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This is just ridiculous. Is there a better chip to process the exact image depth & resolution with the exact layers and co-efficent accuracy that Tesla uses? No
by Traster 8y ago
This is just ridiculous. Is there a better chip to process the exact image depth & resolution with the exact layers and co-efficent accuracy that Tesla uses? No.
Does that make it the most advanced AI chip in the world? No! In fact, frankly, you're trying to have a technical discussion about a bullshit term. Tesla isn't producing an AI chip, they're producing a scalar product chip. It does a 96x96 Mult-add and that's basically it.
How does it do on any of the standard AI benchmarks? Oh it can't run any of them because it's not got support for any of them because it lacks many of the basic features of what any normal person would consider a chip capable of doing AI work.
It is the best chip to run the convolutions and pooling of 1 neural net that Tesla thinks it will want to run. It's the best 'AI' chip in the same way that the chip Nokia produces for it's mobile backhaul is the best 'neworking' chip.
The point is that the chip they're trying to compare their custom ASIC to is capable of running several AI frameworks none of which the ASIC can. Hell it can't even run single precision floating point operations.
Tesla has the best chip in the world for the one neural network they want to run. I bet you good money their custom ASIC sucks at running Waymo's AI workload.
- meekstro 8y agoI apologise for using the term AI and sounding ridiculous. Sorry to you and everyone else who had to read that you are right. "Tesla has the best chip in the world for the one neural network they want to run" is what I wanted to convey but don't actually have the technical background to do it. "Frankly you're trying to have a technical discussion about a bullshit term" You are right. I apologise for diluting the discussion and will go back to reading hacker news not creating it. I love this site and don't want to dilute it.