Elon Musk is about to create the world’s first intelligent robots

Elon Musk is about to create the world’s first intelligent robots – but don’t worry, he has a workaround to avoid a “Terminator” style disaster.

This may sound a bit frivolous, but that doesn’t mean that the Tesla and SpaceX CEO doesn’t believe it will happen. In a recent tweet, he said out of the blue that his car company’s recently unveiled Optimus humanoid robot “may play a role” in the emergence of next-generation artificial intelligence (AI), a term meaning AI that matches or even surpasses human intelligence.

Tesla’s AI research and development department, tasked with making the company’s self-driving cars smarter, may soon have a hand in making intelligent AI a reality.

That’s because, Musk said, the car’s AI will receive real-time information and data from the environment and become even smarter after the launch of Optimus robots.

When Tesla’s Optimus will make its grand entrance – if at all – is still unknown. So far we’ve only seen a performer in a spandex suit dancing on stage at the company’s AI Day last year.

Although AI – especially real AI – is still years away from being realized, recent advances in autonomous robots and machine learning are getting experts excited.

Last year, for example, former Google executive Mo Gavat warned that bloodthirsty robots like Skynet from the TV series “Terminator” were inevitable – an opinion that coincides with Musk’s own conviction that intelligent robots “will appear anyway.

However, Musk assures that Tesla will do “everything possible” to keep them under control, and that “decentralized control of robots will be crucial.

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