Saturday, June 29
Elon Musk: ‘There will be 20 billion humanoid robots’
At the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity Elon Musk shared his perspectives on artificial intelligence (AI) and humanoid robots in a wide-ranging interview. He predicts there will be a humanoid robot for every person on earth, plus robots working in the industry, which means there will be a market for 20 billion humanoid robots.
Musk talked also about Optimus, the humanoid robot developed by Tesla, designed to perform a wide range of tasks, from domestic chores to industrial applications. “Optimus is intended to be a fully functional humanoid robot, capable of doing a wide range of tasks. Basically, you can just ask it to walk your dog, take care of your house, babysit the kids, teach the kids, cook dinner, play the piano.”
“It’s a generalized humanoid robot. I think everyone will want one because why not, you know? I think there’ll be at least one for every person and then a whole bunch more in industry making things. My guess is 20 billion humanoid robots out there.”
Personalized robots
Asked if he would make robots look like people, he said “We’re not currently planning on doing that. We want it to be a good-looking robot. I think people will start to regard their personal Optimus robot as a sort of friend. Kind of like in Star Wars, R2-D2 and C-3PO, you sort of like them. You get quite attached to those characters. I think people will personalize their Optimus robots because you can snap on different parts. The outer shell is a snap-on plastic part, so you could have different ones.” READ MORE...
American Equality
They created a democratic republic of, by, and for the people... yet they also created an Electoral College to actually elect the President they could not trust a majority of the people to be able to think for themselves and not be brainwashed by some ruthless politician.
Secondly, if they all truly believed that all men were created equal why did they continue to allow slavery to exist?
The leaders of our country were flawed from the very beginning of our existence. Ever since 1776, America has really had flawed role models and that flaw has grown exponentially.
The fact is, that Americans ARE NOT EQUAL and never will be. This has nothing to do with race, color, or ethnicity and everything to do with our DNA.
Our DNA creates genders, skills, abilities, intelligence, height, weight, attractiveness, etc. In order to make everyone equal, scientists would have to alter our DNA in vitro.
I remember when I was in college one of classmates had a photographic memory. He never went to class, unless there was a test, and at the end of the semester, he would simply set aside time to read the textbook and always made "A's" on his exams.
I never thought that was fair but that is just the way it was. He and I were not equal and WOULD NEVER BE EQUAL.
This same inequality can be found in all aspects of our lives from sports to music to writing to attractiveness to everything else that you can imagine.
This is simply the way it is.
And, to make attempts to get our federal government to force people and companies to be more EQUAL, is an act of FUTILITY at best.
AND YET, that is exactly what is being done.
In The NEWS
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Science & Technology
> Google adds 110 languages to Google Translate—nearly doubling the number supported—after training the platform on its PaLM 2 AI language model (More) | Company to test facial recognition and tracking at its Seattle campus; visitors not allowed to opt out (More)
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> Researchers grow 3D brain models using cells from different people in a single organoid for the first time; approach may lead to methods to test new drugs without needing human patients (More)
Business & Markets
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Politics & World Affairs
> US Supreme Court rejects Purdue Pharma's $6B OxyContin settlement that shielded the Sackler family from future lawsuits (More) | Court allows emergency abortions in Idaho for now (More) | ... and blocks the Environmental Protection Agency's interstate air pollution regulation (More) | ... and limits the Securities and Exchange Commission's use of in-house tribunals to enforce regulations (More)
> Former Uvalde, Texas, schools police chief criminally charged for response to 2022 school shooting that killed 21 people (More) | Judge sets June 2025 trial date for man accused of murdering four University of Idaho students in 2022 (More)
> Oklahoma superintendent orders public schools to teach the Bible for grades 5 through 12; move comes a week after Louisiana became the first state to require the Ten Commandments to be posted in every public school classroom (More)
SOURCE: 1440 NEWS
Americans
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Just for clarification, when I speak of Americans, I am referring to those people who are citizens of the United States of America, not those of Central or South America.
I will always be proud to be an American regardless of what my forefathers might have done several hundreds of years ago. What is done is done and the best we can hope for is not to repeat the past going into the future.
However, I am not so sure that we are not doing exactly that.
We are more divided TODAY than the history books tell us we were divided during the CIVIL WAR. That may seem not to be true, but I see it every day when I watch the FOX News, CNN, CBS, or MSNBC or when I read the news that is posted online, especially the social network forum of "X" (formerly twitter).
Now the Supreme Court has ruled that the government can tell these social media companies to take down content...
Not only do we make a point of letting everyone know that we HATE TRUMP but we are also attacking his supporters and his appointees (guilt through association).
On the other side of the coin, conservatives attack Biden, his son, as well as his cabinet members as being just as blatant in their actions as the President (more guilt by association).
I read an article earlier when some talking head says this judge is not up to the job or in over her head (meaning lack of experience) because she made a ruling that he did not agree with. WHO'S PREJUDICE here???
I grew up in a house where both my parents were obviously biased against blacks inside the privacy of their own home, but in public would bend over backwards to help them. I tried to live my life different in the sense of not being hypocritical. But what amazes me now is BLACKS are typically more RACISTS than whites and don't hide their feelings at all.
NOW... after years of SILENCE, we find that the USA is sitting atop a HOTBED of ANTI-JEWISH sentiments that were heretofore hidden. The Jewish hate that I am witnesses seems worse than what might have been going on in Germany before the concentration camps were built and filled with Jews.
Even now, it is still hard for me to believe that this is going on here.
For a variety of reasons over the last FOUR years, the global respect for the USA has substantially declined as evidenced by articles published in their newspapers.
Americans are typically oblivious to this...
AMERICA IS IN A BAD PLACE RIGHT NOW AND SHE NEEDS TO FIND A WAY TO EXTRACATE HERSELF BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE...
The Early Universe at Cosmic Dawn
The Cosmic Gems is one of the most highly magnified objects in space, thanks to a phenomenon called gravitational lensing. (Image credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, L. Bradley (STScI), A. Adamo (Stockholm University) and the Cosmic Spring collaboration)
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have observed five extremely dense proto-globular clusters along a hair-thin arc of glittering stars. The discovery could help them understand how the earliest galaxies formed.
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered what could be the earliest star clusters in the universe. JWST spotted the five proto-globular clusters — swarms of millions of stars bound together by gravity — inside the Cosmic Gems arc, a galaxy that formed just 460 million years after the Big Bang.
The Cosmic Gems arc gets its name from its appearance: When seen from our solar system, the star-studded galaxy looks like a hair-thin crescent due to the powerful gravitational influence of a foreground galaxy, which magnifies and distorts the distant galaxy's appearance. READ MORE...
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