Musk has been busy recently.
On the one hand, he spent $44 billion in April and acquired Twitter in one fell swoop, saying that he wanted to bring real "freedom of speech" to this social platform.
On the other hand, his 18-year-old Xavier Musk claimed in June that he would sever his ties with him, changing his surname and changing his gender, and shouting that he would have "gender freedom".
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However, compared with the following matter, the above "freedom" must be side-by-side.
Just recently, Musk once again revealed to the public a "big project" full of futuristic feelings that may bring freedom (or disaster) to all mankind:
His car company Tesla is about to start creating humanoid robots. The matter of
will start from August last year.
At an event called "Tesla AI Day", Boss Ma suddenly showed everyone a video, showing the appearance of his own black and white color matching for the first time. After the
film was broadcast, Musk invited the "physical object" of the product - a dancer who Costed into a "Tesla robot" and danced a mechanical dance on the stage.
Then, this unknown press conference finally got on track. Boss Ma began to read PPT and introduced to everyone the various parameters of his robot.
is 172 cm tall, weighs 57 kg, has a load capacity of 20 kg, and can run 8 kilometers per hour at the fastest speed.
Regarding why Robot's performance parameters are designed to be similar to humans, he said:
"If you design this way, you can run faster than it (robot), you can run away from it, and you can suppress it even more."
When talking about this, Musk smiled happily.
robot is equipped with perceptual AI iterated from Tesla's own autonomous driving, mainly helping humans to engage in various dangerous and boring jobs. In general, this robot has a dignified appearance and a friendly personality, and is a must-have at home. At the end of
·Shameless
PPT, Musk disclosed his recruitment information and briefly talked about the impact of the robot revolution on manufacturing and economy. Of course, there are definitely no test samples, release dates, etc.
After Tesla announced its entry into the field of humanoid robots, overseas netizens were very shocked.
is back in 2014. In an interview with Vanity Fair and edge.org, Musk claimed that due to the rapid development of artificial intelligence technology, it is very likely that humans will be massacred by awakened robots within 5 to 10 years.
"I'm not talking nonsense about things I don't understand, and I'm not the only one who realizes this threat."
, the billionaire added seriously.
And now, Tesla is about to start building humanoid robots.
netizens immediately felt a chill on their spine.
·"I am afraid of robot rebellion, so I started to build robots for robot rebellion"
Musk seemed to realize this too - he not only gave Tesla robots a very Boutique name - "Optimus Prime", but also reiterated many times that they are absolutely safe and will never become "terminators".
Moreover, Boss Ma is quite optimistic about the prospects of "Optimus Prime", and even believes that the sales of this thing will exceed the autonomous driving Model series in the future, becoming Tesla's next-generation main product.
In an interview in April, Musk said that Optimus Prime is affordable and the most expensive one is not more than a car, which is said to be around $25,000.
And on June 3 this year, Musk tweeted again, saying that Optimus Prime's prototype will be ready soon and will be unveiled on September 30, looking like "our plan is very smooth."
As for when will Tesla's "Optimus Prime" enter the homes of ordinary people, the answer given by Boss Ma is quite in line with his usual style:
NEXT YEAR
Although our A-share robot sector has risen a lot with Optimus Prime, to be honest, Musk's big plan this time is likely to be like his Mars colonization and consciousness uploading - loud thunder and little raindrops.
As for why, look at the current situation of humanoid robots, you will know.
Until now, humanoid robots have not satisfied even the slightest fantasy of humans about them.
Humans hope that humanoid robots can become versatile and can assist them in doing all kinds of dangerous or tedious tasks, but the facts are exactly the opposite.
We can see some clues from an event called "Robot Challenge" held by DARPA in the United States in 2015.
In a nutshell, you can basically regard this competition as a robot version of the "wisdom and courageous breakthrough":
Humanoid robots from all over the world gathered together to challenge the basic activities such as vehicle driving, opening and getting off the car, going up the stairs, and twisting valves in the shortest time.
During the challenge, many robots pulled their hips and fell to the ground as they walked. They looked like a drunk man who had drunk two and a half bottles of vodka and was seriously unconscious.
Of course, there are also robots that successfully complete things that ordinary people can accomplish in just a few minutes in just a few minutes. Among the many contestants, there is a robot named Atlas , which is a very impressive robot made by Boston Dynamics. After several years of self-iteration, Xiao A can now play parkour .
However, although Atlas is perfect in imitating human running, it can only be regarded as an experimental machine until now, and it has no intention of civilian promotion at all.
and that's pretty good.
Other "humanoid robot" brothers of the same type as Atlas, or they do their movements very unsatisfactory.
or you can do the movements quickly, but someone needs to wear VR helmet behind the back to perform command synchronization.
or can do actions and does not require real-time manipulation, but its function is only to serve as a stand-in for dangerous actions for action actors, which is very limited.
·Spider-Man's action stunt robot
So, looking back at the history of humanoid robot development in the past 20 years, what you see is a history of withdrawal and low-selling - countless big shots entered the game enthusiastically and left disheartenedly.
, SoftBank, which was put into production in 2014, claims to be able to read human feelings and "really have a heart", announced its suspension in 2020, and development companies in France have laid off more than 50% of their employees.
4Honda released in 2000. Even though he shocked Obama and Merkel with his own performance, he died 22 years later because he could not land.
Even the celebrity company Boston Dynamics has changed hands several times in recent years because it is unable to make a profit. It was first sold to SoftBank by Google and then to South Korea Hyundai Motor by SoftBank.
However, although humanoid robots are "unspark" in applications, in public opinion, they have never left the front page headlines of various media.
looks like a robot named Sophia. In 2016, he publicly claimed to destroy humanity and later became a citizen of Saudi .
In 2017, a video of Russian robot FEDOR shooting with a gun with a gun on his hands brought great uneasiness to netizens around the world.
Now, Musk is here with his "Optimus Prime" and the prophecy of destroying the world. These intentional hypes of
and reports of intentional robots towards the "terminator" have attracted the attention of the public, triggered their fantasy about machines dominating the world, and at the same time, they have also concealed some very subtle truths.
"The robot is about to take away your job."
Whenever this kind of news is reported, the media likes to put a humanoid robot in the title picture as a hint.
However, what really changes the employment situation is the robotic arm, the autonomous driving system , and the robots that don't look like humans at all.
According to reports from magazines such as " Forbes ", in 2025, 85 million jobs that once belonged to humans will be machined Human and automation take over.
(one difference) includes both drivers driving big cars for FEDEX, and interns who scan legal documents for JPMorgan Chase ...
Someone even made a website to test the probability that your job is replaced by machine labor at any time.
·https://willrobotstakemyjob.com/
in 2021 Morning In a Consult survey, 48% of Americans were worried about being robbed of their jobs by robots, and this fear was particularly strong among groups with annual incomes of less than $50,000.
And people are unwilling to work with their robot colleagues.
When Walmart boasted in 2019 that they could use robots to unload and scan goods, the company's underlying employees were surrounded by a sense of contempt and crisis.
Because when correcting various errors in their own machines, employees always felt that they were guiding an enemy that was about to replace them.
Of course, some people would regard the changes brought by automation as It is an industrial upgrading. Because in 2025, 97 million new jobs will be born from the widespread application of robots.
, but with it, it is a further intensified gap between the rich and the poor.
Because the newly born jobs require certain training to be competent, not every worker can afford it.
In an academic paper this year, investigators found that in 33 countries in the past three years, practitioners of secondary education have been the most impacted by artificial intelligence , and the increase in unemployment rate is the most obvious.
economist Mark Fleming (Mark In Fleming, it means that "the days when you can get enough food and clothing with just a high school diploma are gone forever."
What's more terrifying is that some robots are no longer satisfied with labor positions and have begun to transfer to management and evaluation positions.
In some factories of Amazon , each worker's hourly workload is sorted out by artificial intelligence to make it easier for managers to view it at any time, and broadcast it with speakers: "×× ranked third this morning..."
The program developed by Voci can use machine learning to identify whether the tone of the call center operator is good or bad, and score it. The accompanying picture of
·the verge is very vivid
robots have never destroyed humans, they are just domesticating humans into their own kind.
By the way, just as Musk was pushing his own robot on Twitter and advocating that Optimus Prime will free humans from the pain of work, Tesla's autonomous driving department had just laid off more than 200 people.
According to internal documents exposed by the media, Musk asked his staff to stop working remotely immediately and must work more than 40 hours a week because of "a bad feeling about the economy."
After all, the idea is the idea, reality is reality, hype is the hype, and business is the business. Musk can see all this clearly.
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