Science fiction everyone has seen it, right? (It doesn't matter if you haven't seen it, you can listen to the hero and you bullshit)
In the future world, human scientific and technological civilization is incomparably brilliant.
Everything we're doing now can be done by AI robots.
Even in the future, some mad scientists will work out ways to replace the human body with machines and use other energy sources to create "transformed people".
These "transformed people" not only possess human intelligence and the ability to think autonomously, but also have copper-skinned iron bones like robots.
Such "people" do not get hurt or die, and in a sense they can even be said to achieve eternal life as human beings.
In some science fiction novels, this "transformation of man" is even referred to as the evolutionary path of human beings.
Originally, the hero thought that this kind of idea would only exist in science fiction, and it was some people's imagination of the future world.
Because man can imagine science, but he cannot give up his essence as a human being.
Unexpectedly, Musk said the same thing in a recent interview.
Musk was interviewed by reporters at a factory in California on March 27.
In the interview, Musk mentioned the humanoid robot launched at Tesla AI Day last year, and said:
One day, we can download those unique things, such as personality and memories, into the robot body, which will be a different way of immortality.
Look at what people say, and this begins to associate science with human immortality.
You may still have questions, how can Tesla suddenly mention robots, does he really want to create a carman who will transform?
This has to start with last year's Tesla AI Day.
At the Tesla AI Day in mid-August 2021, we saw humans wearing Tesla Bot clothes performing what future Tesla robots will do.
For example, a flexible and enjoyable dance (this is a real person, not a robot)
On this day, Musk talked to everyone about the various predetermined specifications of the future Tesla Bot. (Meaning that it is still in the conjecture stage)
For example, Tesla Bot will be made of smooth and lightweight materials, although its own attributes are mechanical, but the weight is similar to the height and weight of a normal person.
He is 173 cm tall, weighs 125 pounds (56 kg), walks at 8 km/h, and can carry up to 45 pounds (20 kg) of items.
In short, the appearance will look like a normal human being.
However, the Tesla Bot's face will be composed of a camera and a screen, which can allow people to intuitively see the state of the robot.
The limbs are controlled by 40 drive motors (whether they can be as flexible as real people is unknown.) ）
Moreover, Tesla robots have a cool internal code name - "Optimus".
Optimus Prime's prototype will be completed by the end of this year.
Musk said at the time:
We think sometime next year, there might be a prototype of a robot like this.
Musk said Tesla is the world's largest robotics company because our cars are like semi-sentient robots with wheels.
On January 27, 2022, Musk announced on a conference call:
Developing humanoid robots will be the most important job of the year, even overshadowing the automotive business.
So, what was Tesla Bot developed primarily for? Is it really to achieve "replicating the brain to reach a state of immortality"?
Of course not.
In a sense, Musk himself has little interest in immortality, and even he feels that if humans survive too long, we will be bound by old ideas and society will not progress.
The birth of humanoid robots is a trend, and there may still be many other uses, but the first use at Tesla will be manual labor.
For example, moving parts around the factory or other high-intensity, high-risk work, or even "dirty work" that labor is unwilling to do (and need to increase the employment price).
He predicts that by 2025, the processing power of computers will exceed that of the human brain, and human intelligence will become increasingly inanimate.
However, at this time, it is a bit too exaggerated, in 2025, that is, 3 years later, it is difficult to build a mature automatic driving, let alone a mature intelligent robot.
There is no one who thinks like this.
Last year, a lecturer in robotics engineering at the University of Central Lancashire in the United Kingdom publicly stated:
"It's polite to say it's a fart." I'm not saying Musk shouldn't do such research, but that this kind of propaganda is usually exaggerated. ”
If robots can replace humans in doing some dangerous work, then robots are indeed a very important research direction.
If you want to find other ways of "eternal life" in this way, then I personally feel that experiencing life, old age, illness and death is the true meaning of being human.