Jeff Brown (stock promoter but I think he already exited Tesla position and waiting for lower price):
"Smartly designed to attract artificial intelligence (AI) engineers, Tesla’s AI Day has become one of the most important events of the year for high tech. For those who’re interested, it runs for about three hours and 20 minutes and can be found on YouTube.
The event was held last Friday, and while the goal for Tesla was recruitment, there are remarkable insights to glean for investors and technologists interested in the field of AI.
Unsurprisingly, the progress made by Tesla over the last year is nothing short of extraordinary. It amazes me there are so many critics of the event.
Last year, CEO Elon Musk cleverly demonstrated a mockup of
what was to become Optimus—Tesla’s bipedal robot designed to support humans. Hilariously, Optimus was actually a human dressed up as the robot dancing on stage.
Many made fun of Musk at the time… but they’re not laughing now.
An Optimus prototype is real. Not only is there a clear path toward commercialization, but one at which the price point is less than $20,000. At this price, Optimus would be accessible to both large and small businesses, and even normal consumers.
Tesla’s announcements concerning high-performance computing and autonomous driving technology were no less impressive.
More than 160,000 customers now use Tesla’s full self-driving (FSD) software. It’s not yet perfect, but no other company comes close. Despite this, the automotive industry and many tech journalists like to pretend that FSD doesn’t really exist.
The tech that Tesla’s building is revolutionary. It will disrupt and change the entire transportation sector. But the disruption has nothing to do with being an electric vehicle (EV), and everything to do with being an AI-powered mode of transport.
Tesla’s ambitions with robotics are no different.
The robotic hardware is just the medium. The revolution will happen because of the AI software.
Bipedal robots with human-like hands for object manipulation will be everywhere in a matter of years. They’ll augment human labor, increase productivity, result in less workplace injuries, provide care for aging populations, provide security, and even help us out around the house.
Optimus will do for human labor what the iPhone did for so many aspects of our lives. Programmable, upgradeable, and capable of performing the work of so many different devices that simply collapsed into software applications able to leverage the iPhone’s hardware.
Optimus will do the same for the physical world—the difference being we’ll be able to teach it desired tasks. And it will learn, remember, and optimize everything that we need it to perform.
With that will come an industry worth hundreds of billions of dollars annually. New jobs are already being created.
There are a long list of well-funded competitors who thought they were ahead… and now they’re all nervous after Friday’s event.
The significance of what’s happening isn’t just some kind of new, cool technology. What Tesla’s doing with Optimus will transform society. It will improve productivity and quality of life."