Elon Musk

Some of this is going to sound kind of doomerish, but I'm just saying what I think will happen.

It's not meant to be doomerish or anything else.

This is what I think will happen.

Corporations that are purely AI and robotics will vastly outperform any corporations that have people in the loop.

So you can think of, say, like computer used to be a job that humans had.

You would go and get a job as a computer where you would do calculations.

And they'd have like entire skyscrapers full of humans, like 20, 30 floors of humans just doing calculations.

Now that entire skyscraper of humans doing calculations can be replaced by a laptop with a spreadsheet.

That spreadsheet can do vastly more calculations than an entire building full of human computers.

So then you think about, OK, well, what if only some of the cells in your spreadsheet were calculated by humans?

Actually, that would be much worse than if all of the cells in your spreadsheet were calculated by the computer.

And so really what will happen is the pure AI, pure robotics,

corporations or collectives will far outperform any corporations that have humans in the loop.

And this will happen very quickly.

Well, there are really only three hard things for human robots.

The real world intelligence, the hand, and scale manufacturing.

So I haven't seen any even demo robots that have a great hand, like with all the degrees of freedom of a human hand.

But Optimus will have that.

Well, we had to design custom actuators, basically custom designed motors, gears, power electronics, controls, sensors.

Everything had to be designed from physics first principles.