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Musk: In the future, "personal consciousness" can be copied to Tesla robots, and mass production may be made next year
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said in a recent interview that people may replicate their "personal consciousness" onto the humanoid robot Tesla is developing, which could be mass-produced at a moderate scale next year.
Musk bluntly said in the interview that he has high expectations for the future of humanoid robots. Musk said: "Humanoid robots are emerging, and artificial intelligence (AI) is developing very fast. ”
Musk also specifically mentioned the humanoid robot Optimus that Tesla is developing and its potential future uses. "Optimus is a general-purpose robot, similar to a worker robot, whose initial role was to take on repetitive, boring or dangerous work," he said. Basically, it's the kind of work that people don't want to do. ”
Asked if Optimus would play a role in people's daily lives, such as helping with housework, Musk agreed, again stressing that it was an "ordinary humanoid robot."
Musk once said, "Tesla robots have more potential than cars", then it must be a real mass product, and may even help solve the problem of declining birth rates. After all, if there isn't enough human, the world needs more robots to do more work. But Musk is concerned that the human birth rate continues to decline.
When asked if humans will eventually be replaced by AI, or driven by Neuralink's brain-computer interface technology, Musk explained that Neuralink can only solve problems such as brain injuries and spinal cord injuries in the short term. But he thinks that in the future, people may even download content from their brains to Optimus.
Musk said: "We can download things that we think make ourselves unique. Now, of course, if you're no longer in that body, it's going to be different, but in terms of preserving our memories and our 'personal consciousness,' I think we can do that. ”
The "singularity moment" of 2025 predicted by American futurist Ray Kurzweil is rapidly approaching, and when asked if Tesla robots can postpone this timeline, Musk said: "I'm not sure if there are such very clear boundaries, I personally think we can get through it." ”
He explains: "We've outsourced a lot of computing, and our memories are stored in phones and computers through pictures and videos. Computers and mobile phones enhance our ability to communicate, allowing us to do many things that were once considered incredible. Now you can make video calls for free for two people on both ends of the world, which is amazing. We have dramatically improved the human brain's capabilities with computers. ”
Musk also talked about the bipedal design of the robot. "Humans have designed the world to interact with bipedal humanoid robots with two arms and ten fingers," he said. So, if you want a robot to adapt and be able to do what humans can do, it has to have a similar body size and abilities to humans. ”
Musk said he thinks Tesla will make significant progress at the robot prototype level this year and could achieve "at least moderate-scale mass production" around the end of 2023.
In August 2021, at Tesla's "AI Day" event, Musk showed for the first time a "Tesla robot" that was 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighed 125 pounds (about 56 kilograms). In January, he called it "the most important product development project we're doing this year."
At the same time, Musk also emphasized his concerns about AI and robotics. "I certainly don't want anything that could be harmful to humans to emerge, but humanoid robots are popping up fast," he said. Look at Boston Dynamics, whose robots perform better every year. ”
In addition to Optimus, Musk also talked about a series of other topics in the interview. He mentioned that the future starship will be able to reach any place in the world from the place of departure in 30 minutes, like a global super-taxi. But landings can be loud, so it may be necessary to land far enough from the coast so that the noise doesn't disturb people.
Musk has little interest in significantly extending human lifespan. "I don't think we should try to get people to live too long, it's going to lead to social suffocation because in fact most people don't change their minds," he said. If they had not died, we would have been trapped by old ideas and society would not have progressed. For me, of course I want to stay healthy longer, but I'm not afraid to die. I think it would be a relief. ”
Musk's current net worth is about $260 billion, and when asked if he ever feared bankruptcy, Musk said: "There are many times when I feel like I'm going to lose everything. The people who started car companies and rocket companies obviously wanted them to succeed, but that didn't include me. I have less than a 10% chance of success. After SpaceX's third launch failed in 2008, I knew that if the fourth launch failed, SpaceX would go bankrupt and we wouldn't have the money to do the fifth launch. Tesla has also been on the verge of bankruptcy several times, and we even raised money in the last hour of the last day of 2008. If we hadn't finished this round of negotiations at that time, we would have gone bankrupt two days after Christmas. ”
Musk is not only a serial entrepreneur, he is also a philanthropist. He said SpaceX and Tesla fundamentally want to improve the quality of life in the future, especially in terms of what is useful to humans. Tesla is committed to accelerating the transition to a sustainable energy future, and SpaceX wants to help humanity become a multi-planetary species. But I can't do that alone.
When it comes to charitable giving, Musk believes that "it is very difficult to donate money effectively." "If you care about the reality of doing good, not the feeling of doing good, then it's hard to donate money effectively," he said. Hunger, for example, is more of a political and logistical issue than not a lack of food. There was plenty of food. In the United States and many countries, the problem is more obesity than hunger. So, I'm always looking for an effective way to donate money. ”
In Musk's view, the most urgent goal to achieve in the short term is to improve fully autonomous driving technology, which is safer than human driving. Basically, this boils down to solving real-world AI problems. He said: "It hurts me. For example, get the starship up and running. Not only to get it into orbit, but also to achieve rapid reusability, which is the holy grail of rocket technology and is necessary for humans to become a multi-planetary species. I think these things could happen this year. ”
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