Elon Emails

Hey Elon– In Q1 of next year, we plan to do a final Dota tournament with any pro team that wants to play for a large cash prize, on an unrestricted game. After that, we'll call model-free RL complete, and a subset of the team will work on re-solving 1v1 Dota with model-based RL. We also plan to release a number of robot hand demos in Q1–Rubiks cube, pen tricks, and Chinese ball rotation. The learning speed for new tasks should be very fast. Later in the year, we will try mounting two hands on two arms and see what happens... We are also making fast progress on language. My hope is that next year we can generate short stories and a good dialogue bot. [redacted] The hope is that we can use this unsupervised learning to build models that can do hard things, eg never make an image classification mistake a human wouldn't, which to me would imply some level of conceptual understanding. We are also making good progress in the multi-agent environment, with multiple agents now collaborating to build simple structure, play laser tag, etc. Finally, I am working on a deal to move our computing from Google to Microsoft (in addition to our own data centers). Also happy to talk about fundraising (we should have enough for the next ~2 years even with aggressive growth) and evolving hardware thoughts if helpful, would prefer not to put either of those in email but maybe next time you're at Pioneer? Sam