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So after Tesla hiring Jim Keller -brilliant engineer- from Apple (DEC Alpha 2116421264, AMD K7/x86-64/HypertransportK8/K12/Zen, Apple A4/A5), the cards are on t
by faragon 9y ago
So after Tesla hiring Jim Keller -brilliant engineer- from Apple (DEC Alpha 2116421264, AMD K7/x86-64/HypertransportK8/K12/Zen, Apple A4/A5), the cards are on the table: they will play hard for winning the AI race on cars.
- EddieRingle 9y agoActually, Keller went back to AMD after Apple to design Zen. After that is when Tesla hired him.
- senatorobama 9y agoHow much can a great CPU designer help a fundamentally (non-deterministic) AI process?
- zamalek 9y agoAssuming that they want to print TPUs: Optimistically, Tesla could run more elaborate networks. AI being AI means that rarely equates to better decision-making - still, it's an option for the rare cases. Pragmatically, there may be no benefit to the quality of the decisions that the AI makes. It will simply drain less energy and make those decisions faster. Tesla could use the chip themselves to save time and energy on training the AI. Both scenarios depend quite strongly on the quality of the CPU/TPU and don't strongly depend on determinism.
- dragontamer 9y agoEhhh? Computer vision algorithms are hardly non-deterministic. And hell, Neural Networks (which are the best simulation of the "human brain" we've got) are fully deterministic.
- microcolonel 9y agoProbably a whole lot, this guy is probably somewhere near the top of the pareto distribution in a given team. I doubt his abilities are limited to GP CPUs.
- wrinkl3 9y agoThey also had Chris Lattner on board for a while, the guy responsible for llvm and Swift. He quit/got fired after about half-a-year though, citing irreconcilable differences with Musk as the main reason.