It's nearly impossible to see how the company's CEO can claim that it may begin selling its humanoid robot next year.
In a wide ranging interview, Musk granted to the CEO of Axel Springer, he said that he may be able to start selling the robots by the end of the year.
I think we will have something pretty good at the prototype level this year, and it might be ready for at least a moderate volume production towards the end of next.
The quotes spurred a lot of credulous headlines. As Fortune pointed out, the only problem is that the director of the company's artificial intelligence is just starting a four.
Even if the company goes full steam ahead without Karpathy, the engineering challenge is still difficult. When the project was first announced, it was just a person in a spandex suit.
It is possible that Karpathy may be on his way out at the company.
Karpathy said on March 27 that he was taking some time off to rest and travel after five years at the company.
The timing of Karpathy's sabbatical is similar to Doug Field's exit from the company after reports that he was taking a break. He went on to work for a secretive car project at Apple and then at Ford, where he now heads up the electric vehicle division.
According to Fortune, Musk seemed to downplay Karpathy's importance at the company, saying that although the artificial intelligence head is awesome and obviously plays an important role, he doesn't think it's important.
Musk told Fridman that he has a lot of really talented people driving things.
With all that said, and with Musk's ability to push timelines in mind, it still seems unlikely that the company will be selling robots by the end of the year. stranger things have happened
Musk wants to start selling a humanoid robot from A.I. next year, but his A.I. chief just went on sabbatical.
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