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Elon claims the next version (12.4 / 12.5) will be milestone improvements in terms of miles per disengagement, but only time will tell.
We’re going to witness an explosion of affordable humanoid robots in every home & business, and as they become increasingly capable the use cases will be nearly limitless. Think deliveries, cleaning, even childcare (Bicentennial Man, anyone?). I think what will be shocking is just how fast this happens, and they’ll likely outnumber humans at some point.
It blows my mind that these multibillion dollar institutions are so poorly managed on the technology/IT front. I think most people will have their health data likely leaked at some point.
That said, understanding consciousness is not necessarily a prerequisite for engineering it. It may very much end up being an emergent phenomenon tied to sensory integration & processing, in which case it ends up self-assembling under the right circumstances. Exciting times…
I'm not suggesting that this is the case, but a failure of this scale (with internal systems also down) could allow scrubbing of evidence without leaving traces.