Posted on 09/26/2026 2:20:21 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
0:15 On Xi Jinping
1:03 Tesla Shanghai factory
2:27 Cybercab rollout
3:55 Speed of AI breakthroughs
4:29 Grok 4.7 and Grokbot
5:48 SpaceX/Tesla data for real-world AI
6:48 Chinese AI models and the compute gap
8:16 China’s electricity output
9:01 US-China AI safety
9:27 Humanoid robots and Optimus
10:55 1 billion robots in 10 years
13:04 Money may not matter
16:27 10 billion to 100 billion robots
17:09 Space cooperation and Mars
21:07 Neuralink and human bandwidth
22:37 Education in the AI era
24:02 Visit Shanghai, and Beijing
24:38 Beijing high-speed rail
24:59 “Words do not do justice to China”
(Excerpt) Read more at x.com ...
I'll follow with clips.
“We've got a real opportunity with the SpaceX training data and maybe with the Tesla training data to make AI extremely capable in real-world engineering. No one has yet made AI excellent at real-world engineering. And I think that's an opportunity for Grok using the training data from SpaceX and Tesla.”
“It's pretty cool because we designed the car to look futuristic. Because I think from a fashion standpoint, we don't want the aesthetics of the street to stay stagnant. And also, I think maybe even clothing, like we should be, like there was there was rapid fashion evolution in the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and probably time to make things look more futuristic.
We have the Cybercab which has no steering wheel or pedals or side mirrors or rear view mirror operating commercially in Texas right now. And it will soon be operating commercially in Florida and Nevada and a number of other states. Probably by the middle of next year, it'll be operating commercially in California.”
“I'm in AI & it still makes my head spin. When I go to bed, there’ll be some big AI breakthrough. And then when I wake up, there's an AI breakthrough. And by the time it gets to lunch, there's another AI breakthrough.”
So, like, the peak human bandwidth is only about 100 bits per second, roughly. And our input bandwidth is much higher because of vision. So there we maybe have, it's a debatable point, but, you know, a megabit per second or a few megabits per second from our eyes, which are, in fact, like cameras. But our output bandwidth is really low, maybe 100 bits per second, whereas computers are communicating at a trillion bits per second.
So, anything we can do to increase the communication speed of humans will improve the, I think, the alignment of humans and machines. Because otherwise, to an AI that is communicating at a terabit a second, talking to a human would be like talking to a tree.”
• “The 90% positive outcome is that everyone's got robots that are their buddies.”
• “... take care of elderly parents or be a good guardian and watch over the children or be a teacher, like an individualized tutor to your child.”
• “I think you'll see many companies where it's one person with hundreds, maybe thousands of robots, like physical robots as well as digital robots.”
• “My prediction is that there will be effectively universal high income. In fact, it's not clear to me that money will even matter in the future.”
• “... if you want a castle, you know, robots will build you a castle.”
• “... the robot will be happy to work 168 hours a week, continuous.”
The Human input vs. output bandwidth measurement is instructive.
Oh, I see. Yesterday was Slobber on China Day.
“we designed the car to look futuristic. ... we don’t want the aesthetics of the street to stay stagnant.”
Sometimes newer isn’t better. Design the cars to mirror the styles up through the ‘80s.
“I think maybe even clothing, ... probably time to make things look more futuristic.”
Again, newer isn’t better. The elegance of clothing pre-1970s ... it would be nice to see that again.
And, for Pete’s sake, bring back the BlackBerry, Elon!
“Bring back Blackberry for what?”
For super security (unlike easily hacked smart phones), and user-friendly, therefore more efficient, tactile keyboard.
All that Cybercab sh!t probably is all those things you mention. I’m addressing STYLE; Elon was addressing STYLE.
The Blackberry, that’s funny. While we’re at it, let’s make dial-up internet popular again.
If you’re just looking for the style, Walmart still sells Android versions on their website.
The part starting at 13:04 I found most interesting.
If you think about it, that makes sense.
Money is nothing more than an abstract concept representing the labor in human time all summed up.
If human labor is replaced through robotics, at least a large degree of what money means, it’s assigned value, goes lost.
But, what about water, electricity, oil, gas, cesium, platinum, neobidium, palladium, cesium...?
Will energy and raw materials become the limits of human advances and be what is left valued in money?
Not worried about energy.
Over 99% of the energy in the solar system comes from the sun.
More advanced solar cells and batteries will take care of energy needs.
Musk has that covered too.
He’s building a gargantuan brand new solar cell factory in Texas as we speak.
Plus he already makes industrial battery packs.
Water?
Most of the earth’s surface is water.
Saudis get a good chunk of their water from the sea which after treatment is just like any other water.
I think for Smoking Joe every day us slobber day on Chicoms.
Pathetic.
I think for Smoking Joe every day us slobber day on Chicoms.
Pathetic.
Joseph Coates was 37 years old when doctors told him they were out of options, and his life was about to end by a rare blood disorder that had wrecked his body. His kidneys were failing, his heart was enlarged, and doctors were draining liters of fluid from his abdomen on a regular basis. It was so bad, he couldn’t even receive the stem-cell transplant that might have saved him.
Dr. Fajgenbaum had a pretty crazy AI generated idea… what if they tried a combination
of chemotherapy, immunotherapy, and steroids to treat Coates’s disease? And it worked.
The AI model is predicated on the fact that drugs do more than one thing. These additional features sometimes get characterized as “side effects.” AI combs through drugs to find the side effect you’re looking for, and then that becomes the main effect.
At the University of Pa, Dr. Fajgenbaum’s platform compares roughly 4,000 drugs against 18,500 diseases.
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