Elon Musk predicts Tesla’s Optimus robot will be a force for economic good — even if it ultimately eliminates much of the need for human labor.
While the humanoid robots are a production challenge and aren’t launching anytime soon, Tesla has demoed them handing out candy on Halloween, performing Kung Fu with Jared Leto, and dancing onstage at its recent shareholder meeting.
But Musk says he has an even bigger vision for the robots; he wants them to transform the economy.
“People often talk about eliminating poverty, giving everyone amazing medical care,” Musk said at the Thursday shareholder event. “There’s actually only one way to do that, and that’s with the Optimus robot.”
Musk later doubled down: “Optimus will actually eliminate poverty.”
before reading the article text i assumed optimus was one of his children
That’s way too normal a name
Well at least it’s not money going to LLM datacenters-
“There’s limit to much how much AI can do in terms of enhancing the productivity of humans, but there is not really a limit to AI that is embodied,” Musk said.
Ah. Well, at least it won’t be used in the prison-industrial comple-
Musk also said that Optimus would change life for incarcerated people at the meeting. Instead of physically jailing prisoners, Optimus could “follow you around and stop you from doing crime,” he said.
Unrelated but this is hilarious
Tesla is currently in the design stage for Optimus, which Musk has said has proven challenging — especially when it comes to the robot’s hands. Musk said that he eventually expects to be able to sell Optimus for $20,000 to $30,000 once the robots hit volume production.
Sure, buddy, the cheapest Tesla is ~$43kUSD, and these robots for which there generally aren’t off the shelf parts or infrastructure will be half that? You’re definitely going to sell a million of these in the next decade.
Critical support for disrupting the police industry
It’s gonna be really funny when these get hacked and help us do cool things
i know it’s just a joke but it irks me that even the joke implies that these things will ever come to fruition, elon is telling one of the most obvious lies in the world (even worse than what sam altman has been doing recently which is astounding) to make the stock price go up
I am still so mad that Chappie sucked.
Neill Blomkamp really only had one decent movie in him, didn’t he?
Also, at least Chappie sucking means we can all forget about Die Antwooord having 5 minutes of fame.
I liked elysium
They’re not gonna hack themselves.💁
hopefully disrupting it down the stairs like an ed-209
Musk also said that Optimus would change life for incarcerated people at the meeting. Instead of physically jailing prisoners, Optimus could “follow you around and stop you from doing crime,” he said.
Unrelated but this is hilarious
The Culture’s “slap-droning” but it’s a glorified furby with a taser and a scooter.
glad I wasn’t the only one who thought that’s where he ripped the idea from
Stick a “One Way, No Through Traffic” sign in front of it and go about your business
I’d love a furby with a taser and a scooter
You’re definitely going to sell a million of these in the next decade.
Pre-sell*
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Musk later doubled down: “Optimus will actually eliminate poverty.”
sorry, typo, he actually said “the impoverished”
:mitchell-and-webb: have you tried ‘kill all the poor’?
sorry folks but the only way to afford healthcare is buy my nazi robot that doesn’t exist
“The only way to do healthcare is with robots”
-Guy in the only industrialised country in the world without public healthcare.
Every single one of his ideas are basic ass science fiction tropes. He wants to go to Mars, he wants giant robots, he wants self driving cars. He’s literally 12 years old.
Its not even good SciFi, and when you can identify what books these shit heads read back when they were still human enough to read a book, they either missed or perfectly inverted the point.
In one of the clearest examples¹, admittedly not from musk but the same point apllies: ‘the metaverse’ is, in the novel it’s from stupid and bad and comparable to a fucking drug you ‘inject into your eyeball’, like i think that sentence is used and the apparatus is deliberately described as viscerally disturbing, and you even contract fucking diseases through it! The titular ‘snow crash’ is a mind control virus spread by virtual reality and dirty needles! the people who walk around in AR glasses literally get called ‘gargoyles’ receive money for it from the CIA! That novel was about as fucking subtle as a brick to the fucking head!
I fucking hate every single one of these fucking shit heads!
¹where the name of the thing from the book is used and you can be sure of a specific source
I’m assuming he means these things are going to be wandering the streets murdering poor people
That’s how I’m reading it.
He’s made ED-209 from robocop that hunts homeless people.
Can we have an “I’m on the board!” moment?
Why does anyone still listen to what this worthless piece of shit says
He’s rich, therefore he’s smart.
I guess we’re gonna have to become Decepticons now
I remember seeing someone mentioning a comic where Megatron rose to power during some kind of slave revolt. I wish I could remember what it was called because it seemed cool af
It is one of the modern interpretations of how the Cybertronian Civil War broke out, so it is in a couple of things
But yeah, he and a bunch of other Cybertronians were oppressed by a rigid caste system. He was a pit fighter who took on the name Megatron because it’s two letters away from their version of Satan and wanted to freak out the ruling classes.
Optimus Prime, before he became a prime and was only lowly archivist Orion Pax, befriended Megatron and pleaded his case to the High Council
The High Council took his words to heart, granted Orion the station of Prime and the new name of Optimus, and offered to re-examine the caste system
Unfortunately, this did little to actually alleviate the issues Megatron was willing to go to war over and long story short, Cyberton is ruined in the fighting, everyone ends up on Earth looking for gas, grass, and ass
Sound familiar?
Cyclonus to Tailgate, IDW Transformers comics, More Than Meets The Eye #3 (March 2012)
The IDW continuity gives Megs and the 'cons a lot more depth and relatability, but definitely resorts to some puppy kicking to avoid making them “too” relatable.
This is it. Thanks, I’ve been meaning to read this one, but forgot which one it was
“People often talk about eliminating poverty, giving everyone amazing medical care,” Musk said at the Thursday shareholder event. “There’s actually only one way to do that, and that’s with the Optimus robot.”
You have healthcare, it’s called a robot designed to do bazinga shit like dance and serve beer.
Hey there buddy, how’s that hyperloop going?
It’ll be done as soon as the networks of tunnels are done
And the Tesla semi
And mars colonization
And full self driving
So, like, 3-6 months?
the humanoid robots are a production challenge and aren’t launching anytime soon, Tesla has demoed them handing out candy on Halloween, performing Kung Fu with Jared Leto, and dancing onstage
It’s like they tried to write a sentence that kills me when I read it
Can’t wait for the inevitable Joe Rogan interview.
“So, listen to this: The Flesh is Weak”
This, but for Unitree robotics.
It’s probably going to be used to eliminate poor people.
Well that would do it.
Truly
