Tesla's CEO, Elon Musk,
previewed his upcoming invention.
You're probably wondering
what it is.
Is it something to help fight
climate change, maybe strip carbon
dioxide out of the air?
Is it some sort of medical
technology that does
early diagnosis of cancer?
Is it a Tesla car that a working
class person can afford?
No, you idiot, those aren't fun.
He's got a humanoid robot, instead.
You can actually take a look, we'll
flash ahead to this picture of it.
And it looks it's from the video
game Portal.
So I appreciate that, as a gamer.
They're apparently going to be
building a prototype sometime this
year, you can find out some of
the technical data.
So if we go to this next image,
it's not super detailed,
human level hands, well,
that's good.
But, anyway, I've always said that
humanoid robots should have human
level hands.
Anyway, here's some details
about the humanoid robot that
Elon Musk is previewing.
So he has spoken repeatedly about
his fears of runaway artificial
intelligence.
But he said that the Tesla Bot is
intended to be friendly,
that's good.
Intentions are what count,
after all, when it's beating your
head into the ground,
these aren't its intentions.
But, anyway,
the company's designing the machine
at a mechanical level, so
that you can run away from it and
most likely overpower it.
None of this is reassuring.
>> I know it's hilarious, actually.
It's like, what a weirdly defensive
way to start.
Don't worry, our robots
will not beat you to death.
>> Yeah. >> We think they're
not intended to beat you to death,
could happen, but
it's not our intent.
>> We've done rigorous testing.
>> And when your press release
says, you can most likely overpower
it, when that's what you're coming
out the gate with, you're in very
big imminent trouble.
>> Yeah, they're planning for
a worst case scenario here.
It's builtin finger blades
apparently dull quickly on human
bones, so that's good.
[LAUGH] >> It's going to be five
feet, eight inches tall,
weighs 125 pounds, and
have a screen for a face.
It's being called Optimus.
It's being designed by Decepticon,
that's the weirdest thing, but
anyway- >> Weird thing there, John,
sorry to cut you off, but
125 pounds, five foot eight, and
a screen in its face.
The robot is my girlfriend,
that's 100%.
[LAUGH] >> She is always like this,
never looks at me, it's not cool.
That's a side note, but
I'm sad about it and
I won't take it anymore.
>> You might want to watch out for
her finger blades, but anyway.
>> I'm going to continue though,
the Mitchell versus the Machines,
I don't know if any of you have
seen it on Netflix.
I got kids, so I did.
They're describing the robots from
that, basically, cartoon.
>> Gees, well, look,
it inevitably will end up killing
everyone that you love.
But it's designed to handle tasks
that are unsafe, repetitive, or
boring, like squishing the skulls
of human meatbags, for instance.
People get bored with that, but
this robot will crush every skull.
Anyway, he says, and
I think he prefaced this by saying,
I think it's quite profound.
I think, essentially,
in the future,
physical work will be a choice,
if you want to do it, you can.
So, I don't know if this is serious
or not, it's Elon Musk.
The dude spends a couple of hours
a day designing spaceships and
then ten hours stealing memes and
reposting them.
So, who knows if this is serious
or not?
>> Yeah, and the jury is so out on
Elon Musk, because some people
think he's an amazing innovator,
but that he's unbalanced.
He's certainly,
in his political opinions, etc.
And others think, no,
he's a total and utter fraud,
that everything is marketing.
And I don't know enough about tech
to know one way or another.
How many ships have exploded now
when they've come back,
eight in a row or so?
>> I don't know for sure,
but some, yes.
>> Yeah, and then the self-driving
cars were supposed to work,
that had a huge flaws and
these flaws with the car, etc.
On the other end,
electric cars are good.
We want electric cars,
we want to get off fossil fuels.
So that's why it's a mixed human
meatbag, right?
And so, I don't know what is wrong.
By the way, guys, the press release
is hilarious because,
just think about it.
If somebody walked into a room,
that you didn't know, and was like,
hey guys, how're you doing?
Don't worry I'm not
going to kill you.
[LAUGH] >> You'll be like-
>> Not my intention.
>> Yeah, my intention is not
to kill you.
You'll be like, okay,
what's the first you think?
I'm in a lot of danger.
[LAUGH] >> Yeah,
all of his inventions have these
real big drawbacks.
The Tesla self-driving keep
apparently crashing into
emergency vehicles.
And they said that they would be
crashing into more, but they have
to stop to recharge a lot.
So that's the only negative
there it really cuts down their
rate a lot.
Musk just wants to be in the press.
He's kind of the entrepreneur
Donald Trump that hopefully leads
is also helping usher in electric
cars, which is, like you said,
a good thing.
But there's no way to know what
this guy, I mean,
what's his next invention?
Is it going to be Elon's Musk,
and it's just Elon Musk scented
perfume?
You don't know what's coming
next from the guy.
He constantly pushes Dogecoin,
a cryptocurrency that literally
started as a joke.
It was a cartoon dog meme that they
started to spoof cryptocurrency,
every day he's like,
Doge to the moon.
And I would criticize that harder
if I didn't buy it and
invest a little.
So, I feel weird about that choice,
but we'll see how it goes.
>> Yeah,
I'm sure he's much smarter than me.
And more importantly, he's
surrounded by a lot of people who
are smarter than him, that actually
do the designing of all this.
But I just think,
if he would just stop being bored,
and coming up with random ideas,
he could actually make a Tesla
that regular people could afford,
which I think is probably better
for humanity.
I'm not the CEO of Tesla, but
I feel like that's not a difficult
one to figure out.
>> Yeah, well look- >> I also hope
that he is the one of these
billionaires that did not go into
outer space recently probably
on account of all the explosions.
So, he's like, yo, we got the arts
is kind of a joke space program,
so, Bezos and
Branson can have that.
And I'm going to stay here in my
tiny house playing with my deadly
robot and take my chances on Earth.
>> Yeah, well,
two things about that and then
turning it a little bit serious.
One is that,
these robots are going to come, and
I don't think they're going to
crush our skulls, I hope not.
Although, I actually I'll interject
here on a side note, Elon Musk
is really worried about robots.
And it's super ironic that he's
the one that's now putting this out
here because he's said many times
before about how AI is going to
take over and defeat the humans.
And, in fact,
one of the reasons he was building
SpaceX was to escape the planet.
Maybe, saving the planet's
a slightly better idea,
[LAUGH] than immediately giving up
on the planet and running away.
But, on the other hand, I'm not
the one making the robot army.
So, maybe,
he knows something I don't know.
And in this announcement,
he said, yeah, I mean,
he said two other things that
I found to be interesting.
He said, well, look, these robots,
they're not going to be as much of
a pain in the ass.
[LAUGH] I'm paraphrasing here,
that's why I paused, right?
As regular employees,
that seemed to be the implication.
So, for the business community out
there, he's like, don't worry,
we're going to make
robots that replace the humans and
they won't complain, right?
And I kind of think complaining was
actually in the statement.
Well, that's super scary, guys.
That's way scarier than the runaway
robots, because, that's actually
real, that will happen.
I don't know that Musk is
the person who's going to actually
invent it.
>> It'll be Bezos.
>> Right, and
because Musk is great at marketing,
that we know, right?
Hyperloop, I could do that
it's easy.
I'm just not going to, but I could,
you see how much of a genius I am.
Not exactly, not on that one,
right?
And on these robots, he's like,
well, I'm the one doing it,
even though they're incredibly
dangerous, because, at least,
it'll be safe with me.
That's not the feeling I'm getting,
[LAUGH] right?
And it's certainly not the feeling
you get with the press release.
But the most important thing is,
will they take away your jobs,
eventually?
Definitely, no matter who builds
them, that is their intent.
Because, guys,
from a business perspective,
it's a one-time cost.
Generally speaking,
you build a robot and
you're done with it.
A human,
you have to keep paying them week,
after week, after week.
So, are they going to go in a robot
direction and take away your jobs?
Abso-freaking-lutely.
>> Mm-hm, I mean, they're probably
still going to need some people
like wipe the blood off the face
shields, get the flesh from under
their fingernails.
That's going to require human
hands, although they do have human
level hands, so maybe
they can figure that one, too.
>> They do have human level hands.
Also, I don't have very updated
robot knowledge, but I think they
do need the upkeep of a can of oil
in the back every couple of days.
I think you do have to refill them,
every once in a while.
Yeah, this is a very strange place
and it's not like robots are not
going to be replacing non-physical
work, either.
They're already doing that.
That's what AI is intended to do.
So, basically,
he's completing the loop of robots
replacing humans in all capacities,
by creating this robot.
And I just think there's a very
fine line they're trying to find
that the guess and check method
won't work very well for.
They're trying to create a robot
that is strong and
can do menial tasks.
But also difficult physical tasks,
but also dumb enough that it can't
click on all the stoplights to get
into a website.
They can't identify
what a stoplight looks like,
that's impossible.
So, it's trying to a thread
a very thin needle right here.