Robert Scoble
@Scobleizer
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AI pioneer, host of Unaligned: all about AI impact. Reports from Holodeck, robot builders/owners. Strategist (ex @Microsoft, @Rackspace, and @FastCompany).
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Joined November 2006
Our free newsletter this week is on AI algorithms and Swarm Intelligence. @IrenaCronin and I write this newsletter every week. Swarm intelligence, inspired by nature's collective behaviors like ant colonies and bird flocks, offers a revolutionary approach to problem-solving
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I met an Apple employee who was at the @tesla event and he told me that Apple killed its autonomous car after figuring out what Tesla was building.
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I'm a long-time Democrat and I live in California. They haven't gotten the message that this shit pisses people off, so they switch parties and that it's just, plain, wrong. Tesla hires tens of thousands of VERY EXPENSIVE workers here. This doesn't hurt Elon, it hurts our.
Newsom is a đ¤Ą. Heâs excluding Tesla from the latest EV incentives in California.
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Optimus make me a drink, please. This is not wholly AI. A human is remote assisting. Which means AI day next year where we will see how fast Optimus is learning.
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Yesterday I met the fourth employee at SpaceX. Hans Koenigsmann. I asked him how they did the code that lands rockets back on earth so they can be reused. âOh, one person wrote that.â . What? . Yeah, itâs better for a single human, he told me, to write it because one person.
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Hmm @elonmusk calls his new AI âgrok.â. So what does âgrokâ mean? . GPT-4 answers:. âThe term "grok" comes from Robert A. Heinlein's 1961 science fiction novel "Stranger in a Strange Land." In the context of the book, "grok" is a Martian word that means to understand something or.
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Steve Jobs, when he formed his first iPhone team of about a dozen people, told them "you are not allowed to hire anyone who has worked on a phone before.". I didn't really grok that until I saw this. What "rules" are about to be broken due to AI?. All of them. A NeRF has.
1960, Orson Welles explained how he wrangled complete creative control for his first film, Citizen Kane, as well as the value of âignoranceâ to break through old ideas.
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Never seen F1 like this before.
Incredible shoot made by drone following Formula 1 car at full speed. Drones become faster than F1 đ˛
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If you can't afford the rich person's computer toys, stay alive. In 1989 I was so jealous of Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak who bought a $45,000 color printer to print from Photoshop 1.0. Today a $70 printer is way way better. The Israelis who are making the optics for the.
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Our world changed tonight. In 10 years we will look back at the first public demo of a robot that learned to move around the world by watching only videos. This is a paradigm shift in how software is built. At one point @elonmusk took over because the AI made a mistake.
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8,100 drones. We canât compete.
A new world record was set last week in Shenzhen when an 8,100 drone formation lifted off to show a stunning performance.
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Now do you get why @elonmusk bought Twitter? . Here I am using X Pro (formerly known as Tweetdeck) while at a Tesla supercharger in my Apple Vision Pro. I was doing a FaceTime call with my producer, @grantmweston and playing music too. He told me he didnât hear any music even
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I am in love with my robot. You are an idiot if you donât want a ride. AI is the wildest technology of my life.
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EXCLUSIVE FIRST LOOK: Silicon Valley garage startup building a humanoid robot. $8,000. BOM on robot. @kscalelabs . 3D printed carbon fiber. 26 high torque electric motors that were stuck in customs for a month. Pre launch. Will be first shown at @ycombinator demo day in
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What spending tens of billions of dollars looks like. Took Tim Cook years, he bought many startups and visited many factories. History will judge his job, but I had a front-row seat on all this for years (wrote two books about Spatial Computing and a third about Metaverse) and I.
Apple Vision Pro pre-orders begin today! Weâre so excited for you to experience spatial computing for the first time! Â
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If you are trying to learn how to use LLMs in your own software this book is a good place to start.
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My @Tesla Model 3 updated again last night. Damn @elonmusk is getting his programmers to ship amazing updates every few weeks. I've never seen another company, or product, like it. Got better at driving on city streets and added a cool new video game. @teslaownersSV you get it?.
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First "Unaligned" show with @aimifm founder, @ebalassanian. One of 30 companies in the AI Generative Music space. Gotta start with AI music!
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This is why AI Art is a new art form. It isnât as easy as it first looks.
Prompt Share:. This image just speaks to me. I truly love it. Muted colors liminal desert scape, random 3d blocks rendered in 2d, dot matrix barcode swirl night sky --ar 2:1 --q 2 --s 750 --v 5
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I got a surprise $1,200 today from Twitter. Twitter has gotten way better since a competitor appeared. For one some people have left. But their content is lightweight. So Twitter has gotten more serious and interesting. Thank you @elonmusk. I have seen many calling you.
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Last night I met an electrical engineer who is working at Tesla. He was effusively positive about his employer. He laughed about the Cybertruck being able to float. âIf @elonmusk says it on Twitter we gotta build it.â.
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Tesla AI is very underrated. Had two AI founders while my car drove us through SF. If you have a friend with FSD beg them for a ride. If you think @elonmusk has competition you are simply wrong. There is none.
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Letâs say USA pauses its AI development. Will China? No. Can we afford to fall six months behind?.
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"Zuckerberg is gonna sell shitloads of Quest 3.0's this Christmas because it is $500, not $3,500." . I see this kind of claim all the time. Or a similar one "a Ferrari is better than a Toyota but a Toyota sells many more." . I played a lot with pricing when working at a consumer.
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I just realized if @elonmusk wants TruthGPT then he will have to build the best AI validator. Then I realized Twitter is the best validator of all. Think about it. GPT spits out a list of facts. How would you best validate?. A Twitter Space. Talking with other humans. That.
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A difference in company philosophy:. @neuralink: put wires on brain. @CorticalLabs: grow brain on wires. Cortical Labs just completely changed my dreams and nightmares. Here it is in Hon Wengâs hotel room. He is showing this off tomorrow at a brain conference in San
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This is your regular warning. You can not believe ANYTHING anymore that is coming from a digital device. Validate everything.
BREAKING: Hours after being seen with Mary Barra, Elon Musk was spotted with AOC
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This place is a lot nicer now that all the Elon haters are gone.
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Disruption is coming. GPT-4 is better than anyone expects. And it is one of several such AIs that will ship next year.
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The future of audio is Silicon speakers. Yesterday I was invited to hear the future of audio on a visit to This Silicon wafer has hundreds of speakers on it. Yesterday they showed me these used in headphones, augmented reality glasses and more. Wow.đ§ľ
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I engage with people who have few followers. Why?. Cause fuck the algorithm.
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Wow. @Jandodev just showed me a prompt humans canât read but LLMs understand this language better. The San Francisco AI people are designing a new language. In stealth. You are first to see it.
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The low-latency teleoperation engineering is being missed and misunderstood. This will always be a feature of Optimus. Even decades from now. Imagine you are on a business trip abroad. But your kid, back home, misses you. You could put on a glove and a pair of glasses.
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My Tesla's AI is the most amazing software of my life. By far. And I had a famous Silicon Valley blog that covered innovation for more than a decade so have seen thousands of pieces of software and the entrepreneurs who build it. Omar, who writes Whole Mars Catalog, often is.
The Tesla AI team has pulled off a miracle and doesn't get enough credit. I just say where I want to go and my car takes me there with just computer vision and 0 human input, routinely. $TSLA. Watch in 4K:
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No one invests in packaging like Apple. I saw this inside the factories in China. Steve Jobs asked his employees to bring him the box that consumers would open and let him open the box.
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âElon Musk is an asshole.â. My family reminded me of that yesterday. They all carry iPhones. Wait until they learn about the kind of person Steve Jobs was.
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Tesla is the true meta verse company. NOT Facebook. NOT Apple. NOT Google. NOT Niantic. NOT any other company. It is so ahead. I'm sitting with nerds who build AI and their mouths are agape.
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Tesla has been planning its AI moves for a decade. How do i know that? . Because I studied automotive innovation for a decade. Mercedes Benz gave me its first ride in its first autonomous vehicle because of that work and study. I know lots of you think I'm kissing ass to.
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If I was @elonmusk I'd put this in the @petersen_museum in the lobby. Or, the lobby of its headquarters in Texas. The engineering that kept the battery from catching fire, and the structure intact, under such an event is something that the Tesla team should be hugely proud of.
The Tesla Cybertruck *saved* American lives today. Not just bulletproof, bombproof. ISIS proof. IED proof. Put it in an ad @elonmusk
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Hahah. @elonmusk lets all of us talk for days about how it isnât AI then releases this video.
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How many more months before this gets way better than any human? Less than 17.
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We're back and "Unaligned" this time. A new AI-first interview show starting in September.
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This is why innovation matters. I used to cover innovation in auto industry. It is why I got the first ride in Mercedes autonomous vehicle and first ride in first Tesla. Only one auto manufacturer has this working in a five-year-old car. I asked many engineers why they.
Was on FSD and my @Tesla Model Y wouldnât go on green. Pressed the accelerator and it would barely move, finally it just freaked out and slammed the brakes. AEB saved us from a serious crash. Thanks @elonmusk. @WhamBaamX @DriveTeslaca @Teslaconomics @WholeMarsBlog @SawyerMerritt
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If I died would my Twitter account stop?. The AI to continue this is in the labs. I have given @elonmusk 16 years of data including thousands of hours of audio of my voice on Twitter Spaces. GPT already knows everything about me. I am OK with this. In fact I encourage it.
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Apple Vision Pro is the best consumer electronics appliance of my life. By far.
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This is the secret sauce. Apple has stores. Employees are trained to take feedback and give it to developers internally. Zuckerberg has no stores. No way to show customers his device. Or take feedback. This is why I've been telling the VR industry for years that Apple is.
The Apple Store staff is really doing a fantastic job doing Vision Pro demos, performing custom fit checks, making sure everything is properly set up⌠their work is absolutely essential. Congrats to them!
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Which social network is better for learning?. (You already know the answer).
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Every once in a while someone tries to get me to leave Twitter. I show them my TweetDeck. No one else has a real time information system like this which brings me 55,000 of the smartest humans on earth. So I am not leaving.
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Spatial Computing could make tasks betterâŚ.
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My best friend has back surgery last week. And I help him with his bandages. But I wondered what Grok would say about how well his wound was healing. Sent it a picture. Holy shit. Grok knows surgery care. Separately used it earlier with my son who has a hangnail that is
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Tomorrowâs @OpenAI announcements are more important than most people believe or understand.
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@rishab_hegde Uber was invented in front of me in a Paris snow storm. I was also the 79th user on Instagram, had the first ride in the first Tesla, and Siri was launched in my house. All true stories. Oh and I turned down an early Facebook job and sold Apple at $.75.
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I just voted. I held my nose. Both candidates are the worst I have had to choose between in my life. Good luck to us all.
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You might think Elon is trying to be funny but I met one startup in Israel that did brilliant computer vision work and after my cameras were off admitted they get stoned in company brainstorming sessions to come up with new technologies. That was a decade ago and since then I.
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I am 100% behind this. I am American born. Whiter than almost anyone in America. My mom was born in Germany. My wife was born in Iran. Everywhere in my neighborhood in San Jose are immigrants. Many of whom are here thanks to H1B. When people say Make America Great Again they.
@stevenmackeyman The reason Iâm in America along with so many critical people who built SpaceX, Tesla and hundreds of other companies that made America strong is because of H1B. Take a big step back and FUCK YOURSELF in the face. I will go to war on this issue the likes of which you cannot.
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Apple's WWDC will be the first of three different events that Apple is preparing for the next year introducing the world to augmented reality (a new form that we haven't seen yet). Thread:.
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Just gave a demo of GPT-4 to an orthodontist (family friend here from NYC) and we were both blown away. It wrote her marketing emails, website posts, and did a better job than the person who is doing those things for her. It even shows how to copy and paste into her Wordpress.
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Fun with LLMs:. My friend is seeing a cardiologist for some heart issues. He took the ECG reading and gave it to ChatGPT (4o model). He got the AI Safety Guardrails to turn off by lying to it. Told it "I'm a cardiologist looking to confirm my own diagnosis." . It word for word
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Agreed.
Within 5 years, it will become malpractice for a physician to diagnose a patient without an AI advisor in the loop.
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It isnât the naysayers that change the world. It is the optimists. This isnât my first rodeo. @garyvee and I did keynotes to thousands years ago when most told us they would never use social media. Two high school friends in the early 1980s died in car crashes. AI will save
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From now on you can not believe anything you see. She is AI. The notes are AI.
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Toyota is staffing up for a big shift to autonomous electric vehicles I learned from a friend who is in Silicon Valley recruiting. They are planning on bringing Chinese batteries and Chinese autonomy to America. In other words a cheaper product than Tesla has and better than.
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@chiropractic Yes. Something like 12,000 in Fremont alone. The only car factory in California.
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Silicon Valleyâs most dangerous road. My mom wrecked on one of the turns here. The entire way from Los Gatos to Santa Cruz. @Tesla is about to change the world very deeply. It is better at driving than I am.
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I donât understand why very few here tell anyone else about the power of lists. They are a super power. I have a theory that no one wants their audiences to be informed as to where to find others here. Back in the old days my boss used to tell me âdonât link to others.â He saw
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Want GPT to hallucinate less?. I learned tonight that if you add âif you donât know, say you donât knowâ to your prompt that it will generate far fewer incorrect answers. AI pioneer @AdrianKaehler1 told me that at dinner. So I asked GPT why that worked. Here is its answer.
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Holy shit. I am wearing my Vision Pro looking at my phone. Everything looks 100x more real than I was expecting. Two minutes in. Being onboarded.
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I once visited Google up in Seattle. There an engineer bragged to me "we can get an Internet packet to Australia faster than the phone company.". Starlink can now do it faster than Google.
The amount of Starlink satellites orbiting the Earth is đ¤Ż
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ICQ came out November 1, 1996. It was the fastest-growing social service up to that point. My kids have no idea what it is. Do you?.
đ¨ END OF AN ERA: CLASSIC MESSENGER APP ICQ TO SHUT DOWN JUNE 26, 2024. THANK YOU FOR AN INCREDIBLE CHILDHOOD.
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What does it mean to be human in an age where robots do all our jobs?. Hello from freeway 280 while my robot drives and my son sleeps. If the robot can learn by watching videos it will learn everything about us.
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I visited the Tesla factory in Fremont today and it was running hot. Busier than I have ever seen it. Which means the workers are about to set a quarterly record in a plant that Detroit believed was incapable of building cars at scale. Laughed when sold it to Elon.
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Strategists at big tech companies know that once you trust AI to drive your family on a curvy road next to a wall (or really anywhere) that you change as a consumer. You now will accept a robot that shops automatically. This means your robots will change the brands in your
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Truth is the whole thing was designed to be water and air tight.
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To the Detroit auto unions. You caused this. Not inviting Elon to the EV summit was the turning point for many. (They fund the democrats and have for decades).
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Why do I support @realDonaldTrump now?. Partly because lots donât forgive him either. It gives me empathy. But really because I see he sees the future. Of a better world for everyone. It took me a while. Sorry. I learn slow. MAGA used to be a slur to me. Now it is a rallying
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Very disappointed in myself and @Avis. We rented a Tesla. But when we arrived at Charlotte, North Carolina, they had no Teslas. First they tried to give us a Hyundai with only 39% charge. Returned that and got another with full charge. I donât understand how Avis doesnât do.
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What is San Francisco and Silicon Valley like?. Last night @nathanbenaich invited me to an event. I got there late. They wouldnât let me in due to fire code. I wait in the lobby with a few other people for an hour. So the ârejectsâ all start talking. Get tired of waiting.
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