Mr. Farzad just released a big full length video on his Cybercab experience.
Link in the comments.
Here we pull the brief clip regarding what most certainly will be a political firestorm over the next two years regarding job losses versus driverless cars.
So, are autonomous vehicles causing any job losses?
I would argue, at least for the moment, they’ve only increased the total amount of jobs in the rideshare segment.
And yes, I am considering the recent 10% staff layoff at Uber.
Sweet, Cybercabs are now coming off the production line with Starlink installed on the back.
Starlink internet was one thing I wish we had during our initial Cybercab rides because the cell service coverage isn’t great in many parts of Austin.
Elon Musk has said that one of the motivations behind OpenAI was concern about the growing concentration of advanced AI technology within a small number of powerful companies.
After Google acquired DeepMind, Musk has described becoming increasingly concerned about how quickly AI capabilities were developing and whether enough attention was being given to the broader implications of increasingly powerful systems.
According to Musk, conversations with technology leaders, including Larry Page, also influenced his thinking about the future of AI.
OpenAI was subsequently established in 2015 with a nonprofit structure and an ambition to advance AI research for broad public benefit.
Over time, however, the organization evolved significantly and became one of the most influential players in the global AI industry.
This creates an interesting contrast between its original mission and its current position:
An organization partly created in response to concerns about concentrated AI power has itself become a major force shaping the direction of artificial intelligence.
After experiencing Cybercab for the past few days in Austin, I think the biggest thing people are missing is the zero-sum game built into Uber.
You have two people sharing one environment, with different preferences. The driver likes the temperature at 66. I want 72. If I get more comfortable, he gets less comfortable.
He likes his music. I want mine. He wants the windows open. I want them closed. I take a few extra minutes getting to the car, and those are minutes another human spends waiting for me.
There’s this constant little tug of war. My comfort and convenience can come at the expense of his. And I don’t blame the driver. It’s his working environment. He’s in that car all day. Of course he has preferences. That’s why I just let him play whatever music he wants. I don’t want my comfort to come at his expense. We’ve gotten so accustomed to this that we barely notice the tension anymore.
Then you take a Cybercab. I set the temperature to 72. Nobody gets less comfortable.
I play my Spotify at the volume I want. Nobody has to give up their music. I grab my Starbucks and take a couple of minutes to walk over, within the pickup window. Nobody is sitting there getting irritated with me.
The car has no competing preferences. That is a profound change in the experience. I can optimize the ride around what makes me comfortable without asking another person to sacrifice what makes them comfortable. And you feel it. You get in, lean back, and relax. There’s no negotiation. No wondering whether your request is going to annoy someone. That whole layer of social tension disappears.
I think this is a huge part of Cybercab’s value. Removing that zero-sum dynamic changes what the service feels like at its core. Once people experience that, I think a lot of them are going to have a very hard time going back to Uber.
🚨 ELON MUSK'S BOMBSHELL!
He just dropped the phrase that's going to change EVERYTHING:
Starlink will have a single account that covers your home antenna (with Wi-Fi included) AND your cell phone too.
“SpaceX is going to give you high-speed internet DIRECT from the satellite to your phone… no middlemen.”
When this blows up, you'll be able to watch high-definition videos standing in the middle of nowhere, in any corner of the planet.
This isn't “the future” anymore…
It's happening NOW!
Who's ready to say goodbye to dead zones?
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If the Cybercab were a petrol car consuming the same amount of energy, it would use just over a litre of fuel every 100 km — far below even the most efficient production petrol cars or hybrids, which typically sit in the 3–6 L/100 km range.
The gap comes from electric drivetrains converting far more of the stored energy into motion instead of wasting it as heat.