TheNextAlan

I read posts on X on topics that interest me. When I encounter the F word, I stop reading. I scroll to the next post. Just so you know.

In V14.3.4 I was on my way to a destination, but at the last minute I wanted to stop at Burger King. I told Grok. It asked if I was referring to the one at (address) which was 300 feet away. I said yes. Grok responded "Ok" and did it. The turn signal came on, the car turned, and parked at BK. After returning to the car, I pressed the button and resumed the trip to the destination. Perfect!

This is the coolest thing to happen to me so far with FSD. I asked Grok to not take a left on S Mcdill and instead go straight take take a left on Bayshore Blvd, and do my surprise…IT DID IT! I wake it last minute too; which you can see FSD/Grok change directions.

@kate_p45 Maybe AK isn't as MAGA as we thought. Regardless, the solution is clear. Elect better Senators!

Why aren't we seeing Senate Republicans publicly calling out Murkowksi? And why isn't the Alaska State legislature censuring her? The truth is that this is what happens when you have a weak Senate leader.

@ChuckCook @robotaxi @elonmusk TBM has blocked me, so someone please tell her about these quotes.

Travis Axelrod (Head of Investor Relations) asked whether v14.3 is the last piece for large-scale unsupervised FSD/Robotaxi or if they need to wait for v15.Elon Musk replied:“Well, no, I think 14.3 is the last piece of the puzzle for unsupervised FSD. Now, the question is degrees of safety and convenience, I suppose. We have a lot of known improvements, major architectural improvements that we know would improve the probability of safety significantly. I think it’s not going to make sense for us to deploy unsupervised FSD or Robotaxi at large scale when we know that there are major architectural improvements to the software that can improve safety. I think we’re going to want to finish writing that software, validate it, and release it before going to large-scale unsupervised FSD, depending on what large scale means.”

The deployment rate of @robotaxi has been growing, but it feels like it is slow rolling while we wait for FSD v15. @elonmusk mentioned on the last call that with the known safety improvements coming in v15 it was only logical to only go wider with robotaxi once that model was available. Now the question to @aelluswamy and the @Tesla_AI team.. wen v 15?

Lam 3:19-24 NIV84 I remember my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the gall. 20. I well remember them, and my soul is downcast within me. 21. Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope: 22. Because of the LORD’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. 23. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. 24. I say to myself, "The LORD is my portion; therefore I will wait for him."

If someone asked you why you still have hope… what would you tell them?

@cruiserlarry "Has to go?" Crazy. Insane.

@TheNextAlan Not what I said. But the CEO has to go.

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@Kekius_Sage Genius.

Describe Elon Musk in one word. Wrong answers get blocked.

@miles_commodore You missed a few: The Princess Bride Groundhog Day Blues Brothers (original and 2000) UHF

The ten best comedies all time according to me. 1. My Cousin Vinny 2. Coming to America 3. Blazing Saddles 4. Airplane 5. Trading Places 6. Animal House 7. Naked Gun 8. Fast Times 9. Ferris Bueller 10. Beverly Hills Cop Honorable Mention - Young Frankenstein and Caddyshack

@Kekius_Sage Hmm... Does one eight-hour day of sitting really double your cancer risk? 🤔

Smoking isn't the most dangerous habit of modern life. It's sitting. A study finds each hour of uninterrupted sitting raises cancer mortality risk by 9%.

@james_xond I did.

Trying to prove a point: Would you retire before 60 if you could?

@tesladrivenlife Oh no! The poor vultures will starve! 😂🤣😂🤣

We’ve seen Tesla FSD save countless deer 🦌, dogs 🐶, and other wildlife from becoming roadkill. Now it’s a cat’s turn! 🐱 FSD reacts quicker than we would and keeps everyone safe — animals included. Millions of animals hit by cars every year… this tech is changing that. 💪

@wholemars Sounds great! OTOH I saw this yesterday. Is @heyJohnEe correct that we're already reaching the limits of AI4? x.com/heyJohnEe/stat…

Just like your LLM has memories, FSD needs memories too. It needs to remember you. The experiences you’ve had together in the past. I don’t know how Tesla is implementing this, but I imagine it could work much the same way. A video of an intervention could be passed to a model and asked to condense the intervention down to a reason. “Too close to the curb”. You would have to have a model that is very good at figuring out intervention reasons from a video — but I bet Tesla has had something like that driving improvements for quite some time. Maybe you could even just use something like Grok. Then, this model would simply write a memory, or sort of add to the system prompt, the lesson learned from that intervention. “Don’t drive too close to the curb on Elm street”. The current FSD model can already accept text prompts in and output text in additional to camera and other I/O This would be a massive paradigm shift for FSD. Instead of having to wait for the next update to come out for your issue to get hopefully solved, you could “patch” the model yourself with your input. The problem would be fixed without requiring a full on model update, retraining and, evaluation / QA A model that is a major step forward, but with several regressions could potentially have undesirable behaviors patched more easily than with training or fine tuning. This means a faster rate of iteration and faster progress. And how do you handle a robotaxi network that operates all over the world, with various differences in each city? Do you have to figure out how to train one model that just works out of the box everywhere in the world? That sounds impossible. If you can take the same or similar models and customize them with a set of system prompts or memories for different robotaxi markets, that could be very powerful. When the robotaxi travels to a new market, it probably wouldn’t even need a new model — maybe just a slightly different prompt! (Right turn on red is legal here. Cops pull people over a lot for speeding on 280, but not so much on 101. Avoid rose street when all the bars are packed on a football game night) I don’t know. I don’t really know what the fuck i’m talking about but based on elon and ashok’s recent comments it’s clear they’re not resting on their laurels and have some major architectural changes for tesla self-driving in the works. I can’t wait to hear more about these new architectural changes, and to run them in my car

@Thevine_ntwk Pray, ask, and wait for an answer.

As a Christian how do you deal with uncertainty? That part where you're stuck. That part where you're afraid to move without God's direction, where you're vulnerable and confused. I know we are to trust God and believe everything will work out for the better, but it's hard.. 😔

1) Read several translations. That often helps. 2) Check multiple commentaries from different denominational perspectives. That usually gets close. 3) Discuss with other Christians, especially with older and wiser ones. 4) Ask an AI. Simple short queries like "Explain Jeremiah 35:16-19". And then follow up with any remaining questions. My choice for this is Grok, which gives surprisingly good explanations in most cases. Be aware that an AI might get things wrong from time to time.

Can someone help me with this: what do you do when you read a chapter of the Bible and still aren’t sure what it meant?

Zuck confuses intelligence with knowledge. Yes, we have systems today containing far more knowledge than any individual person. But that is not intelligence. Intelligence is the ability to synthesize new information given existing information. It includes the ability to discover information that is not previously known. It's not just reporting what it knows. It's applying existing information to do things that have never been done before. I'm not sure we have systems that can do that yet.

Mark Zuckerberg just told the world his own company shouldn’t exist. Zuckerberg: “I just think in the future almost everyone is gonna have the power of a 10,000-person organization.” He runs Meta. 70,000 employees. He just described a future where one person replaces all of them. And he’s the one building it. That is not a prediction about technology. That is a CEO engineering the obsolescence of his own workforce. While they watch him do it. Every company, every government, every university, every hospital on Earth was built on a single premise. No one person could do it alone. That is not a feature of civilization. It is the foundation. Every hierarchy, every org chart, every payroll ever written exists because of that one limitation. Zuckerberg just announced the limitation is ending. So follow the logic where it leads. If one person can produce the output of ten thousand, what is one person worth? Now look at the word “everyone” in his sentence. Because this does not land on everyone. It never has. The printing press was sold as liberation. It built media empires. The internet was sold as liberation. It built trillion-dollar platforms. The tool always arrives as freedom. It always settles as leverage. And leverage always consolidates upward. Zuckerberg does not gain the power of 10,000 people. He already has that. He gains the power of 10,000 organizations. Zuckerberg: “If the intelligence of a 10,000-person company is not greater than the intelligence of a single person, then what are we doing here?” He was making a case for building AI. Read that again as an employee. A man who commands 70,000 people just questioned whether their collective intelligence exceeds one person’s. That is not a vision for the future. That is the most honest thing a CEO has ever said out loud about the people who built his empire.

@wholemars The car will start to remember your specific interventions and match each person’s individual preferences

@heyJohnEe Did Ashok say FSD v15 would not be delivered on AI4? Contradicting what Elon said on the record in April?

@TheNextAlan He mentioned v14 lite arriving, and it actually arrived on time

So it seems like HW4 owners might not be getting the best FSD models any longer due to hardware limitations, but Tesla has a clever workaround →