Read this! Bloody hell! (https://spectrum.ieee.org/elon-musk-robot)
The person writin’ this is smarter than everyone else combined. Musk is just casually gonna leapfrog all the specialist roboticists and whip out ‘is Teslabot. Doesn’t ‘ave a clue wtf he’s talkin about. Got no right to call his cars ‘semi-sentient’.
I got some news for this guy - Yeah, we did ‘ave cars n stuff so he din’t have to develop four wheels n a chassis. BFD mate, bfd. He DID casually leapfrog tens of thousands of people that’d been making petrol engine cars for over a century, and made a car I’d be stoked to own. (Hey Elon; you kin git in touch wiv me through here. Ya know what I mean, wink wink maaaaate!)
Also, we already had rockets for effin’ centuries before yer average rocket scientist turned ‘em into Atlas and Saturn class monsters and made ‘em disposable while dey were at it. Again, SOMEONE (not mentionin’ any names again now) sorta casually overtook ‘em and a few other entrepreneurs, and made a self-flying self-returning system for flying people to space and back. Also for a helluva lot less money than them.
Then agin, Musk also made hyperloop and the Boring company and neuralaces that show us how a pig’s taste buds work (bfd btw) so Imma bit conflicted about all this. But at least I know that any bots Tesla make will be cheaper’n Atlas and better’n Spot.
Now git offa ma lawn. Scat!