Tesla unveiled a humanoid robot Elon Musk says is the future of car manufacturing.
"It's gonna do everything that a human brain does --- processing vision data, making split-second decisions based on sensory inputs, and also communications," an engineer said.
The Tesla and SpaceX CEO said he hopes Optimus will one day handle tasks thought to be boring, repetitive or downright dangerous.The release of this long-anticipated humanoid robot comes just four months after Tesla announced it's cutting 10% of its salaried staff; the company later clarified that its hourly staff is expected grow, meaning the total cutbacks would only be 3.5%.
"He predicts that this new robotic future, where there's not many human employees, the profits from that and then the type of economic activity that will be produced from that will be so great that governments and other entities will be able to afford to actually pay humans to basically do nothing," said Alistair Barr, tech editor for Business Insider.
AI has been a mainstay in pop-culture ever since the Terminator showed what a worst-case-scenario future could look like.But new technology does mean new safety concerns.
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