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☆ Elon Musk says he debated the 'meaning of life' as a 12-year-old and wondered 'isn't it all pointless?'
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-30 | by ( Natalie Musumeci | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk said on Wednesday that as a child he debated the "meaning of life." During an interview at the DealBook Summit, Musk said he also had thoughts of suicide as a kid. Elon Musk on Wednesday said that he debated the "meaning of life" as a child and even had thoughts about suicide. The billionaire SpaceX founder, Tesla CEO, and X owner said that as a child, he questioned: "What's the meaning of life? During the interview, Musk spoke about his "demons of the mind" and elaborated on how his mind often feels like a "very wild storm."

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☆ It was the most significant week in AI since the launch of ChatGPT
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-11 | by ( Samantha Kelly | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Elon Musk announced a sarcastic AI ChatGPT rival called Grok coming to his platform, X, formerly known as Twitter. The company unveiled a series of AI tool updates, including the ability for developers to create custom versions of ChatGPT called GPTs. Humane’s Ai PinHumane introduced its first AI wearable device called the Ai Pin From HumaneHumane, a startup founded by former Apple employees, introduced its first AI wearable device called the Ai Pin, a small blinking gadget that attaches to clothing. The Ai pin, which runs on a Snapdragon processor and boasts a Qualcomm AI engine, is packed with depth and motion sensors, features an ultra-wide camera and a laser ink display. The Ai Pin, which starts at $699, will go on sale in the US on Thursday, November 16.

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☆ ‘Grok,’ Elon Musk’s AI chatbot with a ‘rebellious’ streak
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-06 | by ( Anna Cooban | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk has announced the introduction of “Grok,” an artificially intelligent chatbot, for some users of X, which the billionaire suggests has a sarcastic sense of humor similar to his own. Musk’s AI startup, xAI, which developed the bot, said in a blogpost that it took inspiration from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, a comedy sci-fi novel by British author Douglas Adams. Grok “loves sarcasm,” Musk posted on X. Grok is intended to rival ChatGPT, an AI chatbot released to the public by its maker OpenAI last November to much fanfare. Musk has previously expressed concerns about the speed of development of AI, and the technology’s potential to fundamentally change human society for the worse.

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☆ Leaked audio: Google cofounder Sergey Brin made a rare appearance at an all-hands to hype up the company's AI work and the incoming 'technology revolution'
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-02 | by ( Hugh Langley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Google's cofounder Sergey Brin is back at the search giant — and that includes hyping up its AI work at "TGIF" meetings. Brin appeared onstage during a special 25th-anniversary edition of Google's monthly all-hands meeting (known as "TGIF," or Thank God It's Friday) on September 26. A recording seen by Insider shows Brin receiving rapturous applause from employees. "I didn't want to say anything because I trust Jeff," Brin added. "When we started, it was actually on Fridays and then it made its way to Tuesday," Brin said.

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☆ 8 CEO lessons Elon Musk tried to teach his bother Kimbal, based on a mobile game Musk was obsessed with
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( Kai Xiang Teo | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Here are the eight CEO lessons that Elon handed down to his brother through the game, per Isaacson's conversations with Elon, Kimbal, Grimes, and Zilis. When you get used to losing, you will play each game with less emotion," Elon told Isaacson. If we let a few of them slide, we will never get to Mars," Elon told Isaacson. Elon told Isaacson, "I had to take Polytopia off my phone because it was taking up too many brain cycles. Elon Musk and Kimbal Musk did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Insider, sent outside regular business hours.

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☆ These 3 science fiction stories inspired Elon Musk and explain his business choices — but critics say he's missing the point
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-22 | by ( Kai Xiang Teo | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

These stories' focus on great men and amazing technology defying the rules could explain his business choices. Elon Musk is one of the most divisive tech and business personas of our time, and there is much chatter about what shapes his beliefs and business choices. Beyond these, however, a consistent source of influence from his childhood to today is his self-professed love of science fiction. "That is Musk's guide for living, yet he is using that guide to justify doing the very thing that the story is opposed to," she added. Elon Musk loves "Deus Ex" and its cyberpunk styleElon Musk appears to be a huge fan of the 2000 science fiction video game, "Deus Ex."

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☆ Elon Musk is an 'avid' reader of science-fiction and likes to text about it, says Affirm CEO
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-05 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk texts Affirm CEO Max Levchin texts about their mutual love for sci-fi, Levchin told Wired. Musk has talked about his love for sci-fi books and media in the past. "Our friendship is on a texting basis," Levchin told Wired. "I think what's happening at Twitter is Elon is sort of making sense of it," Levchin said. Levchin knew Musk back when they worked at early-stage PayPal together in 2000 — Levchin was CTO and Musk was CEO.

☆ 'If it blows up, it's cool': The far-out philosophy that explains why Elon Musk won't let a few baby sea turtles stop SpaceX's quest to get to Mars
▼ + stars: | 2022-04-05 | by ( Adam Rogers | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +25 min

In the case of Elon Musk v. Charismatic Megafauna, the agency intends to publish its final report in late April. Musk went on: "Either explicitly or implicitly some people seem to think that humans are a blight on the Earth's surface. Musk is talking about existential risk, the idea that something — an asteroid, a rogue artificial intelligence — might kill every human on Earth. And if you assume that future human minds will "mainly be implemented in computational hardware instead of biological neuronal wetware," as Bostrom does, you end up with a mind-boggling 1054 human lives. Musk has made the defense of "future life" his mission.

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