Elon Musk

The Surprising People Ceos Worship

... treatment of gender, many more start-ups are being founded by women , including 10 on the Upstart 25 list. The founders of feminine hygiene products company Lola and investing firm Ellevest — started by one of Wall Street's most powerful women (Sallie Krawcheck) — named Gloria Steinem as the speaker they would bring in before anyone else. These were also the only founders who added no explanatory language supporting their selection — the name alone was enough. But the feminist icon was not the most popular female choice. Michelle Obama, former First Lady, was the most in-demand speaker after Musk. "We know she's on a beach somewhere, but we'd love hearing from Michelle Obama. She brings many lessons on rallying people to causes that are important," said Ursula Mead, CEO and founder of In Her Sight , a start-up focused on helping women find the best career fits. For Grokker , an on-demand fitness start-up, this is no hypothetical exercise. Its founder and CEO, Lorna Borenstein, has been hosting a series of webinars featuring business leaders on Silicon Valley secrets and culture, for which she has had "high-powered girlfriends who hail from ...

Elon Musk On Brink Of Wright Brothers Moment With Reused Rocket

... said. “We want them for the SES board room.”. Colorado incomes rise, but start to look more average. March 28, 2017, 6:28 pm. Personal incomes in Colorado rose from $277.7 billion in 2015 to $288.4 billion in 2016, a 3.9 percent increase, ahead of the 3.6 percent gain 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 ...

Reusable Falcon 9 Rocket Is A Triumph For Spacex's Elon Musk

... a major setback. Instead, by Thursday night, Musk’s prophesies about a dramatic reduction in the cost of spaceflight and the potential for getting to Mars seemed more plausible than ever. “It means that humanity can become a spacefaring civilization and be out there among stars,” he said. “This is what we want for the future.”. From the beginning, Musk has preached that reusable rockets are key to that future. It remains to be seen how often Falcon rockets can fly, how easily they can be turned around from one flight to another and how much money that saves. “It’s potentially a big cost-saver and it will make a difference, provided you can re-fly multiple times,” said Ray Lugo, director of the Florida Space Institute at the University of Central Florida, who once oversaw launches of NASA science missions on what were then exclusively “expendable” rockets. “If this works, over the long term it will be difficult for anyone that throws boosters away to compete.”. Last Slide Next Slide. Analyses of reusability have considered both the technical challenges, which Space X solved Thursday, and financial ...

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

... 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 Malcolm Turnbull, who thanked Musk on Twitter for an "in-depth discussion". Now citizens from other countries have taken to social media to ask Musk to bring his technology to their countries. A user by the name of @5 Allan Le Vito urged Musk to bring a similar project to Ukraine. Musk replied "sure", and laid out the cost. The price Musk quoted was the same figure he had told Cannon-Brooks for the South Australia project - $250 per k Wh (kilowatt-hour) for 100 MWh-plus (megawatt-hour) systems. Musk's response prompted Ukrainian Prime Minister ...

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

... 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 complexity of their environment, and the range of actions the agents themselves are allowed to take, it’s possible they’ll create an expressive language which contains concepts beyond the basic verbs and nouns that evolved here,” the researchers explained in a blog post. While the tasks accomplished were fairly simple and straight forward from a human perspective, the advancement from requiring massive amounts of computer coding to accomplish the tasks to teaching the bots to write their own coding is a significant step forward in artificial technology. “Language understanding is super important to make progress on before AI reaches its full potential,” said Miles Brundage, an AI policy fellow at Oxford University. He says that the achievement by Open AI represents a potentially ...

Elon Musk Seen Targeting Human-computer Link In New Venture

... to Musk's previous statements about incorporating artificial intelligence, or AI, into human brains. The idea of a brain-computer link has been a theme in Musk's tweets, and the topic also came up in a lengthy Recode interview last year, when he spoke of how humans are already becoming cyborgs, thanks to smartphones and other devices that give us nearly immediate access to information. "But the constraint is input-output," Musk said. "So, we're i/o-bound.". Laying out his idea, Musk said, "Effectively, merging in a symbiotic way with digital intelligence revolves around eliminating the i/o constraint. So, it would be some sort of direct cortical interface.". And he added that such a "merging" would not require surgery but could instead be accomplished by going through veins and arteries — "because that provides a complete roadway to all of your neurons.". You Tube. Such a project could be life-changing for people who suffer from ...

Five Things We Learned This Week

... business and financial information, news and insight around the world. Customer Support. Elon Musk’s Real Moonshot: Five Things We Learned This Week. Colonizing Mars is probably easier than his goal for Tesla next year. Five Things We Learned This Week (03/31). 1) Elon Musk Is Setting Himself Up for a Fall. Tesla Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk says he can make 500,000 cars next year. That’s a dramatic increase for the electric-car company, which made a little more than 76,000 in 2016. The key is his new Model 3, a $35,000 sedan—about half the price of its current line—scheduled to start deliveries sometime next year. At his target, Musk would have to sell more vehicles than the BMW 3 Series and the Mercedes C class combined.  Wall Street analysts say that’s not likely , Bloomberg’s Tom Randall reports. And Musk has a history of blowing self-imposed deadlines. “It could happen,” said Salim Morsy, electric car analyst at Bloomberg New Energy Finance. “I’m pretty sure it won’t.”. 2) Robots Are Even Threatening the Pizza Delivery Guy. In the future, will there be any jobs that robots can’t do? A Domino’s Pizza franchisee is turning to ...

Why Elon Musk Worries About Artificial Intelligence

... hinting that homeowners may be able start ordering Solar City's solar-integrated roof shingles as early as next month. One thing you won't hear him championing is the unfettered rise of artificial intelligence, which he once described as the "biggest existential threat" to humankind. Musk's prejudice prompted him to donate millions to the ethics think tank Open AI —and it's why he's urging other billionaire techies like Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Alphabet's Larry Page to proceed with caution on their myriad of machine learning and robotics experiments. Open AI is both an ethics and a research institution. Its mandate (plucked from its website ): "Because of AI's surprising history, it's hard to predict when human-level AI might come within reach. When it does, it'll be important to have a leading research institution which can prioritize a good outcome for all over its own self-interest.". For more insight into Musk's motivation, I recommend Maureen Dowd's treatise in the latest issue of Vanity Fair. Ostensibly, her article is about Musk, but she also does a masterful job of revealing where noted AI enthusiasts stand on the ethics ...

Elon Musk Has Launched A Company That Hopes To Link Your Brain To A Computer

... Tesla Motors before Elon Musk (pictured) was named the chairman of the board, and ultimately CEO of Tesla Motors. Photo: China Foto Press, China Foto Press Via Getty Images. Image 14 of 31 | Tesla Roadster. Tesla's first production car, the Tesla Roadster, was one of the first commercially available highway-capable all-electric cars on the market. Debuting in 2007, the Roadster was based on the Lotus Elise. Image 15 of 31 | Tesla Roadster. Tesla said the two-seat Roadster could get up to 200 miles per charge. Photo: Tesla Motors. Image 16 of 31 | Tesla Model S. The first Model 3 cars were delivered in 2012 after being announced in 2008. The Model S became the bestselling electric car in the United States in 2015. Photo: James Lipman, Tesla Motors. Image 17 of 31 | Model S fires. In 2013 a handful of fires involving the Model S were reported and received widespread media coverage. By 2014 all new Models S cars were built, featuring a beefed-up underbody shield to ...