Sentences with phrase «about musk»

When Zuckerberg was asked about Musk's views on the dangers of robots, he chided «naysayers» whose «doomsday scenarios» were «irresponsible.»

«Here is the largest land mammal of the polar zones, but we hardly know anything about musk oxen,» said Joel Berger, a wildlife biologist at Colorado State University and a senior scientist at the Wildlife Conservation Society.

I didn't find much mythology about the Musk - Goats as I googled today except humans have loved hunting them and eating them into oblivion forever in spite of their «formidable strength».

But as I thought about Musk's tweets more, I began to wonder: Is he serious?

The trading in Tesla's stock Thursday suggests that doubts about Musk's role at the company may be reaching a critical mass.

This is doubly true for other, less - well - known startups who may not have the name recognition or massive applicant pool that accompanies a buzzed - about Musk venture.

None of the brands have released any formal statements about Musk's tweets, perhaps choosing to let them stand on their own.

There are a lot of things about Musk that make him so successful, but I do think there's a «secret sauce» that puts Musk in a different league from even the other renowned billionaires of our time.

NASA also did not immediately answer our questions about Musk's stated plan to launch a car to Mars orbit.

And if we know anything about Musk, it's that he has a thing for being in control.

Musk's comment was hardly surprising: Tesla Motors, and, indeed, everything about Musk, has been consistently packaged, presented, and explained as Silicon Valley come calling on old - line industries.

As Ashlee Vance notes in the biography he wrote about Musk, he can perform complex physics calculations in his head in real time, and he can rapidly absorb vast amounts of information with almost perfect recall.

Below are 25 surprising facts and anecdotes about Musk that paint a picture of the eccentric multi-disciplinary engineer.

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Musk reportedly sleeps about six hours per night, wakes up around 7 a.m. and usually skips breakfast.

Entrepreneur Associate Editor Hayden Field even went so far as to try Musk's routine of scheduling his day in five - minute blocks to see whether it would help her stay on - task throughout the day, and you can read about her experiences here.

Elon Musk's far - fetched plan not only to get humans to Mars, but to inhabit it, has evidently driven interest in the Red Planet: A team of NASA scientists will talk about the challenges of living on Earth's neighbor, while Lockheed Martin and NASA will combine to talk about the interplanetary travel systems that will take us there.

Speaking of work - life balance: Musk reportedly works about 85 to 100 hours per week, but until I'm worth $ 19.5 billion, I'll pass on that.

Musk's five - minute scheduling trick did teach me something new about productivity: It made me realize how often I stop whatever I'm doing to read or reply to new emails.

In an email about the current plans to stem the production woes that was obtained by automotive news site Electrek, Musk laid out his top productivity tips to help streamline the process.

In an interview in the April 2017 issue of Vanity Fair, Musk shared that Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy — a book about aliens destroying earth, creating supersonic highways and building a supercomputer that knows all of life's mysteries — was a «turning point» for him.

Amid the Great Recession and an expensive divorce from his first wife, Wilson, who blogged about her demands on LiveJournal, Musk was living off loans from his wealthy friends.

Elon Musk is the brains behind big companies, like SpaceX and Tesla Motors, so it's no surprise he likes reading about another successful multitasker, Benjamin Franklin.

One of the most exciting things about studying Musk and other breakthrough innovators is that it reveals that even though these people often have special, difficult - to - imitate abilities or traits, the mechanisms by which these abilities and traits lead to innovation are often something we can tap ourselves.

Musk is knowledgeable about many disciplines, and many people wonder how is he able to educate himself so effectively.

Two years ago Musk showed a photo of BFR's fuel tank, capable of holding «1200 tons of liquid oxygen,» as a part of SpaceX's early announcements about the rocket.

That's in stark contrast to some tech leaders, most notably Elon Musk, who have warned about the dangers of the technology.

What might be of some concern is the fact that Tesla loses US$ 4,000 on every Model S it sells, but Musk wouldn't be Musk if he worried about such terrestrial mathematics.

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.

Another one of Elon Musk's rockets may have recently blown up, depriving astronauts of much needed supplies, but at least he can be happy about one of his other transportation - related pursuits.

But self - learning machines are concerning enough to draw the attention of big thinkers like Musk — he referred to AI as «our biggest existential threat» — as well as Stephen Hawking and Bill Gates, with whom Musk co-authored a letter about the technology's dangers.

So Musk estimates each rocket will comfortably transport about 100 passengers to Mars on a single flight.

Talk about the tech titan Elon Musk seems to have set off a flurry of bullish activity in SolarCity options.

«I feel fairly confident we can build the ship and be prepared for launch in about five years,» Musk says.

The Palo Alto - based company anticipates breaking ground at «more than one site for the Gigafactory,» Georgeson said, echoing recent comments Musk made to Bloomberg about requiring more than one location for the long - slated mega manufacturing operation.

Given the conversations swirling this week about AI, and Elon Musk's fear of it, and Steve Mnuchin's dismissal of it (which kicked the AI hype machine into overdrive), and the trucking industry's cautious embrace of it, I asked Felicis partner Wesley Chan whether this is another company designed to displace blue - collar jobs.

The aerospace startup, founded by billionaire Elon Musk, has successfully pulled off 16 rocket launches in that last year, about double the amount from 2016.

In a panel discussion in Silicon Valley Saturday, however, Musk took a more measured tone on AI, encouraging members of the audience to think about how to prevent it from progressing along a potentially apocalyptic path.

As published in Vanity Fair, a question came from an audience member who asked about «the biggest mistake» of Musk's life.

Making use of blogging and email is cost - effective in terms of getting content shared, and whether you have the budget of Elon Musk or something much more modest, sharing is what it is all about.

Musk, 43, also has publicly talked about using satellites to provide Internet access to remote parts of the Earth, a mission that Google also has embraced in a separate project that relies on high - altitude balloons.

«There have been movies about this, you know, like Terminator,» The Guardian quoted Musk as saying in 2014.

The report quotes festival co-founder Will Roger saying that «tech titans» share his vision of creating an «experiment in a permanent community,» though he never specifies who the tech titans are or directly addresses the rumor about Brin and Musk being potential investors.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk referenced the action movies as a way of illustrating his fears about the worst possible outcomes of development of AI technology.

Is Musk really that frightened or is he just putting on a show to stoke our innate paranoia about smart machines?

In response to a shareholder question about what could be done to speed up the glacial pace of adoption of electric car production by other car companies, Musk said he was «playing with doing something fairly significant on this front which would be kind of controversial with respect to Tesla's patents.»

So whilst the closed door discussions will be about how to keep the status quo regardless of the rapidly increasing power costs and breakdown of service that is now being experienced around the country, the open conversations being had by the people are excited discussions about the future because we trust the likes of Elon Musk and Mike Cannon - Brookes to get the job done more than we trust big power and Government to come to any kind of meaningful and affordable long term solution.

In a fraught environment where small businesses owners are extremely guarded about their intellectual property — in particular their patents — wizard inventor Elon Musk caused quite a stir on Tuesday at the electric car company's shareholder meeting in Mountain View, California.

We've reached out to Google and Tesla for comment about whether Brin and Musk are indeed investing in the Burning Man city and will update if we hear back.

With the shock value of the fears of Musk and others abating, Arruda thinks dialogue about so - called «bad AI» will start to have a little more subtlety in 2016.

About a year later, Elon and his younger brother Kimbal, who has long been Musk's closest friend and chief co-conspirator, drew up plans to open an arcade near their school.