Elon Musk is all about robots. He compared his autonomous driving You’re here cars to “robots on wheels.” As for the robots on legs, he has big projects for possibly selling a humanoid robot named Optimus. When he presented the prototype last year, Optimus failed to impress artificial intelligence experts and investors. But that didn’t deter Musk, and at Tesla Investor On this week’s day, the billionaire unveiled the latest version and made a big prediction: humanoid robots could eventually outnumber humans.
“You could kind of see a domestic use of robots, certainly industrial uses of robots, humanoid robots,” Musk said. “I think we could move past a one-to-one relationship between humanoid robots and humans. We don’t even know what an economy is at this point.
Optimus is still far from leading the robotics revolution. When Musk first introduced it to the public in 2021, it turned out to be a human in a robot suit rather than an actual prototype. In 2022, Optimus had to be dragged into Tesla’s AI Day. In his presentation this year, Musk showed videos of the new Optimus, which appears to be walking on its own.
Musk isn’t alone in pointing to impending economic disruption due to the disruption of AI and robots. Robots have already been deployed in factories to replace the jobs humans used to do, and the past year has seen record demand for automation as companies struggled to hire workers. But recent developments in AI could only accelerate this change. IBM CEO Arvind Krishna recently said that he believed white-collar office workers would be replaced by AI, and that robots might even contribute to a future labor shortage as the population ages. And Kai-Fu Lee, an AI venture capitalist, said in 2019 that technology would replace 40% of jobs over the next 15 years, including white-collar and blue-collar jobs.
from Tesla website described the humanoid “Tesla bot” as one that could perform “dangerous, repetitive or boring tasks”. But Musk’s vision of what robots can be goes far beyond that. Musk said Wednesday that he anticipates that humanoid robots are “probably going to be worth a lot more than the car side of things in the long run”, as their uses will be so varied. In the past he has also mentioned robots used as a “buddy”.
While Musk is optimistic about his own robots, he said on Wednesday that the underlying AI technology still “stressed” him.
“It’s quite a dangerous technology. I’m afraid I’ve done some things to speed it up,” he said.
Musk was a co-founder of ChatGPT’s parent company, OpenAI, but left the company after just a few years. He has since called the tool chatbot “re” And criticized OpenAI to contradict its purpose of being an “open source non-profit counterweight” Google‘, accusing it of being a ‘closed source, maximum profit company’.
The second richest man in the world is now believed to be setting up a project that OpenAI Rival.
Tesla did not return immediately Fortunerequest for comment.
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