{"id":138814,"date":"2022-04-29T16:04:06","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T21:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/exclusive-elon-musk-a-future-worth-getting-excited-about-ted-tesla-gigafactory-interview"},"modified":"2022-04-29T16:04:06","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T21:04:06","slug":"exclusive-elon-musk-a-future-worth-getting-excited-about-ted-tesla-gigafactory-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/exclusive-elon-musk-a-future-worth-getting-excited-about-ted-tesla-gigafactory-interview","title":{"rendered":"[Exclusive] Elon Musk: A future worth getting excited about | TED | Tesla Gigafactory interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Elon Musk: A future worth getting excited about | Tesla Texas Gigafactory interview | TED\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YRvf00NooN8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Elon talks about x-risks and making us a multi-planetary species, amongst other things.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>What\u2019s on Elon Musk\u2019s mind? In this exclusive conversation with head of TED Chris Anderson, Musk details how the radical new innovations he\u2019s working on \u2014 Tesla\u2019s intelligent humanoid robot Optimus, SpaceX\u2019s otherworldly Starship and Neuralink\u2019s brain-machine interfaces, among others \u2014 could help maximize the lifespan of humanity and create a world where goods and services are abundant and accessible for all. It\u2019s a compelling vision of a future worth getting excited about. (Recorded at the Tesla Texas Gigafactory on April 6, 2022) <\/p>\n<p>Just over a week after this interview was filmed, Elon Musk joined TED2022 for another (live) conversation, where he discussed his bid to purchase Twitter, the biggest regret of his career, how his brain works and more. Watch that conversation here: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/cdZZpaB2kDM\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/cdZZpaB2kDM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>0:14 A future that\u2019s worth getting excited about.<br \/> 2:44 The sustainable energy economy, batteries and 300 terawatt hours of installed capacity.<br \/> 7:06 \u201cHumanity will solve sustainable energy.\u201c<br \/> 8:47 Artificial intelligence and Tesla\u2019s progress on full self-driving cars.<br \/> 19:46 Tesla\u2019s Optimus humanoid robot.<br \/> 21:46 \u201cPeople have no idea, this is going to be bigger than the car.\u201c<br \/> 23:14 Avoiding an AI dystopia.<br \/> 26:39 The age of abundance.<br \/> 28:20 Neuralink and brain-machine interfaces.<br \/> 36:55 SpaceX\u2019s Starship and the mission to build a city on Mars.<br \/> 46:54 \u201cIt\u2019s the people of Mars\u2019 city.\u201c<br \/> 50:14 What else can Starship do and help explore?<br \/> 53:18 Possible synergies between Tesla, SpaceX, The Boring Company and Neuralink.<br \/> 54:44 Intercontinental travel via Starship.<br \/> 58:41 Being a billionaire.<br \/> 1:02:31 Philanthropy as love of humanity.<br \/> 1:03:39 Population collapse and birth rates as a threat to future of human civilization.<br \/> 1:04:13 Elon\u2019s drive.<br \/> 1:06:06 \u201cI think if you want the future to be good, you must make it so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If you love watching TED Talks like this one, become a TED Member to support our mission of spreading ideas: <a href=\"http:\/\/ted.com\/membership.\">http:\/\/ted.com\/membership.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/exclusive-elon-musk-a-future-worth-getting-excited-about-ted-tesla-gigafactory-interview\">Continue reading \u201c[Exclusive] Elon Musk: A future worth getting excited about | TED | Tesla Gigafactory interview\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon talks about x-risks and making us a multi-planetary species, amongst other things. What\u2019s on Elon Musk\u2019s mind? In this exclusive conversation with head of TED Chris Anderson, Musk details how the radical new innovations he\u2019s working on \u2014 Tesla\u2019s intelligent humanoid robot Optimus, SpaceX\u2019s otherworldly Starship and Neuralink\u2019s brain-machine interfaces, among others \u2014 could [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,39,2019,6,1514,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-economics","category-elon-musk","category-robotics-ai","category-space-travel","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}