Elon Musk

Elon Musk Says Mark Zuckerberg's Jarvis A.i. Isn't A.i

... but only one of them actually has a pet A. I. named Jarvis. Except Musk, a noted critic of wanton A. I. says that Zuckerberg’s Jarvis isn’t really an A. I. at all, dismissing the Morgan Freeman-voiced home assistant as nothing more than a really expensive light switch. Musk’s newest statement comes from a Vanity Fair feature , on the billionaire CEO’s attitudes toward the coming A. I. revolution. Zuckerberg claims Jarvis is an all in one A. I. solution for personal organization and smart home management, touting its ability to coordinate a user’s whole life with no need to micro-manage its settings. Musk says it’s nothing new. “I wouldn’t call it A. I. to have your household functions automated,” Musk told the magazine. “It’s really not A. I. to turn the lights on, set the temperature.”. The disdain in Musk’s statement is telling, given that he has yet to ...

Elon Musk Is Not Happy About Trump’s Recently Signed Nasa Bill

... has had a complicated geologic history, leading to interesting structures like layered bedrock, as well as other compositions. Photo Credit: NASA. Wind Carved Rock on Mars. The distinctively fluted surface and elongated hills in this image in Medusae Fossae are caused by wind erosion of a soft fine-grained rock. Called yardangs, these features are aligned with the prevailing wind direction. This wind direction would have dominated for a very long time to carve these large-scale features into the exposed rock. Photo Credit: NASA. Rains of Terror on Exoplanet HD 189733 b. This Halloween, take a tour with NASA's Exoplanet Exploration site of some of the most terrifying destinations in our galaxy. The nightmare world of HD 189733 b is the killer you never see coming. To the human eye, this far-off planet looks bright blue. But any space traveler confusing it with the friendly skies of Earth would be badly mistaken. Photo Credit: NASA. Aurora and Manicouagan Crater. An astronaut aboard the International ...

Elon Musk Needs To Slip Jared Kushner These New Solar Jobs Numbers

... natural gas, coal and nuclear energy, it also will say the U. S. is well served when affordable, reliable and clean electricity is produced from an array of sources, including solar, wind and hydropower.". Meanwhile, Elon Musk is reportedly collaborating  with Jared Kushner's "innovation office," which is focused on making government more tech-savvy. According to the Washington Post, it will also assist in "developing 'transformative projects' under the banner of Trump’s $1 trillion infrastructure plan." One could imagine Musk, a solar and storage evangelist, getting in a word about those technologies. In fact, they already do play a limited role in Trump's draft infrastructure plan. The net impact of all this activity is hard to determine. The Obama administration had long been working to make permitting renewables on public lands easier - so it's not clear what ...

Elon Musk's Openai Develops Bots That Can Create Their Own Language

... Abbeel, the researchers describe how the bots used reinforcement learning to accomplish simple goals. Using a plain white box, the bots were depicted as a red, green, or blue circle. Two bots were instructed to move the third bot to a different location within the box but not told how to accomplish that task. They were given clues such as “Go to” or “Look at” by the researchers, but they were required to create their own machine language to communicate with each other. The researchers then assigned English words to the numerical strings the bots came up with. Through trial and error, the bots were able to learn what worked and what didn’t as they attempted to accomplish the assigned goals. “We think that if we slowly increase the complexity of their environment, and the range of actions the agents themselves are allowed to take, it’s possible they’ll create an expressive language which contains concepts beyond the basic verbs and nouns that evolved here,” the researchers explained in a blog post. While the tasks accomplished were ...

Elon Musk’s New Startup

... very foolish.”. Neuralink enters a fast-growing field that could lead to advances in brain function and medicine. Joshua Conner, an adjunct professor of computer engineering at Santa Clara University, said the artificial intelligence field has grown rapidly in the last 10 years. Tech companies continue to develop new AI capabilities and bring them to market. Conner said research is pushing into fields to add capacity to the human brain — either to supplement human memory, add intelligence or computing power, or interfacing with tissues to treat neurological disorders. “It’s very much cutting edge,” Conner said. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, is studying the potential medical benefits of electronic implants and the nervous system. Researchers at the agency believe technology could allow the body to better heal itself, and create a bridge between ...

Tesla's Elon Musk Reveals Plan To Link Brains To Computers

... implanted sensors have let paralyzed people use brain signals to operate computers and move robotic arms. In October, in a partnership between the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC, researchers reported that a man regained some movement in his own hand with a brain implant. Musk's proposal goes beyond this. Although nothing is developed yet, the company wants to build on those existing medical treatments as well as one day work on surgeries that could improve cognitive functioning, according to the Journal article. Neuralink is not the only company working on artificial intelligence for the brain. Entrepreneur Bryan Johnson, who sold his previous payments startup Braintree to Pay Pal for $800 million, last year started Kernel, a company working on “advanced neural interfaces” to treat disease and extend cognition. Neuroscientists posit that the technology that Neura­link and Kernel are working on may indeed come to pass, though it's likely to take much longer than the four or five years Musk has predicted. Brain surgery remains a risky endeavor; implants can shift in place, limiting their useful lifetime, and patients with ...

Elon Musk On Brink Of Wright Brothers Moment With Reused Rocket

... to fly missions for the U. S. Air Force and plans to send two private citizens on a trip around the moon late next year. The reused rocket was first flown on April 8 with the CRS-8 mission, a cargo resupply mission to the space station. If the launch goes off without a hitch — and the rocket booster is once again recovered on the drone ship — SES will get its own piece of space flight history as a memento. “Gwynne has promised us parts of the rocket,” Halliwell said. “We want them for the SES board room.”. Colorado incomes rise, but start to look more average. March 28, 2017, 6:28 pm. Personal incomes in Colorado rose from $277.7 billion in 2015 to $288.4 billion in 2016, a 3.9 percent increase, ahead of the 3.6 percent gain measured nationally last year. Sure, you can wear leggings on a plane — but please don’t. March 28, 2017, 6:16 pm. Do it for your fellow long-suffering air travelers. Do it for that seatmate who is feeling a little violated after the indignity of a TSA pat-down. Do it for all the good citizens who, just like you, wish that their knees were not practically ...

Elon Musk To Launch Startup Aiming To Develop Cranial Computers

... solo press conference, additional bizarre details have come to light, like Nunes receiving a mysterious message while in a car with a staffer, then bailing for an Uber and vanishing into the night, leading Meyers to declare, "This whole thing is starting to turn into an episode of Dateline.". The public doesn't know what evidence was so explosive Nunes had to ditch one moving vehicle for another, but CNN reported that a Republican briefed on what Nunes has seen said it's "almost like the kind of trivia you would pick up" during a casual conversation, like where Trump was having dinner. "Nunes has been running around D. C. like he's James Bond just to find out where Trump had dinner? That surveillance feed must have been pretty boring," Meyers said, before slipping into his Trump-at-a-KFC impersonation: "'I'll have the 12-piece bucket, extra crispy, in fact it should be the same color as my skin. Thank you. I ...

Elon Musk’s Pledge To Fix South Australia’s Energy Issues Prompts Ukrainian Pm To Get In Touch

... state leading to price spikes with local energy firms struggling to meet demand as a result of damage to infrastructure. Solar City is an energy firm Musk founded with his cousin Lyndon Rive. It recently merged with Tesla , the car company Musk is CEO of. Rive told Australian news site AFR last week that Solar City could provide the energy storage required through the battery technology it produces and this would be possible within 100 days. Mike Cannon-Brookes, the Australian founder of Nasdaq-listed tech firm Atlassian asked Musk on Twitter if this was a real bet. Musk replied that it was, adding that if the company couldn't do it within 100 days, the contract would be free. Solar City makes solar solutions for areas which can store up energy during the day and feed that back into an area's grid. The promise was applauded by ...

Elon Musk Just Tweeted About A Spacex Travel Ad, But It's Not What You Think

... could probably do without the dangerous malfunctions and retro haircuts. Here is the latest Space X travel ad for the flight around the moon & into deep space. Maybe needs a few edits. __link__/m A 8 Zgutrb E. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 28, 2017. Musk announced last month that Space X would fly two private citizens around the moon and back on a Dragon 2 spacecraft in late 2018. The mission is expected to cost around the same as a private trip to the International Space Station, around $35 million. Before then, Space X has a lot of preparation to complete, with travel ads probably quite low down on the list of priorities. In mid to late 2017, the company will start health and fitness trials for the two individuals alongside initial training. Then, an autonomous test launch of the Dragon 2 will take place to the space station, ensuring the craft is in working order. The flight will take place once Space X has conducted crewed Dragon missions ...