Elon Musk

Elon Musk’s Pledge To Fix South Australia’s Energy Issues Prompts Ukrainian Pm To Get In Touch

... as a result of damage to infrastructure. Solar City is an energy firm Musk founded with his cousin Lyndon Rive. It recently merged with Tesla , the car company Musk is CEO of. Rive told Australian news site AFR last week that Solar City could provide the energy storage required through the battery technology it produces and this would be possible within 100 days. Mike Cannon-Brookes, the Australian founder of Nasdaq-listed tech firm Atlassian asked Musk on Twitter if this was a real bet. Musk replied that it was, adding that if the company couldn't do it within 100 days, the contract would be free. Solar City makes solar solutions for areas which can store up energy during the day and feed that back into an area's grid. The promise was applauded by Australians including Prime Minister ...

Elon Musk Just Tweeted About A Spacex Travel Ad, But It's Not What You Think

... ad, but it wasn’t quite what it seemed. “Here is the latest Space X travel ad for the flight around the moon and into deep space,” Musk posted on his Twitter account Tuesday. “Maybe needs a few edits…”. Instead of a peek into the future of space travel, Musk posted a link to the trailer for Destination: Moonbase Alpha, a feature-length film based off the seventies British sci-fi TV series Space: 1999. With large-scale moon colonies and advanced technologies, it’s an exciting glimpse at what future Space X missions could look like, but Musk’s endeavor could probably do without the dangerous malfunctions and retro haircuts. Here is the latest Space X travel ad for the flight around the moon & into deep space. Maybe needs a few edits. __link__/m A 8 Zgutrb E. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 28, 2017. Musk announced last month that Space X would fly two private citizens around the moon and back ...

Elon Musk’s Spacex On Brink Of `wright Brothers Moment’ With Reused Rocket

... moment’ with reused rocket. Originally published March 26, 2017 at 5:00 pm. Updated March 27, 2017 at 12:53 pm. The Falcon 9 rocket slated to take off Wednesday from Cape Canaveral has flown before, marking the first time Space X will again fly one of the 14-story-tall boosters it recovered from past missions. Share story. Dana Hull. Bloomberg News. If the rocket that Elon Musk’s Space X expects to launch this week looks familiar, that’s because it is. The Falcon 9 rocket scheduled to take off from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, has flown before, marking the first time Space Exploration Technologies will reuse one of the 14-story-tall boosters it recovered from past missions. The reused rocket will ferry a communications satellite into orbit for Luxembourg-based SES, Space X’s first commercial customer, and signals a leap forward in Musk’s 15-year-quest to drive down launch costs and eventually create a human colony on Mars. ...

Elon Musk On Brink Of Wright Brothers Moment With Reused Rocket

... measured nationally last year. Sure, you can wear leggings on a plane — but please don’t. March 28, 2017, 6:16 pm. Do it for your fellow long-suffering air travelers. Do it for that seatmate who is feeling a little violated after the indignity of a TSA pat-down. Do it for all the good citizens who, just like you, wish that their knees were not practically tucked under their chins, whose seat backs don’t recline and whose tray tables are too small. How Twinkies are riding America’s health trend. March 28, 2017, 6:06 pm. Healthy eating has become an obsession. Soft-drink sales are slumping, salt is getting tossed from food, and kale is on the menu at Mc Donald’s. Arvada baker makes dog biscuits with spent grain from local breweries. March 28, 2017, 5:44 pm. After two decades as a professional chef and ...

Elon Musk Says Mark Zuckerberg's Jarvis A.i. Isn't A.i

... public-facing billionaire. Of course, Musk isn’t the only one who can sling passive-aggressive barbs through the media. Zuckerberg has previously taken on Elon’s claims about a coming robot apocalypse , though that’s a less pointed attack given that Musk isn’t staking the future of any of his companies on a perception of having true A. I. This is a consistent distinction between the two rich technologists/ Zuckerberg thinks in terms of small-scale applications, and tends not to worry too much about the long-term, cascading consequences. This is what gave us poorly thought out initiatives like Facebook’s early attempts at news aggregation. On the other hand, Musk always thinks big and long-term — which is easy for him to do, since he has never actually been a part of a company that has attempted to build a complex A. I. for commercial use. His statements tend to gloss over just how great the distance is between current ...

Elon Musk Needs To Slip Jared Kushner These New Solar Jobs Numbers

... solar is still going to look pretty good, driven by state policy and improving economics. Getting rid of the federal Investment Tax Credit as part of tax reform is an entirely different question. But tax reform will be as hard as health care - and we just saw how that turned out. Data dive: Speaking of the states. With or without the Clean Power Plan, solar jobs are growing rapidly. The Solar Foundation is out this week with some more juicy stats about solar's economic contribution to the U. S. According to the organization's latest tally, solar produced $154 billion in economic activity around the U. S. last year. Nearly half of U. S. states saw solar jobs grow by 50 percent or more. Someone (Elon) needs to get those stats to Jared Kushner's innovation office. There's a new  interactive website that shows some of the most common jobs in each state, county and city. (Did you know that nearly half of all solar jobs in Minnesota are in sales and distribution? Must be all that ...

Advanced Artificial Intelligence With Killswitch Might Be Unkillable

... in dealing with a possible hostile takeover or situation where an over-arching super-intelligence, purposefully or unintended, implements commands that pose a threat to humans or humanity. He told Y Contributor in January, “I think if we can effectively merge with AI , like improving the neural link between the cortex and your digital extension of yourself, which already exists but just has a bandwidth issue, then effectively, you become an AI-human symbiote.”. “We don’t have to worry about some evil dictator AI,” Musk said, “because we are the AI collectively.”. Artificial intelligence and its potential for domination and elimination of humans got it a top ranking in existential threats, according to Wired. [Image by white Mocca/Shutterstock]. But it is imperative, he thinks, that artificial intelligence technology and its development be closely monitored, which is why he keeps a close watch on Google’s Deep Mind, a London laboratory at work on artificial super-intelligence. In the Vanity Fair piece, it is made clear that Elon Musk finds his ...

Tesla's Elon Musk Reveals Plan To Link Brains To Computers

... that can treat neural disorders — and that may one day be powerful enough to put humanity on a more even footing with possible superintelligent computers, according to a Wall Street Journal report citing unnamed sources. Musk, a founder of the electric-car company Tesla Motors and the private space-exploration firm Space X, has become an outspoken doomsayer about the threat artificial intelligence might one day pose to the human race. Continued growth in AI cognitive capabilities, he and like-minded critics suggest, could lead to machines that can outthink and outmaneuver humans with whom they might have little in common. In a tweet Tuesday, Musk gave few details beyond confirming Neuralink's name and tersely noting the “exist­ential risk” of failing to pursue direct brain-interface work. Some neuroscientists and futurists, however, caution against making overly broad claims for neural interfaces. Hooking a brain up directly to electronics is itself not new. Doctors implant electrodes in brains to deliver stimulation for treating conditions such as Parkinson's disease, epilepsy and ...

Elon Musk's Openai Develops Bots That Can Create Their Own Language

... and Y Combinator president Sam Altman, says it has successfully taught AI bots to create their own language for communicating with each other. Instead of being programmed to recognize an object by repeated exposure to photographs, for instance, the AI bots learn by trial and error. In a paper written by lead authors Igor Mordatch and Pieter Abbeel, the researchers describe how the bots used reinforcement learning to accomplish simple goals. Using a plain white box, the bots were depicted as a red, green, or blue circle. Two bots were instructed to move the third bot to a different location within the box but not told how to accomplish that task. They were given clues such as “Go to” or “Look at” by the researchers, but they were required to create their own machine language to communicate with each other. The researchers then assigned English words to the numerical strings the bots came up with. Through trial and error, the bots were able to learn what worked and what didn’t as they attempted to accomplish the assigned goals. “We think that if we slowly increase the ...

Elon Musk To Launch Startup Aiming To Develop Cranial Computers

... publicly demanded it. "The Washington Post newspaper broke the story, and Fox News now confirms the Justice Department sent a warning to the former acting attorney general, Sally Yates," Smith said. "Fox News obtained the letters showing the department told Yates earlier this month that she could not discuss a great deal of her possible testimony without permission from the White House." Smith duly noted the Trump administration's denial: "The White House calls The Washington Post's reporting 'entirely false.' It also says it has no problems with her testifying. That hearing was tentatively planned for today.". "It's all very complicated," Smith said, and that at least seems indisputable. Nunes went to the White House late March 21 to view some classified documents, then said the next day he's seen proof that Trump ...

Elon Musk Is Not Happy About Trump’s Recently Signed Nasa Bill

... orbits the Earth every 90 minutes, and astronauts aboard see an average of 16 sunrises and sunsets every 24 hours. Photo Credit: NASA. Many Fantastic Colors. The Nili Fossae region, located on the northwest rim of Isidis impact basin, is one of the most colorful regions of Mars. This region is ancient and has had a complicated geologic history, leading to interesting structures like layered bedrock, as well as other compositions. Photo Credit: NASA. Wind Carved Rock on Mars. The distinctively fluted surface and elongated hills in this image in Medusae Fossae are caused by wind erosion of a soft fine-grained rock. Called yardangs, these features are aligned with the prevailing wind direction. This wind direction would have dominated for a very long time to carve these large-scale features into the exposed rock. Photo Credit: NASA. Rains of Terror on Exoplanet HD 189733 b. This Halloween, take a tour with NASA's Exoplanet Exploration ...