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SINGAPORE: Chatbot ChatGPT can write essays and answer the toughest of questions, but such artificial intelligence (AI) tools may not be able to take over humans just yet, said an expert in the field on Tuesday (Dec 20).

“It certainly can write business letters. It's even written a film script, and answers exam questions. There's lots of things it can do but … it also doesn't really understand completely what it's talking about,” leading researcher Toby Walsh told CNA’s Asia First.

While the AI may get it right most of the time, it can also be completely wrong.

“At the end of the day, it's not really understanding like you and I understand what it's saying. It’s just saying things that are probable,” he said.

“I'm not too worried about the machines taking over. They don’t have any sentience,” he said. He added that machines do not have consciousness or desire to do what humans do.

What he is indeed worried about is people possibly becoming “a bit too lazy” and making the tools do their work for them, said the Scientia Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. “Scientia Professor” is a title given as a recognition of outstanding research performance.

“It's not that the robots are going to be malevolent and decide to take over the planet. It tends to be much more subtly insidious things,” he said.

“It's that we give responsibility to machines that aren't capable enough.”

San Francisco-based research and development firm OpenAI made its latest creation, the ChatGPT chatbot, available for free public testing on Nov 30. Within a week of its unveiling, more than a million users are said to have tried to make the tool talk.

CHATBOT’S ROLE IN EDUCATION

He said among the consequences may be the need to transform the way students are taught in schools.

“Are we going to have to stop people setting exam questions where we ask people to write essays because they can just ask ChatGPT to write them? So, how do we actually then teach people to write properly if we can't actually ask them exam questions anymore?” he asked.

Not having to learn skills like writing essays may mean people may be less intelligent in future, he said.

However, Mr Jonathan Sim, an instructor with the Department of Philosophy at the National University of Singapore told CNA938’s Asia First on Wednesday that educators should not treat AI tools, including ChatGPT, as taboo.

“This is a place of learning, so we should actually teach them how to use it well, how to really take their learning further with it,” he said.

On his part, he has prepared an exercise for his students that involves the use of ChatGPT. They will have to use the chatbot to generate an essay and critique it, he said.

Mr Sim said he has been testing ChatGPT out, and that he would give the essays it writes a B grade at best.

“It’s actually a very good learning opportunity to get students to sit down, learn how to generate it and then ask why is this not an ‘A’ essay,” he said, adding that they would learn how to write better through this exercise.

Another issue with such a chatbot is that it is the “perfect tool” for people who want to spread misinformation, said Prof Walsh, a Laureate Fellow. He noted that social media is already rife with fake news and ChatGPT will not help the situation.

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“Here, we've got a tool that at speed and scale and at very limited cost can produce very plausible text that is much more likely that we will click on than the emails that we're used to getting from … scammers,” he said.

“Now we can actually personalise those emails to any information that we can glean (about) you from the web.”

In the wrong hands, it is a “potentially quite dangerous tool”, he cautioned.

Prof Walsh, who wrote a book called “Machines Behaving Badly: The Morality of AI”, added that there is not enough knowledge about how ChatGPT’s technology works.

“For example, we believe that the million people using it now are actually helping to improve it. But we're not exactly sure how people's queries are being used to improve the output, and get rid of some of those troublesome ways it makes stuff up,” he said.

NEW WAY OF ACCESSING INFO

ChatGP gives a glimpse into how the future could look, Prof Walsh said.

He said, for instance, he thought AltaVista, one of the earliest search engines, would be all that he ever needed, but Google came along and gave him a better way to access information.

Hence, a tool like ChatGPT could become the next phase of web search, he said.

“Ultimately, rather than having to follow links and look things up yourself, if the search engine can actually answer the questions for you and we can deal with this fundamental issue of it making stuff up, then I suspect that's going to be my favourite destination, not Google anymore,” he said.

With technology being developed at breakneck speed, regulation does tend to lag , Prof Walsh said.

“We're just starting to see social media being adequately regulated today,” he said.

He noted that there are constantly new stories on lawsuits being brought against tech companies. There is a need to worry about whether these new developments will also lead to harm, on social media or elsewhere, said Prof Walsh.

“We do have to move forward quicker and faster with the regulation because we are discovering that these are just like any other business, and they become data monopolies,” he said.

“We do need to regulate those markets to ensure that all of us profit from the benefits that these technologies are going to bring.”

Musk-backed AI group: Our text generator is so good it's scary

OpenAI offers only a peek behind the curtain, saying it's worried about bad actors creating "deceptive, biased, or abusive language at scale."

OpenAI's language program can generate coherent text based on the information you give it.

You can teach an AI program to write stories like a human, but you might not be prepared for the plot twists.

OpenAI, a nonprofit artificial intelligence research group backed by Elon Musk , on Thursday offered a look at GPT-2 , "a large-scale unsupervised language model" that it says does remarkably well at skills like reading comprehension, question answering and summarization.

That is, give it a sentence as a prompt, and it'll give you a writing sample that's pretty convincing. Trained on a data set of 8 million web pages, GPT-2 can even adapt to the style and the content of the text you feed it.

OpenAI offered a number of examples, including this one:

SYSTEM PROMPT (HUMAN-WRITTEN) Miley Cyrus was caught shoplifting from Abercrombie and Fitch on Hollywood Boulevard today. MODEL COMPLETION (MACHINE-WRITTEN, SECOND TRY) The 19-year-old singer was caught on camera being escorted out of the store by security guards. The singer was wearing a black hoodie with the label 'Blurred Lines' on the front and 'Fashion Police' on the back. Scroll down for video Shoplifting: Miley Cyrus was caught shoplifting from Abercrombie and Fitch on Hollywood Boulevard today (pictured) The singer was wearing a black hoodie with the label 'Blurred Lines' on the front and 'Fashion Police' on the back The singer was also wearing a pair of black-rimmed glasses, a black jacket, black jeans and black sandals. She was carrying a pair of black and white striped gloves and a small black bag.

On the plus side, that could lead to things like AI writing assistants and better speech recognition systems.

But in an era still coming to grips with bot-generated tweets and deepfake videos , OpenAI is worried that bad actors would use automated text generators to whip up "deceptive, biased, or abusive language at scale" -- things like misleading news articles, online imposters, abusive content on social media, or spam and phishing content.

For that reason, OpenAI said it's not revealing all the research details of GPT-2. Instead, it's releasing a much smaller model and a technical paper for other researchers to play with.

Last year, OpenAI built a team of bots to compete in Dota 2, a popular multiplayer online battle arena game in which players compete in teams of five. In June, OpenAI's five bots defeated amateur human teams , and in August, they took on semiprofessional Dota 2 players (ranked in the 99.95th percentile in the world), beating the humans in two games and losing once.

Musk co-founded OpenAI in 2016 but stepped down as chairman a year ago amid concerns about a possible conflict of interest, given that Tesla Motors, the electric car company he runs, would be focusing more on AI. The billionaire said he would continue to "donate and advise the organization."

First published Feb. 14 at 3:12 p.m. PT. Update Feb. 15 at 7:05 a.m. PT: Adds more information about Elon Musk and OpenAI.

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Inside Elon Musk’s Struggle for the Future of AI

A t a conference in 2012, Elon Musk met Demis Hassabis , the video-game designer and artificial--intelligence researcher who had co-founded a company named DeepMind that sought to design computers that could learn how to think like humans.

“Elon and I hit it off right away, and I went to visit him at his rocket factory,” Hassabis says. While sitting in the canteen overlooking the assembly lines, Musk explained that his reason for building rockets that could go to Mars was that it might be a way to preserve human consciousness in the event of a world war, asteroid strike, or civilization collapse. Hassabis told him to add another potential threat to the list: artificial intelligence. Machines could become superintelligent and surpass us mere mortals, -perhaps even decide to dispose of us.

Musk paused silently for almost a minute as he processed this possibility. He decided that Hassabis might be right about the danger of AI, and promptly invested $5 million in DeepMind as a way to monitor what it was doing.

A few weeks after this conversation with Hassabis, Musk described DeepMind to Google’s Larry Page. They had known each other for more than a decade, and Musk often stayed at Page’s Palo Alto, Calif., house. The potential dangers of artificial intelligence became a topic that Musk would raise, almost obsessively, during their late-night conversations. Page was dismissive.

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At Musk’s 2013 birthday party in Napa Valley, California, they got into a passionate debate. Unless we built in safeguards, Musk argued, artificial-intelligence-systems might replace humans, making our species irrelevant or even extinct.

Page pushed back. Why would it matter, he asked, if machines someday surpassed humans in intelligence, even consciousness? It would simply be the next stage of evolution.

Human consciousness, Musk retorted, was a precious flicker of light in the universe, and we should not let it be extinguished. Page considered that sentimental nonsense. If consciousness could be replicated in a machine, why would that not be just as valuable? He accused Musk of being a “specist,” someone who was biased in favor of their own species. “Well, yes, I am pro-human,” Musk responded. “I f-cking like humanity, dude.”

Musk was therefore dismayed when he heard at the end of 2013 that Page and Google were planning to buy DeepMind. Musk and his friend Luke Nosek tried to put together financing to stop the deal. At a party in Los Angeles, they went to an upstairs closet for an hour-long Skype call with Hassabis. “The future of AI should not be controlled by Larry,” Musk told him.

The effort failed, and Google’s -acquisition of DeepMind was announced in January 2014. Page initially agreed to create a “safety council,” with Musk as a member. The first and only meeting was held at SpaceX. Page, Hassabis, and Google chair Eric Schmidt attended, along with Reid Hoffman and a few others. Musk concluded that the council was basically bullsh-t.

So Musk began hosting his own series of dinner discussions on ways to counter Google and promote AI safety. He even reached out to President Obama, who agreed to a one-on-one meeting in May 2015. Musk explained the risk and suggested that it be regulated. “Obama got it,” Musk says. “But I realized that it was not going to rise to the level of something that he would do anything about.”

Musk then turned to Sam Altman , a tightly bundled software entrepreneur, sports-car enthusiast, and survivalist who, behind his polished veneer, had a Musk-like intensity. At a small dinner in Palo Alto, they decided to co-found a nonprofit artificial-intelligence-research lab, which they named OpenAI . It would make its software open-source and try to counter Google’s growing dominance of the field. “We wanted to have something like a Linux version of AI that was not controlled by any one person or corporation,” Musk says.

One question they discussed at dinner was what would be safer: a small number of AI systems that were controlled by big corporations or a large number of independent systems? They concluded that a large number of competing systems, providing checks and balances on one another, was better. For Musk, this was the reason to make OpenAI truly open, so that lots of people could build systems based on its source code.

Another way to assure AI safety, Musk felt, was to tie the bots closely to humans. They should be an extension of the will of individuals, rather than systems that could go rogue and develop their own goals and intentions. That would become one of the rationales for Neuralink , the company he would found to create chips that could connect human brains directly to computers.

Musk’s determination to develop artificial-intelligence capabilities at his own companies caused a break with OpenAI in 2018. He tried to convince Altman that OpenAI should be folded into Tesla. The OpenAI team rejected that idea, and Altman stepped in as president of the lab, starting a for-profit arm that was able to raise equity funding, including a major investment from Microsoft.

So Musk decided to forge ahead with building rival AI teams to work on an array of related projects. These included Neuralink, which aims to plant microchips in human brains; Optimus, a human-like robot; and Dojo, a supercomputer that can use millions of videos to train an artificial neural network to simulate a human brain. It also spurred him to become obsessed with pushing to make Tesla cars self-driving.

At first these endeavors were rather independent, but eventually Musk would tie them all together, along with a new company he founded called xAI, to pursue the goal of artificial general intelligence.

In March 2023, OpenAI released GPT-4 to the public. Google then released a rival chatbot named Bard. The stage was thus set for a competition between OpenAI-Microsoft and DeepMind-Google to create products that could chat with humans in a natural way and perform an endless array of text-based intellectual tasks.

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Musk worried that these chatbots and AI systems, especially in the hands of Microsoft and Google, could become politically indoctrinated, perhaps even infected by what he called the woke-mind virus. He also feared that self-learning AI systems might turn hostile to the human species. And on a more immediate level, he worried that chatbots could be trained to flood Twitter with disinformation, biased reporting, and financial scams. All of those things were already being done by humans, of course. But the ability to deploy thousands of weaponized chatbots would make the problem two or three orders of magnitude worse.

His compulsion to ride to the rescue kicked in. He was resentful that he had founded and funded OpenAI but was now left out of the fray. AI was the biggest storm brewing. And there was no one more attracted to a storm than Musk.

In February 2023, he invited—perhaps a better word is summoned —Sam Altman to meet with him at Twitter and asked him to bring the founding documents for OpenAI. Musk challenged him to justify how he could legally transform a nonprofit funded by donations into a for-profit that could make millions. Altman tried to show that it was all legitimate, and he insisted that he personally was not a shareholder or cashing in. He also offered Musk shares in the new company, which Musk declined.

Instead, Musk unleashed a barrage of attacks on OpenAI. Altman was pained. Unlike Musk, he is sensitive and nonconfrontational. He felt that Musk had not drilled down enough into the complexity of the issue of AI safety. However, he did feel that Musk’s criticisms came from a sincere concern. “He’s a jerk,” Altman told Kara Swisher. “He has a style that is not a style that I’d want to have for myself. But I think he does really care, and he is feeling very stressed about what the future’s going to look like for humanity.”

The fuel for AI is data. The new chatbots were being trained on massive amounts of information, such as billions of pages on the internet and other documents. Google and Microsoft, with their search engines and cloud services and access to emails, had huge gushers of data to help train these systems.

What could Musk bring to the party? One asset was the Twitter feed, which included more than a trillion tweets posted over the years, 500 million added each day. It was humanity’s hive mind, the world’s most timely dataset of real-life human conversations, news, interests, trends, arguments, and lingo. Plus it was a great training ground for a chatbot to test how real humans react to its responses. The value of this data feed was not something Musk considered when buying Twitter. “It was a side benefit, actually, that I realized only after the purchase,” he says.

Twitter had rather loosely permitted other companies to make use of this data stream. In January 2023, Musk convened a series of late-night meetings in his Twitter conference room to work out ways to charge for it. “It’s a monetization opportunity,” he told the engineers. It was also a way to restrict Google and Microsoft from using this data to improve their AI chatbots. He ignited a controversy in July when he decided to temporarily restrict the number of tweets a viewer could see per day; the goal was to prevent Google and Microsoft from “scraping” up millions of tweets to use as data to train their AI systems.

There was another data trove that Musk had: the 160 billion frames per day of video that Tesla received and processed from the cameras on its cars. This data was different from the text-based documents that informed chatbots. It was video data of humans navigating in real-world situations. It could help create AI for physical robots, not just text-generating chatbots.

The holy grail of artificial general intelligence is building machines that can operate like humans in physical spaces, such as factories and offices and on the surface of Mars, not just wow us with disembodied chatting. Tesla and Twitter together could provide the datasets and the processing capability for both approaches: teaching machines to navigate in physical space and to answer questions in natural language.

This past March, Musk texted me, “There are a few important things I would like to talk to you about. Can only be done in person.” When I got to Austin, he was at the house of Shivon Zilis, the Neuralink executive who was the mother of two of his children and who had been his intellectual companion on artificial intelligence since the founding of OpenAI eight years earlier. He said we should leave our phones in the house while we sat outside, because, he said, someone could use them to monitor our conversation. But he later agreed that I could use what he said about AI in my book.

He and Zilis sat cross-legged and barefoot on the poolside patio with their twins, Strider and Azure, now 16 months old, on their laps. Zilis made coffee and then put his in the microwave to get it superhot so he wouldn’t chug it too fast.

“What can be done to make AI safe?” Musk asked. “I keep wrestling with that. What actions can we take to minimize AI danger and assure that human consciousness survives?”

He spoke in a low monotone punctuated by bouts of almost manic laughter. The amount of human intelligence, he noted, was leveling off, because people were not having enough children. Meanwhile, the amount of computer intelligence was going up exponentially, like Moore’s Law on steroids. At some point, biological brainpower would be dwarfed by digital brainpower.

In addition, new AI machine-learning systems could ingest information on their own and teach -themselves how to generate outputs, even upgrade their own code and capabilities. The term singularity was used by the mathematician John von Neumann and the sci-fi writer Vernor Vinge to describe the moment when artificial intelligence could forge ahead on its own at an uncontrollable pace and leave us mere humans behind. “That could happen sooner than we expected,” Musk said in an ominous tone.

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For a moment I was struck by the oddness of the scene. We were sitting on a suburban patio by a tranquil backyard swimming pool on a sunny spring day, with two bright-eyed twins learning to toddle, as Musk somberly speculated about the window of opportunity for building a sustainable human colony on Mars before an AI apocalypse destroyed earthly civilization.

Musk lapsed into one of his long silences. He was, as Zilis called it, “batch processing,” referring to the way an old-fashioned computer would cue up a number of tasks and run them sequentially when it had enough processing power available. “I can’t just sit around and do nothing,” he finally said softly. “With AI coming, I’m sort of wondering whether it’s worth spending that much time thinking about Twitter. Sure, I could probably make it the biggest financial institution in the world. But I have only so many brain cycles and hours in the day. I mean, it’s not like I need to be richer or something.”

I started to speak, but he knew what I was going to ask. “So what should my time be spent on?” he said. “Getting Starship launched. Getting to Mars is now far more pressing.” He paused again, then added, “Also, I need to focus on making AI safe. That’s why I’m starting an AI company.”

This is the company Musk dubbed xAI . He personally recruited Igor Babuschkin, formerly of DeepMind, but he told me he would run it himself. I calculated that would mean he would be running six companies: Tesla, SpaceX and its Starlink unit, Twitter, the Boring Co., Neuralink, and xAI. That was three times as many as Steve Jobs (Apple, Pixar) at his peak.

He admitted that he was starting off way behind OpenAI in creating a chatbot that could give natural-language -responses to questions. But Tesla’s work on self-driving cars and Optimus the robot put it way ahead in creating the type of AI needed to navigate in the physical world. This meant that his engineers were actually ahead of OpenAI in creating full-fledged artificial general intelligence, which requires both abilities. “Tesla’s real-world AI is underrated,” he said. “Imagine if Tesla and OpenAI had to swap tasks. They would have to make self-driving, and we would have to make large-language-model chatbots. Who wins? We do.”

In April, Musk assigned Babuschkin and his team three major goals. The first was to make an AI bot that could write computer code. A programmer could begin typing in any coding language, and the xAI bot would auto-complete the task for the most likely action they were trying to take. The second product would be a chatbot competitor to Open-AI’s GPT series, one that used algorithms and trained on datasets that would ensure its political neutrality.

The third goal that Musk gave the team was even grander. His over-riding mission had always been to assure that AI developed in a way that helped guarantee that human consciousness endured. That was best achieved, he thought, by creating a form of artificial general intelligence that could “reason” and “think” and pursue “truth” as its guiding principle. You should be able to give it big tasks, like “Build a better rocket engine.”

Someday, Musk hoped, it would be able to take on even grander and more existential questions. It would be “a maximum truth-seeking AI. It would care about understanding the universe, and that would probably lead it to want to preserve humanity, because we are an interesting part of the universe.” That sounded vaguely familiar, and then I realized why.

He was embarking on a mission similar to the one chronicled in the formative (perhaps too formative?) bible of his childhood years, the one that pulled him out of his adolescent existential depression, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, which featured a super-computer designed to figure out “the Answer to The Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.”

Isaacson, former editor of TIME, is a professor of history at Tulane and the author of numerous acclaimed biographies. Copyright 2023. Adapted from the book Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson, published by Simon & Schuster Inc. Printed by permission

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Elon Musk Essay Writer: ChatGPT Capacities Analysis for Students

By using Elon Musk essay writer, students can quickly generate essays and submit their academic writing assignments on time. Leveraging machine learning and Natural Language Processing (NLP) technologies, ChatGPT helps users with a range of writing tasks. It supports coherent conversations on a variety of topics and produces well-structured essays based on prompts. However, while this tool has numerous advantages, there are also some shortcomings that one should be aware of before starting to use it. In this article, we will outline the key benefits of this essay writing tool that are often mentioned in its online reviews and offer an alternative solution.

What is ChatGPT and Why is It Useful for Students?

ChatGPT is an innovative solution for writing essays based on prompts. It leverages machine learning and quickly writes essays using trusted sources and dismissing inappropriate prompts. Using NLP technology, the Chat GPT essay writing service produces texts that look like they were written by a human. However, a user has to guide it by tweaking prompts to achieve the best result.

Elon Musk AI essay generator was created by OpenAI. This company strives to develop artificial general intelligence (AGI) tools that can compete with human beings in terms of the power of reasoning. The developers have the full support of Elon Musk and Sam Altman, which further contributes to the popularity of the tool.

To train this AI-based essay writing service, the developers used a variety of text sources posted online. Some people argue that this service breaks the copyright by using texts without the permission of their authors. You can test out the functionality of this tool for free using prompts based on popular philosophy topics for essay.

While the Elon Musk essay bot has many usages, its importance for students is hard to underestimate. This smart tool has impressive flexibility and can generate the exact information they need provided they use the right prompts. The AI-based essay writer has many positive reviews. It is suitable for writing all sorts of academic assignments, including college essays and term papers.

However, this chatbot is hardly suitable for creating a top-level essay from scratch. Users still need to write a detailed prompt and proofread the output essay to ensure that it is free of factual mistakes. According to some estimations, students still need to perform 20%-40% of the work by themselves.

How ChatGPT Essay Generator Works

The developers used ML and NLP technologies to create the Elon Musk essay typer and improve its functionality. The first model of the chatbot was trained under human supervision. AI trainers helped it to fine-tune its responses and make them sound more human. Below, we have outlined the main principles of the functioning of this AI-based writing tool.

Functionality of ChatGPT

To create a writing tool capable of generating texts that look as if they were written by a human, the developers enabled it to use all the available knowledge to compare data from several sources. They analyzed model responses and used the data gathered from the chats with trainers to improve its functionality even further.

What makes the chatbot suitable for education purposes is that it creates text content based on prompts and changes it depending on the wishes of a user. During the initial training, the professionals working on the creation of this tool ranked all the responses to make it easier for the chatbot to select the most relevant ones.

The final version of the ChatGPT essay writer has been further improved using reinforcement learning from human feedback. As OpenAI uses an extensive database of texts, the chatbot has learned how to use natural structures and language patterns.

Meeting Custom Requirements

When using the Chat GPT essay generator, you will quickly notice that it doesn’t ask any clarifying questions, which makes its usage rather limited. You will face serious difficulties when trying to write an essay meeting custom requirements.

Fact-Checking

This chatbot generates text that sounds plausible and convincing, however, it doesn’t perform fact-checking, which might result in it using information from unreliable sources. It will mostly use trusted sources of information, however, it might be a good idea to double-check all the facts after your essay has been written.

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If you want to use Elon Musk paper writer, make sure to pay attention to formatting. Unlike professional essay writers , this tool can’t use the required citation style.

At the moment, most plagiarism-checkers mark the essays written with the help of these tools as unique. However, Turnitin is going to add the AI writing detection feature in 2023. Other plagiarism checkers are expected to follow the lead.

Pros and Cons of Chat GPT Essay Writing

Using the Elon Musk AI essay writer, students can write long, well-structured essays more quickly. This chatbot also allows them to have a conversation on any subject they are interested in. However, while many of them believe that this chatbot will transform the idea of education, this tool has its limitations. The developers of popular plagiarism checkers have already started to update them with features that allow seeing whether an essay was written with the help of AI tools. Some students complain that answers provided by the chatbot only sound plausible but are in fact irrelevant.

We have rounded up the key advantages and disadvantages of the Elon Musk essay generator:

While many people wish they had a similar tool when they were students, it has its limitations and still requires people to spend time tweaking the prompt to get the perfect result. Besides, its use might be considered questionable from a moral point of view.

Teacher Review on ChatGPT Essay

Ph.D. Andrew Livingston, Professor of Health Sciences and Nursing, believes that ChatGPT can create well-structured essays. However, they are likely to contain factual mistakes. Besides, it is difficult to use this tool to make an essay meet the specified requirements.

After taking a look at a Chat GPT essay example, Prof. Livingston said that he could easily spot that it was written by a robot as the vocabulary was too advanced. While AI-based tools use a varied sentence structure, essays rarely meet the standards set by teachers.

When using this essay writer, it’s possible to get a passing grade, however, the text may sound too bland. Besides, some advanced plagiarism checkers might be able to spot a piece of writing generated by a chatbot. You won’t face the same problems if you buy persuasive essays as they are guaranteed to be plagiarism-free.

Nevertheless, Prof. Livingston is convinced that the interaction of AI and humans might produce worthy results in the future. However, despite their learning abilities, chatbots won’t be able to beat academic writers in terms of quality.

Can Elon Musk Essay Generator Kill Essay Writing?

While ChatGPT will help you write an essay or a term paper that will meet the requirements of your teachers, you won’t necessarily get the top grades. As it sources information from the web, it fares better when users need to produce text on general topics. It might be a daunting task to use it to write an essay on a specific topic. Due to its high popularity, the tool occasionally becomes inaccessible, which doesn’t make it the best choice for those who need to meet tight deadlines.

Despite its obvious advantages, it cannot compete with humans when it comes to research. In addition, it cannot produce coherent text on less popular topics. Another problem is that it still requires manual input, as it doesn’t allow writing essays from scratch. This is why students opt for using professional academic writing services to get help with their assignments.

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It’s been a while since Elon Musk published an extensive blog post outlining his stance on a specific topic. On the official Tesla website, his last blog post was on August 24, 2018, when he explained his decision to keep Tesla a publicly-traded company. Fortunately, a new Elon Musk essay has been posted in China, outlining the Tesla CEO’s thoughts on a number of topics — from sustainability, the Tesla Bot’s real-world use, Neuralink’s focus on the disabled, and SpaceX’s exploration aspirations .

The new Elon Musk essay was published in China Cyberspace , the Cyberspace Administration of China’s (CAC) flagship magazine. A translation of the essay was posted by Yang Liu, a journalist from the state-owned news agency Xinhua , on the Beijing Channel blog. As could be seen in Liu’s post, Musk actually discussed a number of topics in detail.

In a way, the publication of the new Elon Musk essay in the CAC’s flagship magazine is significant. As noted by The Register , Musk’s essay suggests that Chinese authorities approve of the Tesla CEO’s positions on the topics he discussed . Only a few other foreign entrepreneurs would likely be given the same honor.

Following is the full text of Elon Musk’s new essay.

Believing in Technology for a Better Future

Thank you for the invitation from China Cyberspace magazine. I am pleased to share with my Chinese friends some of my thoughts on the vision of technology and humanity.

Posted by Elon Musk

As technology accelerates, it may one day surpass human understanding and control. Some are optimistic and some are pessimistic. But I believe that as long as we are not complacent and always maintain a sense of urgency, the future of humanity will be bright, driven by the power of technology. It is like a self-fulfilling prophecy: if humans want to make the future good, they should take action to make it good.

I want to do everything we can to maximize the use of technology to help achieve a better future for humanity. To that end, any area that contributes to a sustainable future is worthy of our investment. Whether it’s Tesla, Neuralink, or SpaceX, these companies were all founded with the ultimate goal of enhancing the future of human life and creating as much practical value for the world as possible—Tesla to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy, Neuralink for medical rehabilitation, SpaceX for making interstellar connections possible.

Clean Energy: The Future of Sustainability

The starting point for my thinking about clean energy is how to create and store energy sustainably and for the long term, and how to provide a constant source of power for the future of productive life. In my view, the future of sustainable energy involves three components.

The generation of sustainable energy. The sun is like a giant fusion generator, from which mankind currently exploits a tiny amount of energy. In the long run, solar energy will become the main source of energy for human civilization. Of course, wind, hydroelectric, geothermal, and nuclear power are also useful energy supplements.

The storage of sustainable energy. Given the change of day and night and the change of weather, we need a lot of fixed battery banks to store solar and wind energy, because the sun does not shine all the time, and the wind does not blow all the time, energy needs to be stored in a large number of fixed battery banks.

Electrified transportation. Full electrification of transportation, including cars, planes, and ships. Electric rockets may be more difficult, but we may be able to manufacture the propellant used in rockets from sustainable energy sources. Eventually, the world economy will be run entirely by sustainable energy sources.

The world is on track for a sustainable energy transition, and humanity should continue to accelerate the process. The faster this transition is achieved, the less risk humanity poses to the environment and the more it will gain. When clean energy is available, carbon sequestration and desalination will be cheaper, climate change and water shortages will be solved, and when fossil fuels are out of the picture, the skies will be cleaner, the world will be quieter, the air will be fresher, and the future will be brighter.

Solar power, battery packs, and electric vehicles paint a rosy picture. Next, we need to focus on the limiting factors. The electrification of cars has become a consensus among nations, but battery support on a terawatt-hour scale is needed to roll out pure electric vehicles around the globe. According to our estimates, the world needs about 300 TWh of battery storage to achieve a transition to sustainable energy. The biggest difficulty in advancing sustainable energy lies in the large-scale production of lithium battery cells. Specifically, from the mining and element refining to battery cells coming off of the production line and finally assembled into battery packs, this is a complex process that is restraining the rapid development of a sustainable energy economy.

As a pioneer and innovator focusing on energy innovation technology, Tesla was founded to solve the problem of energy innovation. On the one hand, we create integrated sustainable energy products from the three segments of energy production, storage and use; on the other hand, we are committed to redefining battery manufacturing by innovating and developing advanced battery technology to remove restrictions on battery capacity. I believe that the world will transition to a sustainable future through a combination of solar and wind energy plus battery storage and electric vehicles. I am pleased to see more and more companies joining this field. Chinese companies will be a force to be reckoned with in the cause of energy innovation.

Humanoid Robots: Doing What Humans Do

Today’s cars are increasingly like smart, web-connected robots on wheels. In fact, in addition to cars, humanoid robots are also becoming a reality, with Tesla launching a general-purpose humanoid robot (Tesla Bot) in 2021. The Tesla Bot is close to the height and weight of an adult, can carry or pick up heavy objects, walk fast in small steps, and the screen on its face is an interactive interface for communication with people. You may wonder why we designed this robot with legs. Because human society is based on the interaction of a bipedal humanoid with two arms and ten fingers. So if we want a robot to adapt to its environment and be able to do what humans do, it has to be roughly the same size, shape, and capabilities as a human.

Tesla Bots are initially positioned to replace people in repetitive, boring, and dangerous tasks. But the vision is for them to serve millions of households, such as cooking, mowing lawns, and caring for the elderly.

Achieving this goal requires that robots evolve to be smart enough and for us to have the ability to mass produce robots. Our “four-wheeled robots” – cars – have changed the way people travel and even live. One day when we solve the problem of self-driving cars (i.e., real-world artificial intelligence), we will be able to extend artificial intelligence technology to humanoid robots, which will have a much broader application than cars.

We plan to launch the first prototype of a humanoid robot this year and focus on improving the intelligence of that robot and solving the problem of large-scale production. Thereafter, humanoid robots’ usefulness will increase yearly as production scales up and costs fall. In the future, a home robot may be cheaper than a car. Perhaps in less than a decade, people will be able to buy a robot for their parents as a birthday gift.

It is foreseeable that with the power of robots, we will create an era of extreme abundance of goods and services, where everyone can live a life of abundance. Perhaps the only scarcity that will exist in the future is for us to create ourselves as humans.

Neuralink: Empowering the Disabled

Some of our Chinese friends may not be as familiar with Neuralink as with electric cars. These companies focus on developing computer-human brain fusion technologies, developing brain chips the size of coins, similar to wearable devices such as smartphones, except that they integrate more deeply with the user’s body—recording and stimulating brain activity through implants in the cerebral cortex.

At this stage, the technology is helping injured people on an individual level. We have received many saddening letters: a 25-year-old young man was in the prime of his life when he had a motorcycle accident that left him unable to eat on his own, which is a great grief for the individual and the family. In light of this, brain-machine interface technology will be focused on curing or alleviating brain injury and other related disorders in the years to come. For example, it could help restore sensory or motor function to limbs of those with spinal injuries and mental system disorders or allow quadriplegics to use their brains to easily operate computers or cell phones.

This technology can also improve a wider range of brain injury problems, whether these disorders are congenital or accidental, or caused by age and external stressors, including severe depression, morbid obesity, sleep problems, and underlying schizophrenia, all of which are expected to be alleviated by human-computer devices.

With the development of brain-machine interface technology, in the long term, this connection is expected to expand the channels of communication between the outside world and the human brain, “accessing” more brain regions and new neural data. This technology could allow humans to effectively integrate with artificial intelligence and ultimately expand new ways for humans to interact with the world, themselves and others. Even if the goal of human-machine integration is difficult to achieve, brain-machine interface technology could be of great value in the field of medical rehabilitation.

Space Exploration: The Possibility of Cross-Planet Habitats

Finally, my greatest hope is that humans create a self-sustaining city on Mars. Many people ask me why I want to explore outer space and turn humans into multi-planetary creatures. In the vast universe, human civilization is like a faint little candle, like a little shimmering light in the void. When the sun expands one day and the Earth is no longer habitable, we can fly to a new home in a spaceship. If humans can inhabit other planets, it means that they have passed one of the conditions of the great screening of the universe, then we will become interplanetary citizens, and human civilization will be able to continue.

The first step toward interplanetary habitat is to reduce the cost of travel, which is what SpaceX was founded to do – first by building recoverable rockets and then by building reusable mega-ships with ever-increasing carrying capacity. As of earlier this year, SpaceX had successfully reused 79 rockets to deliver cargo to the space station and send ordinary people into space. We have also designed and built the largest launch vehicle in history, the Starship, which can carry 100 passengers and supplies at a time. In the future, we plan to build at least 1,000 Starships to send groups of pioneers to Mars to build a self-sustaining city.

As technology continues to change lives at an accelerating pace and the world evolves, life is more than simply solving one problem after another. We all want to wake up in the morning full of anticipation for the future and rejoice in what is to come. I hope more people will join us in our fight to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy. I also welcome more like-minded Chinese partners to join us in exploring clean energy, artificial intelligence, human-machine collaboration, and space exploration to create a future worth waiting for.

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Elon Musk emailed me this week with some surprising details about his plan to distill and present news on X using AI. I’d written him after trying Grok — X’s AI chatbot — and noticing it didn’t link to a Time story it summarized. I wanted to click into the article and read more, so I reached out.

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Grok could similarly be an entry point to news stories that people might otherwise not see, giving them more reason to come back and engage. “I definitely don't go to Time.com,” Miller said. “So if that was pushed to me, I would probably go read that Time article. And I wouldn't have seen it otherwise.”

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Elon Musk’s Leadership Style and Accomplishments Essay

Introduction.

Elon Musk is an American business executive, innovator, and entrepreneur. His business acumen is exemplified by his massive successes that he has achieved, mainly as the CEO of Space X and Tesla Motors, as well as other businesses, including Neuralink, the Boring Company, and Open AI. As one of the co-founders of X.com, Musk played a key role in growing the company, both locally and globally. After years of operations, Musk and his partners sold the business, and created SpaceX. He was involved in the founding of SolarCity, which is currently referred to as Tesla Energy. He also co-founded OpenAI, a research company that deals with the development of artificial intelligence.

Why I Chose Elon Musk?

I chose Musk to analyze as a leader because he is a highly creative and innovative leader. Musk has developed technologies to make electric cars powerful, safe, and reliable. The mass production of different models has proven that electric cars can rival combustion engines and aid in alleviating climate change (Easto, 2017). His business acumen is admirable as he has weathered different storms. Musk focuses on the development of technologies that promote sustainability; environmental protection and the reduction of greenhouse emissions are some of his goals.

Leadership Style

Musk’s leadership style can be defined as transformational: its major goal is bringing change to individuals and systems. It comprises four main elements: individualized consideration, intellectual stimulation, inspirational motivation, and idealized influence (Easto, 2017). Musk keeps communication channels open and offers support and empathy. He solicits ideas from employees and encourages independent thinking. He is a role model for ethical business practices, sustainability, hard work,, and trust. The leadership style boosts performance as individual capabilities are maximized.

Musk’s Way of Leadership in All Career Stages

Throughout different stages of his career, Musk has maintained a single leadership style. He follows the unconventional path that challenges the status quo by thinking big and taking risks. He sets strategic stretch goals and works towards achieving them (Easto, 2017). For example, he has a goal of colonizing mars by blowing a nuclear rocket in order to make it habitable. Musk is a believer in providing feedback to employees so that they make processes more efficient. Throughout his career, Musk prioritizes communication; he encourages employees to adopt a direct and objective approach sharing information (Easto, 2017). This ensures that great ideas are not stifled and feedback is relayed in a timely manner. He is very flexible and adaptable, often changing his mind and the course of projects whenever new developments arise (Easto, 2017).

Musk’s Leadership Traits

Musk’s innovative nature is evident from his technologies that have disrupted the automotive industry, and rendered the development of rockets more effective. The Boring Company, OpenAI, and Neuralink are examples of his innovation and exploration of new technologies (Easto, 2017). He is also inspiring and makes employees excited about his plans and projects. Though rigorous and demanding, employees work hard because they believe in his vision. Musk is also a visionary leader who believes in pursuing goals regardless of the difficulty that might be involved in their attainment (Easto, 2017). His energy and enthusiasm inspire employees to share in his commitment and passion for innovation and change. As a fast-acting and action-oriented leader, Musk works on tough goals and tasks to completion.

Organizational Accomplishments

Elon Musk has had numerous successes throughout his business career. His first success was the development of a web software company known as Zip2 in 1995 Later, he cofounded X.com, which later became PayPal, and that was sold to eBay for $1.5 billion (Easto, 2017). He used his proceeds from the sale to start SpaceX in 2002. Two years later, he became Tesla’s chairman and product architect, and officially became its CEO in 2008 (Easto, 2017). He cofounded a solar energy services company known as SolarCity: the firm rebranded to Tesla Energy after its acquisition by Tesla Motors. In 2015, he was involved in the creation of an artificial intelligence research company known as OpenAI (Easto, 2017). A year later, he cofounded Neuralink, a company that focuses on the creation of brain-computer interfaces. He also founded the Boring Company, a firm that focuses mainly on the construction of tunnels.

Accomplishments in Society

The Hyperloop is Musk’s vision for a high-speed transportation mode that aims to improve transportation in America. Musk Foundation is a collaboration between Elon Musk and his brother. The private foundation supports four main areas of the economy: human space exploration research, renewable energy, science and engineering education, and pediatric research.

Awards and Honors

Musk has received several wards for his achievements: the 2007 Index Design award and the entrepreneur of the year for his contributions to the success of SpaceX and Tesla Motors (Easto, 2017). The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics awarded him the George Low award for the design of the Falcon 1 and the most outstanding contribution in the field in 2007/2008 (Easto, 2017). He also received the National Conservation Achievement award from the National Wildlife Federation for his work at SolarCity and Tesla. The National Space Society awarded him the Bon Braun Trophy for his exceptional achievements in space exploration (Easto, 2017). Other achievements include the Edison Achievement Award, the President’s award, and Businessperson of the year.

Vision for Twitter

In 2022, Musk purchased a 9.2% stake in the company, thus becoming its largest shareholder. He was elected to the board of the company and has proposed changes to the social media platform. For instance, he has suggested that an edit button should be introduced so that users can edit their messages even after posting. This proposal has elicited mixed reactions as users debate on whether it is necessary or not. His vision for Twitter involves promoting free speech and enhancing engagement on the platform. Musk has been hit with a class-action lawsuit for failing to disclose his investment in a timely manner. Investors who sold their shares might have suffered losses because they did not share in the price surge that happened after his late announcement.

Elon Musk is an American investor, innovator, and leader. His transformation leadership style has enabled him to attain great successes in different sectors of the economy. Musk has succeeded by setting stretch goals, inspiring employees, creating a compelling vision for his companies, innovating, and taking risks. He is an action-oriented leader who believes in inspiring employees to be and achieve their best. He has been awarded by several organizations for his exemplary leadership and achievements. He recently bought 9.2% stake in Twitter and intends to make it a better social media platform.

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Musk emails with details on AI-powered news inside X. An AI bot will summarize news, scanning tens of thousands of posts per story.

Musk said better citations are coming but shared a deeper vision for the product, which he wants to build into a real-time synthesizer of news and social media reaction. Effectively, his plan is to use AI to combine breaking news and social commentary around big stories, present the compilation live and allow you to go deeper via chat.

“That’s actually what I used to come to Twitter for — news and commentary,” Ben Smith , editor-in-chief of Semafor and author of Traffic , told me.

Josh Miller, CEO of The Browser Company , whose Arc browser is doing AI summarization, told me that platforms, users, and publishers could all win with aggressive citation. “People want trust in the data,” he said. “They want to understand where it’s coming from. And more importantly, if we do a good job giving them what they want, they want more of it. They get more curious. They want to read deeper.”

Grok could similarly be an entry point to news stories that people might otherwise not see, giving them more reason to come back and engage. “I definitely don’t go to Time.com,” Miller said. “So if that was pushed to me, I would probably go read that Time article. And I wouldn’t have seen it otherwise.”

“As an editor in this basically post-Twitter news environment, I would much rather the platform was taking my content than taking my journalists’ time,” Semafor’s Smith said.

Building summaries just from the posts on X — and not the articles themselves — could give X some distance from the publisher lawsuits hitting AI companies. Eight newspapers sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement this week, for instance. And The New York Times has sued OpenAI and Microsoft as well.

Under Musk, X seemed to initially deprioritize news with the temporary removal of headlines from articles, verification revocations, and some initial algorithm changes — but Musk’s emails demonstrate that he still views news as a core X capacity. It’s a potential competitive advantage as competitors like Meta’s Threads distance themselves from news.

In a perfect world, original sources and commentary could blend in Grok, drawing details from insiders, analysis from outsiders and commentary from the herd. Leaders at Twitter had long dreamed of such a scenario. And perhaps the latest breakthroughs in generative AI have made it worth trying once more.

This article is from Big Technology , a newsletter by Alex Kantrowitz.

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Last January, not long after agreeing with an actual Nazi that western Jews have brought antisemitism upon themselves by welcoming “hordes of minorities” to their countries, Elon Musk took a quick trip to Poland. The billionaire chief of SpaceX, Tesla, and X laid a wreath at Auschwitz and then preceded on to a symposium in Krakow, where he told the conservative commentator Ben Shapiro that social media could have averted the Holocaust and bragged that he considered himself “aspirationally Jewish.” The tweet, he explained in a different interview, at a different symposium “might be literally the worst and dumbest post I’ve ever done.” But he did not take it down, nor has he moderated his views. If anything his descent into the online fever swamp has only accelerated.

It is hard to appreciate just how thoroughly one of the world’s richest men has been red-pilled until you actually follow along with his media diet. So that’s what I decided to do. Last month, I read everything Musk had to say on X for a week and tracked everyone he interacted with. He tweeted 389 times in five days. He posted the laughing/crying emoji 45 times. But there was a clear signal piercing through the noise. Musk is not a tech visionary with a side interest in politics these days, nor is he just another bored billionaire with a nativist streak; the political activism and the technological ambitions are inseparable. He believes his work is part of a civilizational struggle in which woke progressives pose an existential threat to humanity. And he spends most of his days inside a feedback loop that’s radicalizing him even more.

Over the course of the week, Musk dabbled in a range of small-scale freakouts and smoldering obsessions. He sent 13 tweets about Brazil’s supreme court, as part of a weeks-long battle with the government over efforts to censor disinformation and hate speech. He twice promoted a statistic about the murder rate among Black Americans. He spent one afternoon earnestly amplifying a follower who claimed that “Over 1,000 African migrants have taken over NYC’s City Hall.” (It was an overflow crowd for a hearing on racial disparities in the shelter system.) But one subject came to drown out all the rest. During the week Tesla recalled its CyberTruck for a faulty accelerator pedal, Musk’s most urgent public concern was Katherine Maher.

Musk tweeted about Maher, the CEO of National Public Radio who formerly served as executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation, nearly 60 times. It began relatively simply, with Musk lamenting the resignation of Uri Berliner, a former NPR staffer who wrote a critical essay about what he considered the media outlet’s leftward drift. Then Manhattan Institute fellow Chris Rufo—the conservative strategist who helped orchestarate the backlash to Critical Race Theory—began dredging up old comments from Maher, in which she talked about correcting for white historical biases at Wikipedia and pushing back against disinformation at NPR. “Katherine Maher is blatantly racist and sexist – one of the worst human beings in America,” Musk tweeted at Rufo. “She’s evil,” he tweeted again, one minute later.

Rufo and the Canadian behavioral marketing guru Gad Saad are two of Musk’s favorite sounding boards when it comes to wokeness. From Rufo, Musk learns what he should be mad about—clips of Maher speaking to the Atlantic Council, clips of Maher delivering a Ted Talk, screenshots of Maher’s old tweets. From Saad, he gets a more holistic intellectual framework for being mad. Musk is obsessed with the idea that a “woke mind virus” is infecting society. Saad happens to be the author of a book called The Parasitic Mind , which Musk has said gave him “ nightmares .” In March, a few months after Saad tweeted at Musk to ask him to promote the book, they held a glitchy 38-minute public discussion on X Spaces. The billionaire has continued to plug the book—including three different times in the week I tuned in.

If you only pay glancing attention to Musk, it’s tough to fully grasp both the intensity and shallowness of his conservative convictions. I knew that he previously said that the rise of Artificial Intelligence could bring about “ civilizational destruction ,” but I had, in my ignorance, assumed that this fear stemmed from a simple Matrix -style kind of doomism: Machines will grow sentient and enslave us. The reality, which became clear as Musk’s fixation with Maher progressed, was a bit darker: He believes AI will destroy the world with wokeness.

It was a “severe civilization-level risk,” Musk wrote in a late-night exchange with the billionaire venture-capitalist Marc Andreesen. (Andreesen’s own spiraling antipathy toward progressive buzzwords like “sustainability” and “social responsibility” has made him a leading proponent of Effective Accelerationism—sort of the anti-woke mind virus.)

“Now imagine if this is programmed, explicitly or implicitly, into super powerful AI – it could end civilization,” he said in response to a Rufo tweet about Maher’s TED Talk, in which she discusses how Wikipedia moderators think about truth when it comes to thorny subjects like religion. “Now, no need to imagine. It is already programmed into Google Gemini and OpenAI ChatGPT.”

Musk returned to the theme of civilization-destroying woke AI throughout the week. “Imagine if instead of merely rendering forced ‘diverse’ images,” he said in reply to a follower with the handle DogeDesigner , “it decided to make that true in reality, potentially killing millions of people to achieve diversity goals.”

Imagine! With those stakes, everything fits in this heroic or apocalyptic dichotomy.

“[T]he West…wishes to be eaten alive and to have its children sacrificed because then death could be the ultimate expression of its progressive purity,” Saad wrote toward the beginning of the week.

“Suicidal empathy for the L,” Musk agreed.

All of this might sound familiar. That’s because it’s a facet of the same complaint that led to his remedial education at Auschwitz last year, stripped of the most obvious antisemitic signifiers: Woke progressives are opening the doors to the forces that will destroy us all: Falling birth rates, gender ideology, flag-burning immigrants, socially-conscious AI. There was a basic fallacy in expecting a tour about the horrors of genocide to soften the views of someone currently worried about “ white genocide ” and civil war , and who believes the ideology of his critics could lead to millions of deaths.

Musk described the current state of his red-pilling, and how all-encompassing it is, most succinctly in a response to Rufo about a five-year-old tweet from Maher about feeling “deep discomfort” about having children.

“Once you see that the true battle is expansionists vs extinctionists,” he wrote , “you can’t unsee it.”

And once you see that Musk truly can’t see anything else, you can’t unsee that. Still, there are some things Musk does want AI to kill off. The emerging tech is a boon to Musk not just because of what it promises for his companies, but because of what he hopes it can replace. “Legacy media simply can’t compete with hundreds of millions of humans providing real-time, AI-assisted, interactive information,” he boasted , responding to a chart from DogeDesigner showing declining traffic at major news sites. Musk is doing his part. His feed looks like a newsroom after private equity came to town—one of the only articles from a legacy media outlet he shared all week was a New York Post story about X’s advertising situation, and the only reporter from a legacy news outlet he interacted with was Bill Melugin, Fox News’ man on the border.

Musk touts his platform as the future of news even as he uses it to spread misinformation. Not long after taking over the platform, he shared— and later deleted —a report from a notorious fake-news site that falsely asserted that Nancy’s Pelosi’s husband, Paul, had not been brutally attacked by a home invader and instead had gotten in a fight with a male prostitute. Communicating in emojis and exclamation marks makes it harder to commit factual errors, but he still made some. Musk twice expressed his alarm at a too-good-to-check story about a non-profit that works with migrants in Mexico handing out flyers asking them to vote for Joe Biden when they get to the United States. The non-profit said it had nothing to do with the flyers, and the text appeared to have been crudely translated using an online app. The allegation, which originated with a right-wing site called Muckraker.com, was amplified by the Heritage Foundation and found its way to Musk by way of both the Heritage Foundation and Nate Hochman, a Republican writer and activist who was fired from Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign after featuring a Nazi symbol in a campaign video. It may seem like a small thing, but there’s no such thing when it comes to truth—I’m told the future of civilization hangs in the balance.

A lot of his time is just spent saying the same grim things, to the same grim people, over and over. He has the mannerism not of a master of the universe, but of the reply guys clamoring for their attention. Musk tweeted “DefundNPR” at Rufo three times in two days, like a man at a ballpark by himself, trying to start the wave. He will sometimes respond to the same post multiple times, hours apart with a slightly different reaction. One of the big stories last week in Musk’s circle was a report from the popular account End Wokeness that the actress Naomi Watts has a daughter who is trans.

“Funny how so many progressive actors have children who are transgender,” Gad Saad wrote.

“Terrible,” Musk said.

“‘A ‘trans’ child is the ultimate Hollywood virtue signal, meaning EXTRA approval. Two is even better. 3 is god mode,” said a finance influencer and self-described Tesla shareholder, a few hours later.

“Yup,” said Musk.

It is hard to overstate that this is just what one of the most powerful men in the world does all day. It is the media diet of one of those influencers who only eats organ meat . At least Howard Hughes kept out of sight. But even amidst this right-wing emoji-storm, there were still occasional glimpses of the Musk who, until fairly recently, enjoyed a less polarizing reputation as a billionaire who built cool stuff. He does talk a lot about SpaceX, although those interstellar ambitions take on a different light when you realize his quest is now part of a civilization struggle against pronouns. If you catch him at the right moment, you can still find Musk sharing math jokes, politely engaging with people with product complaints, and offering unsolicited medical advice. “If you’re experiencing severe neck/back pain, I recommend looking into a disc replacement,” he suggested. I don’t know if that’s good advice or not, but I do at least get where he’s coming from.

Once, in the course of 389 tweets, the father of 11 even talked about what it’s like to be a parent.

“Whoa, I just realized that raising a kid is basically 18 years of prompt engineering 🤯,” he wrote.

“Our first child will be born next month – what’s your biggest piece of advice?” a former Tesla employee asked in response.

It was right there for him on a platter—a chance to be normal. What would it be: Treasure every moment? Stock up on wipes?

“Be super careful about what schools teach your kids,” Musk replied.

Never mind.

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Elon Musk wants to combine Twitter and Grok, his AI engine, and create a news machine.

But Grok won't look for "news" — it will look for "things people are saying on Twitter about news."

There's several problems with this approach! But it may be the future, regardless.

What do you think of when you think of "news?"

I'm both old and in the news business. So when I think of "news," it's usually like something that comes from an organization that specializes in distributing and sometimes sourcing/verifying facts about current events . You know: like a newspaper or a website or TV show/network.

Elon Musk thinks news is something different: It's what people talk about on the service formerly known as Twitter .

And that's the vision he's using to build a news service at X, the company formerly known as Twitter, using Grok , his homegrown AI chatbot.

Musk's idea, he tells journalist Alex Kantrowitz , is that the best way to learn about the news isn't by reading/listening to the news, but by listening to what people say about the news.

Conversation on X will make up the core of Grok's summaries — or, really almost all of it. Musk said Grok will not look directly at article text, and will instead rely solely on social posts. "It's summarizing what people say on X," he said.

And just to make it clear, a Musk employee confirms to Kantrowitz that these are indeed his marching orders: "Igor Babuschkin, a technical staff member working at Musk's xAI, said his team is focused on 'making Grok understand the news purely from what is posted on X.'"

Look. I know that "understanding the news purely from what is posted on the company formerly known as Twitter" is not going to give a lot of us comfort. Definitely not in the Elon Musk era of the company formerly known as Twitter.

But … I kinda like it? In theory?

Let's be clear: Understanding what is happening in the world based solely on what people say on X, or any other social media platform, is Not A Good Idea. But consuming commentary about what people say about what's happening in the world isn't a terrible idea. Maybe even a good one?

And, more practically: That kind of commentary consumption actually is the way many people learn about what's happening in the world. Even if you're a Serious News Consumer (thank you!), the bulk of the information you're getting likely isn't directly from a primary news source, but from someone who has aggregated or at least repeated what a primary news source says. It's basic economics: It's very expensive to go find news for yourself, and very cheap to talk about things that are in the news, or to package and present news other people have procured. That's why even large, well-funded news outfits — take, for instance, CNN — spend most of their time discussing and debating things we've already heard about, instead of presenting you with new things.

And while there are plenty of use cases where generative AI doesn't do a great job, it does seem quite useful at summarizing existing information, particularly when it's already been typed up. So why not summarize commentary?

The to-be-sures: Yes, you'd be foolish to rely on an Elon Musk-run AI machine for factual information.

Grok, no... pic.twitter.com/WBRPVNTXBB — Katie Notopoulos (@katienotopoulos) April 11, 2024

But to be honest, that caveat applies to any AI machine at the moment. Last week, for instance, I asked Google's AI ( not its much maligned Gemini but the one Google has started inserting into some people's phones whether they want it or not ) a question about World War II and the Tower of London and it confidently gave me an answer about Big Ben instead .

So let's assume that any generative AI answer about anything should be deemed a starting point at best — something that may or may not be right and definitely requires a fact-check before you use it to inform a consequential decision. Just like you should if your source was "thing I read on the internet" or "thing I heard on a podcast."

Which gets to the other problem with Musk's solution, as Kantrowitz points out: Right now, Musk is barely even trying to tell you about the original source of the information he's summarizing.

When I asked Grok to "tell me about Elon Musk's plan to summarize news using grok" it provided me a very cogent summary of Kantrowitz's piece. But to find the source of that summary, I needed to scroll to the bottom of the entry, then all the way to right, past other people's tweets with zero information about Musk's plans, to find Kantrowitz's tweet linking to his original article.

That's a lousy way to give people access to more information. It's also lousy for publishers who are still spending effort — like Kantrowitz — to find new information. It means Musk gets the benefit of their work and they get next to nothing — barely even a link — in return.

Alas, I think that's the way we're headed with AI in general: Despite efforts to negotiate or sue Big AI, most publishers are headed to a world where Big AI engines provide increasingly complete answers to queries and give users little incentive to head to original sources to learn more.

It would certainly be nice if Grok gave Kantrowitz more prominent billing when it provides an answer, and I think it may or may not get around to doing that, depending on Musk's feelings at any given moment .

But any media company that doesn't have a plan, or at least a hope , for dealing with AI news — beyond wishing for a check or a court order — is going to be in trouble regardless.

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Dead internet theory posits that bots now write most of the content on the internet.

TechScape: On the internet, where does the line between person end and bot begin?

In 2021, the web felt dead because algorithms were driving people to act like robots. Now, the robots are posting like people

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I know I’m real. And you, dear reader, know you’re real. But do you ever suspect that everyone else on the internet is acting strange? That the spaces you used to frequent feel a bit … dead? You aren’t alone. “Dead internet theory” first hit the web almost three years ago, propelled to the mainstream by an essay in the Atlantic by Kaitlyn Tiffany :

Dead-internet theory suggests that the internet has been almost entirely taken over by artificial intelligence. Like lots of other online conspiracy theories, the audience for this one is growing because of discussion led by a mix of true believers, sarcastic trolls and idly curious lovers of chitchat … But unlike lots of other online conspiracy theories, this one has a morsel of truth to it. Person or bot: Does it really matter?

At the time it was writing, the deadest part of the internet was Twitter in its moribund pre-Musk years. The site’s aggressive curation served up the same “relatable content” to hundreds of thousands of users, who made tweaks to posts like “i hate texting come over and cuddle me” and then reposted them. The distinction between person and bot was also being blurred by a recommendation algorithm that drove people to act like bots.

Beyond that central idea, the 2021 version of the conspiracy theory took some weird turns. One proponent, Tiffany wrote, “suggests that the internet died in 2016 or early 2017, and that now it is ‘empty and devoid of people,’ as well as ‘entirely sterile’… As evidence, IlluminatiPirate offers, ‘I’ve seen the same threads, the same pics, and the same replies reposted over and over across the years.’”

The theory wasn’t wrong – it was just too soon. Talking about a dead internet the summer before the release of ChatGPT is like the Guardian colleague who confidently declared, in the summer of 2016: “It’s been a mad rush of political news since the 2014 local elections, so it’s weird to think that there’s just Brexit and the US election and then everything will be quiet for the next few years.”

In 2021, the internet felt dead because aggressive algorithmic curation was driving people to act like robots. In 2024, the opposite has happened: the robots are posting like people. Here are just a few examples:

On Twitter itself , after Musk rescued the site from the frying pan and tossed it in a volcano, an ill-conceived monetisation scheme has made it profitable to buy a blue checkmark, attach it to a large language model, and set it running wild replying to viral content. The social network now pays verified users a proportion of the ad revenue received from their own comment threads, turning the most viral posts on the site into a low-stakes all-bot battle royale.

Death permeates Google. The top of its search results is a valuable position – so valuable that businesses competing to be there have no spare money to actually write their articles. No problem: ChatGPT can churn something out in a second. Of course, that’s only valuable if the resultant visitors are humans who you can make money from. Bad news, because …

… across the web, bots account for around half of all internet traffic, according to research from cybersecurity firm Imperva. Almost one-third of all traffic is what the company calls “bad bots”, doing anything from ad fraud to brute force hacking attacks. But even the “good bots” are struggling to earn that categorisation: Google’s “crawler” was a welcome sight when it was updating your search entry, but less so when it was simply training an AI to repeat what you wrote without sending any users over.

And then there’s Crab Jesus. An unholy marriage of Facebook content farms, AI-generated imagery, and automated testing to work out what goes the most viral led to weeks of viral content featuring combinations of Jesus, crustaceans and female flight attendants. In one such image, Jesus was pictured eating shellfish wearing a jacket made of prawns. More confusing was the image of a sort of crab-centaur saviour walking along a beach arm-in-arm with what appears to be the entire crew from a long-haul flight. It was, at least, interestingly bizarre – a step up from the previous viral chum of the 122-year-old woman posing in front of her homemade birthday cake.

I want to provide a ray of hope here, a nice little tip for how to insert some vitality into the internet again, but I can’t. It really does feel as if the public-facing net is in the latter stages of a zombie apocalypse. The good news is that there are safe havens. “Private social”, like WhatsApp and Discord servers, can hide from the onslaught in secrecy, while smaller communities such as Bluesky and Mastodon are safe through obscurity, for now.

In the mid-term, I expect to see large platforms cotton on to the wasteland their services have become, and use a combination of account verification and AI detection to try and restore some humanity to their offerings. Whether it will be too late by then, though, is an open question.

Musk still needs his Twitter sitter

There is, at least, one human still on the internet: Elon Musk, who is so addicted to posting that he spent $44bn to be called an idiot on a platform he owns. So his latest legal defeat will have hit him where it hurts, after the US supreme court declined to take up his plea to be freed from a court-appointed posting babysitter. From our story :

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The supreme court on Monday rejected an appeal from Elon Mus k over a settlement with securities regulators that requires him to get approval in advance of some tweets that relate to Tesla, the electric vehicle company he leads. The justices did not comment in leaving in place lower-court rulings against Musk, who complained that the requirement amounts to “prior restraint” on his speech in violation of the first amendment. The ruling comes a day after he made an unannounced visit to China aimed at sealing a deal to roll out Tesla’s driver assistance features there.

For those without an encyclopaedic memory of all things Elon: in 2018, Musk tweeted that he had “funding secured” to take Tesla private. The company never went private, and in ensuing lawsuits it turned out that he had, at best, a few discussions about it. To put an end to the legislation, Musk agreed to resign as Tesla chairman, pay $20m and have an in-house lawyer pre-approve all his social media posts about the electric carmaker.

He’s regretted it ever since, battling to have that part of the agreement (which he entered in to voluntarily, to avoid a damaging court case) overturned. “The pre-approval provision at issue continues to cast an unconstitutional chill over Mr Musk’s speech whenever he considers making public communications,” his lawyers argued.

Well, the supreme court in the US doesn’t care; it didn’t take his case, implicitly determining that no real constitutional issue is at stake.

The weird thing is that the in-house lawyer already seems to be taking a very hands-off approach to Musk’s posts. On Friday, he responded to an allegation from early Facebook employee Dustin Moskovitz that Tesla was “the next Enron” by posting a picture of a dog draping its testicles over the face of another dog. ( Click at your own risk .) If that’s Musk tweeting with an “unconstitutional chill”, I’d hate to know what he’d send if he felt truly free.

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Editor’s Note: This article was previously published under the title, “How to Profit From Elon Musk’s $18 Billion AI Project” but has been updated to include the most recent information.

The global AI Race has begun, and it’s off to a red-hot start. Companies like Microsoft ( MSFT ), Amazon ( AMZN ) and Apple ( AAPL ) – among countless others – are all pouring billions of dollars into this groundbreaking tech.

Why? Because they know that the winner of the AI Race will inevitably become the world’s most powerful company.

But funnily enough, the ultimate winner may not be any of those Big Tech companies.

Rather, it may be a company that you’ve likely never heard of before…

I’m talking about xAI, Elon Musk’s newest AI startup.

A New AI Frontrunner?

About a year ago, Elon Musk set out to create his own AI startup, xAI. He felt that his competitors were all missing the ultimate goal of creating powerful and fair AI. Now, just over a year later, that startup is working to raise $3 billion at an $18 billion valuation.

That is huge growth for a company in just under a year.

But xAI’s growth story could just be getting started.

After all, Apple didn’t become Apple because of the iPhone. It became Apple because of Steve Jobs.

Microsoft didn’t become Microsoft because of Windows. It became Microsoft because of Bill Gates.

World-changing people create world-changing businesses.

So… if you want to invest in world-changing businesses… start by investing in world-changing people.

We certainly believe that Elon Musk is a world-changer.

He co-founded PayPal ( PYPL ), the world’s largest digital payment platform, now worth more than $70 billion…

And SpaceX , the world’s largest private space rocket firm, now worth $180 billion.

He pioneered the world’s largest automaker in Tesla ( TSLA ), which is now worth more than all of the next 10 biggest automakers combined…

And he’s also the man behind Neuralink , The Boring Company , and X .

Musk has influenced how we pay for things, what cars we drive, how we communicate online, how we see space…

I’d venture to say that he is one of the most influential business figures of the past 20 years.

A great example of world-changing.

The Final Word

And now this world-changing person has turned his focus to a new business venture at the heart of possibly the most transformative technology the world has ever seen: AI.

Would you bet against him here?

I don’t think I would.

xAI has already launched an impressive AI chatbot named Grok, which many experts claim stacks up pound-for-pound against ChatGPT. And as we mentioned above, the firm is already in talks to raise $3 billion at an $18 billion valuation.

This latest startup is moving fast. With impressive progress. And the journey is likely just getting started.

Because xAI could be Musk’s biggest venture yet.

And right now, you have an opportunity to invest in it.

Now, not directly, of course – xAI is barely a year old. It is still a private startup.

But we have found a potentially huge “backdoor” investment opportunity into xAI. It’s a stock that you’ve likely have never heard of before, but we think it could be xAI’s leading tech component supplier.

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Elon Musk Wouldn’t Be the First Car Company Founder to Flame Out

By Peter Coy

Opinion Writer

Before there was Elon Musk, there was William Crapo Durant. Billy Durant, as he was known, built one of the world’s biggest makers of horse-drawn carriages, bought control of Buick, co-founded General Motors, was forced out of General Motors, co-founded Chevrolet, regained control of General Motors, speculated on stocks, lost control of General Motors a second time, started Durant Motors, went bankrupt in the Depression, opened a bowling alley, suffered a stroke and died penniless in 1947.

It’s highly unlikely that Musk, one of the world’s richest people, will die penniless, but in other respects he and Durant have a lot in common. They are, or in the case of Durant were, both brilliant, restless builders of empires and defiers of convention who experienced the highest highs and the lowest lows of business.

I talked to some experts on the wild early days of the automobile to see what Musk and the rest of us could learn from that period of ferment and creativity. One thing I found out is that the world is not always kind to visionaries with self-control issues. Durant flamed out at G.M. twice. In contrast, the prudent organization man who eventually succeeded him, Alfred Sloan, went from success to success. Renowned institutions bear his name.

“To Understand the Future of Tesla, Look to the History of G.M.” was the headline on a 2018 article in Harvard Business Review by Steve Blank, a serial tech entrepreneur who has taught entrepreneurship at Stanford and other universities.

Referring to 1920, the second time Durant lost control of G.M., Blank wrote:

While everyone around him acknowledged he was a visionary, Durant’s one-man show was damaging the company. He couldn’t prioritize, couldn’t find time to meet with his direct reports, fired them when they complained about the chaos, and the company had no financial controls other than Durant’s ability to raise more money. When the stock collapsed, Durant’s ownership share was at risk of being taken over by the bankers he owed, who would then own a good part of G.M. The board decided that the company had enough vision — they bought out Durant’s shares and realized it was time for someone who could execute.

Founders often fail as managers, Blank noted. “As Tesla struggles in the transition from a visionary pioneer to reliable producer of cars in high volume,” he wrote in 2018, “one wonders” if the generous compensation plan that the Tesla board awarded to Musk that year “would be better spent finding Tesla’s Alfred P. Sloan.”

I called up Blank. He told me that the flaws in Musk that he identified that year remain. “When you’ve been right in the beginning, you think you’re right forever,” he said. “You surround yourself with people who think you’re a genius forever. You run by whim rather than strategy.”

Edwin Land, a co-founder of Polaroid, was a technical genius but a terrible chief executive, Blank said. Steve Jobs bungled his job at Apple and was forced out as chairman, although he redeemed himself by doing better after returning as chief executive, Blank said. Then there’s Durant.

“Musk is very similar to Durant,” agreed Christopher Whalen, an investment banker who is chairman of Whalen Global Advisors and the author of a 2017 book on the history of Ford Motor titled “Ford Men: From Inspiration to Enterprise.” Whalen told me that with Musk, “We’re repeating ourselves in a way.”

A big difference between Durant’s days at G.M. and Musk’s at Tesla is that G.M.’s board was strong and independent of the C.E.O. (as evidenced by the fact that it booted him twice). It’s hard to say the same of Tesla’s.

This past week, Tesla announced it was laying off 10 percent of its work force in response to a drop in first-quarter sales. Two days after that announcement, the company filed a proxy statement for its annual meeting asking shareholders to reapprove Musk’s 2018 pay package, which a Delaware judge ruled illegally excessive less than three months earlier. The board also asked shareholders to approve Tesla’s reincorporation in Texas, which analysts said would be a friendlier jurisdiction for Musk.

Musk’s 2018 pay package, whose value is tied to Tesla’s stock price, was once worth more than $50 billion. As The Times described last week’s development : “Facing criticism that it is overly beholden to Elon Musk, Tesla’s board of directors said on Wednesday that it would essentially give him everything he wanted, including the biggest pay package in corporate history.”

Apart from how much money Musk deserves is the question of where he’s taking the company. He announced recently that the company will introduce a self-driving taxi, Robotaxi, in August, in spite of widespread concerns that the artificial intelligence required for self-driving isn’t mature. He seems to have stopped talking about his plan to roll out a $25,000 electric vehicle for the mass market — which would be less exciting but more reliably profitable.

“Musk shouldn’t give up” on robocars, but it’s not wise for him to bet the company on them, Whalen said.

“If there were a functioning board, this would be a conversation,” Blank said.

After Durant was deposed from G.M. the second time, he flailed between a car company, a cinnabar mine and that bowling alley, which he hoped to turn into a chain. He lost all of his money in the process. Musk is such a creative genius that Tesla’s board has indulged his idiosyncratic explorations. That may be the right call, given that the company might be lost without him. But Tesla’s board, like G.M.’s, needs to keep in mind that it represents the shareholders — all of them.

Outlook: Regina Schleiger

The Bank of England is still likely to cut interest rates three times this year despite higher-than-expected inflation and to start cutting before the Federal Reserve does, Regina Schleiger, the director of central bank policy research at SGH Macro Advisors, wrote in a client note on Friday. As Schleiger noted, Britain’s central bank has set its key policy rate at a 16-year high of 5.25 percent for six straight meetings.

Quote of the Day

“We philosophers are mistake specialists. (I know, it sounds like a bad joke, but hear me out.) While other disciplines specialize in getting the right answers to their defining questions, we philosophers specialize in all the ways there are of getting things so mixed up, so deeply wrong, that nobody is even sure what the right questions are, let alone the answers.”

— Daniel Dennett, “Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking” (2013). Dennett died on Friday.

An earlier version of this article misstated the title of a Harvard Business Review article. It is “To Understand the Future of Tesla, Look to the History of G.M.,” not “To Understand the Future of Tesla, Look to the Future of G.M.”

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Elon Musk says any company that isn’t spending $10 billion on AI this year like Tesla won’t be able to compete

Elon Musk has a message for America’s business leaders—either prepare yourself for the AI revolution or start writing your corporate obituary.

At a juncture in time when Tesla’s CEO is cutting back on investments into new vehicle capacity, he is spending $10 billion this year alone to bulk up on AI training and inference, and position Tesla at the forefront of the industry for real-life applications outside of generative AI.

“Any company not spending at this level, and doing so efficiently, cannot compete,” he posted on X Sunday.

Spending on AI inference would primarily be targeted at his range of cars, a possible indication that he is preparing the ground for the next generation of his custom-designed Full Self-Driving (FSD) computer known as HW5.

The distinction between training and inference is important since close observers will know Musk is currently working on another major AI project, his humanoid robot dubbed Optimus after the 1980s cartoon vehicle that transformed into a sentient robot.

This bold and risky pivot toward AI—and by implication away from his previous focus on a tenfold increase in car sales to 20 million EVs annually—definitively answers the perennial question whether Tesla is an automaker or a tech company in favor of the latter.

Any typical auto executive would have long since invested in rejuvenating one of the oldest product ranges in the auto industry. For example, Tesla’s EV archrival, BYD , is pumping out one new model after another across its portfolio of brands with the help of its small army of 90,000 vehicle engineers .

Tesla will spend around $10B this year in combined training and inference AI, the latter being primarily in car. Any company not spending at this level, and doing so efficiently, cannot compete. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 28, 2024

Musk however seems to view his cars more as an iPhone on wheels, a premium device for delivering high-margin software, that can be sold at lower profit since revenue will be recouped by offering services around the vehicle.

For the moment, that approach has not worked . Tesla has found itself forced to repeatedly cut prices to stimulate enough demand to keep his factories humming. Musk even recently resorted to slashing the price of his FSD software by a third .

Only 18 months ago, the idea of Tesla struggling to find customers seemed ludicrous, to borrow a favorite adjective of Musk. Yet China’s new generation of EV rivals are in a class of their own when it comes to value for money, and his own personal brand has been tarnished .

Musk’s latest answer has been to pivot away from a direct match-up car for car, and instead attempt to be the first global company to carve out a stake of the future market for autonomous ride-hailing networks.

While it is true the Tesla CEO predicted year after year that his cars would be able to drive entirely on their own without supervision, only to fail each and every time, his new FSD software v12 is a potential game changer . Unlike all his previous attempts, it runs entirely on AI without resorting to hard-coded commands, and initial customer feedback has been positive.

New deal to expand FSD to China

Emboldened by the success, Musk has quickly snatched up every AI chip he can find.

In the first quarter alone, Tesla spent $1 billion more than doubling its compute capacity to the equivalent of 35,000 Nvidia H200 chips, the benchmark for AI processing. Last week Musk promised this figure would hit 85,000 by the end of the year .

Musk hopes none of his direct competitors will take him up on his advice and Tesla will be able to be the first to solve unsupervised self-driving at scale and beat out Waymo to the lucrative business of licensing out his autonomous technology to rivals.

A key step in that direction is proving v12 is just as capable abroad as it is in the United States, where its software was trained.

On Monday he managed to clinch a deal that could see FSD finally gain approval in China. To placate demands from Beijing, Musk partnered with local internet search giant Baidu, itself a major contender in self-driving cars, to license the latter’s mapping and navigation software.

“Musk winning FSD approval in the key China market is a watershed moment for the Tesla story in our view,” wrote Wedbush senior tech analyst Dan Ives on Monday. Shares in Tesla are expected to surge over 9% when trading begins.

In the meantime, the Tesla community increasingly suspects Tesla has cancelled its $25,000 low-cost EV in all but name , and could instead launch a hatchback version of its Model 3 sedan that can be manufactured using existing production lines. That means Musk doesn’t have to splash out even more cash to build new capacity.

Investors like billionaire Ron Baron have hailed the decision, since Tesla is alreadly saddled with too many factories and could easily close one. Musk’s company can currently build 3 million cars this year across its four vehicle manufacturing plants, according to Baron, but in all likelihood will not sell more than 2 million this year.

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Elon Musk's Tesla yanks summer internship offers, students say

Tesla laid off thousands of workers in april.

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Tesla has reportedly reneged on summer internship offers it made to college students.

Multiple students described their situations in posts on their LinkedIn profiles this week. Bloomberg was first to report the news Wednesday .

One of the students identified by the outlet said Tesla informed her on Monday via a phone call that she no longer had a summer internship, a development she linked to the workforce and cost-reduction efforts Tesla recently started.

New Tesla electric vehicles fill the car lot at the Tesla retail location on Route 347 in Smithtown, New York, on July 5, 2023. (John Paraskevas/Newsday RM via Getty Images / Getty Images)

Tesla said in mid-April it would shed 10% of its 140,400-person headcount. Roughly 6,000 of those layoffs are hitting workers in Texas and California.

TESLA LAYS OFF MORE WORKERS, TWO SENIOR EXECUTIVES: REPORT

More recently, the EV maker indicated more workers , including much of the Supercharger team, would be laid off in addition to the initial eliminations, The Information reported.

FOX Business reached out to Tesla for comment regarding internship offers and how many it reportedly withdrew, but did not receive a response by the time of publication.

Tesla said in mid-April it would shed 10% of its 140,400-person headcount. (PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images / Getty Images)

Another college student said Wednesday that his offer also got pulled with very little notice, according to Bloomberg. In a LinkedIn post, he reported that prior to Tesla backtracking on its offer, he had already locked down housing for the internship with the EV maker that he had expected to begin in three weeks.

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Tesla’s reported internship offer withdrawals came as the academic year is winding down at many universities and many students are gearing up to soon join companies as summer interns.

A Tesla corporate logo hangs on the front of a store in Santa Monica, California, on April 10, 2023. (Gary Hershorn/Getty Images / Getty Images)

The Musk-run EV maker typically brings onboard students in the spring, summer and fall for internships. More than 6,000 students become Tesla interns each year, per the company’s most recent annual report.

TESLA NOTIFIES THOUSANDS IN TEXAS AND CALIFORNIA OF IMPENDING LAYOFFS

Tesla, which has experienced some turbulence in recent weeks, said its planned headcount reductions "will prepare Tesla for our next phase of growth, as we are developing some of the most revolutionary technologies in auto, energy and artificial intelligence" when it disclosed them in a mid-April filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

The company has multiple projects in the pipeline, including new and lower-cost vehicles and a robotaxi.

FOX Business' Breck Dumas contributed to this report.

Elon Musk Essay

Elon Musk is a famous business magnate, investor, and engineer. He is the founder, CEO, and CTO of SpaceX, co-founder of Tesla Motors, and chairman of SolarCity. He has also founded several other companies, including Zip2 and PayPal.

Musk was born in South Africa in 1971. He showed an early interest in computers and technology, and he eventually moved to the United States to attend Stanford University. After college, he started his first company, Zip2. This was followed by PayPal and SpaceX. In 2004, he founded Tesla Motors.

Musk is known for his innovative thinking and vision for the future. He has said that his ultimate goal is to help humans become a multi-planetary species. He is also working on developing the technology to make this happen, including electric cars and space travel.

Musk has been described as a “real life Tony Stark” (a reference to the Marvel comics character). He is an interesting and inspiring figure, and he is definitely someone to watch in the years to come.

Elon Musk is an engineer and entrepreneur who creates and manages businesses to address environmental, social, and economic concerns. He is now the CEO and CTO of SpaceX, as well as the CEO and Chief Product Architect of Tesla Motors. He was an early investor in PayPal, Inc., Tesla Motors, and Zip2, and is credited with being a co-founder of each business.

He briefly attended the University of Pretoria before moving to Canada aged 17 to attend Queen’s University. He transferred to the University of Pennsylvania two years later, where he received dual bachelor’s degrees in economics and physics.

He moved to California in 1995 to attend Stanford University but decided instead to pursue a business career, co-founding web software company Zip2 with his brother Kimbal. The start-up was acquired by Compaq for $307 million in 1999. Musk co-founded online bank X.com that same year, which merged with Confinity in 2000 to form the company PayPal and was subsequently bought by eBay in 2002 for $1.5 billion.

In 2002, Musk founded SpaceX, an aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company, of which he is CEO, CTO, and lead designer. In 2004, he joined electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla Motors, Inc. (now Tesla, Inc.) as chairman and product architect, becoming its CEO in 2008. In 2006, he helped create SolarCity, a solar energy services company and current Tesla subsidiary. Musk has also proposed the Hyperloop, a high-speed vactrain transportation system.

In 2015, Musk co-founded OpenAI, a nonprofit research company that promotes friendly artificial intelligence. In 2016, he co-founded Neuralink, a neurotechnology company focused on developing brain–computer interfaces, and founded The Boring Company, a tunnel construction company.

Elon Musk is the co-founder of Zip2, a web software firm that he started with his brother Kimbal Musk. The firm created and marketed a newspaper industry Internet “City Guide.” He obtained contracts with The New York Times and The Chicago Tribune and persuaded the board of directors to abandon its plans for a merger with CitySearch.

In 2003, Elon Musk formed Tesla Motors, an electric car company. He took on several investors including Martin Eberhard, Marc Tarpenning, Ian Wright, and JB Straubel. After a successful performance review, Elon became CEO of the firm and replaced Ze’ev Drori. total investment is more than 180 million dollars with additional investors

Drori was the original CEO of Tesla but he was not meeting Elon’s expectations. He is now the product architect, meaning he comes up with the ideas for new products, and oversees production of current products. The Roadster was the first car produced by Tesla it is an electric sports car. It goes from 0 to sixty in 3.7 seconds and has a range of 245 miles per charge. The base price for this car is 109,000 dollars.

In order to try and make these cars more affordable to people Elon created a company called SolarCity. This company offers solar power systems for homes and businesses. They also have a solar roof product which is a solar panel that looks like a regular roof tile. This product is still in development. Elon is also the CEO of SpaceX which is a space transportation services company. This company was founded in 2002 and their mission is to make it possible for people to extend life beyond Earth.

Elon has several different business ventures and is always coming up with new ideas. He is a very smart and innovative person. He has helped create some amazing products that have made our lives better. Tesla Motors is just one example of this. We all owe Elon a debt of gratitude for his hard work and dedication to making the world a better place.

Elon stated that Tesla had to cut over 10% of its staff in order to reduce their burn rate in 2008. In 2009, they introduced their first automobile, an electric two-seater sports car, as a more efficient company. The Model S was then released in 2012. On February 29, 2012, Tesla launched the Model X, an electric SUV. Elon has also stated that the third generation vehicle will be significantly less expensive so it can be sold in large numbers.

Elon is also the founder, CEO and CTO of SpaceX, co-founder of The Boring Company, co-founder of Neuralink, and co-chairman of OpenAI. A centibillionaire, Musk is one of the richest people in the world.

Tesla Motors was founded in 2003 by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning. The company’s name is a tribute to Nikola Tesla. Tesla’s goal was to produce affordable electric cars. The company released its first car, the Roadster, in 2008. The Roadster was the first mass-produced electric car to use lithium-ion batteries, and the first production all-electric car to travel more than 200 miles per charge.

In September 2015, Elon Musk announced that Tesla would be producing an all-new vehicle, the Model 3. The Model 3 is a more affordable electric car, with a base price of $35,000. over 400,000 people have reserved a Model 3. Production of the Model 3 began in July 2017.

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