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Elon Musk Needs To Slip Jared Kushner These New Solar Jobs Numbers

... or listen to the podcast. (The quick takeaway: You definitely don't need to get a master's degree to build a good career.). Deals worth watching. Standard Solar: Quebec's largest natural gas distributor, Gaz Metro, is acquiring the East Coast C&I solar developer Standard Solar. Standard Solar is now calling itself an independent power producer, with the ability to finance projects internally and reach a whole new class of commercial customers. Gaz Metro bought the Vermont distribution utility Green Mountain Power in 2011. Although Green Mountain Power has been supporting solar and storage for its customers, this is Gaz Metro's first direct play into distributed renewables. This is the sixth major acquisition by a utility or multinational corporation in the C&I energy management sector. The latest big play in solar was Mitsui's acquisition of Sun Edison's C&I team. In just the last year alone, utilities or independent power producers invested $1 billion into distributed energy companies, according to a tally from GTM Research. s Power: Last month, the global independent power giant AES said it is buying top-10 utility-scale solar developer s ...

Elon Musk’s Spacex On Brink Of `wright Brothers Moment’ With Reused Rocket

... in Hawthorne, California. Most Read Stories. 3-course dinners for $32 starting April 2. “The satellite industry needs more launch vehicles, and we need more access to space,” SES’s Chief Technology Officer Martin Halliwell said in an interview. “Rockets that can be flown, recovered and relaunched again help enormously. This is a hugely important milestone.”. Once derided as a crazy idea, rocket reusability is now seen as key to making space travel affordable. Blue Origin, the space-exploration company founded by Amazon Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos, is working on New Glenn, a rocket with a reusable first stage that’s targeting its first flight in 2020. Parts of the Space Shuttle boosters were refurbishable, but no company has pulled off the “rapid reusability” that Space X is targeting to lower launch costs, said Larson, the former Obama adviser. Recovering and refurbishing the used ...

Tesla's Elon Musk Reveals Plan To Link Brains To Computers

... Musk did not say what he meant by “adviser,” but in a separate tweet he noted Tesla had “very few” Model 3 orders from China, where the car has not been formally introduced. — Reuters. Sign up for one of our email newsletters. Updated 30 minutes ago. NEW YORK — Tech billion­aire Elon Musk is announcing a new venture called Neuralink focused on linking brains to computers. The company plans to develop brain implants that can treat neural disorders — and that may one day be powerful enough to put humanity on a more even footing with possible superintelligent computers, according to a Wall Street Journal report citing unnamed sources. Musk, a founder of the electric-car company Tesla Motors and the private space-exploration firm Space X, has become an outspoken doomsayer about the threat artificial intelligence might one day pose to the human race. Continued growth in AI cognitive capabilities, he and like-minded critics suggest, could lead to machines that can outthink and outmaneuver humans with whom they might have little in common. In a tweet Tuesday, Musk gave few details beyond confirming Neuralink's name and tersely noting the ...

Elon Musk’s Pledge To Fix South Australia’s Energy Issues Prompts Ukrainian Pm To Get In Touch

... | 10:59 AM ET | 00:53. Elon Musk's pledge to fix South Australia's energy crisis within 100 days , or do it for free if he doesn't meet the deadline, has prompted calls from citizens of New Zealand and the Ukrainian prime minister for the billionaire to bring similar projects to their own countries. Storms have caused. severe blackouts. in the Australian state leading to price spikes with local energy firms struggling to meet demand as a result of damage to infrastructure. Solar City is an energy firm Musk founded with his cousin Lyndon Rive. It recently merged with Tesla , the car company Musk is CEO of. Rive told Australian news site AFR last week that Solar City could provide the energy storage required through the battery technology it produces and this would be possible within 100 days. Mike ...

Elon Musk's Openai Develops Bots That Can Create Their Own Language

... the basic verbs and nouns that evolved here,” the researchers explained in a blog post. While the tasks accomplished were fairly simple and straight forward from a human perspective, the advancement from requiring massive amounts of computer coding to accomplish the tasks to teaching the bots to write their own coding is a significant step forward in artificial technology. “Language understanding is super important to make progress on before AI reaches its full potential,” said Miles Brundage, an AI policy fellow at Oxford University. He says that the achievement by Open AI represents a potentially important opportunity for the field of AI research to move toward. “It’s not clear how good we can get at AI language understanding without grounding words in experience,” Brundage said, “and ...

Elon Musk Says Mark Zuckerberg's Jarvis A.i. Isn't A.i

... management, touting its ability to coordinate a user’s whole life with no need to micro-manage its settings. Musk says it’s nothing new. “I wouldn’t call it A. I. to have your household functions automated,” Musk told the magazine. “It’s really not A. I. to turn the lights on, set the temperature.”. The disdain in Musk’s statement is telling, given that he has yet to actually do anything with the artificial intelligence projects about which he’s so fond of talking. Musk doesn’t think that keeping the temperature in a house normalized is a truly artificially intelligent task, which is true, but also an unfair assessment. Jarvis may not be a particularly groundbreaking application of machine learning techniques, but it’s every bit as much an artificial intelligence as the products Musk himself has helped support through funding. The reality is that Jarvis doesn’t just turn the lights on and off, or adjust the thermostat, but learns how to do those things ...

Elon Musk Just Tweeted About A Spacex Travel Ad, But It's Not What You Think

... fans by posting what he claimed was a future Space X travel ad, but it wasn’t quite what it seemed. “Here is the latest Space X travel ad for the flight around the moon and into deep space,” Musk posted on his Twitter account Tuesday. “Maybe needs a few edits…”. Instead of a peek into the future of space travel, Musk posted a link to the trailer for Destination: Moonbase Alpha, a feature-length film based off the seventies British sci-fi TV series Space: 1999. With large-scale moon colonies and advanced technologies, it’s an exciting glimpse at what future Space X missions could look like, but Musk’s endeavor could probably do without the dangerous malfunctions and retro haircuts. Here is the latest Space X travel ad for the flight around the moon & into deep space. Maybe needs a few edits. __link__/m A 8 Zgutrb E. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 28, 2017. Musk announced last month that Space X would fly two private citizens around the moon and back on a ...

Elon Musk’s New Startup

... and challenges. He’s also spun off an idea to create a tunnel boring company to drill under highways to create new routes to avoid traffic. Reading this on your phone? Stay up to date with our new, free mobile app. Get it from the Apple app store or the Google Play store. Critics point to the troubles managing the aggressive expansions at Tesla, where Musk promises production will jump from 84,000 vehicles in 2016 to what would be a record-setting half-million vehicles in 2018. And he’d like to send two private citizens around the moon next year on a Space X rocket. CFRA Research analyst Efraim Levy raised his target for Tesla stock on news it received a vote of confidence from a major Chinese investor, Tencent, which has bought a 5 percent stake in the electric-vehicle company. The new startup, ...

Advanced Artificial Intelligence With Killswitch Might Be Unkillable

... a story get the latest viral news to your inbox. Email Address. Norman Byrd. According to Elon Musk, an advanced artificial intelligence that has developed to the point of being centralized could in all likelihood — even if there was a killswitch built into it to stop any kind of harmful runaway sequence — be unstoppable or impossible to kill. This future doomsday scenario is what drives the billionaire to monitor the progress of artificial intelligence technology, which he says is developing at a far greater pace than people realize. Elon Musk, the developer of Pay Pal and Space X, has made no secret of his pessimism with regard to the dangers of super-intelligent computers and artificial intelligence — how it could possibly lead to the destruction of the human race. But in the latest Vanity Fair, he warns that even a built-in killswitch may not be enough to control or stop an extremely advanced artificial intelligence. “But if there’s large, centralized AI that ...

Elon Musk On Brink Of Wright Brothers Moment With Reused Rocket

... and signals a leap forward in Musk’s 15-year-quest to drive down launch costs and eventually create a human colony on Mars. “This is a Wright Brothers moment for space,” said Phil Larson, a former space policy adviser to President Barack Obama who worked for Space X and is now at the University of Colorado. “It’s as important as the first plane taking off and landing and taking off again.”. The rocket originally flew in April 2016 before landing successfully on an unmanned drone ship bobbing in the Atlantic Ocean. Space X has now recovered eight rockets in total: three by land and five by sea. The first rocket that was recovered is a huge source of pride and is now installed in front of the company’s headquarters in Hawthorne, Calif. “The satellite industry needs more launch vehicles, and we need more access to space,” SES’s chief technology officer Martin Halliwell said in an interview. “Rockets that can be flown, recovered and relaunched again help enormously. This is a hugely important milestone.”. Related Articles. February 27, 2017 Elon Musk’s Space X plans to fly two private citizens around the moon by late next year. ...