying to have them unlocked (like range). I know that that was a story a few years back and I assume it's the case now. You can own the car without being able to use the whole car because features are software locked. But this idea is that you can own the car but Tesla could just reach in and take your spare cycles to what, create the worlds most powerful racist AI using a mobile cloud of other people's vehicles? FSD crashed your Tesla into a building because Grok was thinking really hard about a new slur?

[Brisketexan 105,572]

1 hour ago, BrickHorn said:

I’m still trying to figure out what Musk is claiming here. Maybe it makes sense to CS/CE types. But it seems like he’s muddling power and computational capacity. In other words, that’s just fancy technobabble to say “Our cars have a battery and a computer and we can use those when they’re not being driven.”

But, I mean, as a possible Tesla customer, what's not to love?!?!

My car will be running its computer - and I'm presuming that in order to link up with other computers to share data and amp up the total computing power being used, it will hop onto my home wifi - which eats up the bandwidth on my wifi that I pay for.  It will be using some of its battery life not for my tasks (you know....driving the car), but rather to work for Elmo's dream.  Oh, and it will be burning power that I paid for (it's plugged into my wall charger, which provides electricity that I pay for) to do Elmo's work for him.

Yes sir, please sir, can you use and abuse me some more?? THAN YOU, SIR!!!

[texasdago 7,589]

1 minute ago, Celery Man said:

it also takes it a step further from... you can purchase a Tesla and own the car, and it has capabilities that you cannot access without paying to have them unlocked (like range). I know that that was a story a few years back and I assume it's the case now. You can own the car without being able to use the whole car because features are software locked. But this idea is that you can own the car but Tesla could just reach in and take your spare cycles to what, create the worlds most powerful racist AI using a mobile cloud of other people's vehicles? FSD crashed your Tesla into a building because Grok was thinking really hard about a new slur?

So, kind of like... hey, your car's mileage is 25 mpg but, guess what, for a low monthly fee of $60/month or whatever, we'll up that to 33 mpg.  Seriously?  WTF.

 

[Brisketexan 105,572]

5 minutes ago, Celery Man said:

it also takes it a step further from... you can purchase a Tesla and own the car, and it has capabilities that you cannot access without paying to have them unlocked (like range). I know that that was a story a few years back and I assume it's the case now. You can own the car without being able to use the whole car because features are software locked. But this idea is that you can own the car but Tesla could just reach in and take your spare cycles to what, create the worlds most powerful racist AI using a mobile cloud of other people's vehicles? FSD crashed your Tesla into a building because Grok was thinking really hard about a new slur?

 

3 minutes ago, texasdago said:

So, kind of like... hey, your car's mileage is 25 mpg but, guess what, for a low monthly fee of $60/month or whatever, we'll up that to 33 mpg.  Seriously?  WTF.

 

The term y'all are looking for is "enshittening."  Enshittening is a religion now, and Elon is its diety.

[F250 28,944]

57 minutes ago, BrickHorn said:

Maybe it makes sense to CS/CE types.

This makes absolutely no sense and is nothing like what lead to AWS. Elon is just talking out of his asshole.

[BrickHorn 18,318]

Just now, F250 said:

This makes absolutely no sense and is nothing like what lead to AWS. Elon is just talking out of his asshole.

Yeah I’m not talking about the practicality of the overall concept which, as I understand it, is to use idling EVs to provide computational capacity for AI. I'm asking specifically about the terminology he used. “Kilowatts” does not seem like an appropriate unit for computational capacity. Seems like that should be expressed in flops. But I’m not a computer engineer.

[wood 11,580]

4 hours ago, choripan said:

Fair. Taken last summer/fall.

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I love Barcelona.

[wood 11,580]

1 hour ago, texasdago said:

To be honest... they all suck but wrapping them hides a little bit of the suck so, regardless of the color, the wrap is an improvement

The wrap guys must love Cybertruck owners. They all look the same, so most of the owners will want a wrap. They'll pay a lot for it, and it's the easiest wrap job ever.

[BrickHorn 18,318]

4 minutes ago, wood said:

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User name checks out.

[wood 11,580]

1 hour ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

One of the reasons these chucklefucks bought the damn thing is it was made of stainless; it looked cool and shit.  Like nothing else on the road!

Then some of them promptly decide to cover the thing in a giant sticker.

That's 'cause after they buy it they realize stainless steel looks like shit on cars.

[F250 28,944]

4 minutes ago, BrickHorn said:

Yeah I’m not talking about the practicality of the overall concept which, as I understand it, is to use idling EVs to provide computational capacity for AI. I'm asking specifically about the terminology he used. “Kilowatts” does not seem like an appropriate unit for computational capacity. Seems like that should be expressed in flops. But I’m not a computer engineer.

Yeah, in terms of DC resources it would make sense but that's not what he is inferring in his statement. But this is a very common theme with Elon. He often says things that sound like he doesn't really understand the topic and is just repeating what he heard someone else say.  Which makes sense because he is a bullshit artist.

What really bugs me about this is not that he bullshits so much but the media always treats his commentary as something worthy of reporting.

If someone like that quack Stang talks about his theory of everything people rightfully laugh and mock him. When Elon does it people take him seriously.

[Rimbo 26,434]

24 minutes ago, F250 said:

This makes absolutely no sense and is nothing like what lead to AWS. Elon is just talking out of his asshole.

it's more CTE than CSE

[Brisketexan 105,572]

9 minutes ago, F250 said:

When Elon does it people take him seriously.

With all due respect, good sir, I think that very, very few people on this site take Elon seriously.  About anything.

[Ted Lange 16,155]

1 hour ago, Celery Man said:

it also takes it a step further from... you can purchase a Tesla and own the car, and it has capabilities that you cannot access without paying to have them unlocked (like range). I know that that was a story a few years back and I assume it's the case now. You can own the car without being able to use the whole car because features are software locked. 

 

So Teslas are basically Clash of Clans, but a car?   Or any of those other "free game apps" that you download but to actually do anything you have to start making in app purchases.    

[cactusflinthead 27,615]

[BrickHorn 18,318]

Yikes.

Edited April 24 by BrickHorn

[Brisketexan 105,572]

1 minute ago, BrickHorn said:

Yikes.

WTF are we even looking at there, other than the official Pantone sample for "blinding white?"

[Goredho 17,510]

I think we're looking at Mike Myers, who has really let himself go and is in the process of mutating to become Michael Myers.

[MAUFRAIS 6,677]

Trunks look like a licorice fruit roll up

[locodos 5,424]

Cybertruck is growing on me a little bit

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[NAVY 6,836]

11 minutes ago, cactusflinthead said:

Are those cyber shorts? 

[Captainant 27,972]

15 minutes ago, cactusflinthead said:

ya know, if you turn that picture on its side and put wheels on elmo's back, he's almost shaped like a cybertruck

[ConferenceRoom 6,149]

15 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

WTF are we even looking at there, other than the official Pantone sample for "blinding white?"

 

[atomheartbevo 90,053]

2 hours ago, F250 said:

Yeah, in terms of DC resources it would make sense but that's not what he is inferring in his statement. But this is a very common theme with Elon. He often says things that sound like he doesn't really understand the topic and is just repeating what he heard someone else say.  Which makes sense because he is a bullshit artist.

Yep, completely something he read on Twitter and is flailing around to try and distract from the numbers that came out.

There is a possibility he knows it’s bullshit and is trying to distract from the numbers.  Especially with that “imagine 100 million Teslas sitting there with all that computing power” crap or whatever. But I lean towards him reading something on Twitter.  Sucks to be the Tesla engineers, or Twitter engineers who get yelled at to make it happen.

[MrBig 5,507]

48 minutes ago, cactusflinthead said:

 

[HenryJames 66,278]

1 hour ago, cactusflinthead said:

He looks like if Christopher Hitchens drowned and his body wasn’t discovered for a week.

[Chooky 13,321]

Dang.

[BearMace 2,206]

What the fuck are we looking at? Is this twisted AI? I can't even make sense of those shorts and what the fuck has to be wrong with you to have that fucked up distended gut to that extent? Taking tons of roads but not doing any of the working out?

[Deej 77,172]

1 hour ago, cactusflinthead said:

He's looks like Alex Jones without the beard.

[Deej 77,172]

1 hour ago, MAUFRAIS said:

Trunks look like a licorice fruit roll up

I think that's a towel.

[Fudge Nuggets 19,276]

5 hours ago, Captainant said:

Your cell phone or laptop is gonna be significantly more capable in general compute tasks than your car.

Not if your car is hardcore, nerd. 

[atomheartbevo 90,053]

32 minutes ago, Deej said:

He's looks like Alex Jones without the beard.

Now he just needs to move to Terlingua with Jones to finish ruining it.

[BearMace 2,206]

1 minute ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

Not if your car is hardcore, nerd. 

The Xphone Phive is going to be so hardcore bro! You'll login with your blue check credentials so you know it's super secure and totes legit. Battery life will be shit because they're going to use it to mine Bitcoin and train Gronk AI, but that's price you pay to be Xtreme.

[Brisketexan 105,572]

10 minutes ago, BearMace said:

The Xphone Phive is going to be so hardcore bro! You'll login with your blue check credentials so you know it's super secure and totes legit. Battery life will be shit because they're going to use it to mine Bitcoin and train Gronk AI, but that's price you pay to be Xtreme.

Bookmarking this, because I'm certain that at least 75% of it will turn out to be an accurate prediction of our shittacular future.

[Celery Man 21,026]

1 hour ago, Deej said:

I think that's a towel.

Technically it’s a “bath sheet”.

[Sawbonz 27,778]

1 hour ago, Deej said:

I think that's a towel.

Sealskin wrap

 

[Chooky 13,321]

 

[MrBig 5,507]

Dustin Moskovitz, one of the co-founders of Facebook, posted on Threads that he believes Tesla is committing Enron level fraud.

[HenryJames 66,278]

3 hours ago, MrBig said:

Dustin Moskovitz, one of the co-founders of Facebook, posted on Threads that he believes Tesla is committing Enron level fraud.

 

[NoName 16,616]

19 hours ago, Goredho said:

Guys, he's going to revolutionize cloud computing with his intardnet of shitty things.  What could possibly go wrong with the world's first completely decentralized and fully mobile data center?

https://www.theverge.com/24139142/elon-musk-tesla-aws-distributed-compute-network-ai

Elon Musk wants to turn Tesla’s fleet into AWS for AI — would it work?

Musk, who loves to riff on earnings calls, compared the unused compute power of millions of idle Tesla vehicles to Amazon’s cloud service business. If they’re just sitting there, he mused, why not put them to good use to run AI models? (Also, have you ever really looked at your hands? No, I mean really looked?)

“There’s a potential... when the car is not moving to actually run distributed inference,” Musk said. “If you imagine the future perhaps where there’s a fleet of 100 million Teslas and on average, they’ve got like maybe a kilowatt of inference compute. That’s 100 gigawatts of inference compute, distributed all around the world.”

So, to summarize, you buy a Tesla. It’s your property. But Musk wants to freely use the unused compute power in your vehicle for... something? Possibly AI-related? Hopefully not the blockchain. (Tesla is an AI company now, by the way. Musk said so himself during the call.)

lol

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[NoName 16,616]

19 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

One of the reasons these chucklefucks bought the damn thing is it was made of stainless; it looked cool and shit.  Like nothing else on the road!

Then some of them promptly decide to cover the thing in a giant sticker.

its because everything outside stains the steel because they used shitty (cheap) steel.

no kidding here - basically any road gunk, bugs, bird poop, rain, anything.

but no fear, you too can use this magic product to clean your $100k car!

 

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