There are plenty of bosses like him out there. Completely high on their own shit. He reads about technology in a sci-fi book, and thinks he can Steve Jobs into bullying workers into making it a reality. Completely deludes himself into thinking it’s real and sells it to investors with full confidence. He has no idea of the actual technical challenges and fully convinces himself his genius brain could figure it out if he wasn’t so “busy” all the time. Everything is perpetually just 6 months away.
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MxM111@kbin.social 1 month agoI think he truly believed all that. He did not lie, he was wrong about the future. Or at least that would be his legal defense.
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FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The worst part is that he doesn’t even understand the sci-fi he consumes. He said this not too long ago:
Grok is an AI modeled after The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, so intended to answer almost anything and, far harder, even suggest what questions to ask!
Every AI in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy was broken, an asshole or both. Douglas Adams clearly thought the idea of a “human-like” AI was abhorrent. Especially one developed by a giant corporation.
Also, he thinks the name of the main character in Blade Runner is “Bladerunner.”
pr06lefs@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
The word grok comes from stranger in a strange land, not hitchhikers guide.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 month ago
True, and since part of the meaning of grok in the book was ‘to love,’ naming your “anti-woke” AI after that suggests he also didn’t understand that book.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Every AI in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy was broken,
Wow, I’m a huge fan of Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, and I never really thought of that, but you are 100% right.
Wonderful comment thanks. 👍 😀ReveredOxygen@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I don’t think he meant an AI from the book, I think he meant the actual Hitchhiker’s Guide. The one that says don’t panic on the cover
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Which, again, was incredibly corrupt and run by a soulless corporation that didn’t actually care about the truth.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Funny how rich people can get away with that. I could say I fully believe I’m going to win $50 million in the lottery next week, but a bunch of shit I can’t pay for, and probably wind up jailed pretty shortly thereafter and nobody would bat an eye. Rich guy selling vaporware? No problem, he just believed his own hype train. Sorry, investors.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 1 month ago
He’s claimed before that he honestly believes it each year by watching the progress the past X months, but suddenly all progress stops as their method hits a plateau. So they keep changing methods.
It’s probably an honest mistake the first time or two, but he’s done this every year since and has no credibility anymore.
After being wrong by a year or two, he should have explained what was going in, and shut up about it, with a simple I don’t know when it’ll be ready buy you should see forward progress each year.
MxM111@kbin.social 1 month ago
He is a smart guy and an idiot at the same time. I don’t know how it fits in the same person. He is not neurotypical.
n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
He’s not smart he is just in the elite club where he fails upwards, his name will be cemented beside DJ Khaled for most successful failure
unreasonabro@lemmy.world 1 month ago
get born rich
fail like a bitch
That’s Elon
unreasonabro@lemmy.world 1 month ago
aww, he’s a smidiot. That’s idiartic! ;)
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
I really believed that…
Uh-huh… There is a long, LONG list of bullshit that he believed, and continues to believe. There comes a point where we either have to accept that he has the mental level of a 5 year old believing in Santa Claus, or that he is a narcissistic compulsive liar.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Except he claimed Tesla had the technology working NOW in 2019. Which is a factually false statement not about beliefs.
MxM111@kbin.social 1 month ago
And that would is probably one of the indicators of why lawsuit is allowed to proceed and might be won in the end.
PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 1 month ago
depends how you define “working” i suppose.
can a tesla drive its full range automomously? probably…
should it? probably not
Buffalox@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Musk defined it himself, as being able to drive from a parking lot across the country to pick you up in another parking lot.
PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 1 month ago
and they could do that in theory, just not very safely
Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 1 month ago
It can do that now. Probably not with zero driver interventions especially when talking about a trip across the country but Tesla is the only vehicle manufacturer today that offers this capability. There’s a dude on YouTube doing ridesharing with Tesla using FSD and with the latest software version it completes 90% of the trips from the pickup to the destination without intervention from the driver.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yeah. He explicitly stated that the only thing stopping them flipping the switch were those damn pesky road laws
Serinus@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Which I’m sure was true. It would certainly be a lot faster to debug FSD after a number of deaths for each bug.
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Forget Tesla dude! Trust me I’m from the year 2024. In just a few months your world will change drastically and everyone will start getting 😷 sick and wearing a mask. We called it COVID 19 and it was bad. Real bad. The only way to fight this pandemic was to isolate as much as possible until a vaccine was made available. The markets never crashed like Trump suggested… almost as if he knew something was happening…you must invest all your money on moderna and Pfizer vaccine related stocks. Anyway, that’s all I remember. Paxlovid was okay but not a vaccine. Wow, Lemmy let’s you time travel! We need to invest into this technology!