News on July 6, at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference that opened today, although Musk did not come to the scene in person, he still delivered a video speech through the Internet, talking about Tesla's humanoid robot Optimus, automatic driving, artificial intelligence and other aspects.
At the same time, he believes that if China is determined to do one thing, it will definitely be able to do well, including the AI industry.
Regarding artificial intelligence robots, Musk said that there will be more robots on Earth than there are humans in the future, but Tesla humanoid robots are still in the development stage, and one of the goals of its humanoid robots is to do these things that humans do not want to do.
In fact, Musk's humanoid robot, the Tesla Optimus, is indeed constantly improving.
At the 2022 "Tesla AI Day", the humanoid robot Optimus (Optimus) physically appeared, just slowly walked out and said hello to the audience.
At the 2023 Tesla shareholder meeting after half a year, Musk showed the latest progress of Tesla Bot. This time, Tesla Bot can already walk smoothly, and several robots can walk forward together. In addition to walking, Tesla's humanoid robots can now flexibly grasp and drop objects. Tesla Optimus even showed its motor torque control ability, which is the kind that can control the force without breaking the egg.
From Tesla's latest video, we can see that Tesla has used some technical methods to improve the movement and control of humanoid robots, including motor torque control, environmental discovery and memory, and training robots based on human demonstrations. The company will also make more technical improvements to the robot, which is expected to go into mass production in the near future.
Musk said that there will be more robots on Earth than humans in the future, is this a Tesla CEO to create momentum for Tesla Optimus robots, or another accurate prediction of the future human society?
According to the ideas in "Active Evolution: An Unconceived Path to Evolution" (by Huang Zhenyu and Han Fei), Musk's description of the future society is likely to be only half right! In the future, artificial intelligence robots will not only be more numerous than humans, but may also be an indispensable and important helper in human life, and even determine the future development of human beings!
In the highly scientific popular science masterpiece "Active Evolution: The Unconceived Path to Evolution", the author gathers the latest research results and hot topics of cutting-edge science, based on scientific theory and practice, ingeniously proposes that human beings should consciously overcome the slowness of natural evolution through active evolution, discusses the possible evolutionary direction of human beings in the next hundred years, especially discusses the prospect of cooperation between AI and humans. The book was completed by two young authors, Huang Zhenyu and Han Fei, over a period of 3 years. The author, Huang Zhenyu, is a private entrepreneur and philanthropist, currently the CEO of Guangzhou Zhujiang Yunfeng Investment Holdings Co., Ltd. and the chairman of the board of directors of Guangzhou City Institute of Technology, with a strong interest and in-depth study in history, sociology, biology, brain science, artificial intelligence and other disciplines, has a deep understanding and unique insights on the development of science and technology and the development of human civilization, and gradually grows into a "scientific and technological thinker" in continuous learning, thinking and precipitation, and has become the main advocate of active evolutionary thinking. Another author, Han Fei, is a postdoctoral fellow in medical social history and history of science, and a popular science writer with 2.3 million+ fans on the Internet.
In the future, strong AI robots with self-learning capabilities may replace most human jobs, take care of all aspects of human life, and become human friends, lovers or spouses. We can imagine that in the process of flying out of the earth, the biggest partner of human beings is likely to be AI robots. Humans may even inevitably merge with AI machines.
As forward-looking in Active Evolution: The Unimagined Path to Evolution, the greatest convergence that will occur in the future of society is the convergence of humans and AI machines. Either the machine fuses into the human body, or the human brain fuses into the machine. Artificial intelligence machines are integrated into our lives, even with parts of our bodies, and then give us more sense of security, contact bondage. At this time, human beings, by consciously choosing the direction and technology of evolution, overcame the slowness and passivity of natural evolution, so as to change and improve themselves through technical means, and became "superhumans" deeply integrated with humans and AI, so that when humans migrate to outer space, they can adapt to harsh environments similar to the moon or Mars. This is the active evolutionary path of mankind towards a new development journey, and it is likely to be the only way.
At that time, we, as "superhumans", may really be unable to distinguish between us and them! As the book asks: Machines can give you everything you need, and will you still hope for an uncertain kind? Moreover, half of yourself will belong to the machine. For example, 3D printed blood vessels, electronic glasses, artificial kidneys, how do you distinguish who is your real kind?
Although the surface of the machine is cold, the "heart" of the artificial intelligence machine may understand us better than ourselves.