Sometimes, humans get wasted 🍻

Welcome to AI Collision 💥,

In today’s collision between AI and our world:

• Getting wasted behind the wheel
• FSD (unsupervised) is close
• Better than humans

If that’s enough to get the beers cracking open, read on…

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I have a bad confession to make.

I drove drunk, once, and never did since. I was young (20ish) and at a Uni party. I had enough of the party and wanted to head home, so I jumped in the car, drove a block and then realised I was way to drunk to drive.

I slept in my car that night.

I also realised, that was the most stupid thing I’ve maybe ever done. And never did it since. Sure, I’ve had a beer and driven the car, and I know I’m always well under the limit because it’s always just that, one.

But in reality, even that’s not a great idea. Even one and being under the legal limit is still even slightly inhibiting.

In all honesty the “legal limit” for having a drink and driving should be zero.

Thankfully, pretty soon we can throw all that out the window. We’ll be able to roll down to the pub, drink, or even get wasted if you want to, then jump behind the wheel, and drive home…100% safe and secure.

How?

Well, thank Elon.

Elon just gave a presentation at the Tesla “All-Hands” event. They celebrated some serious milestones, like 10 million vechicles this year, from the original idea of 20. The whole process from nothing to a global car maker is really phenomenal in the time they’ve taken.

But then he went into much more detail about the impending release of FSD (unsupervised). That’s their full self-driving technology, but in the “unsupervised” version as it kind of does what it says on the tin, there’s no need to supervise the FSD.

That means jump in, and just let the car do its thing.

That might seem a bit terrifying, but the thing is, as Elon puts it, the technology is “better than humans”.

Yep, egos all take a hit there, but the technology in these cars makes them better than humans, safer than humans. As Elon also correctly points out, humans sometimes, “get wasted”, and that makes them a risk to themselves and to others.

Really, there’s no need for that. If the car drives itself, then take the risk out of it, and road tolls plummet.

Back in 2014 I wrote a piece in MoneyWeek magazine about the connected car and how self-driving car tech would be upon us in a decade and it would lead to much safer roads.

Well, that time is here, it’s now, and its only through the integration of tech like AI, and advanced vision systems processing in huge AI factories, with immense processing power and AI built in (as Elon has at his Cortex, Dojo and Colossus AI data centres) that we can even consider this to happen this year.

I do think this year he’ll release FSD unsupervised, and thanks to a tight relationship with the US administration the road to complete, safe, self-driving cars will be ready to roll.

By the way, if that does come this year, it’s going to change the game for certain tech stocks all tightly kniteed to the future of self-driving cars, AI, and autonomous tech. It’s the sum of many moving parts, which means an abundance of opportunity.

I’ve already got a watchlist of stocks I think will benefit most, and I’ll be looking to share some of those with you in the coming weeks and months, as this could be one of the biggest disruptions (and opportunites) in how humans live and exist since…well…since the invention of the automobile.

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Boomers & Busters 💰

AI and AI-related stocks moving and shaking up the markets this week. (All performance data below over the rolling week).

Boom 📈

• Veritone (NASDAQ:VERI) up 15%
• AMD (NASDAQ:AMD) up 9%
• Micron (NASDAQ:MU) up 9%

Bust 📉

• Meta (NASDAQ:META) down 1%
• Gorilla Technology (NASDAQ:GRRR) down 15%
• Everspin Technologies (NASDAQ:MRAM) down 1%

From the hive mind 🧠

• Not long after his keynote presentation at GTC last week, Jensen Huang jumped onto an analyst Q&A to discuss the developments he talked about, the direction of the company and how it related to their performance. Again, well worth listening to to understand just how far ahead they are.
• KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut all now using AI to make their drive thrus work better. Oh, and it’s all because of Nvidia too.
• I bet this is the most unbearable newspaper that’s ever been published to read. Not I don’t mean The Guardian (or do I?), but the focus of the article!

Artificial Polltelligence 🗳️

Weirdest AI image of the day

Like a piece of china in a bull shop

ChatGPT’s random quote of the day

Thanks for reading, and don’t forget to leave comments and questions below,

Sam Volkering

Editor-in-Chief

AI Collision