Musk: Tesla is 'the only path that could even hope to hold a candle to Google'

From:: Elon Musk
Date:: February 1, 2018
To:: Ilya Sutskever, Greg Brockman
Subject:: Fwd: Top AI institutions today

Andrej is exactly right. We may wish it otherwise, but, in my and Andrej's opinion, Tesla is the only path that could even hope to hold a candle to Google. Even then, the probability of being a counterweight to Google is small. It just isn't zero.

About this email

Musk forwards Karpathy's analysis to Sutskever and Brockman and endorses it, saying Tesla is the only path that could hope to rival Google, and even then the odds are small.

Notes

Text taken from the LessWrong transcription (habryka, Nov 16 2024), which the compiler states was checked against the originals. Sent Feb 1, 2018 3:52 AM, above the forwarded Karpathy email. First published in OpenAI's March 2024 blog post with Karpathy's name redacted.

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Court record; attribution confirmed.

OpenAI, executive & internal. Tags: tesla, google, cash-cow, funding, strategy, musk-v-openai

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