Tesla's D1 Microchip Claimed to Have 36 Percent Brain Ability, 2033 Will Be Smarter Than Humans

Tesla has the fastest microchips for vehicles. (photo: twitter @tesla)

JAKARTA - Tesla's new microchip is claimed to be smarter than humans by 2033. The current processing power of the Microchip D1 has reached 36% of the human brain.

According to a study conducted by car and van rental company Vanarama, the Microchip D1, can handle 362 trillion operations per second, whereas a person's brain is capable of performing one quadrillion operations per second,

The company made its predictions by analyzing past and current Tesla microchips to find that their capabilities are increasing at a rate of 486% per year.

Elon Musk's company will release the new D1 chip, which is part of the Dojo supercomputer platform, this year. The D1 chip will become an important part of Tesla's Autopilot self-driving system as it continues to evolve.

In the time it takes to read the graph above, the D1 chip will complete 7.6 quadrillion operations.

The human brain, which triples in size during the first year of infancy and reaches full maturity by the age of 25, contains about 100 billion neurons.

Researchers have long said that there will come a time when AI exceeds human intellectual capacity, although there are varying opinions about when that will happen.

"It would not be crazy to believe that technology will become much smarter than the humans in our lives," Vanarama said, as quoted by the Daily Mail. "Current microchips are able to work like brain synapses, because researchers developed chips inspired by the way the brain operates."

The previous chip, known as Hardware 3, performed 144 trillion operations per second in 2019. Previously, Hardware 2 could handle 72 trillion operations. The D1 microchip is claimed to be 30 times more powerful than the Nvidia device used six years ago.

Seeing that growth rate, Vanarama explained that Tesla only took 17 years to reach the level of a mature human brain from the very beginning of its development.

The study comes as Musk continues to tout the benefits of electric cars. “It won't be long before we see gasoline cars in the same way we see steam engines today. The salvage value of a petrol car bought today will be much lower than people think," Musk tweeted.

"These chips have played a role in Tesla's existing automated driving functions, but there is more potential over the next decade," said Vanarama.

“Does this mean 11 years until we see self-driving cars on the road, or will it happen sooner? Only time and innovation will tell,” added Vanarama.