Robert Scoble
@Scobleizer • 579,631 subscribers
San Francisco/Silicon Valley AI | Robots, holodecks, BCIs, analysis of new things | Ex-Microsoft, Rackspace, Fast Company | Wrote eight books about the future.
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Our robot has driven me and the family for two hours in driving rain across one of USA’s most dangerous roads. Without my hands touching the wheel once. It is how it handled pudddles, two brown streams crossing the road that most impresses me. While coming at us fast. None of you will do better. It was perfect. Which leads to trust. Once you trust a company with your life you will buy anything that company offers. People have no idea how good the AI is from Tesla. Trust will sell a lot of robots. Better. It gets me to trust all AI.
Robert Scoble32,565,350 views • 5 months ago
Met a founding engineer today from Replit ⠕. Jen Li. We were both judging the Pokee AI hackathon. They have me some credits and I built two apps in 20 minutes using the X API:a weather one which mapped storms being reported in by my climate scientist list and another monitoring my three news lists for information about the Iran war. Pokee includes X API for its customers automatically. While doing that my other AI read all your posts: He tells me about why Replit is hugely important in the AI industry. In other words how you can use it in your life and business.
Robert Scoble19,919,923 views • 3 months ago
Which social network is better for learning? (You already know the answer).
Robert Scoble15,683,469 views • 2 years ago
A Tesla Robotaxi drove me home tonight. I left my car at UP. I hit a pothole very hard and it broke something. Yikes. I was even looking at the road during this and didn’t see it in time. Waymo doesn’t yet come to either place. An empty freeway let me see the software that run the matrix headlights in the new Model Y light up the signs in a much better way than in our Model Y. It cleans the camera in a far different way too. No takeovers in 12 rides. I do my homework before I mouth off on ’d subscriber-only show on Sundays. The more experience I get in it the more bullish I get.
Robert Scoble4,767,211 views • 10 months ago
Yesterday HFØ held its demo day. I've met billionaires who only go to its demo day. I've gone now to three of its demo days, and the companies it brings are generally a cut above others. Here's and its founder, Richie Cartwright presenting it. I watched him work the booth after, meeting investor after investor. The demo worked, got many to come to meet him. He's building an AI Doctor that already is seeing significant sales in Europe. I'll be bringing more of the 14 companies to you as they come out of stealth.
Robert Scoble278,292 views • 26 days ago
Now do you get why Elon Musk bought Twitter? Here I am using X Pro (formerly known as Tweetdeck) while at a Tesla supercharger in my Apple Vision Pro. I was doing a FaceTime call with my producer, and playing music too. He told me he didn’t hear any music even when I turned it up to a pretty high volume. Each column is a list. I am the only human to map out the entire AI industry for you here: Add my lists to your account then go to and add them there as columns. Oh, and here you can see another frustration. Liking posts is often very difficult for me. I am sure that will get fixed but for now it is more early adopter pain. If you started X over by using first principles I would radically rethink X for use in vehicles. But, for now, this is pretty damn awesome.
Robert Scoble11,715,504 views • 2 years ago
Happy Chinese New Year. Yang Liping and the Qwen app just dropped a masterclass. They use AI as a "digital muse" to inspire a brand-new Oriental aesthetic. Qwen provided the creative inspiration. Today Maryam and I are off on a road trip with the kids, who are off school this week, for a few days to southern Utah so will be lighter on posting than usual. Enjoy!
Robert Scoble972,894 views • 5 months ago
Robots will bring billionaire living to a lot more people. I had the blessing to eat with Guy Savoy several times. One of the best chefs in the world. He, and other top chefs taught me about the importance of getting fresh ingredients. Here is how robots and World Models will bring that and what do I mean by “everything as a service?” In three years I will have this conversation with my 1X Neo humanoid robot: “Hey Neo I want to upgrade our food to billionaire level.” “I can do that. Food as a service costs $500 a month. I will buy only hand grown fresh organic food and I will prepare amazing meals for you and your family.” Where is the supply chain for such food? Farmers’ markets where everything is fresh and organic. You gotta stop buying at grocery stores to upgrade your diet. “Hey Neo here are the keys to Tesla Robotaxi. And here is my credit card. Start up food as a service.” Neo will take an autonomous car to the market. “But Neo how do you know where to go?” “Well a guy on X did a video of the farmer’s market nearby.” “I watched it, and now know roughly the kinds of things I can get there.” We are too late to start today, the market is closed now, but we can start next week. Look at this video the way Grok does. I am playing humanoid today. In one visit my Neo will ingest all of this into its World Model. In the second visit it will get even better. In the third visit even better. World models are going to be real time by the end of next year from a variety of companies. فيصل Tesla Robotaxi already serves both our home and the market. Our Tesla drove us there and already knows where it is. Grok is already a world model. In a few minutes it can tell you what it learned by watching this video. It watches all my videos before distributing them to you. So it knows how not to overwhelm @jason’s feed with my prolific posting. It will get a lot better soon. But after three trips to this farmer’s market my robot will know everything about this market including the names of the farmers. Watch this video, you meet one. Grok can do a RAG search and learn everything about him, including that he doesn’t have a Website, and only posts on Facebook. Also that he takes Apple Pay. It already knows everything it sees. The names of the vegetables, fruits, nuts, and what is ravioli. One vendor sells fresh ravioli made early this morning. If you are freaked out by privacy have your Neo stay in the garage until it is time to do something for you. In three years I will be eating fresh food with my brother in law while football is on the TV. If you don’t have a robot you won’t eat as well unless you are a billionaire who can afford to pay the human to shop and cook for you. The Robotaxi network starts up next year (without humans). The world models get good next year. By 2030 every one of you will have a robot in your home, at least part time. Who has the best world model? Tesla. Who understands the real world better? Grok. (I didn’t give this video to anyone else). Who soon will have the best humanoid? Tesla. Which company already has a Robotaxi in my driveway? Tesla. Which company has the best video ingestion engine? Tesla. Which company is about to turn on a real time world model? xAI. Which company would you want to invest in? Tesla and xAI. Which is why, if you are a Tesla investor and you didn’t vote for Tesla to invest in xAI you hurting yourself.. Everything as a service is about to arrive. Everyone who can afford a $20,000 robot, which can be financed will have it next year. I will. Anyone worried about privacy has no idea how useful this all will be to make your lives better. And how much money it will make for a robot company to put it all together. And only Tesla has all the pieces to make the meal.
Robert Scoble1,363,973 views • 8 months ago
This road claims lives every year. This is one of the most dangerous roads in America. A mistake here is like hitting solid concrete at 120 miles per hour. Highway 152 near Gilroy, California. Oncoming traffic at a high rate of speed. Death and destruction only six feet away. Ford’s head of safety told me that most humans don’t do the right thing which is to scrub off maximum energy in to a wreck. I just diss the whole thing without touching my robot once. I am actually a doomer. I think through every millisecond of what would happen if a drunk comes directly at me. You probably won’t survive. But in a Cybercab with no steering wheel there is a good chance. The steering wheel kills many in high speed crashes. Getting rid of the steering wheel and using the extra eight inches of space for a bigger airbag will save many lives. By the way the marketers already know that if you trust a robot to do dangerous jobs for a couple of years you will be happy to trust your Optimus with your sex toys and guns. Figure won’t have the same trust level. Which is why I am most bullish about Tesla when it comes to robots in the home. It doesn’t matter who is first to the home. That won’t be Tesla. It matters most who has the most trust. I will wait for the Tesla. It has earned my trust. My robot does dangerous jobs every day. In the near future the Teslas ahead will warn my robot that a drunk driver is coming so pull over to the side and stop, which is the best action to take. Reduces speed offset by half giving you a dramatically higher chance of survival.
Robert Scoble2,662,917 views • 1 year ago
Autonomous farming at Reservoir Farms in Salinas. When I got here joined a bunch of farmers from Florida who were visiting. But during the talks Bonsai Robotics caught my attention. One of the first to use world models to drive autonomous farm equipment. Here's their CEO, Tyler Niday, talking to me about what's going on in farming around the world. And of course we talk about world models. My favorite topic lately. They have robots farming in Australia and here in America in a variety of places. He ran autonomous tractors for John Deere USA for years. Reservoir Farms is an incubator—think of it like Y Combinator or Founders Inc., but for people who are making autonomous, AI-driven tractors and other farm equipment. It's a remarkable place. Worth telling anyone in farming about. Danny Bernstein 🍇🥬, who runs it, used to work at Google in high tech and got the bug to help startups hit the farming market. He has a fairly big plot of land to do all sorts of testing, demos, and development work here in Salinas, with about 40 acres of a variety of different crops. That is something you can't do in Silicon Valley anymore. It takes me back to my childhood when Silicon Valley used to be all farms. It was a lot of fun hanging out with the farmers. They'll be doing some events and hackathons down here. If you're from Silicon Valley, it's only an hour south, and I highly recommend coming down to see what's going on. The AI part of farming is very similar to building an autonomous car or truck, so the kinds of jobs are very similar. The market is just very different, and the kinds of things a robot needs to figure out are different. You might be picking apples or spraying crops. You don't have pedestrian traffic, maybe, but you have other kinds of things you need to train and model on to work around. Anyways, I had a beautiful day hanging out here.
Robert Scoble29,904 views • 6 days ago
July 4th, 2030. In just four years, almost every part of America will be reachable by an autonomous car. People don't believe me when I say that, but it's already happened for me. In fact, I've probably driven through your community by my robot. Which gets me to a new point. I've been all over this country with my robot, and there are some places that are stunningly beautiful: Wyoming, Montana, Alaska, California, and Utah. Even the East Coast has stunning natural beauty in places like Maine and New Hampshire. It's different than Yosemite National Park, of course, but they have their own national park up there that is really nice. Someday you're going to pay a cheap price for a thrill ride ticket. Yesterday, I did basically San Jose to San Diego in one drive along the coast. This is a way better drive than going to Disneyland and riding the Matterhorn. Disneyland costs something like $150 or more per person; for a family of three or four people, that gets expensive. It’s cheaper to take an autonomous car and buy a box of strawberries. Also coming in 2030, you're probably going to be wearing a pair of glasses. I know you hate the idea; I have to wear glasses and I hate the idea too. But I've seen the prototypes in the labs and they are so stunning that someday a company is going to bring a product to market that makes us all go, "Oh." I still believe that company is Apple. There’s a reason for that: they own exclusive rights to Formula One. A lot of people watch Formula One (I watch it myself, though I'm not rich enough to go many times). Someday you're going to have a 3D track on your kitchen counter and you'll be watching the race in a whole new, mind-blowing way. You're going to show it to all your guests at your Fourth of July party and they’re all going to want one. By 2030, the question isn't whether I have a robot in my house. I already have a couple of robots, like the Matic robot that cleans our floors, and I’ll probably have another one by the end of this year. I'm talking about a humanoid. The real question is: how many humanoids will be in my house at my Fourth of July party in 2030? I could see saving up a little bit to rent a whole bunch of them. Why not? It’s America. Someday soon, you're going to have robots lighting off the fireworks in certain communities. When I lived in Seattle, we had mortars on our front driveway. It's a little dangerous for a human to get close to, so you send the robot. That’s what I learned in Las Vegas when I met the bomb disposal unit; they let me drive a robot around and blow up a bomb. As an American, that highly entertained me because blowing up bombs is just the best. That’s why we all like fireworks, except for my autistic son who can’t stand them. He has shown me a different way, so we go to drone shows now. Regardless, soon you’re going to have humanoid robots lighting the fireworks. In fact, I won’t be shocked if a robot company does that tonight and uses it for marketing tomorrow. Happy birthday America! Hope your day is like a box of strawberries.
Robert Scoble67,716 views • 16 days ago
My friends who have Eight Sleep mattress covers really love them. They cool and heat and have a ton of sensors that watch your sleep quality. Of course a lot of AI. When they offered to drive out to people’s homes to let them try I signed up instantly. I get why people love them now. Maryam loved it too. This is gonna cost! I recorded the visit here.
Robert Scoble31,260 views • 7 days ago
All AI posters at GTC. This is not for human consumption. This video is for AI to watch. Click the grok button and talk to it about what it learned by seeing all the AI posters (highly technical) presented at NVIDIA GTC tonight. Thanks NVIDIA for the badge and access.
Robert Scoble331,655 views • 4 months ago
The AI beat the human. Abu Dhabi Autonomous Racing League is exciting. The crowd was pulling for the human. But alas. Exciting Motorsport here in Abu Dhabi. Shows that robots can now compete with humans in Motorsport in a head-to-head race. Here are the final two laps.
Robert Scoble575,158 views • 8 months ago