entertainment.slashdot.org - An anonymous reader quotes Syfy.com: There's a new documentary warning about the perils of artificial intelligence out there, and Elon
Musk wants you to see it.
Just one of these tasks would be enough to occupy a regular company, but Elon
Musk wants to do it all quickly.
And that's just the way
Musk wants it.
Dave Asprey: We're going to switch gears in a minute here to talk about some other indigenous culture stuff, but first, Elon
Musk wants to send a colony to Mars.
«There are many unanswered questions about what Elon
Musk wants to do.
If
Musk wants the title, he had better start campaigning.
Musk wants to have a reusable Falcon 9 first stage, which uses Grasshopper technology, come back from orbit in «the next year or two.»
Elon
Musk wants to join your mind without delay to a laptop, and buyers are able to make that science fiction a truth.
Thompson thinks
Musk wants it because he's «highly exposed to SolarCity's plummeting stock.»
A committee of the Los Angeles City Council has approved an environmental review exemption for a tunnel that Elon
Musk wants to dig to test a novel underground transportation system.
Einstein wanted to find a simple harmonious truth about how the universe works and
Musk wants to save our species by weaning us off of fossil fuels and establishing a colony on Mars,» she says.
Musk wants to save the world, for real, so the Model 3 was necessary.
As if space travel wasn't out there enough, tech entrepreneur Elon
Musk wants to blow the minds of frequent travelers.
Musk wants to make SpaceX's still - theoretical BFR rocket, which it will build for the Mars journey, financially viable by using it for the company's other services.
At face value, it appears
Musk wants to build a (mostly?)
Musk wants the government to be proactive about AI regulation.
Ultimately,
Musk wants to build a network of underground tunnels that could be used for cars or a futuristic transport system called hyperloop that theoretically would send people and packages, housed inside reduced - pressure tubes, long distances at super speeds.
Musk wants to slow the upper stage down during reentry and target a landing aboard a «catcher ship» like the boat, known as Mr. Steven, that SpaceX is using to attempt fairing recoveries in the Pacific.
Elon
Musk wants to colonize Mars within 40 years, and that's not the zaniest idea he's had this year.
Tesla is already being taken seriously by other car manufacturers and increasingly by consumers, but if
Musk wants Tesla to become as big as the already established players, it needs cheaper electric vehicles.
Musk wanted Tesla to control the experience from start to finish.
The only concession to weirdness and egotism are the optional rear - facing third - row seats, which
Musk wanted so he could ferry around his many children.
Not exact matches
An ETF for EV enthusiasts who
want to avoid the Tesla /
Musk stress Jack Bogle just slammed ETFs (or at least, some of their investors)
(If we pick Elon
Musk as the new Richard Branson everyone
wants to meet, then you might
want to make a pneumatic tube length pitch instead of an elevator one.)
After the successful maiden flight of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket,
Musk told reporters he
wants «a new space race.»
When asked whether Mars travelers would be able to communicate back with Earth,
Musk says: «If anyone
wants to build a high bandwidth comm link to Mars, please do.»
«Let's say you create a self - improving A.I. to pick strawberries,»
Musk told Vanity Fair, «and it gets better and better at picking strawberries and picks more and more, and it is self - improving, so all it really
wants to do is pick strawberries.
You
want to wake up in the morning and think the future is going to be great and that is what being a space - faring civilization is all about,» says
Musk.
«I
want Musk to speak up against Donald Trump's climate change policies,» he said.
Founder (and friend) Elon
Musk doesn't just
want you to drive the fastest, sexiest and most modern car ever built — that's too easy for our generation's da Vinci.
For a company like
Musk's SpaceX, or any other tech company, if you
want to get that team - collaboration vibe that's virtually drama - free and running on all cylinders, it's important to have people on the team who understand each other's style of communicating and collaborating, as well as their own.
«I
want to be clear: I'm not trying to be anyone's savior,»
Musk told Chris Anderson, TED's head curator.
If we
wanted to, we could actually add two more side boosters and make it Falcon Super Heavy... I think we can crank up thrust and probably get upwards of 9 million pounds of thrust,»
Musk said on the press call.
Sure,
Musk could have been referring to
wanting to hire extroverted, creative geniuses bordering on narcissistic tendencies, to develop world - changing product.
Musk has said he
wants to build a commercial Hyperloop between New York City and Washington, DC, through his newest venture, the Boring Company.
Musk has not quantified exactly what the risk of failure is for Falcon Heavy, but if you
want to see what happens, SpaceX will host a live webcast of the launch on its YouTube channel.
Elon
Musk thinks they might kill us all within five years; Mark Zuckerberg
wants one in his home, keeping watch over his infant daughter.
On a call with investors, in response a question from Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas,
Musk said that when it comes to raising new money, «I specifically don't
want to.»
«If you
want to wait to buy a car until there won't be a better one in the future, you're going to wait forever,»
Musk said.
In a post on Medium,
Musk says food is ripe for disruption — people
want real food, and the market still hasn't caught up.
It's not just wishful thinking to
want Musk to build at least a prototype of his proposed Hyperloop.
But if you really
want to understand what
Musk is up to, the best place to go is a rooftop, far removed from the world of software and stock options and talk of innovation.
«If you were a hedge fund or private equity fund and you said, «Well, all I
want my AI to do is maximize the value of my portfolio,»»
Musk said in the documentary, «then the AI could decide, the best way to do that is to short consumer stocks, go long defense stocks, and start a war.»
NASA themselves
wants to send humans to Mars in the 2030s; for
Musk to outdo them with an earlier mission (a date of 2025 was touted) would be a significant coup for the decade - old company.
Not content with living on our pale blue dot,
Musk and his company SpaceX
want to colonize Mars, fast.
Musk's ambition, which he's pursuing through projects including The Boring Company, is to replace subways and buses with autonomous, individualized «pods» to take riders precisely where they
want to go, on demand.
Even if the tech industry generally has a cluster of policy, regulatory, and economic issues it might
want to raise with Trump, ranging from visas to the insourcing of manufacturing,
Musk is unlikely to miss the opportunity to draw a line in the sand.
So if you
want to learn faster, heed the advice of
Musk and be strategic.
«You'll
want to call your neighbors over and say, «Check out this sweet roof,»»
Musk said with an awkward laugh during Friday's presentation.
Musk further said that using public transit meant rubbing shoulders with «like a bunch of random strangers, one of who might be a serial killer... that's why people like individualized transport, that goes where you
want, when you
want.»