Tesla is said to be considering collaborating with OpenAI to integrate ChatGPT into its EV fleet at some point in the future. Elon Musk, the Tesla founder and CEO, is also the founder and backer of the American AI startup OpenAI, which is responsible for the creation of the chatbot ChatGPT, created by Tesla.
OpenAI is a startup that was founded in San Francisco in 2015 by Elon Musk along with other famous entrepreneurs and investors such as Sam Altman, Redi Hoffman, and Peter Thiel. With the intention to create and develop advanced Artificial Intelligence that would be useful to mankind, the OpenAI founders have taken a pledge of $1 billion towards the development of the company.
As a result of disagreements between Musk and the founders of OpenAI regarding the company’s development, Musk resigned from the company’s board of directors in 2018. Musk remains a supporter of the startup, and he still has a strong relation with the company and has considerable influence within it, and he still remains a donor to the startup.
The odds of Tesla incorporating ChatGPT into its EV system are highly likely to be very high, according to a number of analysts. There is no doubt that Tesla and OpenAI might have some sort of collaboration at some point in the foreseeable future, according to Edward Sanchez, senior automotive analyst at TechInsights. Musk has strong ties to the OpenAI executive team, so it should be easier for them to negotiate a potential partnership in the near future.
As he continued, Tesla has been way ahead of the industry in the area of over-the-air software updates, so if they feel that there is enough consumer demand for a ChatGPT service in their cars, similar to Apple’s Siri, then they may want to offer the service with their next software update.
How will Tesla integrate ChatGPT in its EVs?
ChatGPT (Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer) is the most famous and fastest-growing app in human history. It is an advanced Chatbot developed by the American AI company OpenAI. It is designed to mimic a human speaker and is currently using both supervised and reinforcement learning techniques. Since its launch in November 2022, the application has been a game changer for the AI and technology industries.
Chat GPT uses a particular technique called Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF), which uses human feedback in the training loop to minimize harmful, untruthful, and biased outputs. To successfully carry out human-level conversations and tasks, the app needs to process high volumes of data in seconds. This means it needs a very powerful computer that can process tons of data in seconds. If Tesla wants to integrate ChatGPT in an EV, then it will need a supercomputer that can process, analyze and compute millions of data and provide accurate feedback in seconds to the driver.
For any other automotive company, ChatGPT integration may be difficult unless they can find a supercomputer or alternative solutions for data processing. But Tesla already has the resources and technical know-how to successfully integrate ChatGPT into its EVs.
In 2021, Tesla unveiled its custom-made supercomputer Dojo. Dojo is an AI neural network training supercomputer, specially designed for AI machine learning and video training using the Tesla EV data. The ultimate goal for Dojo is to reach fully autonomous driving capabilities. With the Dojo supercomputer, it is possible that Tesla may collaborate with OpenAI and integrate ChatGPT-related services into its future EVs.
