future_syntheticAug 11, 2023

Elon Musk says Tesla cars now have a mind, figured out 'some aspects of AGI’

https://awful.systems/post/56676

Elon Musk says Tesla cars now have a mind, figured out 'some aspects of AGI’ - awful.systems

I don’t have anything to say that the title doesn’t already. Consider my gast to be flabbered, my gob to be smacked. I hate this timeline.

Show threadmelonpunk

I like to file anything that Musk says in the round mesh filing cabinet.

Full self driving by when?

Hyperloop easy

“It’s not that hard”

There’s a lot of smart and hardworking people at his companies for sure, but that guy Peter Molyneuxs their good efforts.

Aug 11, 2023 at 7:31pmWeb
Show threadselfAug 11, 2023
crucially, Peter has never had to cover up for any deaths caused by Fable
Show threadfuture_syntheticAug 11, 2023
“smart and hardworking people” aside, the normalization and dismissal of these statements as just marketing or otherwise harmless fibs has enabled a consistent escalation of scope and affect. Design shortcuts that Tesla has made have resulted in actual death and injury, and claiming that the cars have agi even in a rudimentary sense is astonishing.
Show threadfroztbyteAug 11, 2023

literally my first thought: “oh, so he wants to try blame the deaths on a wee little machine intelligence that oopsie just didn’t know any better?”

(because he would spin that narrative if he thought he could get away with it)

Show threadDr. DabblesAug 11, 2023
It’s called the Fuck it bucket.