Tesla AI Is ‘Trying to Kill You Every Chance It Can,’ Says Apple Co-Founder

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has lambasted Tesla’s AI-powered autopilot perform, calling it “a research of AI gone improper” that may attempt “to kill you each probability it may” in a brand new interview with CNN This Morning.

The present’s hosts requested Wozniak to discuss his relationship with Tesla, SpaceX, and Twitter CEO Elon Musk, to which Wozniak replied “I by no means truly met him and spoke with him. I like a few of the issues he’s achieved for the world, altering us in direction of electrical automobiles.”

However Wozniak’s personal expertise as a two-time Tesla buyer seems to have put the Silicon Valley magnate off of Tesla’s self-driving guarantees. Within the interview, Wozniak blamed Musk for making guarantees that, Wozniak felt, had been false. 

“He principally acquired some huge cash from myself for automobiles,” Wozniak stated, earlier than including “I believed issues he stated—a automobile would drive itself throughout the nation by the top of 2016. I had to improve to that mannequin, you already know, $50,000… and it wouldn’t do something.”

“I may inform it wouldn’t make it throughout the nation” he summarized. He then admitted to creating the identical costly mistake a yr later after Musk marketed “a brand new one with eight cameras [that’ll] make it throughout the nation by the top of 2018.” 

Wozniak says Musk’s advertising spiel is “not even near actuality and boy in order for you a research of AI gone improper and taking numerous claims and making an attempt to kill you each probability it may, get a Tesla.”  

This isn’t the primary time that Wozniak has used hyperbolic language to precise his Tesla remorse. Again in February, he informed Fortune journal that Tesla has “robbed my household of a lot cash” after he bought the 2 electrical autos. 

Nice minds assume alike

Regardless of Wozniak’s sharp criticisms of Tesla’s AI performance, each he and Musk share a standard trigger: each are involved by the speed of growth of synthetic intelligence programs. 

In March this yr, the pair had been main signatories to an on-line petition calling for ChatGPT developer OpenAI to halt growth for six months on any system extra intelligent than GPT-4, the newest iteration of the clever, multi-talented chatbot. 

Their issues usually are not fully unwarranted. Many are alarmed by the issues GPT-4 is already able to, together with exploiting sensible contracts, rudimentarily planning its personal escape and falsely accusing folks of committing sexual assault—hallucinating a Washington Put up article as a quotation to substantiate the declare.

The OpenAI staff seems to have heeded their warnings. Final month, developer Logan Kilpatrick assured his followers on Twitter that work has not commenced on GPT-5 and won’t “for a while.”