I kindof can see that thing sprouting weapons.
Elon Musk: Force for anthropic advancement or self-serving con-artist?
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Ordnael
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The chopsticks worked.
They caught the equivalent of a 20+ story building in mid-air.. after sending it to space and back!
Doing it first time is also incredibly impressive. Another notch against the extreme costs of space.
They caught the equivalent of a 20+ story building in mid-air.. after sending it to space and back!
Doing it first time is also incredibly impressive. Another notch against the extreme costs of space.
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Let me complement @Aiken_Drumn share with a video
This was nothing short of amazing...it's sad some folks can't dissociate the rabid republican and troll persona from his achievements!
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I’d take an open source one any day of the week, but I’m afraid as with anything else, the industrial version of a robot is going to end up superior.
The Optimus fella is particularly interesting given he’ll have his neural nets imbued with practical experience working at a car factory.
Also, I suspect Optimus is using Grok AI, which is, for me, a far preferable version to a lost in it's own echo chamber liberal Open AI.
The deciding factor (in who will end up dealing with coffee, dead leaves and possibly snow in my neck of the woods) will be the cost. 30k Musk seems to quote as the initial price of a robot is a bit too steep. Eventually, the Market will drive down the cost of one robot to below 10k. That’s when I plan to snatch one.
Imagine the privacy nightmare of one of those walking around your house connected to big tech all the time!
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I have little to hide...also its seems impossible to escape surveillance from modern everyday use always connected devices, for example: I make a point of using Brave browser on my smartphone almost 99% of my internet navigation...and I still get directed ads anytime I open the android news feed!
Your smart phone cannot look through your draws for secrets written on bits of paper, look over your shoulder as you type a password on another machine, or facial ID all visitors to your house.
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I've used enough of online services to know, which ones just want to eat me alive (hello Microsoft and Google), and which ones know where the invisible line lies (Hello, Tesla and X). Not too worried about privacy. During the last 20 years, if I want privacy - I leave smartphone at home. What I am slightly worried about is a bunch of robots trained in martial arts, tactical combat and the use of assault rifles creating their version of peace and justice in my neighbourhood.
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And now your comment made me picture a ED209 outside my house controlling parking spots...thank you for that!
I didn't realise Elon was the one catching the rocket.
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Good observation!
You're right, it wasn't him...as any human is incapable of such feat.
See, now this is believable. It's probably more some folks in PR holding him back rather than the actual engineers busy with the actual work, but hey, the mental image is striking.
It doesn't need to.. you've already told it to save them last time you had to type them in...
Only the ones I wanted it to have.
Sarcasm?
Tesla FSD faces yet another probe after fatal low-visibility crash
Tesla is facing yet another government investigation into the safety of its full self driving (FSD) software after a series of accidents in low-visibility conditions.
In its latest opening resume [PDF] into a Tesla FSD investigation, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said that it's taking a look at Tesla self-driving systems due to four accidents, one involving an injury and another fatally striking a pedestrian. All four accidents occurred in "an area of reduced roadway visibility conditions" with FSD, either beta or supervised, engaged.
"In these crashes, the reduced roadway visibility arose from conditions such as sun glare, fog, or airborne dust," the NHTSA noted, adding that it was opening the inquiry to assess "the ability of FSD's engineering controls to detect and respond appropriately to reduced roadway visibility conditions."
Tesla owner Elon Musk has had a long-standing opposition to the use of things like ultrasonic sensors, radar and lidar in his quest to achieve unassisted full self driving, instead preferring AI and cameras to do the job.
The EV maker has since committed entirely to computer vision, eliminating additional sensors in its latest model year vehicles. That means that aside from being able to see in the dark like most modern cameras, Tesla vehicles are ostensibly just as good at seeing in fog, sun glare or excess airborne dust as a human driver, with the added caveat that it's an AI making the decision, not a human.
Plenty of other self-driving companies and their engineers have disagreed with Tesla over its vision-only approach, and this may be the first time we've seen its FSD formally evaluated to see whether it can actually drive better in low-visibility environments than a human.
The type of cameras Tesla uses are vulnerable to blinding in dusk, dawn, in fog and rain and when driving into the sun because of their low dynamic range, we're told. Relying solely on cameras could be also an issue because they are passive receivers of light, meaning they're unable to predict distance unless set up in stereo, which Tesla cameras reportedly are not.
Not that Tesla hasn't had to patch FSD several times over the years to address other safety issues, including twice last year alone. Tesla patched FSD in January 2023 to address reports from the NHTSA that it was acting unsafe around intersections, and again in December because the attention controls were "insufficient to prevent misuse" of the system by drivers paying less attention than they should.
Tesla is facing yet another government investigation into the safety of its full self driving (FSD) software after a series of accidents in low-visibility conditions.
In its latest opening resume [PDF] into a Tesla FSD investigation, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said that it's taking a look at Tesla self-driving systems due to four accidents, one involving an injury and another fatally striking a pedestrian. All four accidents occurred in "an area of reduced roadway visibility conditions" with FSD, either beta or supervised, engaged.
"In these crashes, the reduced roadway visibility arose from conditions such as sun glare, fog, or airborne dust," the NHTSA noted, adding that it was opening the inquiry to assess "the ability of FSD's engineering controls to detect and respond appropriately to reduced roadway visibility conditions."
Tesla owner Elon Musk has had a long-standing opposition to the use of things like ultrasonic sensors, radar and lidar in his quest to achieve unassisted full self driving, instead preferring AI and cameras to do the job.
The EV maker has since committed entirely to computer vision, eliminating additional sensors in its latest model year vehicles. That means that aside from being able to see in the dark like most modern cameras, Tesla vehicles are ostensibly just as good at seeing in fog, sun glare or excess airborne dust as a human driver, with the added caveat that it's an AI making the decision, not a human.
Plenty of other self-driving companies and their engineers have disagreed with Tesla over its vision-only approach, and this may be the first time we've seen its FSD formally evaluated to see whether it can actually drive better in low-visibility environments than a human.
The type of cameras Tesla uses are vulnerable to blinding in dusk, dawn, in fog and rain and when driving into the sun because of their low dynamic range, we're told. Relying solely on cameras could be also an issue because they are passive receivers of light, meaning they're unable to predict distance unless set up in stereo, which Tesla cameras reportedly are not.
Not that Tesla hasn't had to patch FSD several times over the years to address other safety issues, including twice last year alone. Tesla patched FSD in January 2023 to address reports from the NHTSA that it was acting unsafe around intersections, and again in December because the attention controls were "insufficient to prevent misuse" of the system by drivers paying less attention than they should.
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