Tesla Youtuber and friend of Nextbigfuture, Warren Redlich, reports that his Tesla sources give a more plausible story around the August 8, 2024 Robotaxi event. Bloomberg had reported that there would be a two month delay for the August 8, 2024 event. The stated reason was to get more prototypes built. Elon Musk confirmed it. …
I make the case for large Tesla profits from very good FSD (Full Self Driving) in an interview on Brighter With Herbert (youtuber Herbert Ong). Full Self Driving is the name of Tesla software for its driving assistance system. My case is that Tesla FSD is vastly improving and as good version of 12.4.X and …
OpenAI’s rumored project Strawberry is focused on enhancing the reasoning capabilities of its AI models. Strawberry is rumored to be based upon the QStar AI advance. QStar was a reasoning advance that supposedly triggered the power struggle inside OpenAI and temporary firing of CEO Sam Altman. Strawberry supposedly enables AI to perform long-horizon tasks (LHT), …
Youtuber Connecting the Dots makes the case for Tesla to use Robotaxi to replace Uber. The BG2 podcast (VCs that own Uber and Tesla) suggest that it would be better for Tesla to partner with Uber. He believes Tesla could use the X (aka Twitter) user base to seed a critical mass of ridehail users …
An MIT Professor of labor and productivity analysis, Daron Acemoglu, makes a case that AI progress to boosting world GDP growth will be less and transformative change will take longer. His case is not from a deep understanding or analysis of AI. He is looking at the comparative case of the internet. How long did …
There is a report from Bloomberg that the August 8, 2024 Tesla robotaxi event was delayed to October, 2024. This has caused about a 10% selloff in Tesla stock. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science …
Jordan at the Limiting Factor projects magapack energy demand. He does his usual excellent job but he does not factor in increased energy demand from AI data centers. AI data centers could more double the amount of overall world energy needed by 2040. The overall energy demand used in Tesla Master Plan part 3 did …
Today, there is a new video interview of the lead researcher at Exodus Technologies who are making a radical new propellantless propulsion system. They claim they can produce over 1G of thrust for a lightweight device. IF this claim is true then they could make spaceships that could go to Mars in 5 days and …
SpaceX Starlink now has over 100 Starlink satellites with direct to cellphone capability in orbit. Each satellite can provide about 17 mbps direct to cellphone communication. This would enable about 10,000 simultaneous voice or low bandwidth data connections. It can also support millions of text messages and other short communications every few seconds. “> Brian …
David Shapiro is an AI youtuber who was predicting AGI would arrive in September 2024. His expectations have massively dropped for the speed of AI progress. He has made a few videos talking about AI progress slowing down. Shapiro is over correcting because he hyped it up with an AGI by Sept 2024 prediction. He …
Here is my analysis of human versus automated driving today and the level to be much safer than human in the future and why failed disengagements would have a low percentage being fatal. A truly much safer autonomous driving system would eventually cross over where interventions would be more dangerous than non-intervention. Think of the …