Elon Musk's "WeRobot Event" Just Showed Us The FUTURE Of AI

So Elon Musk finally had the Tesla WeRobot event that showcased a bunch of new AI features and autonomous vehicles. This event was absolutely incredible because for the first time we got a real glance into what the future of the world might look like with advanced AI technology. In this video, I'm going to dive into some of the key things you might have missed as well as some of the key announcements that happened at the event. So. So one of the things that the event started with was the fact that today's transportation actually sucks. To just simply put it bluntly, one of the large majority of our time wastes is driving. And when we think about what driving is, this is something that, you know, costs too much in terms of like buying a car, having a car payment. It's one of the reasons most people are living paycheck to paycheck. Number two is of course the fact that this is purely not safe, you know, so statistically speaking, you're actually quite likely to die, unfortunately in a car accident more than anything else. And of course, the third thing is that this is not sustainable, having all of these cars everywhere producing emissions. It's just something that is quite unsustainable in terms of the climate. So Elon Musk actually speaks about this and talks about why Tesla's autonomous vehicles are going to provide a solution to this glaringly obvious problem that in a few years will seem quite strange.

So when we think about transport today, there's a lot of kind of pain that we take for granted that we think is normal. Like having to drive around LA in like three hours of traffic. Yeah. People that live in la, I mean, you know, try to get from Pasadena to, you know, El Segundo during rush hour is like, you can fly to, you know, another city faster than you can get to crosstown la. So and you have to drive the whole way, unless you're in a Tesla, of course. Our Tesla already does quite well at this, you know, supervised self driving. So supervised full self driving is actually working quite well. I'm sure there's people in the crowd. You, you're using that. Yeah. So it's, we'll move from supervised full self driving to unsupervised full self driving where the car, you could fall asleep and wake up at your destination. But there's also a challenge for a lot of people that cars cost too much. I mean, when you factor in everything that goes into a car and the car insurance, the car payments and the storage of the car, it's very expensive. So with you said like, how often are, what, how many hours a week are cars used? Your average passenger car is only used about 10 hours a week out of 168 hours. So the vast majority of the time, cars are just doing nothing. But if they're autonomous, they could be used, I don't know, five times more, maybe 10 times more. So you could actually, for the same car, would have five times as much value, maybe, maybe 10 times as much value. There's 168 hours in the week, and like I said, only 10 of them are used for driving. And then a bunch of those hours are looking for a parking spot, which can be pretty annoying at times. So with autonomy, you get your time back. This is a very big deal. So it's not just a safe. Like, it'll save lives, like a lot of lives, and prevent injuries. I think we'll see autonomous cars become 10 times safer than a human. I mean, if you think of times past where there used to be an elevator operator in every elevator, but once in a while they get tired and accidentally chew somebody in half, you know, so now we have automated elevators. You just get in an elevator and you press a button and you don't even think about it, and it just takes you to the floor. And if you did see an elevator operator with a big relay switch, you'd be like, that's weird. Now that's how cars will be. And it's not just the lives saved in injuries, but if you look at the. Think about the cumulative time that people spend in a car and the time they will get back that they can now spend, well, I guess on their phones or watching a movie or doing work or whatever you want to do. You can think of the car in autonomous world as being like just a little lounge. You're just sitting in a comfortable little lounge, and you can do whatever you want while you're in this comfortable little lounge. And when you get out, you will be at your destination. So, yeah, it's going to be awesome.

So now, of course, with all the pros and cons of these autonomous vehicles in the future, there's going to be a variety of ways that Elon Musk is going to solve that problem. One of the ways that Elon Musk is going to be solving that problem is, of course, the cybercap. This is the most affordable, cheapest to operate. Robo taxi, that is, is an autonomous vehicle. I'll let Elon Musk talk about it first, and then I'll give you some more details.

I think the cost of autonomous Transport will be so low that you can think of it like individualized mass transit. The average cost of a bus per mile for a city, not the ticket price because that is subsidized, but the average price is about a dollar a mile, whereas the cost of Cyber Cab, we think probably over time, the operating cost is probably going to be around 20 cents a mile. And price, including taxes and everything else, probably ends up being 30 or 40 cents a mile. So. Yes. And you will be able to buy one. Yes, exactly. And we expect the cost to be below $30,000.

So the cybercab, being the newly unveiled autonomous vehicle designed to function as a robotaxi, has key features. So this cybercab is actually designed for full autonomy. It actually lacks traditional controls like steering wheels and pedals, and it purely relies on cameras and a AI for navigation. Now, crazily, the retail price for this is actually under $30,000, making it really competitively priced option in the autonomous vehicle market. I think this is going to be absolutely incredible. As we've known that electric vehicle prices have been quite on the decline as of recently. Now, apparently this vehicle will feature wireless induction charging, eliminating the need for plug in charging stations, which is really cool. And I think if we're actually just talking about in terms of the design of this vehicle, I would love to say that this vehicle just looks really futuristic. One of the things I wonder about car manufacturers is why they don't opt for a more sleeker, futuristic design. And it seems that Elon Musk and Tesla are one of the only companies that are operating in this super futuristic realm. Now, in terms of when you'll be able to get your hands on one of these, production is anticipated to begin before 2026, with mass production possibly starting as 2026. So it will be very intriguing to see what happens once this vehicle comes to the market. Do you think that most people will be using this or do you think most people will stick to their standard of driving? Considering the fact that this will be cheapest to operate? That is going to be something that's going to be incredible. Now, one of the things that you might have thought about is how on earth is this vehicle even cleaned? And this is what Elon Musk shows us right here.

Something we're also doing is, and it's really high time we did this is inductive charging. So the robotaxi has no plug, it just goes over the inductive charger and charges. So yeah, it's kind of how it should be.

So with the cybercab what we have here is something that is truly fascinating. We have something that combines elements of both personal vehicle rental and a self driving fleet. So the cybercab, because this actually confused me at first, is a part of Tesla's vision for a self driving fleet which is quite similar to ride hailing services like Uber. These vehicles are pretty much designed to operate without human drivers relying on just purely cameras and AI for navigation. Now here's why you might need your vehicle cleaned. Because. Because Tesla owners have the option to rent out their personal vehicles to the cybercab fleet when they are not in use. And this model is inspired by the way that people rent out their homes on Airbnb, allowing others to own an income from their vehicles while contributing to the fleet. Now the cybercab is a purpose built robo taxi that surprisingly features no steering wheels or pedals. And, and I can't believe the price of this. It's going to be less than $30,000. And interestingly it only has two seats with these butterfly doors that looks super futuristic. So overall we have a service that aims to function as both a company owned and a user contribution network where Tesla operates some vehicles directly while individual owners can add their cars to to the fleet. And this dual ownership model allows for flexibility and scalability in the service. So this is going to be rather fascinating to see if certain individuals will rent out their Teslas. I wonder how that entire integration will work as consumers get to grips with this new kind of reality to where driving is no longer something you do. Now if you do want to know exactly how Tesla's full self driving works, you, Elon Musk talks about the data collection and how they've managed to get to where they are. With Tesla's for self driving it's got essentially a million lifetimes of driving experience.

So one of the reasons why the computer can be so much better than a person is that we have millions of cars that are training on driving. So it's like, it's like living millions of lives simultaneously and seeing very unusual situations that a person in their entire lifetime would not see, but hopefully. Yeah, exactly. So with that amount of training data, it's obviously going to be much better than what a human could be. It's because you can't live a million lives. And it's also, it can see in all directions simultaneously and it doesn't get tired or text or any of those things. So it will naturally be like I said, 10, 20, 30 times safer than a human. Just for all those reasons. I want to Emphasize that the solution that we have is AI and vision. So there's no expensive equipment needed. The Model 3 and Model Y and SNX that we make today will be capable of full autonomy unsupervised. And that means that our cost of producing the vehicle is low. Now we are going to actually overspec the computer for the CyberCab. So our AI 5 computer will be somewhat over specced because I think there's actually also an opportunity, sort of like an Amazon Web Services, where if the car's driving for 50 hours a week, there's still over 100 hours left and there's a potential there to have a massive amount of distributed inference compute, where if you've got like say a fleet of 100 million vehicles and, and a kilowatt of efficient inference compute, you have 100 gigawatts of compute, which is really quite substantial. And if it's there you might as well use it. So yeah, so that's. That I think will make sense. So.

So Tesla's FSD has become smarter over time. I know that they are continually collecting data and I think with the advent of certain AI systems we, with the amount of money going into autonomous driving, this is going to become increasingly commonplace as these systems manage to get more robust and manage to handle scenarios in which they haven't been trained on. I think this is going to be super fascinating to see real time how Teslas manage to handle certain scenarios and how we beef up the safety of driving. I think most people truly don't understand how dangerous driving is, which is why most people might not opt for this. But driving is truly something that is incredibly dangerous. And if this is something that is going to be safer than most drivers, that can prevent human error. Maybe you could faint at the wheel. There could be someone who's drunk or inebriated that crashes into you at midnight. I think this is going to solve a lot of problems. Now the Tesla cybercab wasn't the only thing being revealed. There was of course the Robovan, which is designed to operate without a driver, lacking traditional controls, and a completely autonomous vehicle that operates without a supervisor, which is basically a much bigger robotaxi. So this is a personal and commercial vehicle used for transporting sports teams like a mobile cargo unit. I mean there's many different utilities for this robo van. But I'll let Elon Musk take it away because this I think by far is one of the most interesting things. Things with how Elon Musk is growing the company and the kinds of autonomous offerings that he has. And I do have to say that once this thing opens up, the interior for this is absolutely outstanding. It looks something like out of a futuristic movie. And many are calling this the iRobot moment for reality. If you aren't familiar with that, that was basically a movie quite a while ago that is eerily similar to what we are seeing today. So. So I'll let Elon Musk take it away. But this is something that's truly incredible.

There's a lot of opportunity to create. Green space in the cities that we live in. So I think that would be quite fantastic. Oh, and also, what happens if you need a vehicle that is bigger than a model? Yes, the Robovin. The Robovin is. This is. We're going to make this and it's going to look like that. Now, can you imagine going down the streets and you see this coming towards you? That'd be sick. So this can carry up to 20 people and it can also transport goods. So you can configure it for goods transport within a city or transport of up to 20 people at a time. So this is gonna, the Rebovin is what's gonna solve for high density. So if you, if you want to take a sports team somewhere or you're looking to really get the cost of travel down to, I don't know, 5, 10 cents a mile, then you can use the Robovan. Some people call it the Robovan, but. So, yeah, you know, one of the things that we, we want to do, and we've seen this with the cybertruck, is we want to change the, the look of the roads. You know, the future should look like the future.

So Z Mosque was saying, I think this is going to be really cool. If you see this coming down the street in the future, this, this can carry up to 20 people, which basically replaces minibuses in urban environments. And of course, he estimated that the operating cost of the Robovan could be as low as 5 to 10 cents per mile per person, although specific pricing details and availability have not been disclosed. So this is pretty incredible because this represents a significant step towards autonomous mass transit solutions. I can imagine a future where we have these kinds of vehicles driving around at all different hours, allowing people to travel from certain destinations, possibly replacing the need for bus drivers. Not that bus drivers do crash that often, but I do think this is going to be rather fascinating as it's quite futuristic in the sense that we're going to have these autonomous vehicle services that allow for a more robust public system. Now, of course, when we look at, now, of course, when we look at robots, we have to remember that this is not the only offering that Elon Musk has. There's, of course, the very infamous Tesla bot, which has been getting some sneaky upgrades. And that Elon Musk gives us a really fascinating update about robots.

So everything we've developed for our cars, the batteries, power electronics, the advanced motors, gearboxes, the software, the, the AI inference computer, it all actually applies to a humanoid robot. So the same techniques, it's just a robot with arms and legs instead of a robot with, with wheels. And we've made a lot of progress with the Optimus. And as you can see, we, we started it with someone in a robot suit sort of down, and then we've progressed dramatically year after year. So if you extrapolate this, you're really going to have something spectacular, something that anyone could own. So you could have your own personal R2D2C3PO. And I think at scale, the, this would cost something like, I don't know, 20, $30,000, probably less. Less than a car is my prediction. Long term, It'll take us a minute to get to the long term, but fundamentally, at scale, the Optimus robot, you should be able to buy an optimus robot for, I think, probably 20 to $30,000 long term. And what can it do? It'll be do anything you want. So it can be a teacher, babysit your kids, it can walk your dog, mow your lawn, get the groceries, just be your friend, serve drinks, whatever you can think of, it will do. And yeah, it's going to be awesome. I think this will be the biggest product ever of any kind.

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Because I think everyone, of the 8 billion people of Earth, I think everyone's going to want their Optimus buddy.

So the Tesla bot is of course, Tesla's version of their humanoid robot. We've seen many different companies try and implement their kind of robots for the humanoid future that many like myself are expecting. And I think this is going to be one of the most intriguing products from the future, because this is something that there isn't really a accurate prediction on how these will be used. I mean, some people say that they'll be used for household chores, but the thing is that it seems that everyone is going to have their own personal use case for these Tesla humanoids. I think it's going to be really fascinating to see how these robots are integrated into society. Are they integrated into certain workforces? Will they have certain jobs at factories like Elon Musk is planning at Tesla. He's already using some of these to automate some work. And just how quickly we are going to get these in the homes, because, of course, these need to be extraordinarily safe, they need to pass certain tests. I'm sure they're going to be, you know, a ridiculous amount of regulations for having your own personal humanoid robot. So this is going to be something that I would say I am most excited for, because the development of this is going to be probably the most fascinating. I mean, I guess it's basically just like another human and it's going to work, essentially. So this is something that I struggle to wrap my head around because it does seem ridiculously futuristic and oftentimes it doesn't even seem real. But this is, of course, the future of robotics and AI, so it won't be surprising if this happens sooner than we think. Now, for the Tesla's humanoid robot, what we also did get was we did get some demos of the Tesla bot performing certain tasks that it would be once it is fully functional. Now, of course, full disclaimer for this video clip. I do believe that this example where the Tesla bot is performing certain things, such as being able to pour a drink, I do believe that this is actually not fully autonomous, but partially assisted by teleop. Of course, it is quite hard to get a robot to do this on a consistent basis, but what they are currently doing is still collecting data. So it seems that whilst, yes, the actual humanoid platform seems robust enough that these tasks can be completed by the humanoid robot platform, it seems that we will have to wait a little bit longer before we actually get robots that can do this completely and fully autonomously. I know that there have been a few other companies in other countries that I won't mention that are working aggressively on this kind of technology, but it will be fascinating to see how things are shaped and changed as this future does come into fruition and as we do get more data collected and these systems become more advanced. So the presentation ends with this future of the world that Elon Musk is envisioning for future societies. You can see that it features a lot more green areas. I think having more green areas in cities is most certainly a positive thing. The previous trend of complete destruction of nature and not living in harmony with that nature is one that was quite barbaric and quite reminiscent of the early companies just, you know, pillaging forests in order to just get natural resources. But I think this future, the one where we've got like a lot of interactions. And of course, this synergy with nature, rather than trying to just completely steamroll it, is probably going to be the best future for our societies, because the environment, we only get one of them, and it's quite important that we do protect it. So it will be interesting to see how Tesla manages to shape and construct its companies around that.

So one of the things that is really interesting is how will this affect the cities that we live in? And when you drive around a city or when a car drives you around a city, you see there's a lot of parking lots. There's parking lots everywhere. Parking garages. So what would happen if you have an autonomous world is that you can now turn parking lots into parks. And so from you, we're taking. We're taking the inglot out of parking lot.

So let me know what you guys thought about this entire event. What was your most favorite thing from the event? Did you like the Cyber Cab? Did you like the Robovan? Or are you a fan of the humanoid robots? I'm definitely excited for the humanoid robots because they seem quite uncanny to me, but I do think they are quite fascinating. And if you enjoyed this video, I'll see you in the next one.

Hey, Optimus, how much of you is AI?

I can't disclose just how much.

That's something you'll have to find out later. But some or not. I would say it might be some. I'm not gonna confirm, but it might be some.