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ry device. At the same time, you probably can't make the robots without China. So is China Tesla's friend or is it just another way China can get some control over the United States? But more to the point, they want to be ready to make 50 to 100,000 units, that would be robots, in Q1 2026. So remember how I keep asking how in the world will robots be generally intelligent and act like a butler if…
← Previous segment →t quarter, unless you solved the general intelligence problem? And how in the world would we not know that he has solved it? Or is it optimism? Does he feel that he's close enough that if you give it three more months that you'll be able to do whatever you want to do? I don't know. I'm genuinely curious because Elon's not going to waste a bunch of money on a robot that doesn't work. So he must think it will work. And when I say work I mean be generally trainable so you could just teach it a new thing on the fly.
Tesla is a surveillance company. You say, well, not by design, but I don't know what could reveal anything better than that. You know, nobody's ever asked me to teach a robot how to be funny. I'm seeing that in the comments. But I think I could. I think it would have been within my ability to teach a robot how to be funny. Not po
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sitive, but I think I could. Nobody else has. Well, remember I told you yesterday, I think it was yesterday, that sometimes I cheer for the wrong people. You know, you've seen movies, TV shows where the bad guy is actually the charismatic one. You remember the TV show Dallas and J.R. Ewing was the bad guy but he was the most interesting person in the show. So you ended up cheering for the bad guy…
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