Latest / Elon Musk Thinking / Elon Musk Latest Interview at Saudi-US investment forum.
Transcript
- 0:00Speaker 1: Now, I'm sure we can do a better welcome than
- 0:02Speaker 1: that to Elon Musk in saud Arabia. There you go,
- 0:08Speaker 1: that's the spurret. Thank you, Aylon, my dear friend. We're
- 0:13Speaker 1: honored to have President Trump. We're honored, under the sponsorship
- 0:18Speaker 1: and guidance of His Royal Highness to celebrate a US
- 0:23Speaker 1: Saudi and a Saudi US relationship that is ninety two
- 0:27Speaker 1: years old about how we move from an oil based
- 0:31Speaker 1: economy to an innovation based economy powered by wonderful technologies.
- 0:36Speaker 1: That definitely you're one of the pioneers in this industry.
- 0:40Speaker 1: We just showed to His Royal Highness some of your
- 0:43Speaker 1: Optimist robots and to President Trump.
- 0:46Speaker 2: Let's talk about that. Tell me about them. Yes, So
- 0:49Speaker 2: we just.
- 0:51Speaker 3: Showed several of our Tesla Optimist robots to His Highness
- 0:55Speaker 3: and President Trump, and I think they were very impressed.
- 0:59Speaker 3: In fact, one of our robots did the Trump Dance,
- 1:02Speaker 3: which I think was pretty cool. Y yeah to YMCA,
- 1:07Speaker 3: So yeah, robots can dance, they can walk around, they
- 1:11Speaker 3: can interact. I think we're headed to a radically different world.
- 1:18Speaker 3: I think I think a good world, an interesting world.
- 1:22Speaker 3: My prediction actually for humanoid robots is that ultimately there
- 1:27Speaker 3: will be tens of billions. I think everyone will want
- 1:34Speaker 3: to have their personal robot. You can think of it
- 1:38Speaker 3: like as though you had your own personal C three
- 1:42Speaker 3: PO or R two D two or even better, then
- 1:45Speaker 3: who wouldn't want to have their own personal C three
- 1:47Speaker 3: PO R two D two. That would be pretty great.
- 1:51Speaker 3: And I also think it unlocks an immense amount of
- 1:57Speaker 3: economic potential because when you think of like what is
- 2:01Speaker 3: the output of an economy, it is productivity per capita
- 2:06Speaker 3: at times population or capita. The Once you have humanoid robots,
- 2:12Speaker 3: the actual economic output potential is tremendous. It's really unlimited. Potentially,
- 2:19Speaker 3: we could have an economy ten times the size of
- 2:23Speaker 3: the current global economy where no one wants for anything.
- 2:30Speaker 3: You know. Sometimes in AI they talk about universal basic income.
- 2:34Speaker 3: I think it's actually going to be universal high income,
- 2:39Speaker 3: where anyone can have any goods or services that they want,
- 2:45Speaker 3: you know. A science fiction book recommendation that I have,
- 2:49Speaker 3: which I think is probably the best envisioning of an
- 2:53Speaker 3: AI future is the Culture Books by Ian Banks, very
- 3:00Speaker 3: highly recommended for a non dystopian view of the future.
- 3:07Speaker 2: Now, there obviously are some risks.
- 3:09Speaker 3: You know which illustrate perhaps the if we don't do
- 3:13Speaker 3: this right, you know, you could have like a James
- 3:15Speaker 3: Cameron sort of movie, you know, Terminator, if we don't
- 3:19Speaker 3: want that one, but having sort of a star Trek
- 3:25Speaker 3: future would be great. We we're out there exploring the stars,
- 3:29Speaker 3: discovering the nature of the universe and a level of
- 3:36Speaker 3: prosperity and hopefully happiness that we can't quite imagine yet.
- 3:42Speaker 3: So I'm very excited about the future, and I'm very
- 3:45Speaker 3: glad to be here. Thank you for having me.
- 3:47Speaker 1: It's an absolute pleasure. And His Royal Highness was talking
- 3:50Speaker 1: to you about his vision and his dream to increase
- 3:53Speaker 1: productivity for the Kingdom of Saud Arabia and power up
- 3:57Speaker 1: the region and the whole world with robotics, but also
- 4:00Speaker 1: on robotaxis.
- 4:01Speaker 2: So how are we doing on robotaxis?
- 4:04Speaker 3: Yeah? So really you can think of a car or
- 4:07Speaker 3: future cars as being robots on four wheels, and you know,
- 4:13Speaker 3: I think it'd be very exciting to have autonomous vehicles
- 4:16Speaker 3: here in the Kingdom.
- 4:17Speaker 2: Indeed, if you're amenable.
- 4:19Speaker 1: You heard it, hear from El he's bringing his Robotaxi
- 4:22Speaker 1: to the Kingdom.
- 4:25Speaker 2: He has another announcement that he.
- 4:27Speaker 3: Yes, exactly so, and I'd also like to thank the
- 4:32Speaker 3: Kingdom for approving Starlink for maritime and aviation.
- 4:35Speaker 2: Use thank Maritime and Aviation. There you go, there you go.
- 4:41Speaker 3: So, yeah, so you're going to bring.
- 4:44Speaker 1: Us robots to help us increase our productivity, robotaxis to
- 4:48Speaker 1: make sure that our cars and assets turn into a
- 4:52Speaker 1: cash generating unit and start Link start Link to reform
- 4:57Speaker 1: our aviation and maritime.
- 4:59Speaker 2: Yeah, talk about x AI.
- 5:01Speaker 3: Absolutely, but I should want you to mention also something
- 5:04Speaker 3: that may be worth considering is tunnels.
- 5:08Speaker 2: The Boring Company.
- 5:09Speaker 3: I have this company called the Boring Company, which sounds
- 5:13Speaker 3: kind of boring, but it's it's it literally bores tunnels
- 5:18Speaker 3: and actually tunnels. In order to solve traffic, you really
- 5:23Speaker 3: need to go three D with roads, and by using tunnels,
- 5:28Speaker 3: you can essentially create create like like a wormhole, like
- 5:31Speaker 3: like a warf tunnel from one part of a city
- 5:34Speaker 3: to another and alleviate traffic. And we've actually already done
- 5:38Speaker 3: this proof of concept in Vegas. So they're working tunnels
- 5:41Speaker 3: in U in Las Vegas that you can use where
- 5:45Speaker 3: that'll just it feels like teleporting for one part of
- 5:47Speaker 3: Vegas to another. So I always say that. You know,
- 5:51Speaker 3: my joke is like tunnels are underappreciated. You know, it's
- 5:55Speaker 3: a bit of a I don't always a hit, but
- 6:00Speaker 3: so yeah, and then XAI is just trying to solve
- 6:11Speaker 3: general purpose artificial intelligence. The goal with XAI is to
- 6:15Speaker 3: have a maximally truth seeking AI, and it's important to
- 6:20Speaker 3: be maximally truth seeking AI in order to understand the universe.
- 6:25Speaker 3: So the goal of XAI is understand the universe, to
- 6:31Speaker 3: understand that, you know, you know, what is out there,
- 6:36Speaker 3: where's the universe going, where did it come from? What questions?
- 6:40Speaker 3: In fact, I think maybe the biggest thing is what
- 6:43Speaker 3: questions do we not know to ask? Like, once you
- 6:49Speaker 3: know the question, the answer is usually the easy part.
- 6:55Speaker 3: So the goal of XAI is helped understand the universe.
- 6:58Speaker 3: And yeah, that's the goal, and to help people answer
- 7:06Speaker 3: any questions along the way, of course, But I mean
- 7:11Speaker 3: that's my philosophy. My philosophy is a one of curiosity,
- 7:17Speaker 3: just trying to understand the nature of reality.
- 7:20Speaker 1: So I know you had a long day, but we
- 7:22Speaker 1: also have the Honorable President and his Royal Highness mus
- 7:26Speaker 1: the hitting.
- 7:27Speaker 2: The stage soon. So this is a historic.
- 7:29Speaker 1: Day, a partnership about how we could join hands together
- 7:33Speaker 1: as we have joined hands in the past ninety two
- 7:36Speaker 1: years on building a factor based economy to help the
- 7:39Speaker 1: world and power up twenty percent of the energy mix,
- 7:43Speaker 1: which is very critical today to the AI intelligence age,
- 7:46Speaker 1: the digital age and how we have reformed and with
- 7:49Speaker 1: the intelligent age. And we could not be more appreciative
- 7:52Speaker 1: of having a lifetime partner and a friend like you
- 7:54Speaker 1: Elon to the Kingdom, joining hands on