A future worth getting excited about | Elon Musk

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🗓️ 25 April 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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What's on Elon Musk's mind? In conversation with head of TED Chris Anderson, Musk details how the radical new innovations he's working on -- Tesla's intelligent humanoid robot Optimus, SpaceX's otherworldly Starship and Neuralink's brain-machine interfaces, among others -- could help maximize the lifespan of humanity and create a world where goods and services are abundant and accessible for all. It's a compelling vision of a future worth getting excited about. (Recorded at the Tesla Texas Gigafactory on April 6, 2022)

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0:00.0	You're listening to TED Talks Daily. I'm Elise Hu. What will it take to build a future worth getting excited about?
0:10.7	Elon Musk says visions of self-driving cars, becoming a multi-planet species, and more may be closer than we think.
0:17.5	In this sit-down interview recorded at Tesla's new Texas Gigafactory on April 6th, the day
0:22.6	before it opened, the head of Tesla, SpaceX, The Boring Company, and Neurilink answers questions
0:27.8	from Ted's Chris Anderson about what's around the corner. And a heads up that this is a shortened
0:33.0	version of the conversation. Head over to the TED interview podcast to hear the full 70-minute conversation.
0:41.9	Good on Musk. Great to see you. How are you? Good. How are you? Let's talk about the future. Let's talk
0:47.3	about the future. So, think a bit about artificial intelligence. I'm curious about your timelines and how
0:53.3	you predict and how come some things are so amazingly on the money and some art?
0:57.0	So when it comes to predicting sales of Tesla vehicles, for example,
1:02.2	I mean, you've kind of been amazing.
1:03.1	I think in 2014, when Tesla had sold that year 60,000 cars,
1:09.1	you said, 2020, I think we will do half a million a year.
1:12.9	Yeah, we did almost exactly a half a million. Five years ago, last time you came to TED,
1:16.9	I asked you about full self-driving. And you said, yep, this very year, I'm confident
1:24.0	that we will have a car going from L.A. to New York without any intervention.
1:30.4	Yeah, I don't want to blow your mind, but I'm not always right.
1:34.9	So talk what's the difference between those two?
1:37.2	Why has full self-driving in particular been so hard to predict?
1:42.8	I mean, the thing that really got me, and I think it's going to get a lot of other people,
1:46.0	is that there are just so many false storms with self-driving,
1:51.0	where you think you've got the problem, have a handle on the problem,
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