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So bear with me on this...
Tesla has their inference chip in the cars, and the AI hardware is going to continue improving.
A couple interations from now, it's actually going to be pretty powerful, and it has it's own cooling hardware and power supply.
It actually might make sense in the future to use this distrubuted power and cooling and do distrubuted inference. Pay the owner for time used.
Maybe it'll work, maybe it won't.
Now... the insane part is, Elon once referred to it as (paraphrased) well, the car is going to have all this compute, and it's just sitting there doing nothing at home. It's going to get bored, and we don't want that, we need to keep it engaged.
As it it was actually fucking sentient. Like fuck the right off.
Yet another reason to avoid Tesla. But TBH, if someone were still considering one after the many, many other reasons, then this won't put them over the edge.
I mean, of all the things, talking about it being sentient is pretty low on the list of things to he worried about. I doubt this would have any impact on anyones decision even if Tesla had a perfect reputation. And as long as you get paid for distributed inference and it's optional, there's nothing to be upset with there either.
But ffs its not sentient. Stop talking like it is.