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Elon Musk: SpaceX, Mars, Tesla Autopilot, Self-Driving, Robotics, and AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #252

Lex Fridman · 11.2M views · 2021-12-28 · 2:31:48

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Lex Fridman's long conversation with Elon Musk covering SpaceX, Mars, Tesla Autopilot and self-driving, robotics and AI.

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Mostly cited as a primary source for Musk's statements on self-driving and other topics, often with skepticism about his depth.

Discussed on HN; no positive recommendation is recorded in this export · HN mentions 2022–2022

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Tech pioneers & interviewsSpace exploration & spaceflightSelf-driving & autonomous vehicles
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belter · 2022-05 · Criticism

If you are curious to see if he knows what he is talking about or not, you can hear it directly from him instead of from employees: "Elon Musk: SpaceX, Mars, Tesla Autopilot, Self-Driving, Robotics, and AI | Lex Fridman": [VIDEO] My take after hearing the interview? Alex Fridman knows what is talking about, Elon Musk no.

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belter · 2022-02 · Criticism

That might be the case for rocket mechanics but watching this interview between: [VIDEO] 1.02.40 and [VIDEO] 1:34.01 looks more like the case of the manager repeating stuff heard from the engineers discussion. Lex Fridman asked the questions, was the one that clearly layout the challenges, and kindly enough repeated the answer that Elon Musk was not providing. Meaning its not a problem of "vector space". Humans interpret the world and give semantic meaning to the scene in front of them. He repeated it several times as Elon Musk answers completely missed the critical challenges, until he was perceptive enough to pick and regurgitate back the examples Lex Fridman was providing. Like the one where a human would not miss the fact that although some children temporarily disappear from your field a vision as you overtake a school bus for example, they are likely to appear in front of you as they will try to cross from the front of the bus to the other side of the road. The interview is actually concerning, as its basically Lex Fridman explaining to Elon Musk the challenges and points he is supposed to address, and throwing him a soft ball while he was running around as this is simple, easy problem of creating a "vector space". Curiously he does pick up on hints a bit later, but still concludes and reluctantly goes on to declare the problem will be fully solved by middle 2022... At 1:26:48: [VIDEO]

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tim333 · 2022-01 · Reference

I agree the criticism on the basis of philosophy is kind of silly. Elon Musk's recent description of how the thing is going in real life on Lex Fridman Podcast 28 dec 21 was interesting [VIDEO]

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