Tesla CEO Elon Musk says he sees a time when people will find new ways to live their lives thanks to advances in artificial intelligence and robotics.
In a panel discussion at the 2024 All-In Summit hosted by the All-In Podcast on Monday, Moose echoed comments he made last year during a discussion on fire at the AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park in England. He said he sees a future where manpower is a thing of the past.
I think the real issue, the most likely issue, is how do we find meaning in a world where AI can do everything we can do but better? This is probably the biggest challenge,” Musk said.
He once suggested that the Turing test was inappropriate for measuring how convincingly a computer could imitate human speech.
Although at this point, I know a lot of people who are retired, and they seem to enjoy that life, but I think there might be some semantic issues because the computer can do everything you can do, but better. ” he repeated.
This shift, Musk says, will be aided by the development of autonomous cars and humanoid robots that can boost economic growth and productivity.
“If there's no real limit to human robots — and if they can do it very intelligently, there's no real limit to the economy,” he said. “There is no meaningful limit to the economy.”
Mook said that through the development of Tesla's Optimus robot, the company learned a lot about how the human body works and why it is designed the way it is. Optimus pointed out the shape of the fingers and thumb that would guide future developments.
“The current version of Optimus' hand actuators does not have human degrees of freedom, as it has only 11 degrees of freedom in the hand, which, as you can count, is approximately 25 degrees. “Independence,” he says, “limits how strong the robot can be.”
“In the form of a prototype, the next-generation Optimus has a human-like arm-to-arm movement and the fingers are cabled like a human hand,” he said. “The next generation hand has 22 degrees of freedom, which we think is enough to do anything that humans can do.”
Musk is competing with Tesla to build and bring to market large-scale humanoid robots with rival developers including Image AI, OpenAI-backed 1X, Meta, Nvidia and German carmaker Mercedes-Benz.
Due to the push for AI-powered humanoid robots for homes and businesses, Musk says he foresees them one day outnumbering humans two-to-one.
“I think the number of robots will greatly outnumber the number of people,” he said. “'Who doesn't want a robot friend?' You have to say. Everyone wants a robot friend.
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