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Elon Musk: “A human at a computer is the most that AI can do in terms of…”

Featuring: Elon Musk, Senior Advisor to the President, Head of Department of Government Efficiency | National

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Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space"

Published | Video Starts at 1:01:58

What is the most that AI can do before you have robots? It's anything that involves moving electrons or amplifying the productivity of humans. So digital human, human emulator is in the limit. A human at a computer is the most that AI can do in terms of doing useful things before you have a physical robot. Once you have physical robots, then you essentially have unlimited capability physical robots. I call optimus the infinite money glitch because you can use them to make more optimuses. (1:01:58–1:02:10)

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Asserts that AI's maximum utility without physical robots is equivalent to a human using a computer.

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