Within the last few years, Elon Musk has started up several projects to steer away from a possible dark ages of artificial intelligence (AI) or from the “Terminator-style” apocalypse.
Tesla Bots
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At the Tesla AI 2022 event, Elon Musk unveiled not one but two robots. The first prototype was Bumble G. It walked around the stage, waved to the crowd, and, of course, danced. It has no skin, so the wires, motors, and gears were exposed. The second robot was the production model named Tesla Optimus. It could not walk and was rolled on the stage, showing some movements. Although incomplete, Tesla Optimus will be mass-produced using low-cost parts and powered by an AI brain.
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Critics were not impressed and compared them to Boston Dynamics robots. On the other hand, these robots were speedy and agile, even performing back flips.
This was by design. A working robot should not overpower a human.
OpenAI
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Elon Musk started this project, whose intent is the democratization of AI. Anyone can join in. OpenAI aims to “ensure” that AI benefits everyone in society.
“OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company. Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI)—by which we mean highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at the most economically valuable work—benefits all of humanity,” the website said
“We will attempt to directly build safe and beneficial AGI, but we will also consider our mission fulfilled if our work aids others in achieving this outcome,” it added.
Among the many achievements of OpenAI is Dall-e, which generates digital art from a text description. Below is an example of how the author tried using the free app StarryAI.
Elon Musk quoted Lord Acton saying, “Freedom is [a] distribution of power, and despotism is [the] concentration of it. “He stepped down from leading the project but continued to fund it because he wants AI to benefit all mankind and not just empower a few elite.
Neuralink
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“If you can’t beat them, join them.” Another strategy of Elon Musk is to establish a symbiotic relationship between humans and Neuralink is Musk’s neural interface technology company. It is developing a device that would be embedded in a person’s brain to record brain activity and potentially stimulate it. Musk has compared the technology to a “FitBit in your skullAI.”
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Neuralink is a connector between a human and a computer that allows the human to control the computer with his thoughts. It’s like in the Matrix, where the human is plugged in.
Regulatory Body
One of Elon Musk’s frustrations is the lack of regulation in the use of AI. He says other technologies, like nuclear power and biotech, have oversight committees that regulate their use.
“Shouldn’t it be regulated? The danger it imposes is much greater,” said Musk.
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As a last resort, the human race must be a multi-planetary species. If humanity destroys itself on Earth, there are still a number of species on other planets that will survive. There flies SpaceX.
