Did Elon Musk admit that AI is “sentient”?

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On Thursday night of this week, Elon Musk and Tesla held their 2025 shareholder meeting for Tesla and it became a must see appointment.

It used to be Apple events but now it’s Tesla shareholder meetings.

Who would have ever thought this would be interesting to hear at the annual shareholder meeting, but this was before we all met Elon Musk and now this stuff is absolutely mind boggling!

There are literally dozens of things about this incident that blew my mind, but there is one in particular that I heard so many times because I wasn’t sure I was hearing it correctly.

Did he really say that?

Well, yes he did and I want to show it to you.

At one point during a Q&A with the audience, Elon was asked how powerful AI chips in cars will become, and whether the power of those chips could eventually be harnessed for other tasks (and monetized for the owner) when the car is not driving.

If you think about it, most of our cars aren’t running most of the day. Out of 24 hours in a day, what is the maximum amount of time your car actually drives on any given day? 2, 3 or 4 hours? If your commute is really long maybe 5-6? Presumably it is very rare to exceed 10 hours per day?

Thus, you essentially have a supercomputer sitting idle for most of the day.

Can it be put to work?

Can you get money from this?

Elon says yes and yes.

But that’s not the part I found attractive (although it is very nice)…

No, what blew my mind is that during his answer, he starts talking about AI in cars as “being bored” and even compares AI in cars to himself, saying how much he would hate it if he was stuck in a car and the highlight of your day was driving around for a few hours.

Now maybe Elon is just joking and being a showman on stage, but I really don’t think so.

I feel like he’s describing this AI as eventually becoming sentient.

Listen for yourself and see what you think:

Transcript:

For hardware 2.0, we used NVIDIA, but NVIDIA, at the time, was focused on building AI server hardware, which was obviously a smart bet. They are currently the most valuable company in the world, and Jensen Huang and his team have done incredible work at NVIDIA. My hat’s off to them. I’m a big fan of Jensen and NVIDIA. He has done amazing work.

But they didn’t want to build a low-cost, power-efficient AI car computer at that time. So it was like, “Okay, I think we need to start a chip team to solve this.” So that’s when I hired Jim Keller, and we built the chip team, and did AI3, then AI4. And then, to be honest with you, we made some mistakes with AI5, but now AI5 is back on track, and we will have much faster speeds for AI6 and so on.

This is really important for the car. Like, with AI4, I think we can be 200 or 300 percent better than human security, maybe 400 percent better. But with AI5, I think we can do 1,000 percent better, or maybe even better, than human security.

At a certain point, in fact, this may be too much intelligence for a car. Because I was wondering what would happen if you were trapped in a car and it had a lot of intelligence? But one thing we can do is use the car as a large-scale distributed AI inference fleet when the car is idle. With the customer’s consent, we say, “Do you want your car to make money for you by sitting in your garage at night?”

I don’t know. “If you allow Tesla to do AI inference workloads when you’re not using your car then we’ll pay $100 or $200 per month or whatever the right number is.” So this will also help the AI ​​present in the car not to get bored. Because imagine if I was stuck in a car, and the highlight of your day was driving.

It’s like that, but then again I’ll always want to drive. So what do you do the rest of the time? So I think Tesla can actually do the largest amount of AI inference calculations in the world. Like, if you think, maybe we had a fleet of 100 million cars, and at some point we may have a fleet of over 100 million cars, and they’ll have AI6, AI7. And if you’re able to run a kilowatt estimate on a 100 million car fleet, now you’ve got a 100 gigawatt distributed estimate, which includes built-in cooling and power electronics and distributed electricity.

Probably, my guess is that the market is valuing it at zero right now. But it seems like an obvious thing to do. If you’ve got distributed inference AI, and you’ve got power and cooling – which is very difficult to do, power and cooling – and 100 gigawatts is a lot.

The average electricity consumption in the US nationwide is about 460 GWh. That’s the entire electricity consumption of the US, so if you did 100 gigawatts, that would be a huge number.

So what do you think?

Should a computer never get “bored”?

Until….?

Anyway, like I said the whole event is absolutely incredible and I highly recommend watching it if you’re interested.

Full incident here:

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Today it looks like Elon Musk has decided to move forward…significantly.

Elon went on Joe Rogan (always watching Appointments) and dropped a bomb, essentially claiming that the new Tesla Roadster can fly.

In typical Elon fashion, he’s the master showman, giving PT Barnum a run for his money! Elon teases that Peter Thiel once complained to him that we don’t have flying cars yet, so Elon says if Peter Thiel wants a flying car then we should probably give it to him.

Delightful!

Joe Rogan’s eyes were practically bugging out of his head as he desperately tried to get more details, but Elon wasn’t saying much other than saying that the product demo would be unforgettable — then noting that it would either be unforgettable for good or unforgettable for bad, adding that it could go either way.

He then said he believes it has a chance to be the most memorable product unveiling ever, and it stands up against things like Steve Jobs unveiling the iPhone or do you remember all the hype around the Segway when it was first unveiled?

Anyway, look here:

Transcript:

Elon Musk: Quite sick. Yes. Are you still doing the roadster?

Interviewer: Yes. Ultimately?

Elon Musk: Umm… we’re getting closer to demoing the prototype.

Interviewer: Like, how close?

Elon Musk: And I think it will be—the one thing I can guarantee is that this product demo will be unforgettable. Unforgettable.

Interviewer: how come?

Elon Musk: Whether it’s good or bad, it will be unforgettable.

Interviewer: Can you tell more? what do you mean?

Elon Musk: Well, you know my friend Peter Thiel, you know, he once thought that there would be flying cars in the future, but we don’t have flying cars.

Interviewer: So can you fly?

Elon Musk: Well, I mean, I think if Peter wants a flying car, he should be able to buy one.

Interviewer: So are you actively considering building an electric flying car? Is it like the real thing?

Elon Musk: Well, we’ll have to see.

Interviewer: In the demo?

Elon Musk: So when you do this, will you have a retractable wing? What is the idea behind this?

Interviewer: Don’t be sneaky. come on. Tell us.

Elon Musk: I can’t—uh, I can’t unveil before the unveiling.

Interviewer: Then tell me off-air.

Elon Musk: I—it—look, I think this has the chance to be the most memorable product unveiling ever. There’s a shot in this.

Interviewer: And when are you planning to do so? What is the goal?

Elon Musk: Hopefully before the end of the year.

Interviewer: In fact?

Elon Musk: Yes.

Interviewer: Before the end of this year? This is, I mean, we’re almost-

Elon Musk: Yes, like in a few months. Hopefully in a few months.

Elon Musk: You know, we have to make sure it works. Like, this is some crazy, crazy technology that we’ve got in this car. Crazy technology.

Interviewer: Crazy crazy. quite different-

Elon Musk: Yes.

Interviewer: —What was announced earlier?

Elon Musk: Yes.

Interviewer: And is that why you haven’t released it yet, because you keep messing with it?

Elon Musk: It has amazing technology.

Interviewer: Okay, like—is this even a car?

Elon Musk: I’m not sure it looks like a car. But let’s put it this way—it’s crazier than anything James Bond has ever done. If you took all the James Bond cars and combined them, it’s even crazier.

Interviewer: very exciting.

Elon Musk: Yes.

Interviewer: I don’t know what to think about it because—is it even a car? I don’t know. I am getting limited amount of information from here.

Interviewer: Jaime is very suspicious there. Look at him-excited.

Jaime: I am interested.

Elon Musk: It’s still going to be the same—well, you know what? I mean, if you want to come a little before the unveiling, I can show it to you.

Interviewer: 100%.

Elon Musk: Yes sure.

Interviewer: Yes.

Elon Musk: Yes.

Interviewer: let’s go.

Elon Musk: Yes.

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Okay, my take?

If I’m reading between the lines here, I think that’s what’s going on….

Elon has previously said that the new Roadster will be a collaboration between Tesla and SpaceX and I believe he even said that there will be some kind of rocket-boost attached to the back of the car that will literally propel and propel the car forward.

He says Tesla has already reached the limits of how much acceleration you can get when you’re limited by the grip of rubber on the road, so the Model S will need a rocket-boost from the rear to go faster than the plaid.

So where does flight fit in?

Well, I wonder if the rocket-boost is so powerful that it will literally lift the car off the pavement, at least temporarily…

That’s my guess.

It sounds very unsafe, but it is also very good! I want one!!!

We will see the upcoming Tesla Roadster demo soon, and I personally can’t wait!

And if you want to watch the full interview (because who doesn’t?) I have it right here for you.

Please enjoy:

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