DOGE was a real good one. Just more promises not kept.Musk has said many things that have not come true, or borderline ridiculous. Anyone buying a $39K cybertruck? Anyone still waiting for that $25K "affordable" Tesla model? California still waiting on that hyperloop? Anyone think DOGE is going to save $2 trillion?So yeah, he says a lot of things.
Sooner he gets to Mars, the better...Musk has said many things that have not come true, or borderline ridiculous. Anyone buying a $39K cybertruck? Anyone still waiting for that $25K "affordable" Tesla model? California still waiting on that hyperloop? Anyone think DOGE is going to save $2 trillion?
The iPhone routinely does this for me, and has for years, telling me the traffic situation, etc. It’s simply part of the built-in iOS calendar function assuming you gave them an address when you added the event to your calendar. Plus Calendar is talking to Maps. When I get into the car away from home Maps always tells me how long to get home, but it’s just assuming that I’m going home next. Yes, the Apple iOS knows if I’m not home, it also remembers where my car is parked when we go somewhere. The Tesla app can show me my car location too.
Still need a phone.
Yeah, otherwise you are only talking to AI.
I’ve brought up Elon statements in two different threads only to get a similar response in both. People dismiss him/just don’t like him I guess.
The same people that would have ridiculed the Wright brothers, Einstein and Leonardo DaVinci. He's a dreamer, a wild dreamer but with deep pockets to make it happen. And, he also has issues. He's not stable mentally, he has hypomania, a mild mania and PTSD from a rough childhood.
I have a relative that needs a capability along those lines. Basically if his phone could determine that he's 30 minutes away from a destination and he hasn't left yet, it notifies everybody he's meeting with that he's going to be late. When he finally does leave it can tell us when he's going to show up...
As the old saying goes.... through enough darts at a dart board, and even blindfolded, you can hit the dart board.
. He's more connected to grandchildren, old friends etc... I don't think you could take it from him if you tried! He's 80 and still a powerful BEAST of a man!
Combining a smartphone with a smartwatch (iPhone/Apple Watch) solves some of that issue.
I don’t know, but I absolutely hate, hate, hate the TV series or movies that are set in Dystopia. DH just finished 4 seasons of The Man in High Castle and I don’t see how he could stand it. He watches plenty of sci-fi and many of those are dystopian themes.Do any of us know how far it is from here to dystopia? I tend to believe that technological advances create possibility that simultaneously could be characterized as another step to the end. My evaluation of mobile phones, internet, AI etc is that in general far more good has been done than bad. I generally don't enjoy getting older, but watching technology advance triggers my inner child and I am thrilled!
My FIL was one of those techno-luddites who LOVED to make fun of mobile phone users. He refused to get one and was proud of it. Until he got one...
The period from 1880 to 1980 is inimitable and will likely become hailed by future historians as a golden age of innovation.
Less than the Falcon rockets and Starship.... Not aware that Musk worked much on Artemis and agree it is not very impressive given its cost and timeline.
I didn’t read a post that claimed we should “blow him off.” While he’s accomplished a lot, surely you realize many of his predictions haven’t come true and never will, though some do materialize though long after he predicted. His “track record” is relatively poor.
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Google "can ai make hotel reservations for me". I've only used it once, but it worked very well and saved me probably $300 on a 4-night hotel reservation. I guess it can also book flights and rental cars, though I have not tried that. You tell it where you're going, the area of that city you want to stay in, give it your budget and it takes it from there.
I don't like him for many reasons going back for years. I don't dismiss him but a lot of what he says is just off the top of his head and doesn't hold up. He might be a smarter guy than most, but he's no Edison.
I didn't say AI couldn't be used for some of those things. I said I don't need it to do those things.
My grandfather was born in the late 1890's. He had a very technical mind. I showed him a 4k memory chip in the early 80's and told him there were about 4,000 transistors in it. He was totally astounded. Now - the M4 chip just released by Apple in May 2024 has 28 billion transistors. Progress I guess..
Yes of course that's progress, but the truly astounding progress is the discovery of the transistor in 1947, and then going to the sophistication of integrated circuits already in the 1970s. The numerical leap from the 1970s to the present, is precisely that... scaling. I don't in the least dismiss the technological challenges of accomplishing that scaling, but hopefully you'll agree, that these pale compared to the epistemic conceptual leap of inventing the transistor in the first place.
