Elon Musk predicts Tesla's Optimus robot will be a force for economic good — even if it ultimately eliminates much of the need for human labor.

While the humanoid robots are a production challenge and aren't launching anytime soon, Tesla has demoed them handing out candy on Halloween, performing Kung Fu with Jared Leto, and dancing onstage at its recent shareholder meeting.

But Musk says he has an even bigger vision for the robots; he wants them to transform the economy.

"People often talk about eliminating poverty, giving everyone amazing medical care," Musk said at the Thursday shareholder event. "There's actually only one way to do that, and that's with the Optimus robot."

Musk later doubled down: "Optimus will actually eliminate poverty."

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[–] Rom@hexbear.net 38 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Every single one of his ideas are basic ass science fiction tropes. He wants to go to Mars, he wants giant robots, he wants self driving cars. He's literally 12 years old.

[–] cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Its not even good SciFi, and when you can identify what books these shit heads read back when they were still human enough to read a book, they either missed or perfectly inverted the point.

In one of the clearest examples¹, admittedly not from musk but the same point apllies: 'the metaverse' is, in the novel it's from stupid and bad and comparable to a fucking drug you 'inject into your eyeball', like i think that sentence is used and the apparatus is deliberately described as viscerally disturbing, and you even contract fucking diseases through it! The titular 'snow crash' is a mind control virus spread by virtual reality and dirty needles! the people who walk around in AR glasses literally get called 'gargoyles' receive money for it from the CIA! That novel was about as fucking subtle as a brick to the fucking head!

I fucking hate every single one of these fucking shit heads!

¹where the name of the thing from the book is used and you can be sure of a specific source