- The bots integrate AI training, motor torque control, object manipulation
- Musk asks if it was legal for OpenAI to become for-profit
Tesla CEO Elon Musk presented new footage of Tesla Bots at the company’s annual shareholders’ meeting. The bots are capable of recognizing and picking up items and walking steadily, Cointelegraph reported.
The new video displays a few notable upgrades, including AI training, enhanced motor torque control, and object manipulation capacity. The humanoid robots can walk in a straight line without help from Tesla staff, which wasn’t possible earlier.
The bots were first revealed last year at Tesla AI Day, when they could barely walk and their insides showed.
The high-tech development provoked mixed reactions. Some internet users congratulated Tesla on its achievement, while others weren’t as delighted as all that, threatening to destroy the robot up if they saw it in real life.
Musk lashes out at OpenAI’s for-profit switch
In related news, Musk raised the question of whether it was legal for OpenAI to become a for-profit company after he invested around $50 million in the creators of ChatGPT. In an interview with CNBC, he said he came up with the company’s name and had wanted it to be an open-source alternative to Google’s DeepMind, which the internet giant bought in 2014.
The hectobillionaire compared OpenAI’s transition to a “save the rainforest” organization becoming a timber business, adding that it didn’t “seem legal”. In his opinion, it should have started as a for-profit company to begin with if that had been OpenAI’s goal all along.
A change in priorities
According to OpenAI, it started as an NPO so it would not be limited by a need to generate revenue and be able to focus on “advancing digital intelligence” in a way likely to benefit people as a whole.
In 2019, OpenAI announced plans to create a new entity called OpenAI LP, which would be a combination of a for-profit and a nonprofit organization. This entity would supposedly still be governed by the NPO.
