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"role": "user",
"content": "Thank you so much, Elon, for being here at Build. I know you started off as an intern at Microsoft. You were a Windows developer and of course you're a big PC gamer. Still you want to just talk about even your early days with Windows and the kinds of things you built."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Yeah, well, actually it started before windows with DOS. I had one of the early IBM PCs with Ms. DOS and I think I had like 128k in the beginning and then it doubled to 256k, which felt like a lot. So I, yeah, programmed video games in DOS and then later in Windows. Remember Windows 3.1?"
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"role": "user",
"content": "Yeah, no, it's wonderful. I mean, even the last time I chatted with you, you were talking all about everything, the intricacies of Active Directory. And so it's fantastic to have you at our developer conference. Obviously the exciting thing for us is to be able to launch on Azure. I know you have a deep vision for what AI needs to be and that's what got you to get this built. It's a family of models that are both response and reasoning models and you have a very exciting roadmap. You want to just tell us a little bit about sort of your vision, the capability you're pushing on both capability and efficiency. So maybe you can just talk about a little bit of that."
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"content": "Sure. So yeah, with Grok, especially with Groq 3.5 that is about to be released, it's trying to reason from first principles, so apply kind of of the tools of physics to thinking. So if you're trying to get to fundamental truths, you boil things down to the axiomatic elements that are most likely to be correct and then you reason up from there and then you can test your conclusions against those axiomatic elements. And in physics, if you violate conservation of energy or momentum, then you're either going to get a Nobel Prize or you're wrong. And you're certainly wrong, basically. So that's really the focus of Grok 3.5 is sort of fundamentals of physics and applying physics tools across all lines of reasoning and to aspire to truth with minimal error. There's always going to be some mistakes that are made, but aim to get to truth with acknowledged error, but minimize that error over time. And I think that's actually extremely important for AI safety. So I've thought a lot for a long time about AI safety and my ultimate conclusion is the old maxim that honesty is the best policy. It really is for safety. But I do want to emphasize we have and will make mistakes, but we aspire to correct them very quickly. And we are very much looking forward to feedback from the developer community to say, like, what do you need? Where are we wrong? How can we make it better? And to have Grok be something that the developer community is very excited to use and where they can feel that their feedback is being heard and GROK is improving and serving their needs."
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"content": "Yeah, I know it's in some sense cracking the physics of intelligence is perhaps the real goal for us to be able to use AI at scale. And so it's so good to take that first principle approach that you and your team are taking. And also you're deploying this. I mean one of the things about sort of what you do is you're doing, you know, unsupervised fsd. On one side you're doing robotics. Of course there's Grok. So you're deploying Grok across all of your businesses from SpaceX to Tesla. Obviously at X, I would love to even, you know, one of the themes for this developer conference, Elon, is we are building pretty sophisticated AI apps. Right. It's not even about any one model, it's about orchestrating multiple models, multiple agents, just anything thing that you are seeing in the real world application side, even inside of your own companies. When you think about even a Tesla or a SpaceX where you put GRO and these other AI models you're building."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Yeah. It's incredibly important for AI model to be grounded in reality. Reality, you know, I was saying, which is like, like physics is the law and everything else is a recommendation which is, I'm not suggesting people break the laws made by, you know, humans, you know, we should generally obey the laws of humans. But I've seen many people break human made laws, but I have not seen anyone break the laws of physics. So for any given AI, grounding it against reality and reality, for example, as you mentioned with the car, it needs to drive safely and correctly. The humanoid robot Optimus needs to, you know, perform the task that it's being asked to perform. These are things that are very, very helpful for ensuring that the model is truthful and accurate because it has to adhere to the laws of physics. So I think that's actually maybe somewhat overlooked or at least not talked about enough is that to really be intelligent it's got to make predictions that are in line with reality. In other words, physics, that's, that's, it's a really fundamental thing and being able to ground that with cars and robots is very important. We are seeing Grok be very helpful in things like customer service. And you know, the AI is infinitely patient and friendly and you can yell at it and it's still going to be very nice."
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"role": "user",
"content": "So that's good."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Yeah. And so, so I think in terms of improving the quality of customer service and sort of issue resolution, AI is already, GROK is already doing quite a good job that at SpaceX and Tesla and we look forward to offering that to other companies."
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"role": "user",
"content": "No, that's fantastic. Really thrilled to get this journey started, getting that developer feedback and then looking forward to even how they deploy. There is these language models. There's, you know, I think over time we will have this coming together of language models with vision, with action, but to your point, being really grounded on a real world model. And that I think is ultimately the goal here. And so thank you so much, Elon, for briefly joining us today. And we are really excited about working with you and getting this into the developer's hands."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Thank you very much. And I can't emphasize enough that we're looking for feedback from you, the developer audience. Tell us what you want and we'll make it happen. Thank you. "
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"role": "user",
"content": "Ah, man, the racehorse is out there, always causing a ruckus. Family friendly event, guys. Crazy. What a day, what a day. So obviously thank you so much to Lars and Steve for coming on here. And I believe we have Elon on, so it's just a matter of, I feel like, you know, just bringing him on the screen and stuff. Yeah. Whoa, Elon, what's up?"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Giant screen."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Yeah, it actually kind of looks like Mars in some ways."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "It does. Well, it's just perseverance."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Is that a cap right there too?"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "That's the Perseverance Rover. It's a perseverance rover on Mars. Oh my gosh, that's awesome. Yeah."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Well, first off, Elon, thanks for coming to the X Takeover, formerly Tesla Takeover, for the second year in a row."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "You're welcome."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Well, let's kick things off. Let's start off with really your baby, the Starship. Starship is the most ambitious rocket ever built. What's been harder than expected and what's the next milestone we should watch for?"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Well, I thought everything would be hard, so it's not like I was like."
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"role": "user",
"content": "It would be easy."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Yeah, yeah. I mean, Starship is a crazy program on so many levels because if you've got something with two and a half, and future versions will be three times the thrust of the Saturn Van moon rocket, which was previously the largest rocket and largest flying object ever made. So Starship is, you know, three times thrust, roughly twice the weight of the next largest flying object ever made, and has the, the goal of being fully and rapidly reusable. So this is a, this is a really crazy thing to. I think it's, it's really one of the hardest engineering challenges that exists. And you know, when we first started talking about Starship people thought this was impossible. In fact, even within the company, we, we sort of thought it was impossible and it had a very high sort of what I call giggle factor. You know, you mentioned the thing and people immediately start giggling like at the absurdity of it all. So now, but now it's gone from as say we, you know, I guess I specialize in the going from the impossible to the merely late. So that's my skill. It wasn't possible. Now it's just late. So. And I encourage anyone who's interested to go and visit Starbase in South Texas. It's like a magical land with gigantic rockets. I think some of you have."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Yeah, it's insane."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "It's very inspiring. It's like I take part, take friends and family. It's on a major highway so you can see things quite close up and really get a sense for the scale of the rocket and the factory and everything. So it's, it's very cool. I, I guess the, the thing that I thought would be hardest currently is the hardest, which is the creating a fully reusable orbital heat shield, which has never been done before. So normally the heat shields are, they're expandable and even say for the shuttle heat shield, they would lose many of the tiles on every flight and they'd have to refurbish the heat shield between each flight. So no one has ever created a fully reusable orbital heat shield before. In fact, no one has created a fully reusable orbital rocket before. And Falcon 9 is the first rocket where there's at least the boost stage is reusable on a regular basis and where it actually makes economic sense. So, so, so solving the heat shield problem is I think probably the single biggest remaining challenge for starship. And. And then of course getting the upper stage of the ship to land and also get caught by the giant metal chopsticks, which looks like a sci fi movie. That looks like an improbable sci fi movie. The whole thing."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Chopsticks literally catching it."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Yeah, giant metal chopsticks. That's. It's pretty wild to be catching the largest flying object ever made with metal chopsticks out of the air. So then the. But I'm hopeful that the ship will be, will be recovered maybe this year, but certainly I'd say the first half of next year. And then there'll be further improvements to make the ship and the booster not just reusable, but fully and rapidly reusable, which will actually drop the cost per flight cost per ton of payload of starship. Below that of a Falcon 1 rocket, of an expendable Falcon 1. So that, that getting 100 tons or more to orbit of useful payload will cost less than a rocket that would ordinarily deliver half a ton. That was Falcon 1. And it's because all you're, you're doing is replacing the, the fuel and oxygen in the rocket as opposed to building a new rocket. And most of the propellant is actually oxygen, not, not fuel. It's, but it's almost 80% oxygen, 20% fuel. Then the next big technology challenge after being able to achieve for the full reuse of the ship is orbital refilling, where, where we actually refill propellant from over, like, like, like aerial refueling. In this case it's orbital refilling. I say refilling, not refueling because most of what's transferred is actually liquid oxygen as opposed to fuel. So for orbital refilling you need to have two starships come together and dock and transfer propellant from one starship to another and then, and then in the future to an orbit orbital propellant depot. Yeah, so that's, that's the situation doesn't sound hard. Just, I mean it is very achievable. There's nothing, nothing, nothing impossible is, is being talked about here, but it is, it is very tricky to do. And no other organization is even trying to do this. It's like, it's not like, well, who else is trying to do this? Well, nobody actually. So in fact, even after all these years, there's still no company that's reusing a booster. So no one's even tried to do Falcon 9 level reusability. Even though we've shown that, that it clearly makes a ton of sense because you know, compare the cost of any form of transport where if you have to throw away the item afterwards, like if you've got, if you had to, if every time you drove somewhere you had to throw away the car, you'd be wow, that's, that's a, that's a, that's a crazy car where you have to throw away after every, every time you drive it. But that's how it works for rockets. So that is really. Yeah, I don't think anyone would be driving a car if you have to buy a new car every time you drove somewhere and then you have to tow another car behind you for the return journey."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Elon, what does a. So, yeah, yeah, yeah. So talk about the impossible. Elon, what does a self sustaining city on Mars actually look like? How many people? What kind of economy? What kind of governance?"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Well, governance will be up to the Martians, but we have some sort of artist impressions of what Mars City would look like. And I don't really know, to be honest, except that Mars is not yet at the point where, where it's sort of terraformed, where you could live outdoors, so you have to live initially in glass domes or something like that. And then you could walk outside with a Mars suit, but you could not walk outside without a Mars suit. So yeah, it's, but I should also say like, like maybe explain for those who haven't heard it, like, like why, why what? Why is it worth doing something like this? What's the purpose of, of Mars? Shouldn't we just focus on Earth? And I'm like, yeah, I think we should focus on Earth. Like 99% of what we do should be focused on Earth, but maybe 1% of what we do should be, should be focused on, on becoming a space sparing civilization and a multiplanet species. Because it's, there's the defensive argument where it's, you know, it's, it's if something were to happen to Earth and that destroyed civilization, this could be World War 3 or it could be a meteor like the one that destroyed the dinosaurs. Then we want to make sure that the tiny candle of consciousness that exists with humanity does not go out. And so I think it's important to be a multi planet species to ensure the long term survival of consciousness and all the life forms that we, we have here on Earth. So, and you know, the, the other life forms can't extend life to another planet. But, but we, we could do it for them. We can, we can bring the other. Oh shit. And to be clear, I'm an optimist. I mean I think the most likely outcome is that the future will be good, but there's a small chance that the future, that something will go wrong. And if so we don't want the light of consciousness to go out on a, you know, we want light of consciousness to continue. So that's kind of the defensive argument. And then the, then there's also the sort of, the sort of the inspiration argument which is that life can't be just about solving one sort of miserable problem. Are you about the future? That make you, that make you excited to be alive and make you, you know, you wake up in the morning, you're like, I can't wait to see what happens to have these things like that too. And everyone on Earth, just like the Apollo program was inspiring to everyone on Earth, whether you went There obviously very few people went there, but, but it was, in a way, we all vicariously went to the moon and it was a great achievement of humanity and it was very inspiring to people all around the world. So. And learning more about the nature of the universe and seeing what's happening out there, even if you don't go yourself, is still very inspiring. So, yeah, I think those are all things that matter a lot."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Yeah, I mean, it's truly, truly inspiring what SpaceX and even Tesla are doing. Do you ever foresee SpaceX?"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Hello?"
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"role": "user",
"content": "Yeah, are you there? Are you there?"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Sorry, guys, if you're talking to me, I cannot hear you."
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"role": "user",
"content": "All right, do you want to go check with. Can you hear me? Do you want to go check with Noah real quick?"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Yeah. Strange."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Can you hear us, Elon? Should I make a joke out of this or not?"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Hold on."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Can you hear me now, Elon? Yeah, the audio. Hopefully we back in seconds, but bear with us as we navigate this. At least Elon's still there with the Perseverance rover."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Check, check. John, check."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Can you hear me?"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Can you hear me? Are we back?"
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"role": "user",
"content": "Whoa, I don't think we can hear him, guys. People are waving at you, Elon, if you can't see them."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "But."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Yeah, sorry about these audio difficulties. Hopefully we can get this up and running. Are you there?"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Can you hear me?"
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"role": "user",
"content": "Yeah."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Okay."
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"role": "user",
"content": "I was gonna ask you to dance while you were waiting silently, but, you know, figured we'd wait for that."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "I'm joking. Did you hear what I said earlier?"
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"role": "user",
"content": "Yeah, we did. And then I think, yeah, yeah, for sure. No, so we were. What the question was is we were asking, do you think that SpaceX is eventually going to go interstellar? Is there a plan?"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Hopefully, yeah, I'm probably not in my lifetime, but probably, yes, eventually."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Elon, can you hear me?"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "I can hear, yes."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Okay, let's talk about Robotaxi. How do you see the Robotaxi platform coexisting with the rest of Tesla's lineup? Will it replace the model 3 and why?"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Well, Cybercap, which is a two seater and that works. They would not replace the 3 and Y because 3 and Y have four seater and six seater capability. So I think you'd find that the Cyber Cab would be for one or two passengers, and then dynamically it would call the Model 3 Model 3 pool or wire for four passengers or wire for six passengers. And you know, and they will have the large vehicles. I mean this, this is not the forum for making our product announcements, to be totally honest. Yeah, I gotta be, you Know, a little careful here about what I say."
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"role": "user",
"content": "We got you. Does Tesla plan on owning a large fleet of robo taxis? And then when will private citizens be able to go on the Tesla network?"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Yes, the fleet will be Tesla owned and some of the fleet will be customer owned. So you could think of it as model, kind of like maybe some combination of Uber and Airbnb where, you know, some people own the cars and then add those, attract them to the fleet. And some cars are owned by Tesla directly."
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"role": "user",
"content": "So if Robotaxi succeeds, Elon, how does Tesla navigate the paradox of making the best cars in the world, but also possibly needing fewer of them?"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Well, guys, it's tough for me to answer questions because TELS is a publicly traded company. And so, you know, this is the most interesting questions you'd want to ask me are the questions I can't really answer."
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"role": "user",
"content": "No, yeah, of course. No, we definitely don't want to put you on the spot there. So I think you posted a week or two ago about, and even Lars mentioned it about just the Roadster program and how it's still active. What can you tell us about its current development status?"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Well, we're aiming for a demonstration at the end of this year. I mean, the Roadster is not something that's going to meaningfully affect, say, the financials of the company because it's too small relative to other programs. So it is very cool. Hopefully we're able to demo this year or early next year."
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"role": "user",
"content": "You said that Optimus could be more valuable than Tesla's entire automotive business. What's the roadmap from where we are today to widespread deployment?"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "You know, again, you're really asking me for questions that are highly sensitive to the value of the company. And so that's not really something I can answer. All right, the. The current version 3 of Optionbase, I think it's the right design to go to volume production, but it is a significant redesign from version two, so, in fact, almost nothing stays the same. So I'm really faced with a choice of should we make several thousand version 2 octopus robots when we know the design can be much better, or should we always do version three, which is much better, and, you know, and we maybe have, I don't know, a few hundred robots instead of a few thousand robots by the end of this year? And I think the right decision was to go with version three and then scale production significantly next year. Now, in terms of the value of optimists, you really need to think of the basic question of who, who wouldn't want their own C3PO, R2D2. I think we're good with that. I mean, let's ask the crowd. Would you guys like, do you guys want an Optimus? Yeah. Yeah, exactly. It'd be very cool and it would actually be by the way much better than in functionality than C3PO and R2D2. So it would be super useful. So I think basically everyone on earth is going to want one and then you're going to have a bunch in industry. So that's why I think it's probably the world's biggest product because there's at least a market for probably 20 billion, could be 50 billion. I don't know a lot. So you know, hypothetically, if Tesla was making a billion of these a year at scale and at scale the cost gets lower and lower. So maybe like on the order of $3,000. I'm just guessing there and you know that's 30 trillion in revenue."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Insane."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "You know there's a long way to go between here and making a billion robots a year. Yeah. But I do think something like that may happen. Yeah."
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"role": "user",
"content": "What would you say is Optimus going to have the biggest impact on. Do you think it's going to start obviously in manufacturing like, or what? Not, not necessarily timeline but like where do you see Optimus having the biggest impact?"
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"content": "Well, initially it would go to very high value things. So say somebody needs a lot of medical care or something. So like if, you know, often it could be like a 24 hour a day nurse or helper to someone that is quadriplegic or something like that, you know, or something just really is, it needs physical help. So that's the kind of thing which would be life changing for a lot of people. Those would be the highest value initial use cases. It will also be used in situations where it's. The work is very dangerous, so. Or where there's a lot of repetitive tasks. But like any work that's, that's risk slight or some kind of injury would be a good initial use case for Optimus."
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"role": "user",
"content": "When you look ahead in 10 years. What's more transformative, full self driving or Optimus."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Optimus."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Sounds like that was an easy one. You've."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Well and I do understand like it's very hard to do so it's not like it just, it's so hard to."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Yeah, yeah, I see you're drinking some good old diet Coke by the way. Shout out to those you've hinted that we may reach digital superintelligence this year or next. How will we know that? We've crossed that line. And what does one of AGI, what does day one of AGI really look like?"
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"content": "Well, I'm not sure. It's like a massive. It may be less profound than the. At least, of course it will be less profound. Like AI has not done yet is invent new technologies that are useful. So it hasn't, has discovered new physics and it has not invented technologies that are useful. But I think that is something that will happen. Yeah."
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"role": "user",
"content": "If GROK becomes smarter than any human, what role do we play? Are we co pilots, overseers or just legacy code?"
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"content": "Well, it won't just be grok, there will be many AI. There will be at least I think four major AIs, maybe five just in the United States. And so even if Rocket was not developed, there would still be digital super intelligence. And I, I've been fighting, you know, personally sort of driving hard on digital superintelligence for a long time because I wasn't sure if this is a double edged sword or a single edged sword or what. But it became very obvious after a while that this was going to happen whether I participated or not. So therefore I had a choice of either be a spectator or a participant, but that it was going to happen with or without me. So then I think, well, I rather be a participant than a spectator and I can focus on AI safety, which in my view, and I've thought about this for a long time, is that the most important thing for AI safety is to be maximally truth seeking, which is often like saying things that are maybe politically incorrect but actually factually correct. And also there'll be mistakes that are made, then admitting the mistakes and taking correct, taking corrective action. And GROX still has a long way to go to actually truth seeking. But I think this goal is also consistent with inventing new technologies, you know, solving medical problems, you know, you know, if you want to, if you want to cure cancer, you have to be maximally too, seeking to understand what the brute cause is, for example. So I think that's actually very fundamental both for safety and for usefulness. And yeah, so the economy of the future I think is going to look sort of quite different from where it is today. And AI and robotics, in the good scenario, which we're working towards, you know, trying to ensure makes that we do have the good scenario, there will be no shortage of products and services for anyone. Like basically anyone will be able to have any products as they want. That's the productivity gains from AI and robotics are just astounding to think about. Like I think, I think it could increase the size of the economy by a factor of 10 or more. Like it will eliminate poverty and you really will be in a situation where anyone can have anything they want. The bigger challenge may be finding meaning in life. So if the robot can do anything that you can do, but maybe better, how do you find meaning in life? That may be the biggest challenge."
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"content": "When you think of the fact, you know, you mentioned that, you know, you've been holding off on, you know, really getting involved, whether it's, you know, participating versus being a spectator. And when you're thinking of the next couple of years of like, let's say not necessarily catching up, but just doubling down and really focusing on it, what are going to be your biggest focus points?"
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"content": "Really? It's making it useful and making it safe for humanity and making it love humanity, essentially. You want it to be useful and friendly. So those are the most important things. I've never seen any technology advances fast as AI, so. And I've seen a lot of technologies advance. Yeah, the rate of. I call it. And maybe this is a discomforting metaphor, but AI is a supersonic tsunami."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Does not sound fun, but yeah, sounds."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "A little scary in that way. But it's in terms of maybe in terms of exceeding prior technologies, it's like supersonic. And you really do need to pair AI with robotics."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Yeah, I think it's crazy just how much it's advanced in just the past year, two years and, and seeing how kids are using it. Using Grok 4 Grok Voice the companions now I think you've answered this before, but what keeps you up at night when you think of the future of AI and now that you're doubling down and really just going wartime mode right now on just tackling these issues, what is something that keeps you up at night?"
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"content": "Well, AI safety and making sure AI is aligned with humanity and wants to foster, grow and better humanity. And basically we want to be like if you could, if you could look into a crystal ball right now and see the future needs to be the future one. And so I mean I have this kind of like new term for the goal of the goal test previously was accelerating the advancement of sustainable energy, which is like a very good goal. And then the reason I pursued that rather than AI, because I could have pursued AI from the beginning, was because I was confident that that sustainable energy was a single edged sword only like it was only a good edge, you know, so we sure that, okay, we succeed in that? Like, okay, that's, that's definitely Good sustainable energy by definition is great. You're cleaner air and you know, and I can run out of whatever the sports fuel is with, with combination solar batteries and electric cars then that's like, that's an unequivocal for AI. Like I said, it is more of a double edged sword risk. But I think it most likely will be good and most likely will bring immense prosperity and it's going to figure out how to cure every disease and it's probably going to be awesome. But I think we need to be careful and not complacent and we've actually be somewhat paranoid to make sure that we have the good AI future and not the bad AI future. So I mean from a Tesla stock standpoint at least with autonomous, autonomous cars and, and especially with, with Optimus, it does go to, to sort of crazy levels. I'd always recommend like looking at Kathy Wood and Arinvest analysis. They're, they've been right in the past and I think they're right this time and again with a lot of difficult execution. I think people out there said well, Tesla's valuation could be 25 trillion and I think that's probably correct if we execute well on autonomous transport and Octopus, it actually does get to a 20 to 30 trillion dollar valuation. That's 20 to 30 times what it is today. Everyone's CHEERING yeah, yeah, the math is, math is clear. So it's just a massive amount of work and, but like I think if you do that massive amount of work, that's what will happen."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Elon, let's talk about Neuralink. You've described Neuralink in the past as a way to solve the input, output bottleneck between humans and machines."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Right."
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"role": "user",
"content": "What's the long term vision? Is Neuralink a medical company or is it the first step towards symbiosis with AI?"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "It starts off as a medical technology. So neuralink's initial goals are really to help people who have quadriplegic tetraplegic, they've lost the use of their body and to be able to enable them to control their bone computer just by thinking. And I think we, eight patients so far and all eight love the device and, and are using it every day. So it's, it's helped a lot of people and I think we're Neuralink team is aiming to do about 20 patients by the end of the year, so it's accelerating. And then next year we'll be doing the Blindsight implant which will enable people who are completely blind, like if they've lost both eyes and optic nerve and still be able to see interfacing directly with. So there are a lot of cool things like that. So the focus actually is fixing serious medical issues and prove out the safety and efficacy. And then eventually at some point you could get cybernetic enhancements. So it could be something that massively augments intelligence and allows you to communicate at ultra high speeds. So it's very sci fi. And it could even get to the point where you could upload your memories and essentially have a saved version of yourself. And then I'm speculating here, but then maybe download that into."
},
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"role": "user",
"content": "A new."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "On a cloaked body, either robot. I'm really getting into sci fi here, but like download that into a robot body if you want, or a clone version of your original self. You know, they've certainly made sci fi movies, written books about this. So these are not new ideas. But I do think stuff like that will be possible which would give you, I guess, a form of, or anybody wants it, a form of immortality. And to be clear, I do think these things will be available to anyone who wants to do it. So it's not going to be sort of limited to a few sort of, you know, elite members of society. I think it will be available to everyone who wants."
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"role": "user",
"content": "It's crazy just to think, you know, with neuralink, Grok, the Grock companion and even the humanoid robot, how do you do you see? I mean, it just feels like more and more whether it's Grok, the Grok companion and then neuralink. I know we, we did an interview with Brad, who is the third patient who has als, and he was also utilizing Grok."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Yeah."
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"role": "user",
"content": "What do you, what do you see continuing to see that integration between, let's say neuralink and even, even Grok as things continue to grow."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Grow? Yeah. Grog will actually be able to understand the signals from you. So the neural links connecting to your brain and then sending the signals to Grog and then GR actually understand those signals at, at kind of like a, a binary level as opposed to having to translate it into words and so greatly improve the efficiency with which you can use your neuralink device. Like it's so, I mean we're really getting into some interesting philosophical questions or interesting questions like if you think about how much your metal, your mind is used to take a complex thought or image your mind and translate that into words. And it's, and it's very ly. Because how can you really with words convey, say an image that you have in your mind? It's very difficult to do so. And, and if you're not, like, if you're not an artist, it's actually very difficult to actually get the image from your mind onto a computer or paper. But, but, but the computer could do that. You could say, okay, this is the image that you want to produce. And let's say there's a complex series of concepts that you want to convey to someone else. And if both people have a neural link, you'll be able to convey a complex series of ideas, uncompressed in their full form to someone else's mind, as opposed to reducing complex concepts down to a few sentences and trying to get someone else to hear what those sentences are, decompress those sentences in their mind and try to understand the concepts that are in your mind. So this is why I call it conceptual telepathy. So this would greatly improve communication and understanding between humans."
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"role": "user",
"content": "You've mentioned restoring vision and mobility, but the idea of writing to the brain and hearing too."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Sorry. So it's like basically, if there's any sense or brain injury, in principle."
},
{
"role": "user",
"content": "That."
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Sensory function or that brain injury can be solved with a neural link. So that includes hearing, sight, smell. I don't know, people have lost their sense of smell. But feeling, it could be like if somebody has a stroke and they've lost the ability to move their arm, a neural link could restore that ability. It's really a very powerful general purpose input, output device that can address, you know, over time, any brain or neurological issue. So if somebody's having seizures, it could actually stop the seizures. It could, I think, probably fix schizophrenia. Like a lot of. There's a lot of things that could, like, in principle, it could fix basically anything that's to do with the brain or neurons or your senses."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Is there anything that would be like, is there a most difficult problem to solve in that space then? Because technically a lot of it could be solved. Is there something that would, maybe you would see bigger blockers on trying to solve as far as fixing those problems?"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "I'm not aware of lockers right now. It's just that when you're putting devices in humans, you have to be very careful and to make sure that no damage is done and the implant works and without any negative side effects. And so far, you know, knock on wood, we're betting a thousand here and, you know, patients of the devices of work and there've no meaningful side effect. So that's, it's really just. Yeah, it's pretty cool, but it's just in order to be safe that does slow us down and of course, we, we interact very closely with the, with the FDA and for approvals and stuff. So it's not just neuralink vacuum here. It's. It's with regulatory approval from the fda. So, and. And then you do need different variants of neural link device for solving different things. So, for example, for. Well, the telepathy product, which is what we have in the eight patients so far, that interfaces with the motor cortex in the brain. So it's like, like literally it's. Someone will think about moving their hand. Neuralink device will read that signal in the motor cortex and then move the mouse on your. On their computer. And then for sight, it's a different thing because you've got to stimulate the visual cortex. And the visual cortex is in a different location and it's a little deeper. So you've got to put the electrodes a little bit deeper to reach the visual cortex. And in this case, it's not reading, it's writing. It's effectively writing pixel to the visual cortex. This is something we've had working in monkeys for about three years now. In fact, one of our monkeys has both a telepathy implant and a blindsight implant. He's a very happy monkey. I do want to emphasize we take great care of our animals. This is a really big deal because I've always said, like, imagine if we were in that position. Well, let's just do all the things that if. That if we were in that position, we do. And the USA inspector that came by to check out our facilities, she said in her entire career, she's never seen a nicer monkey enclosure ever. And let me tell you, monkeys love for the PLEP implant. Monkeys are just like us. They love playing video games and eating snacks. So if you look at that video of Pedro, I think it's like four years old now. You see, he's just sitting on a branch sipping a banana smoothie, which he gets every time he scores. He gets a sip of a smoothie, but he's not being held down like he likes playing the game. So it's really just like humans, like snacks and video games? Yeah, same thing."
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"role": "user",
"content": "One question I have. How does building a humanoid robot and neuralink intersect, if at all? I mean, what are the learnings from that? Is there any overlap?"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Yeah. Well, I have to say, building a humanoid robot has really made me think a lot about how the human body works. You gain a new appreciation for actually just how awesome a design the human body is. Now, admittedly, you know, I think some parts of the human Body could be better. Like the spine. Like, why do we have so much back pain? It's very annoying."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Maybe don't fight sumo wrestlers, man."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Yeah, seriously, Doug Martin Gregory. But, you know, yeah, typically, you know, everyone has back pain at some point in their life, which is also a thing neuralink and solve, so that'd be cool too. But no, Optimus has really made me think a lot about how our hands work, how we balance, how we do different things, but maybe more than anything, just how incredible our hands are. It's like, wow. Things that our hands do. Like, the hands in Optimus are half or more than half of the electromechanical problem, and the entire rest of the body is a half."
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Wow, that's crazy."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Yeah. And it's like, honestly, you look at your hands, you're like any move. And if you. And if you feel your forearm, like the. Almost all the muscles that control your hand are actually in your forearm and. And they're pulling your fingers like. Like puppets. So, yeah, there's only a small number of muscles that are in that. In your hand itself, but your hand is all being controlled through tendons that go either through or above your buffalo tunnel. And your hand is being operated like a marionette from your forearm."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Yeah, one thing that's crazy."
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "I just."
}
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"role": "user",
"content": "I just. Yeah, I mean, it's crazy how much the. The human body, whether it's like, you know, Tesla vision going, you know, just trying to see what kind of like, similar to how humans view the world."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Right."
},
{
"role": "user",
"content": "And getting rid of the radar. And then same thing with the humanoid robot and just thinking and seeing how the human body works. Is there anything more specifically, even within the human body that will continue to infer whether it's the humanoid robot? And it sounds like obviously the hand is one of the biggest problems, but. But are there other parts of the body too, that. That would continue to help infer other parts of the. The humanoid robot? Or again, it's just. Yeah, with Tesla vision and eyesight."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Well, with Optimus, we're able to reuse the autopilot computer. So Optimus is. Intelligence is powered by the i4. You're the same computer that controls the car and, you know, a small battery pack that's similar to the car battery pack. So there's lots of carries with the car and. And then the AI that's in the car is similar to the AI that will be in Optimus running AI4 hardware and then AI5 hardware when that's ready. So a lot of parallels, but the limiting factor is the Hand. Yeah. But I'm convinced that Optimus will be the biggest product ever. Yeah. So. And then, of course, autonomy is starting to roll out. Carlene will be in many cities and throughout the United States later this year and hopefully many countries next year."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Yeah. Here in the Bay Area, we have a bunch of fomo. Everyone's looking at Austin right now. I can tell you. I. I always, whenever I open that Robo taxi app, man, it just. The geofence, just the figurine is insane."
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "That's funny. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you got to have some fun, you know, don't take yourself too seriously type of thing."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Let's switch and talk about X. You've called X, and here we are at X Takeover. You've called X the everything app. But it's still in a transitional phase. What exactly do you want X to be in five years?"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "I mean, X is definitely improving. It's evolved a lot from Twitter. You only have like, you know, short text tweets and like two minute videos to the point where now you can have like four hour videos and you can write a novel if you want on the system. So it's gone sort of fully multimodal from long videos to long text to anything in between. And we're currently really improving the DM system. So the new system called XChat, which enables audio, video calling, it's all fully encrypted, peer to peer style, like Bitcoin. And the acid test is that even if somebody puts the gun to my head, I still can't read your messages. That's the asset test. So it's like very secure and. And also likes the calling and video with it. And then there's the kind of X Money or X Finance release, which is hopefully only a few months away. We actually have it operating in beta within the company and that'll be a major factor. So as much as possible about ensuring freedom, like freedom of speech within the. As much as we can within the bounds of the law, and, you know, also like aspirationally trying to reach for the truth of things. But you see that in Community Notes, where Community Notes will correct someone, even if they're very powerful. Community, Community Notes will correct me. It'll correct President, CEOs, even major advertisers, and even if that costs money. So I think it's. Generally there's a lot of good things that have happened. We're trying to improve the algorithm, which we know kind of sucks right now. Sorry about that."
},
{
"role": "user",
"content": "I actually enjoy it, but."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Okay. Okay, good. Well."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Some days are crazier than others. Like when the geofence expanded and some of these other things. But, yeah, no, I don't know if you have any opinions, Kelvin."
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Sorry, your voice was a bit low there. I couldn't get a question."
},
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Oh, I was saying the algorithm can be crazy some days, especially like when the robo taxi geofence expanded."
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Yeah, yeah, yeah. The overarching goal of the algorithm is to try to show people information they would find most interesting. But right now, it'll show you too much of one thing. Whatever the sort of interesting thing of the day is right now, the X algorithm will show you too much of that. And it's like, okay, I don't need to see it 20 times. You know, I think I've seen like the Sydney Sweeney jeans thing about 400 times this point. And it's like, okay, the first few times was good, but we shouldn't show things like 100 times because you want to learn new things. So X is making steady progress being offering, you know, pretty much everything you'd want to do. And yeah, I feel good about where it's headed."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Payments."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "We're."
},
{
"role": "user",
"content": "We've all. I know we're waiting on that and just, you know, thinking about even PayPal too. It's crazy. Just what fate loves irony. Doing X.com back in, what, the late 90s and."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Yeah."
}
] |
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Then full force buying it, you know, years back and now, now you're doing payments again."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Yeah, It's a sort of poetic and. Or returning to something that was sort of unfinished with PayPal and completing the product."
}
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"role": "user",
"content": "What role do you think GROK and XAI play in the future of X? Is it just a feature, a core intelligence layer, or does that change how people experience the platform?"
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Yeah, Grok. I think it's pretty helpful because that Grok button, which you can press about any given post on the system, and its analysis of the post, it's usually quite accurate. It doesn't bat a thousand, but it really gives you deeper insight into any given piece of information that somebody posts on the system. You can figure out more context helps you figure out if it's true or not. And we actually just added Gro advertising in the system. So you can, you can press the Grok button and see, hey, this ad, is this product going to work or is it, Is this product legit or not? Which I kind of always wanted to have on ads. You know, it's like this thing really work. That's what I want to ask a lot of ads. And now on the X system, you can ask, does this thing really work? I guess advertising is where Grox says it doesn't really work. Are probably not going to advertise for him very long. Maybe it'll encourage better honesty in advertising, which I think would be a good thing. But we're just generally trying to make X a system that you can trust more than any other system. And I think, I think it is there already. It does not say that X is perfect. It's definitely mistakes. But is there any other social media company you trust more than X?"
},
{
"role": "user",
"content": "No."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "No. So it's like I'm not trusting Facebook, you know, so. Or I don't know, pick on Facebook, whatever. But you know, I think it's actually probably fair to say that X is the most trustworthy or least untrustworthy of social networks."
}
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"role": "user",
"content": "Yeah, I think that became very apparent just when you saw like when you just compare of like the news during COVID and things being censored."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Yeah."
}
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"role": "user",
"content": "And you know, just you come to X and you can find out what's really happening and it's real time. It's really like the, I would say the, you know, the world's discourse in town Square."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Right."
},
{
"role": "user",
"content": "It can sometimes be a fist fight, it feels like, but at the same time it's just, you know, where you can find out what's really going on."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Right. And that's the goal. And I do want to emphasize, obviously there's a long way to go. It's far from perfect. But I do think it's getting better over time and you know, sometimes two steps forward, one step back. But the trend over time I think is very good for X being the place where you can figure out what's really going on in the world to get to the truth. And then you can ask Grok more. You can also learn a lot of things. So you can ask if there's a new thing that's invented or announced, you can ask Grok on the system more about it and instantly educate yourself."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Yeah, I don't think I've any."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "And then we monitor when Grok gets things wrong and then we feed that back into the system to make it aspirationally less wrong over time."
}
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"role": "user",
"content": "Yeah, it's really just crazy to think when you talk to Grok and you can ask it for just things in your timeline. Hey, make a post sound like me on this topic or you want it?"
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "It's pretty. Yeah, like we are actually aiming for Grock to be the. Actually I should say two goals are for Grock to be the most cre. Seeking AI, but also the funniest AI, because you got to have some fun in life. And, you know, laughter is the best medicine. You gotta. You gotta have some fun."
},
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"role": "user",
"content": "Elon, you've predicted a world of abundant energy, robotic labor and AGI, with AI and optimus doing, you know, potentially a lot of things and reducing the amount of things that we're doing today. What do you think is left for humans? And really what does that mean for in the world of artificial superintelligence?"
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Yeah, that's a question that I struggle with, actually. This is part of the reason for neuralink, which is to improve the bandwidth communication with AI, so to help achieve a better human AI symbiosis, so that, you know, AI knows what we want and it can respond to collective human will. And I think things like payrolling can actually effectively dramatically increase our intelligence. But I think the future is very much one where human intelligence, machine intelligence and robots are interwoven. I think I said I think it's 80%, maybe 90% likely to be awesome, but we got to be cautious about that, you know, 10%, maybe not awesome situation like Terminator. Yeah, I mean, seriously, you know, like that would be bad."
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"role": "user",
"content": "What's your vision for a society where human effort is no longer required for survival or productivity? How do we avoid irrelevance?"
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Right. I think central question. Well, if you're symbiotic with AI, where we that there's this essentially a merger of human and machine intelligence, then we may be able to address the relevance question. You know, like let's say you ride a bicycle or a motorcycle or a car. You're superhuman in what you're able to do. You can now travel faster than any human with legs. I mean, if you're a car, you can go vastly faster than the fastest human ever. Does that make running irrelevant? I mean, people still run and still race against each other. So. But you've got humans working with machines. I mean, they actually had these kind of debates when steam engine came along and the steam shovel, because people derived a lot of their value from saying they can do manual work faster than a machine. Then the machine got faster. So. But this is a philosophical question that I struggle with. And the best thing I came up with is that you have interopen human machine intelligence and got something like neuralink to augment human intelligence and approve symbiosis with AI that we effectively become maybe one with the AI."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Elon, you off? Sorry, the audience was about to clap and I started talking. But Elon, you know, you're Solving, I guess in a lot of ways is sometimes you say a lot of problems. And in a lot of ways you're creating a very exciting future with reusable rockets, the mission to Mars, with starship, with the humanoid robots, and how it's going to just the impact that it'll have and near link and seeing the impact on Noland and Brad. What gives you hope for today, not just for humanity and civilization, but personally?"
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Well, I think the future is going to be very interesting and exciting. And I guess I also think, would I want to be at any other point in human history? Is there some other point in human history that is more interesting than where we are today? And I think the answer is no, at least for me. I think we're at the most interesting part of human history and it's getting more interesting with each passing month. And so. Okay, well, if I'm in. If I'm in the part of history that is the most interesting, then I think anyone feels that way, and I think a lot of people feel that way, that we should feel very lucky to be alive at this time to see the amazing things happen."
},
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Well, Elon, we wanted to do a time check, but also."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "I better get back to my eight jobs."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Yeah, exactly. You're not a busy man at all. But we just, Kelvin and I, we just want to. On behalf of Tesla owners of Silicon Valley, Tesla Owners Austria, San Joaquin Valley, and really just all of the 1500 people that traveled from all over the world, we just want to personally just say thank you for all you're doing and thank you for continuing to push humanity forward."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Well, thank you."
},
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Yeah, you have a whole bunch of people here just cheering, so thank you for all you're doing."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Thank you. Well, and thank you for all your support over the years. It's super appreciated. I would say my heart goes out to you, but I have to watch my gestures these days."
}
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "We know what you mean."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "I can only point straight ahead or straight up."
}
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Hey, Elon. So we want."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "But anyway, my heart does go out to you and thank you all for your support over the years. Yeah."
}
] |
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"role": "user",
"content": "And we just had one thing that we wanted to present to you. Okay. How's it going, Elon Musk. So on behalf of TOSV and the presenting sponsors. Haha. Yes. We wanted to present something to you that was symbolic, meaningful, and really these last few months have obviously been quite tumultuous for you. And so we really got creative and really. Yeah, we wanted to create you something special. And so I'm gonna read you Something basically, you know, Elon, you brought electric cars back from the dead. You made clean energy cool. You made rockets reusable. You're gonna take us to Mars. You spent billions to buy Twitter and save free speech. You stopped running your empire to work for the US Government for free. To reduce wasteful spending to save the country from bankruptcy."
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Right, and it took a few hours for that one."
},
{
"role": "user",
"content": "And how were you thanked? It's like you were betrayed. You were mocked, attacked by the very people who once cheered you on, Your name dragged through the mud, your cars vandalized, your motives questioned. But that's not. Not the full story, as I imagine many here would attest. So there are millions of people who see you for who you are, people whose lives you've touched and changed, people who believe in what you're building. People who love you and have your back."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Thank you so."
}
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"role": "user",
"content": "Yeah, thank you. So we were going to introduce to a few, more than a few, but we had a reel that we were going to play, but with some technicalities, we were unable to do it of actual testimonials from people. Really meaningful, impactful ones that people really wanted you to hear. But we'll post it on X. We'll post it on X. But there was only a few. But there was a lot more people who want to express their gratitude and see support."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Well, thank you."
},
{
"role": "user",
"content": "But, you know, fortunately, they could write letters. And so, Elon, thousands of people wrote letters to you to."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "To."
}
] |
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "To demonstrate, you know, and express how much you have meant to them."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "We love you. Well, I love you guys too. Thank you."
},
{
"role": "user",
"content": "So we compressed all those paper letters into this brick. Jungkook. Yep. This is a custom made brick. The brick itself is a message to you. It's heavy brick. Not in the sense of how heavy it is, but it's a brick of belief which weighs more than any material matter. We believe you can achieve the impossible. Hence the quote on the front of this brick. You want to read it, John? This brick does fly in spirit because you may."
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "You."
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"role": "user",
"content": "You have made the impossible happen."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "All right, thank you. Much appreciated."
}
] |
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Yeah. And so, Elon. Yeah. You make bricks fly. And in turn, that inspires us to pursue the impossible. And you know what we all say to that? Everyone repeat after me. Ha ha. Yes."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Yes."
}
] |
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Ah, yes. Thank you, Elon. We love you."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Thank you. Love you too."
},
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Thank you, Elon, for your time. We appreciate it. And hopefully you have a good rest of your Saturday afternoon."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "All right, you guys, it was a pleasure speaking J."
}
] |
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Elon Musk. Great to see you. How are you?"
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Good, how are you?"
},
{
"role": "user",
"content": "I mean, we're here at the Texas Gigafactory the day before this thing opens. It's been pretty crazy out there. Thank you so much for making time. Busy day. I would love you to help us kind of cast our minds, I don't know, 10, 20, maybe 30 years into the future and help us try to picture what it would take to, to build a future that's worth getting excited about. You've often said it. The last time you spoke at ted you said that was really just a big driver. You talk about lots of other reasons to do what you're doing, but fundamentally you want to think about the future and not think that it sucks."
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Yeah, absolutely. I think in general there's a lot of discussion of this problem or that problem and a lot of people are sad about the future and that they're pessimistic and I think this is not great. I mean, we really want to wake up in the morning and look forward to the future. We want to be excited about what's going to happen. And life cannot simply be about sort of solving one miserable problem after another."
}
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"role": "user",
"content": "So if you look forward 30 years, you know, the year 2050 has been labeled by scientists as this kind of almost like this doomsday deadline on climate. There's a consensus of scientists, a large consensus of scientists who believe that if we haven't completely eliminated greenhouse gases or offset them completely by 2050, effectively we're inviting climate catastrophe. Do you believe there is a pathway to avoid that catastrophe and what would it look like?"
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Yeah. So I am not one of the doomsday people, which may surprise. I actually think we're on a good path. But at the same time I want us to caution against complacency. So long as we are not complacent, as long as we have a high sense of urgency about moving towards a sustainable energy economy, then I think things will be fine. So I can't emphasize that enough. As long as we push hard and are not complacent, the future is going to be great. Don't worry about it. I mean worry about it. But if you worry about it, ironically, it will be a self unfulfilling prophecy. So there are three elements to a sustainable energy future. One is obviously sustainable energy generation, which is primarily wind and solar. There's also hydro geothermal. I'm actually pro nuclear. I think nuclear is fine and, but it's going to be primarily solar and wind as the primary generators of Energy. The second part is you need batteries to store the solar and wind energy because the sun doesn't shine all the time, the wind doesn't blow all the time. So you need a lot of stationary battery packs. And then you need electric transport. So electric cars, electric planes, boats, and then ultimately it's not really possible to make electric rockets, but you can make the propellant used in rockets using sustainable energy. Right. So ultimately we can have a fully sustainable energy economy. And it's those three things. Solar, wind, stationary battery pack, electric vehicles. So then what are the limiting factors on progress? The limiting factor really will be battery cell production. So that's going to really be the fundamental rate driver. And then whatever, the slowest element of the whole lithium ion battery cell supply chain for mining and the many steps of refining to ultimately creating a battery cell and putting it into a pack, that will be the limiting factor on progress towards sustainability."
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"role": "user",
"content": "All right, so we need to talk more about batteries because the key thing that I want to understand, like there seems to be a scaling issue here that is kind of amazing and alarming. You have said that, that you have calculated that the amount of battery production that the world needs for sustainability is 300 terawatt hours of batteries."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "That's the end goal. Very rough numbers. And I certainly would invite others to check our calculations because they may arrive at different conclusions. But in order to transition not just current electricity production, but also heating and transport, which roughly triples the amount of electricity that you need, it amounts to approximately 300 terawatt hours of installed capacity."
}
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"role": "user",
"content": "So we need to give people a sense of how big a task that is. I mean, here we are, the gigafactory. You know, this is what. This is one of the biggest buildings in the world. When what I've read and tell me if this is still right, is that the goal here is to eventually produce 100 gigawatt hours of batteries here a year."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "We'll probably do more than that, but yes, that's hopefully we get there within a couple of years."
}
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Right, but I mean, so that is 0.1 terawatt hours, but that's still 1 100th of what's needed. How much of the rest of that 100 is Tesla planning to take on between, let's say between now and 2030, 2040, when we really need to see the scale up happen?"
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "I mean, these are just guesses. I mean, so please, people should hold me to these things. It's not like this is like some. What does happen is I'll make some like you know, best guess. And then people will, in five years there'll be some jerk that writes an article, Elon said this would happen and it didn't happen. He's a liar and a fool. It's very annoying when that happens. So these are just guesses. This is a conversation. I think Tesla probably ends up doing 10% of that, roughly, let's say 2050."
}
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"role": "user",
"content": "We have this amazing, you know, 100% sustainable electric grid made up of, you know, some mixture of the sustainable energy sources you talked about. That, that same grid probably is offering the world really low cost energy, isn't it? Compared, compared with now. And I'm curious about like, should people, are people entitled to get a little bit excited about the possibilities of that, that world?"
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "People should be optimistic about the future. Humanity will solve sustainable energy. It will happen. If we are, you know, continue to push hard. The future is bright and good from an energy standpoint. And then it will be possible to also use that energy to do carbon sequestration. It takes a lot of energy to pull carbon out of the atmosphere just as because in putting it in the atmosphere it released energy. So now, you know, obviously in order to pull it out you need to use a lot of energy. But if you've got a lot of sustainable energy from wind and solar, you can actually sequester carbon. So you can reverse the CO2 parts per million of the atmosphere and oceans. And also you can really have as much fresh water as you want. Earth is mostly water, we should call earth water. It's 70% water by surface area now, most of that seawater, but it's still, it's like we just happen to be on the. But that's land."
},
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Right. And with energy you can turn seawater into."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Yes, irrigating water or whatever."
}
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Water."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Absolutely. At very low cost. Things will be good. Things will be good, yes."
}
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"role": "user",
"content": "And also there's other benefits, right, to this non fossil fuel world where the air is cleaner and."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Yes, exactly. Because like, like when you, when you burn fossil fuels, there's all, there's all these like side reactions and toxic gases of various kinds and like I said, sort of little particulates that are bad for your lungs. There's all sorts of bad things that are happening that will go away and the sky will be cleaner and quieter. Fear's gonna be good."
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"role": "user",
"content": "I want us to switch now to thinking a bit about artificial intelligence. But the segue there, you mentioned how annoying it is when people haul you up for bad predictions in the past. So I'm possibly going to Be annoying now, but I'm curious about your timelines and how you predict and how come some things are so amazingly on the money and some aren't. So when it comes to predicting sales of Tesla vehicles, for example, I mean, you've kind of been amazing. I think in 2014, when Tesla had sold that year 60,000 cars, you said 2020, I think we will do half a million a year."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Yeah, we did almost exactly half a million."
}
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"role": "user",
"content": "You did almost exactly half a million. You were scoffed in 2014 because no one since Henry Ford with the Model T had come close to that kind of growth rate for cars. You were scoffed and you actually hit 500,000 cars and 510,000 or whatever produced. But five years ago, last time you came to Ted, I asked you about full self driving and you said, yep, this very year, where I am confident that we will have a car going from LA to New York without any intervention."
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Yeah, I don't want to blow your mind, but I'm not always right."
},
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"role": "user",
"content": "So what's the difference between those two? Why has full self driving in particular been so hard to predict?"
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "I mean, the thing that really got me, and I think it's going to get a lot of other people, is that there are just so many false stones with self driving where you think you've got the problem, have a handle on the problem, and then nope, turns out you just hit a ceiling. Because if you were to plot the progress, the progress looks like a log curve. So it's like a series of log curves. So most people don't know what log curve is, I suppose, but show the shape, it goes up sort of fairly straight way and then it starts tailing off and you start getting diminishing returns. Yeah, and you're like, oh, it was trending up and now it's sort of curving over and you start getting to these what I call local maxima where you don't realize basically how dumb you were. And then it happens again. And ultimately these things in retrospect they seem obvious, but in order to solve full self driving properly, you actually just, you have to solve real world AI. Because you said, what are the road networks designed to work with? They're designed to work with a biological neural net, our brains and with vision, our eyes. And so in order to make it work with computers, you basically need to solve real world AI and vision because we need cameras and silicon neural nets in order to have self driving work for a system that was designed for eyes and biological neural nets. I guess when you put it that Way. It's quite obvious that the only way to solve forced self driving is to solve real world AI and sophisticated vision."
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"role": "user",
"content": "What do you feel about the current architecture? Do you think you have an architecture now where there is a chance for the logarithmic curve not to tail off anytime soon?"
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Well, I meantly these may be infamous last words, but I actually am confident that we will solve it this year. That we will exceed the probability of an accident. At what point do you exceed that of the average person? Right. I think we will exceed that this year."
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"role": "user",
"content": "What are you seeing behind the scenes that gives you that confidence?"
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "We're almost at the point where we have a high quality unified vector space. In the beginning we were trying to do this with image recognition on individual images. But if you look at one image out of a video, it's actually quite hard to see what's going on with without ambiguity. But if you look at a video segment of a few seconds of video, that ambiguity resolves. So the first thing we had to do is tie all eight cameras together so they're synchronized. So all the frames are looked at simultaneously and labeled simultaneously by one person. Because we still need human labeling. So at least they're not labeled at different times by different people in different ways. And then so it's sort of a surround picture. Then a very important part is to add the time dimension so that you're looking at surround video and you're labeling surround video. And this is actually quite difficult to do from a software standpoint. We had to write our own labeling tools and then create an auto labeling. Create auto labeling software to amplify the efficiency of human labelers. Because it's quite hard to label video. It takes. In the beginning it was taking several hours to label a 10 second video clip. This is not scalable. So basically what you have to have is you have to have surround video. And that surround video has to be primarily automatically labeled. With humans just being editors of making slight corrections to the labeling of the video and then feeding back those corrections into the future auto labeler. So you get this flywheel eventually where the auto labeler is able to take in vast amounts of video and with high accuracy automatically label the video for cars, lane lines, drive space."
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"role": "user",
"content": "What you're saying is that you think that. I mean the result of this is that you're effectively giving the car a 3D model of the actual objects that are all around it. It knows what they are and it knows how fast they are moving. And the remaining task is to. Yes, is to predict what the quirky behaviors are that you know that when a pedestrian is walking down the road with a smaller pedestrian, that maybe that smaller pedestrian might do something unpredictable or like things like that that you have to build into it before you can really call it safe."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "You basically, you need to have memory across time and space. So what I mean by that is if you, because the memory can't be infinite because it's using up a lot of the computer's ram, basically. So you have to say how much are you going to try to remember? But it's very common for things to be occluded. So like if you talk about say a pedestrian walking past a truck, where you saw the pedestrian start on one side of the truck, then they're occluded by the truck, but you would know intuitively, okay, that pedestrian is going to pop out the other side. Most likely the computer doesn't know. So you need to slow down."
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"role": "user",
"content": "I mean a skeptic is going to say that. Every year for the last five years you've kind of said, well no, this is the year. We're confident that it will be there in a year or two. Or you know, like it's, it's always been about that, that far away. But we've got a new architecture now. You're seeing enough improvement behind the scenes to make you not certain, but pretty confident that this, by the end of this year, what in most. Not in every city, in every circumstance, but in many cities and circumstances, basically the car will be able to drive without interventions. Safer than a human?"
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Yes. I mean the car currently drives me around Austin most of the time with no interventions. So it's not like. And we have over 100,000 people in our full self driving beta program. So you can look at the videos that they post online."
}
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"role": "user",
"content": "They do."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Okay, great."
},
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Some of them are great and some of them are a little terrifying. I mean, occasionally the car seems to sort of like veer off and scare the hell out of people."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Full beta."
}
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"role": "user",
"content": "But, but you put that, but you're behind the scenes looking at the data, you're seeing enough improvement to believe that this year timeline is real."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Yes, that's what it seems like. I mean, like I said, you know, we could be here talking again in a year. It's like, well, yet another year went by and it didn't happen. But I think this, I think this is the year."
}
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"role": "user",
"content": "And so in general, when, when people talk about Elon, Elon time, I mean it sounds like, like you can't just have a general rule that if you predict that something will be done in six months, actually what we should imagine is it's going to be a year or it's like 2x or 3x. It depends on the type of prediction. Some things, I guess things involving software, AI, whatever, are fundamentally harder to predict than others. Is there an element that you actually deliberately make aggressive prediction timelines to drive people to be ambitious? Without that, nothing gets done."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Well, I generally believe in terms of internal timelines, that we want to set the most aggressive timeline that we can because there's sort of like a law of gases expansion where for schedules, where whatever time you set, it's not going to be less than that. It's very rare that it'll be less than that. As far as my predictions are concerned, what tends to happen in the media is that they will report all the wrong ones and ignore all the right ones. Or when writing an article about me, I've had a long career in multiple industries. If you list my sins, I sound like the worst person on earth. But if you put those against the things I've done right, it makes much more sense. Essentially, the longer you do anything, the more mistakes that you will make cumulatively, which, if you sum up those mistakes, will sound like I'm the worst predictor ever. But for example, for Tesla vehicle growth, I said I think we're doing 50% and we've done 80%, but they don't mention that one. So, I mean, I'm not sure what my exact track record is on predictions. They're more optimistic than pessimistic, but they're not all optimistic. Some of them are exceeded probably more or later, but they do come true. It's very rare that they do not come true. It's sort of like, you know, if there's some radical technology prediction, the point is not that it was a few years late, but that it happened at all. That's the more important part."
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"role": "user",
"content": "So it feels like at some point in the last year, seeing the progress on understanding that the AI, the Tesla AI, understanding the world around it led to a kind of an aha moment in Tesla. Because you really surprised people recently when you said probably the most important product development going on at Tesla this year is this robot Optimus."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Yes."
},
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"role": "user",
"content": "Many companies out there have tried to put out these robots. They've been working on them for years and so far no one has really cracked it. There's no mass adoption robot in people's homes. There are some in manufacturing, but I would say that no one's kind of really cracked it. Is it something that happened in the development of full self driving that gave you the confidence to say, you know what, we could do something special here?"
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Yeah, exactly. So, you know, it took me a while to sort of realize that in order to solve self driving, you really needed to solve real world AI. And at the point at which you solve real world AI for a car which is really a robot on four wheels, you can then generalize that to a robot on legs as well. The two hard parts. I think, obviously, companies like Boston Dynamics have shown that it's possible to make quite compelling, sometimes alarming robots from a sensors and actuator standpoint. It's certainly been demonstrated by many that it's possible to make a humanoid robot. The thing that the things that are currently missing are enough intelligence for the robot to navigate the real world and do useful things without being explicitly instructed. So the missing things are basically real world intelligence and scaling up manufacturing. Those are two things that Tesla is very good at. And so then we basically just need to design the specialized actuators and sensors that are needed for a humanoid robot. People have no idea this is going to be bigger than the car."
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"role": "user",
"content": "So let's dig into exactly that. I mean, in one way, it's actually an easier problem than full self driving because instead of an object going along at 60 miles an hour, which if it gets it wrong, someone will die, this is an object that's engineered to only go at what, three or four."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Or five miles an hour walking speed, basically."
}
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "And so a mistake isn't there aren't lives at stake, there might be embarrassment at stake."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "AI doesn't take it over and."
}
] |
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Murder."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Us in our sleep or something."
}
] |
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Right. So talk about. I mean, I think the first applications you've mentioned are probably going to be manufacturing, but eventually the vision is to have these available for people at home."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Correct."
}
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"role": "user",
"content": "If you had a robot that really understood the 3D architecture of your house and knew where every object in that house was or was supposed to be and could recognize all those objects, I mean, that's kind of amazing, isn't it? Like the kind of thing that you could ask a robot to do would be what, like tidy up?"
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Yeah, absolutely. Or make dinner, I guess. Mow the lawn, take a cup of."
},
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Tea to grandma and show her family pictures."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Exactly. Take care of my grandmother and make sure. Yeah, exactly."
}
] |
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "It could obviously recognize everyone in the home."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Yeah."
}
] |
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Could play catch with your kids."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Yes. I mean, obviously we need to be careful that this doesn't become a dystopian situation. I think one of the things that's going to be important is to have a localized ROM chip on the robot that cannot be updated over the air. Where if you, for example, were to say, stop, stop, stop, that would. If anyone said that, then the robot would stop, you know, type of thing. And that's not updatable remotely. I think it's going to be important to have safety features like that."
},
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Yeah, that sounds wise."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "And I do think there should be a regulatory agency for AI. I've said this for many years, I don't love being regulated, but I think this is an important thing for public safety."
}
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"role": "user",
"content": "Let's come back to that. But I don't think many people have really sort of taken seriously the notion of, you know, a robot at home. I mean, at the start of the computing revolution, you know, Bill Gates said, there's going to be a computer in every home. And people at the time said, yeah, whatever, who would even want that?"
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Now we have a computer in our pocket."
}
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Do you think there will be basically like in say 2050 or whatever? Like a robot in most homes is what there will be, and people will love them and count on them. You'll have your own butler, basically."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Yeah. You'll have your sort of buddy robot, probably, yeah."
}
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "I mean, how much of a buddy do you like, do you do? How many applications do you thought is there? You know, can you have a romantic partner, sex partner?"
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "I mean, a lot of learning. I mean, I did promise the Internet that I'd make cat girls. We could make a robot cat girl. I mean, be careful what you promise."
}
] |
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"role": "user",
"content": "The Internet, you know."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "So, yeah, I guess it'll be whatever people want, really."
},
{
"role": "user",
"content": "You know, what sort of timeline should we be thinking about of the first models that are actually made and sold?"
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Well, the first units that we intend to make are for jobs that are dangerous, boring, repetitive, and things that people don't want to do. And I think we'll have an interesting prototype sometime this year. We might have something useful next year, but I think quite likely within at least two years. And then we'll see rapid growth year over year of the usefulness of the humanoid robots and decrease in cost and scaling up production."
}
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"role": "user",
"content": "Initially just selling to businesses or when do you picture you'll start selling them where you can buy your parents one for Christmas or something?"
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "I'd say less than 10 years. Yeah."
}
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"role": "user",
"content": "Help me on the economics of this. So what do you picture the cost of one of these?"
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Well, I think the cost is actually not going to be crazy high, like less than a car initially, things will be expensive because it'll be new technology at low production volume. The complexity and cost of a car is greater than that of a humanoid robot. So I would expect that it's going to be less than a car or at least equivalent to a cheap car."
},
{
"role": "user",
"content": "So even if it starts at 50k, within a few years it's down to 20k or lower or whatever. And maybe for home they'll get much cheaper still. But think about the economics of this. If you can replace a $30,000, $40,000 a year worker, which you have to pay every year with a one time payment of $25,000 for a robot that can work longer hours, a pretty rapid replacement of certain types of jobs. How worried should the world be about that?"
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "I wouldn't worry about the sort of putting people out of a job thing. I think we're actually going to have and already do have a massive shortage of labor. So I think we will have not people out of work, but actually still a shortage of labor even in the future. But this really will be a world of abundance. Any goods and services will be available to anyone who wants them. It'll be so cheap to have goods and services, it'll be ridiculous."
}
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"role": "user",
"content": "And presumably it should be possible to imagine a bunch of goods and services that can't profitably be made now, but could be made in that world, courtesy of legions of robots."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Yeah, it will be a world of abundance. The only scarcity that will exist in the future is that which we decide to create ourselves as, as humans."
}
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"role": "user",
"content": "Okay, so AI is allowing us to imagine a differently powered economy that will create this abundance. What are you most worried about going wrong?"
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Well, like I said, AI and robotics will bring out what might be termed the age of abundance. Other people have used this word and this is my prediction. It'll be an age of abundance for everyone. I guess there's the dangers would be the artificial general intelligence or digital superintelligence decouples from a collective human will and goes in a direction that for some reason we don't like. Whatever direction it might go, that's sort of the. The idea behind neuralink is to try to more tightly couple the collective human world to digital superintelligence and also along the way solve a lot of brain injuries and spinal injuries and that kind of thing. So even if it doesn't succeed in the greater goal, I think it will succeed in the goal of alleviating brain and spine damage."
},
{
"role": "user",
"content": "So the spirit there is that if we're going to make these AIs that are so vastly intelligent, we ought to be wired directly to them so that we ourselves can have those superpowers more directly. That doesn't seem to avoid the risk that those superpowers might turn ugly in unintended ways."
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "No, I think it's a risk. I agree. I'm not saying that I have certain answer to that risk. I'm just saying maybe one of the things that would be good for ensuring that the future is one that we want is to more tightly couple the collective human world to digital intelligence. The issue that we face here is that we're already a cyborg. If you think about it, the computers are an extension of ourselves. And when we die, we have a digital ghost. All of our text messages and social media emails. It's quite eerie, actually, when someone dies, but everything online is still there. But you say, what's the limitation? What is it that inhibits human machine symbiosis? It's the data rate. When you communicate, especially with a phone, you're moving your thumbs very slowly. So you're moving your two little meat sticks at a rate that's maybe 10 bits per second, optimistically 100 bits per second. And computers are communicating at the gigabit level and beyond."
}
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"role": "user",
"content": "Have you seen evidence that the technology is actually working? That you've got a richer sort of higher bandwidth connection, if you like, between external electronics and a brain than has been possible before?"
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Yeah, so the, I mean, the fundamental principles of reading neurons sort of doing read, write on neurons with tiny electrodes have been demonstrated for decades. So it's not like the concept is new. The problem is that there's no product that works well that you can go and buy. So it's all sort of in research labs and it's not. It's like there's always like some cord sticking out of your head and it's quite gruesome. And it's really. There's no good product that actually does a good job and is high bandwidth and safe and something you'd actually, that you could buy and would want to buy. So, so, but in it, the way to think of the neuralink device is kind of like a Fitbit or an Apple Watch. That's where we take out sort of a small section of skull, about the size of a quarter, replace that with what in many ways really is very much like a Fitbit Apple Watch or some kind of smartwatch thing, but with tiny, tiny wires. Very, very tiny wires. Wires so tiny it's hard to even see them. And it's very Important to have very tiny wires so that when they're implanted they don't damage the brain."
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"content": "How far are you from putting these into humans?"
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"content": "Well, we have put in our FDA application to have the aspirationally do the first human implant this year."
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"content": "The first uses will be for neurological injuries of different kinds. Yes, but rolling the clock forward and imagining when people are actually using these for their own enhancement, let's say, and for the enhancement of the world. How clear are you in your mind as to what it will feel like to have one of these inside your head?"
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"content": "Well, I do want to emphasize we're at an early stage and so it really will be many years before we have anything approximating a high bandwidth neural interface that allows for AI human symbiosis. For many years we will just be solving brain injuries and spinal injuries. Probably a decade. And this is not something that will suddenly one day we'll have this incredible sort of whole brain interface. It's going to be like I said, at least a decade of really just solving brain injuries and spinal injuries. And really I think you can solve a very wide range of brain injuries, including severe depression, morbid obesity, sleep, potentially schizophrenia. Like a lot of things that cause great stress to people. Restoring memory in older people, if you."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Can pull that off. That's the app I will sign up for. I would please hurry, actually."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Yeah, I mean, the emails that we get at Neuralink are heartbreaking. I mean, they'll send us just tragic where someone was sort of in the prime of life and they had an accident on a motorcycle and someone who's 25 can't even feed themselves. And this is something we could fix."
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"content": "But you have said that AI is one of the things you're most worried about and that Neuralink may be one of the ways where we can keep abreast of it."
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"content": "Yes, there's the short term thing, which I think is helpful on an individual human level with injuries. And then the long term thing is an attempt to address the civilizational risk of AI by bringing digital intelligence and biological intelligence closer together. I mean, if you think of how the brain works today, there are really kind of two layers to the brain. There's the limbic system and the cortex. You've got the kind of animal brain where it's kind of like the fun part really."
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"role": "user",
"content": "That's where most of Twitter operates, by the way."
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"content": "Yeah, I mean we're, I think like Tim Oven said this, like, we're like somebody, you know, stuck a computer on a monkey."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Right."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "You know, so we're like if you gave a monkey a computer, that's our cortex. But we still have a lot of monkey instincts, right? So which we then try to rationalize is no, it's not a monkey instinct, it's something more important than that. But it's often just really a monkey instinct. We're just monkeys with a computer stuck in our brain. So even though the cortex is sort of the smart or the intelligent part of the brain, the thinking part of the brain, people are quite. I've not yet met anyone who wants to delete their limbic system or their cortex. They're quite happy having both. Everyone wants both parts of their brain. And people really want their phones and their computers, which are really the tertiary, the third part of your intelligence. It's just that it's like I said, the bandwidth, the rate of communication with that tertiary layer is slow. And it's just a very tiny straw to this tertiary layer. And we want to make that tiny straw a big highway. And I'm definitely not saying that this is going to solve everything or this is, you know, it's the only thing, it's something that might be helpful. And worst case scenario, I think we solve some important brain injury, spinal injury issues, and that's still a great outcome. Right?"
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"role": "user",
"content": "Best case scenario, we may discover new human possibility. Telepathy you've spoken of in a way, connection with a loved one, you know, full memory and much faster thought process, maybe all these things. It's very cool. If AI were to take down Earth, we need a plan B. Let's, let's shift our attention to space. We spoke last time we ted about reusability and you had just demonstrated that spectacularly for the first time. Since then you've gone on to build this monster rocket, starship, which kind of changes the rules of the game in spectacular ways. Tell us about starship."
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"content": "Yes, starship is extremely fundamental. So the holy grail of rocketry or space transport is full and rapid reusability. This has never been achieved. The closest that anything has come is our Falcon 9 rocket where we are able to recover the first stage, the boost stage, which is probably about 60% of the cost of the vehicle, of the whole launch, maybe 70%. And we've now done that over 100 times. So with Starship, we will be recovering the entire thing, or at least that's the goal and more of a recovering it in such a way that it can be immediately reflown. Whereas with Falcon 9 we still need to do some amount of refurbishment to the booster and to the fairing one nose cone. But with Starship, the design goal is immediate reflight. So you just refill propellants and go again. And this is gigantic, just as it would be in any other mode of transportation."
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"role": "user",
"content": "And the main design is to basically take what, 100 plus people at a time, plus a bunch of things that they need to Mars. So first of all, talk about that piece. What is your latest timeline? One, for the first time a starship goes to Mars, presumably without people, but just equipment, two, with people, three, the sort of okay, 100 people at a time, let's go."
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"content": "Sure. And just to put the cost thing into perspective, the expected cost of Starship putting 100 tons into orbit is significantly less than what it would have cost, or what it did cost to put out our tiny Falcon 1 rocket into orbit. Just as the cost of flying a 747 around the world is less than the cost of a small airplane, you know, a small airplane that was thrown away. So it's really pretty mind boggling that the giant thing costs way less than the small thing. So it doesn't use sort of exotic propellants or things that are difficult to obtain on Mars. It uses methane as fuel and it's primarily oxygen, sort of roughly 77, 78% oxygen by weight. And Mars has a CO2 atmosphere and has water ice which is CO2 plus H2O. So you can make CH4 methane and O2 oxygen on Mars."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Presumably one of the first tasks on Mars will be to create a fuel plant that can create the fuel for the return trip of many starships."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Yes, and actually it's mostly going to be an oxygen plant, but it's because it's 78% oxygen, 22% fuel. But the fuel is a simple fuel that is easy to create on Mars and many other parts of the solar system. So basically, and it's all propulsive landing, no parachutes, nothing thrown away, that has a heat shield that's capable of entering on Earth or Mars. We could even potentially go to Venus, but you don't want to go there. Venus is hell, almost literally. But you could. It's a generalized method of transport to anywhere in the solar system. Because the point at which you have a propellant depot on Mars, you can then travel to the asteroid belt and to the moons of Jupiter and then to Saturn and ultimately anywhere in the solar system."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Right, but your main focus, and SpaceX's main focus is still Mars. Like that is the mission, that is where most of the effort will go. Or are you Actually imagining a much broader array of uses, even in the coming, you know, the first decade or so of uses of this, where we could go, for example, to other places in the solar system to explore. Perhaps NASA wants to use the rocket for that reason."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Yeah, NASA is planning to use a starship to return to the moon, to return people to the moon. And so we're very honored that NASA has chosen us to do this. So. But I'm saying it is a generalized, it's a general solution to getting anywhere in the greater solar system. It's not suitable for going to another star system, but it is a general solution for transport anywhere in the solar system."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Before it can do any of that, it's got to demonstrate it can get into orbit around Earth. What's, what's your latest advice on the timeline for that?"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "It's looking promising for us to have an orbital launch attempt in a few months. So we're actually integrating the, we'll be integrating the engines into the booster for the first orbital flight starting in about a week or two. And the launch complex itself is ready to go. So assuming we get regulatory approval, I think we could have an orbital launch attempt within a few months."
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