Tesla Optimus Demo: Details You Might Have Missed

It’s pret­ty cool, and I wor­ry a great deal about what he rise of A.I. and smart robots will mean for humanity…

Asi­mov would be proud if still alive.

Can you get opti­mus sentient

Can opti­mus blend in with peo­ple through design teams from tan­don engi­neer­ing nyu cory bear poly­tech­nic tan­don nyu metrotech and all schools in the world work­ing on arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence sentient

Like it or not these robots are the future work­force and com­pan­ion. These robots will be com­mon around the world by 2040.

Nope

Robots tak­ing jobs should be a good thing. We just need to recon­fig­ure our econ­o­my so that it can func­tion with­out humans work­ing for a pay­check. The most straight­for­ward way to do it is with a uni­ver­sal basic income, the pro­duc­tiv­i­ty of the machines is shared among every­one (the own­ers of the robot could get an extra share if you want to main­tain cap­i­tal­ism), so even as human labor becomes obso­lete, humans still have mon­ey to buy goods and ser­vices pro­vid­ed by the robot.

And we don’t have to wait for the robots to take all the jobs, we can, and should start now. We can tell how auto­mat­ed a com­pa­ny is by divid­ing their rev­enue by the num­ber of full time work­ers they employ, use that infor­ma­tion to deter­mine how much they should be taxed to fund the UBI. At first the UBI prob­a­bly won’t be enough to live on alone, but even a lit­tle bit of help will do a lot of good for peo­ple who need it most.

Whether Tes­la’s robot ends up work­ing or not, they do have a rea­son­able path to suc­cess, and it is high­ly like­ly that giv­en enough time (which might be 5 years, or might be much longer), we will have robots that can do any phys­i­cal task a per­son can do. That means we need to solve the social prob­lems that will come with mass unem­ploy­ment before that happens.

Tes­la Bot always walks in a straight line. In the future I bet it will be able to turn as well.

Say good­bye to jobs and hel­lo to a wel­fare state, depen­dant on the government.

Opti­mus is so advanced that it even boasts telekine­sis, watch it it mag­i­cal­ly move the blue block just around 1:05 !