Hassabis was, per the NYT‘s retelling, very skilled at convincing rich men to fund his dream of creating artificial general intelligence (AGI), and his interaction with Musk was no different. During a tour of SpaceX’s headquarters, the South African-born billionaire began bragging about his plans to take humanity to Mars to escape global overpopulation and the…
“Tesla has a product problem,” Bernstein analysts warned, pointing to “an older line-up that does not address enough of the market, and has no new mass market offerings until likely late 2025.” https://fortune.com/2023/12/01/cybertruck-tesla-lineup-staleness-elon-musk-electric-vehicles/
DeepMind cofounder Demis Hassabis scored an investment from Elon Musk after he pointed out the shortcomings in Musk’s plans to colonize Mars. Musk told Hassabis that he’d hoped humanity could avoid the threats from living on Earth by colonizing Mars, per a story by The New York Times published on Sunday. https://www.businessinsider.com/deepmind-founder-elon-musk-ai-could-destroy-mars-colonies-nyt-2023-12