Elon Musk says he wants Tesla’s humanoid robot to be considered a friend. Musk also joked that the company wanted to make the robot “good-looking.”
Speaking at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, Elon Musk discussed Tesla’s ambitions for its humanoid robot.
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Plus, Turing also showed that achieving universality doesn’t require anything fancy. The basic equipment of a universal machine is just not more advanced than a kid’s abacus — operations like incrementing, decrementing, and conditional jumping are all it takes to create software of any complexity: be it a calculator, Minecraft, or an AI chatbot.
Likewise, consciousness might just be an emergent property of the software running AGI, much like how the hardware of a universal machine gives rise to its capabilities. Personally, I don’t buy into the idea of something sitting on top of the physical human brain — no immortal soul or astral “I” floating around in higher dimensions. It’s all just flesh and bone. Think of it like an anthill: this incredibly complex system doesn’t need some divine spirit to explain its organized society, impressive architecture, or mushroom farms. The anthill’s intricate behaviour, often referred to as a superorganism, emerges from the interactions of its individual ants without needing to be reduced to them. Similarly, a single ant wandering around in a terrarium won’t tell you much about the anthill as a whole. Brain neurons are like those ants — pretty dumb on their own, but get around 86 billion of them together, and suddenly you’ve got “I” with all its experiences, dreams, and… consciousness.
So basically, if something can think, it can also think about itself. That means consciousness is a natural part of thinking — it just comes with the territory. And if you think about it, this also means you can’t really have thinking without consciousness, which brings us back to the whole Skynet thing.
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The solar aircraft is made by a Spanish-American aerospace startup called Skydweller Aero. Based in Oklahoma City, the company raised $32 million in its Series A funding round, led by Italian aerospace firm Leonardo.
“For us, if you’re flying 90 days with one aircraft, that’s two takeoffs and landings versus … hundreds,” Skydweller Aero co-founder John Parkes told Aviation Today. “Being able to fly thousands of miles, persist over an area for 30–60 days and fly back is a differentiator. It’s a huge cost savings to the US government when you look at the whole cost of doing a lot of the national security missions that we have.”
Tesla’s development of AI-powered self-driving cars has the potential to revolutionize transportation, disrupt labor, and create significant value in the market.
Questions to inspire discussion.
What is Tesla’s approach to AI-powered self-driving cars?
—Tesla’s approach involves convergence of AI hardware for cars and robots, with a focus on maximizing hardware and software interplay for real world AI products.
While seeking research internships last year, University of Washington graduate student Kate Glazko noticed recruiters posting online that they’d used OpenAI’s ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence tools to summarize resumes and rank candidates. Automated screening has been commonplace in hiring for decades. Yet Glazko, a doctoral student in the UW’s Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, studies how generative AI can replicate and amplify real-world biases—such as those against disabled people. How might such a system, she wondered, rank resumes that implied someone had a disability?
This surgical robot enhances precision, safety, and affordability in joint replacements:
Indian firm’s surgical robot streamlines orthopedic joint-replacement procedures with precise planning and real-time adjustments.
AI can turn wi-fi routers into cameras that can see in the dark and track living beings.
This video shows how AI turns WiFi routers into ‘cameras’ that can see people through walls.
With the help of AI, the researchers were able to detect the movement of human bodies in a room using Wi-Fi routers — even through walls.
AI take over of entertainment industry by 2029–2030 still on pace.
1/ Swiss director Peter Luisi has made a movie called “The Last Screenwriter”, the script for which he says was largely written by the AI ChatGPT.
A London theater has canceled the world premiere of a movie allegedly written entirely by ChatGPT. The director plans to release the movie online.
The Prince Charles Cinema in London has called off this weekend’s planned world premiere of “The Last Screenwriter” due to public outcry over the film’s controversial screenwriter: ChatGPT.
