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Tesla Optimus Bots Were Remotely Operated at Cybercab Event

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slg ◴[15 Oct 24 01:36 UTC] No.41844068[source]▶
How is stuff like this not considered fraud? This seems much worse to me than Musk's usual Tesla lies in which he is predicting some future capability. At least there is an argument that Musk believed it those at the time he said them or that they were optimistically possible despite being impractical. This seems to be material misrepresentation of the viability of one of the company's core R&D projects that Musk claims "will be the biggest product ever".
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tim333 ◴[15 Oct 24 13:23 UTC] No.41848317[source]▶
Musk's speech:

>So now one of the things we wanted to show tonight was uh that Optimus is not a canned video. It's not walled off. The Optimus robots will walk among you. Please please be nice to the Optimus robots. So you'll be able to walk right up to them and um they'll serve drinks at the bar and uh you'll directly - I mean that's it's it's a wild experience just to have humanoid robots and it's they're there they just in front of you. Uh so yeah with that um let's party. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v6dbxPlsXs&t=1355s

So he didn't actually say autonomous. I think you'd have a job proving fraud there.

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1. jccooper ◴[15 Oct 24 14:25 UTC] No.41848980[source]▶
Elon's a master at saying things that people read as something more than he actually said. I knew without seeing it that there's 0 chance that he (or anyone) actually said they're autonomous. But also that he didn't say they're not.