Tag: Elon
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“As the situation got more desperate in the fall of 2008, Musk pleaded for money from friends and family to meet Tesla’s payroll.” Elon Musk, by Walter Isaacson In 2008, Tesla was in the depths of production hell. And with the world on the verge of another Great Depression, a…
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“We have reason to believe Elon is retarded.” That was Elon Musk’s elementary school principal. Young Elon stared out the window and ignored his teachers, leading them to assume he could not learn. Perhaps Elon found their lessons irrelevant. Or maybe he was tormented by what was going on at…
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“There’s no line of code that says ‘slow down for speed bumps.’ So it’s doing this based entirely on video training.” Elon Musk A New Kind of AI On Friday, Elon Musk demoed FSD 12, Tesla’s latest self driving software. Watching the demo is at turns nervewracking and exhilarating. Tesla’s…
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At 1310 East Grand Avenue in El Segundo, just south of Los Angeles, sits a large white building. In 2002, it housed only about a dozen people. There wasn’t even a receptionist. Deep in this building was a small group of cubicles, staffed by about a dozen men. This tiny…
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