Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become the most recent and evolving technological advancement. Nvidia, Apple, Tesla, and Google are the companies taking charge and contributing to AI. These companies have started integrating AI into their companies and are encouraging others to do the same.
On October 10th, Elon Musk revealed a prototype of the humanoid Optimus robot Tesla at a pre-launch event at the Warner Bros. studio lot in Los Angeles to show Tesla’s progression in their AI inventions.
These autonomous robots are part of Musk’s involvement in AI. However, they aren’t autonomous because, at the event, they were controlled by humans. Musk claimed that these robots would be able to complete house chores such as washing the dishes, putting away groceries, babysitting, etc. This ultimately poses the question of what life will be like when these robots are incorporated into daily life and society.
Tesla connoisseur and senior Amelia Zehenni thinks the new humanoid Optimus robots are “very cool,” continuing to say, “knowing Tesla, they are going to do some amazing things.” Having high hopes for these new robots, Zehenni realizes that, “we’re lucky that this is happening in our lifetime, and it’s exciting to know that the future is not too far off.” On the matter of AI and its rapid advancement, Zehenni believes that “we’ll see an exponentially increasing use of AI once the robots have been perfected.” Speaking of which, Tesla is hoping to release the Optimus models by 2026, limiting production in 2025 on behalf of the company’s need for internal use to perfect and alter its current prototypes.
Senior, Camille Tauro on the contrary doesn’t think the “robots will live up to the hype promised by Elon Musk.” Tauro heard Musk state that they could “teach and/or babysit kids” but disagrees because “programming and automation can easily malfunction and endanger people especially if they’re put in charge of important tasks in the workplace” remarking that “they could easily be subject to causing large accidents and problems.” Being that she is hesitant, Tauro realizes “that that these robots can serve crucial tasks that many households don’t wish to do, however, humanity’s path of letting increasingly sophisticated technology into our homes and ever-nearer to our lives results in immensely large potential for breaches of privacy and security (especially with hacking and other dangers).” Still Tauro believes that in the long term, the robots will be implemented and improve quality of life. Bringing up Musk’s point on the robots being able to babysit kids, Tauro thinks “this function may cause widespread effects in behavior due to less time with parents and other humans.” Seeing that Generation Alpha has already been nicknamed the iPad kid generation, having been given screens and technology at a very young age, this might steer Gen Z parents away from using this baby-sitting quality. After all, kids can’t use robots to learn communication and interpersonal skills to become functioning members of society.
Flying cars they said…No, humanoid Tesla robots seeking autonomy.