Elon Musk

You've got to ignore the things that don't matter.

You don't care about the details of the leaves and the tree on the side of the road, but you care a lot about the road signs and the traffic lights and the pedestrians, and even whether somebody in another car is looking at you or not looking at you.

Some of these details matter a lot.

So if it is essentially, it's got to turn that, the car's got to turn that one and a half gigabytes a second, ultimately into two kilobytes a second of control outputs.

So many stages of compression, and you've got to get all those stages right, and then correlate those to the correct control outputs.

The robot has to do essentially the same thing.

And you think about what humans, this is what happens with humans.

We really are photons in, controls out.

So that is the vast majority of your life has been vision, photons in, and then motor controls out.

You're highlighting an important limitation and difference between cars.

We'll soon have 10 million cars on the road.

It's hard to duplicate that massive training flywheel.

For the robot,

What we're going to need to do is build a lot of robots and put them in kind of like an Optimus Academy so they can do self-play in reality.

So we're actually pulling that out.

So we're going to have at least 10,000 Optimus robots, maybe 20,000 or 30,000.

that are doing self-play and testing different tasks.

And then Tesla has quite a good reality generator, like a physics-accurate reality generator that we made this for the cars.

We'll do the same thing for the robots.

We actually have done that for the robots.