This prediction is closer to reality than ever before. Musk: Fully autonomous driving will be realized later this year through technology | artificial intelligence | reality
On the morning of July 6th, Elon Musk, the founder and CEO of Tesla, gave a speech at the 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference. He judged that fully autonomous driving at the L4 to L5 levels of cars would be achieved later this year. He expressed great confidence in this, "I have made predictions before that were all wrong, but I feel that the predictions I am making now are closer to reality than ever before."
Musk introduced that Tesla is currently very close to fully autonomous driving without human intervention, and testing on roads in the United States rarely requires manual intervention. When driving a Tesla equipped with the latest FSDBeta technology system, he basically does not need a touch controller throughout the entire process. He believes that fully autonomous driving is a very useful technology that will bid farewell to boring driving processes and increase the usage rate of cars. In general, a household car will use about 10 to 20 hours a week, but for a fully autonomous vehicle, the use time may reach 50 to 60 hours, so the use rate of a fully autonomous vehicle will increase five times over the past.
He also mentioned that Tesla is very interested in sharing and licensing autonomous driving technology for other car manufacturers.
Furthermore, Musk once again talked about his complex views on artificial intelligence. He believes that the emergence of generative artificial intelligence is having a profound impact on human civilization. With the explosive growth of digital computing power, the ratio of machine computing power to biological computing power is constantly expanding. This means that the computing power gap between machines and organisms is further widening. After a period of time, the proportion of artificial intelligence will become lower and lower, which will be a fundamental and profound change. But people need to remain concerned about deep and comprehensive artificial intelligence, including fully automated driving technology. "Tesla has not conducted research in this area, while other companies are conducting comprehensive artificial intelligence research, but I think there needs to be some supervision over them."
Musk didn't forget to give China a thumbs up: "China has a lot of intelligent and intelligent people, and I have always admired the wisdom and enthusiasm of the Chinese people." "Once China is determined to do something, they will definitely be able to do this industry very well. In China, this is the case in all economic fields and industries, including the artificial intelligence industry." "So I believe that China will have strong artificial intelligence capabilities."
At the end of the speech, Musk said, "This year I can only express some opinions online, and I look forward to attending the next session offline."