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ELON: PHYSICS IS THE LAW AND EVERYTHING ELSE IS A RECOMMENDATION “It is incredibly important for an AI model to be grounded in reality. Physics is the law and everything else is a recommendation. I am not suggesting people break human made laws, but I have seen many people... show more

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🚨ELON: WE’RE RUNNING OUT OF QUESTIONS TO ASK OUR AI... REALITY IS THE ULTIMATE TEST "We're running out of actual test questions to ask. Questions that are ridiculously hard for humans are becoming trivial for AI. Physics is the law—you can't break physics. The ultimate test for AI is reality. You invent new technology, and does it work? Reality is the ultimate judge. It's a reinforcement learning loop around reality." Source: xAI Elon Musk

🚨ELON: WE’RE RUNNING OUT OF QUESTIONS TO ASK OUR AI... REALITY IS THE ULTIMATE TEST "We're running out of actual test questions to ask. Questions that are ridiculously hard for humans are becoming trivial for AI. Physics is the law—you can't break physics. The ultimate test for AI is reality. You invent new technology, and does it work? Reality is the ultimate judge. It's a reinforcement learning loop around reality." Source: xAI Elon Musk

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Elon Musk clearly explains why Grok must be maximally truth-seeking: “I think you want Grok to say things that are true, even if they’re not politically correct” Focus on cogent reasoning - make sure axioms as close to true as possible, no contradictions, and conclusions that necessarily follow with the right probability. It’s just critical thinking 101 The proof is in the pudding: For any AI to discover new physics or build technology in reality that actually works... there is BS physics, you have to be extremely truth-seeking Physics is the law. Everything else is just a recommendation. If your rocket design is wrong, it blows up. Reality doesn’t lie

Elon Musk clearly explains why Grok must be maximally truth-seeking: “I think you want Grok to say things that are true, even if they’re not politically correct” Focus on cogent reasoning - make sure axioms as close to true as possible, no contradictions, and conclusions that necessarily follow with the right probability. It’s just critical thinking 101 The proof is in the pudding: For any AI to discover new physics or build technology in reality that actually works... there is BS physics, you have to be extremely truth-seeking Physics is the law. Everything else is just a recommendation. If your rocket design is wrong, it blows up. Reality doesn’t lie

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ELON: OPTIMUS VERSION 3 WILL HAVE HUMAN DEXTERITY AND AN AI MIND “We’re finalizing the design of Optimus version three, and that really is going to be a very remarkable robot. It will have the manual dexterity of a human, a very complex hand and an AI mind that can navigate and comprehend reality. And it will be made in very high volume.” Source: The All-In Podcast

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ELON MUSK: "We’ll probably unveil Optimus Gen 3 in a few months. I think it’s going to be quite surprising to people it’s an incredibly capable robot We are replacing the SX line in Fremont with a million-unit-per-year line for Optimus Because it is a completely new supply chain, there’s really nothing from existing supply chains that exists in Optimus; everything is designed from physics first principles The normal S-curve of manufacturing ramp will be longer for Optimus than it is for products that have at least some portion of an existing supply chain The production rate will be proportionate to the least lucky, least confident part of the entire supply chain Optimus 3 will be a general-purpose robot that can learn by observing human behavior. You can demonstrate a task, verbally describe it, or show it a video, and it will be able to perform that task. It’s going to be a very capable robot."

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