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Adam Cook

@motorcityadam
15 posts
2024-10-12
1/3 Yes, what Musk did with Tesla's FSD program is, at minimum, no different than what Elizabeth Holmes did at Theranos.  —  Both used lies to suggest that they had developed a robust safety lifecycle for their products deployed to the public - and neither actually did it. …
2024-10-12 View on X
Business Insider

Analysts question the feasibility of Tesla's robotaxi plan, citing a lack of rideshare partnerships and Musk's history of missing FSD targets; TSLA drops 8.8%

- Tesla's driverless taxi plan has been met with skepticism over its feasibility and competition with rivals.

2024-10-11
1/3 Yes, what Musk did with Tesla's FSD program is, at minimum, no different than what Elizabeth Holmes did at Theranos.  —  Both used lies to suggest that they had developed a robust safety lifecycle for their products deployed to the public - and neither actually did it. …
2024-10-11 View on X
Business Insider

Experts question the feasibility of Tesla's robotaxi plan, getting scale without rideshare partners, and cite Musk's history of missed FSD dates; TSLA down 7%+

- Tesla's driverless taxi plan has been met with skepticism over its feasibility and competition with rivals.

2024-09-03
“Never trust a Musk Number” is my motto.  Has not failed me yet, to my knowledge.
2024-09-03 View on X
Fortune

Elon Musk says xAI brought its “Colossus 100k H100 training cluster online” over the weekend, which will “double in size to 200k (50k H200s) in a few months”

Say what you will about Elon Musk, but when the technological disruptor sets his mind to something, he plays to win.

2024-09-01
Pretty clear that Musk wants Bolsonaro re-installed and Musk wants to leverage Twitter, by design, to encourage Bolsonaristas to overthrow the elected government violently.  I will never support a TikTok ban where there are *allegations* of covert influence from a foreign government when Twitter is free to *overtly* export mayhem from US soil. …
2024-09-01 View on X
Associated Press

Brazil blocks X, following an order from Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes after Elon Musk refused to name a legal representative in the country

The blocking of social media platform X in Brazil divided users and politicians over the legitimacy of the ban, and many Brazilians …

Pretty clear that Musk wants Bolsonaro re-installed and Musk wants to leverage Twitter, by design, to encourage Bolsonaristas to overthrow the elected government violently.  I will never support a TikTok ban where there are *allegations* of covert influence from a foreign government when Twitter is free to *overtly* export mayhem from US soil. …
2024-09-01 View on X
Techdirt

X is right to stand up to Brazil's unjust “hostage laws,” but Musk's fight highlights his cynical free speech stance after he caved to Modi's censorship demands

RE: https://www.threads.net/... Adam Cook / @motorcityadam : Pretty clear that Musk wants Bolsonaro re-installed and Musk wants to leverage Twitter, by design, to encourage Bolsona...

2024-08-27
Only “unexpectedly” if one does not understand how Musk works.  Musk moved much of his business concerns out of the State of California.  Musk wants regulation to exist in California, so that he can exploit the lack of regulation elsewhere - as he does with all of his firms.
2024-08-27 View on X
@elonmusk

Elon Musk says that, “all things considered, I think California should probably pass the SB 1047 AI safety bill”, and saying so is “a tough call”

Always B — Be C — Ctalking your book Alex Konrad / @alexrkonrad : this will create some interesting divided loyalties in Silicon Valley 👀 Sean Durkin / @seandurkinsf : @DanHendryck...

2024-05-29
More than likely, the generous, pulled-from-thin-air xAI valuation will do the recruiting for Musk - and Musk is simply counting on that working again.  And I do think that a significant portion of the tech community has the memory span of only until the next SpaceX rocket launch. …
2024-05-29 View on X
Gizmodo

In a spat on X, Meta's Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun calls out Elon Musk for saying xAI will pursue “truth” as Musk spreads “crazy-ass conspiracy theories” on X

But It Does Have Privacy Issues Emergent Behavior : 2024-05-29: Memorial Day Shenanigans Siddharth Jindal / AIM : Yann LeCun Delays Elon Musk's AGI Plans James Farrell / SiliconANG...

2024-05-21
Not that I think Apple is some bastion of ethics, but in my view, Apple would do well to cut loose of their recently-disclosed partnership with OpenAI.  What Sam and OpenAI management did here flies in the face of Apple's brand image if Apple wants to view it that way.  And of course, the whole thing is just gross. …
2024-05-21 View on X
NBC News

Scarlett Johansson says she declined OpenAI's ChatGPT voice offer and was “shocked, angered” that Sam Altman would pursue Sky, a voice “eerily similar” to hers

The “Her” actor released a statement following OpenAI pulling its “Sky” voice from ChatGPT, which many people said sounded like her.

2024-05-13
Musk's hate, bigotry and fascism was readily-apparent to some from at least a decade ago.  It may be benefitting Musk economically now out of coincidence, but we see today in Musk is nothing new.  People just chose to ignore it back then and, many chose to ignore it still - trying to walk an absurd tight rope between Musk's illusion of “technological progress” and Musk's destructive hate. …
2024-05-13 View on X
New York Times

How Elon Musk uses X to back right-wing world leaders like Argentina's Javier Milei and India's Narendra Modi, who can help secure advantages for his businesses

Minutes after it became clear that Javier Milei had been elected president of South America's second-largest nation in November … Threads: @karaswisher , @motorcityadam , @karaswis...

2024-04-16
Yup.  In fact, we KNOW that Waymo has curated routes and disqualified certain traffic scenarios per, presumably, a carefully-considered risk-benefit analysis.  Ditto for its operating boundaries.  No shame in that!  That is a standard (and CONTINUOUS) exercise of managing any safety lifecycle. …
2024-04-16 View on X
Business Insider

Impressions of Waymo's robotaxis after several rides: amazing tech that quickly feels “normal”, but the car failed to understand a traffic cop's hand signals

I took my first Cruise more than a year ago! https://www.businessinsider.com/ ... Pranay Prateek / @pranay01 : My first time riding a driverless car and I must say this is definite...

2024-04-04
I can say this... Apple has the cash handy to pursue this... And will they need it!  Home mobile robotics is an absolute minefield of complexity and, again, would not largely be a software problem.  I do wonder if Apple would be better served to get into the home appliance market.  There is quite a bit of opportunity there for domain-specific robotics innovation that can be really impactful.  And it is far less resource hungry than the automotive market, which is its own minefield.
2024-04-04 View on X
Bloomberg

Sources: Apple is exploring home robotic devices, including a mobile robot that can follow users and a table-top device that uses robotics to move a display

- The company has teams working on automated home devices  — The search is on for new growth sources after EV gets nixed

Wow.  What a scoop.  That was... quite the cash burn?  Apparently?  For what it is worth, I wrote a pretty scathing thread on Ghost's development approach and market strategy (from a safety-perspective, of course) back in November.  The November thread is attached below. …
2024-04-04 View on X
TechCrunch

Self-driving software startup Ghost Autonomy, formerly Ghost Locomotion, shuts down, after raising ~$220M, and just five months after partnering with OpenAI

Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch :

2024-03-12
🧵1/2 Hmm.  So, here again, we have some systems-level issues to discuss.  One of the notes that should have been included in this article is that the “highly structured [manufacturing] environments” are, oftentimes, DEMANDED by the product lifecycle AND/OR the safety lifecycle. …
2024-03-12 View on X
TechCrunch

AI-powered robot maker Covariant debuts RFM-1, an AI model the company says can process physics, may limit the need for bespoke robotics programming, and more

Copied!  —  Watch Covariant's demos to view an overview of RFM-1's language and physics capabilities. Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE : Covariant develops video-generating AI model ...

2023-11-08
Honestly, all things considered, I much rather Tesla employees work on xAI than on, say, FSD Beta - if that is what is happening here.  Tesla is not organizationally competent in safety-critical systems.  Full stop.  And while I do believe that these “chatbot AI” systems DO have safety components associated with them - it seems less hazardous for now. …
2023-11-08 View on X
Platformer

Sources: X employees are increasingly being asked to spend time on xAI initiatives; xAI is using a data center once leased by Twitter, but now leased by Tesla

Tesla is fast running out of early adopters, but its cars are still too expensive for most buyers Threads: Parker Thompson / @parkert : Elon has always had a disregard for sharehol...

2023-09-18
Indeed.  The thing is... Tim Cook is a cold operator and, I think, does not want to drag Apple into Musk's and the alt-right's “culture war” - which Musk is probably itching to do if the ad dollars stop flowing.  So, Tim puts his head down and just ignores it. …
2023-09-18 View on X
CBS News

An interview with Tim Cook on Apple's pledge to become carbon neutral by 2030, the Vision Pro, return to the office, why Apple still advertises on X, and more

In Brown County, Texas - flat, dry, near the geographical center of the state - Apple has invested in a joint venture to power 100,000 homes with clean energy.