Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, has expressed his interest in incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) in his cars. Although he may have been late in adopting the chatbot trend, he plans to give Tesla its own ChatGPT moment next year.
Musk also hinted at the possibility of a collaboration between Twitter and Tesla with an AI company, similar to the partnership between Microsoft and OpenAI. Musk has had a love-hate relationship with AI technology, as he was a key investor in OpenAI and even expressed that he was the reason ChatGPT exists.
However, in March 2023, Musk signed an open letter calling for a pause in the development of AI systems more advanced than ChatGPT-4, saying that AI technology already stresses him out.
Despite his earlier reservations, Musk is now fully behind incorporating AI in Tesla cars and is confident that Tesla has more potential to create AI than popular tech competitors like Google. He claimed that Tesla’s self-driving abilities are better than Google’s Waymo.
Musk envisions that Tesla cars will one day be operating autonomously and that the company will be able to create an AI model similar to ChatGPT. He believes that Tesla has the capacity to train its self-driving system to learn about various driving situations, making it one of the most advanced autonomous systems.
Regarding OpenAI’s shift to become a for-profit organization, Musk was disappointed by Microsoft’s $10 billion investment, which affected the leadership at OpenAI.
Moreover, Musk has made some interesting decisions, such as supporting paid advertisements for his company. Tesla has always been different from its competitors in more ways than one, and marketing is one of them.
All in all, while Elon Musk’s relationship with AI technology may have been complicated, he is now all in and determined to make Tesla a leader in advanced autonomous systems incorporating AI.
