Autonomy

“One percent. One percent went towards autonomy.”

“When you look at the budget today, just look at the Department of War's budget, we talked about the request for 1.5 trillion, and where the budget is today, right around a trillion dollars for 26, one percent went towards autonomy.”

“So what you're going to see in shipbuilding is real industrial scale come back to this country. And what you'll see in terms of defense in the commercial market is more and more things shift. Towards autonomy.”

“What autonomy does, it actually lets you, in addition to controlling the ship, obviously, it actually lets you simplify the design of the ship because now people aren't required. So that lets you design more simple ships that lets you produce at scale. It lets…”

“Transparency Is what allows you to have autonomy, no transparency, no autonomy, critically important, difficult to deliver, and people don't always focus on it.”

“Our view is have a really big field with really right fences and let people run. This weird thing happens where People know where the fences are. 95% of the time, they don't have to check. They know. And when they don't know, that five percent of the time wher…”

“And so autonomy introduces this incredible capability where we are going to do the things we have to do, whether we like it or not. We need to do those things. This way ensures that the outcome is very likely higher quality and puts significantly fewer people …”

“As you want to scale from hundreds in a community to thousands and then tens of thousands, you really want to do that with autonomy.”

“FSD and autonomy is going to shift the number of people that even know what it means to drive. It will feel like When we look at somebody who really embraces thoroughbred racing, it's just going to happen in smaller and smaller places and less and less often. …”

“Like the, like for me, when someone asks me, what's your definition of happiness? I think for me, the definition of happiness is having complete autonomy.”

“The philosophical definition I would say is like means ends effectiveness. What I mean by that is for a given set for a given end. So for a given goal and means goal, right? Can you select the means to achieve that goal?... So it's like a narrow instrumental c…”

“Our view was there's no path to autonomy. There's no path to like this next generation because without the manufacturers in the loop”

“We think autonomy is going to lead to more safety. It is going to take some time. So as we project out, we don't know if it is going to be five years or 10 years till it sees a certain kind of scale across the world, across many, many cities.”

“So I think all three things, the autonomy, the complexity, and the natural interaction are at least product principles that will shape really good ones, good agents.”

“So now, I think we're at that threshold where, you know, the next decade, Is very much the productionization and proliferation of autonomy. And you can say, broadly speaking, the intelligent vehicle. And it is also the monetization of this technology.”

“So that's all gonna happen in the next five, seven years. You don't need to go on five autonomy rides to be kind of blown away. And so I think all of that, that, all of that is coming.”

“We believe that autonomy is actually the key enabler of this. So if you imagine that you want to control 10 assets or a hundred assets that means that you need something to automate some of those assets functionality. Otherwise, you know, you won't be able to …”

“And I don't think that's gonna happen With the way sort of labor economics work globally, if a huge part of the way we manufacture in the future is not driven by autonomy.”

“By the way, I think that the drone warfare in Ukraine is becoming more and more Enhanced by generative AI and more advanced autonomy.”

“I'd say the autonomy, if you're serious about being a player in automotive, It's not like a choice. It's so fundamental to the future of transportation.”

“Defense primes are good at aeronautics. They're good at explosives. You know, I tend to, I always say, like, they're good at boom. Don't compete on boom. What they're bad at generally is software, is AI, is autonomy.”

“Starts this company, he ends up selling it to HP for eleven billion dollars. Wow. So Hewlett Packard, who's like a hardware company, wants to go to software, and they get really hot and heavy, and they, the company was already public, but they offered a 60% pr…”

“A couple of years later, HP ends up writing off eight, eight and a half billion dollars of that acquisition.”

“The metrics often actually get gained or they lead to a complete distortion of behavior. The second thing with metrics is that either people gain them to their own advantage or they obey them, but find them stupid. But the loss of autonomy that results when yo…”

“We've had a military where you've had large numbers of people required to operate small numbers of things. And that model doesn't scale. And when you're competing against you know, Countries that are, you know, multiple times your population, potentially soon …”

“Is as we get to autonomy, which obviously is going to take a little longer than everybody expected, you know, vehicles are going to go from driving a 100,000 miles in 10 years to driving a million or two million miles in 10 years.”

“They'll just be on your terms, and so then you start to get into this space of like, I want money, but what I really want is autonomy, and so I'm using money to buy back autonomy, but is there a way to get autonomy without getting money, right? Like, there's a…”

“So if we look back at 2017, the autonomy doesn't look that much different, the players are generally the same, but I think 10 years from now, autonomy will be very, very different, insofar as it might even be a commodity.”

“And today we're just at the beginning of that for automotive sensors and autonomy.”

“When I worked at Bosch before, Bosch was unknown just a few years ago, and it's finally now, because of autonomy, Bosch is like a relevant name.”

“I think there's no path to autonomy that doesn't go through Silicon Valley and Detroit.”

“If you look at the current crop of machine learning algorithms that drive autonomy, they're not making high level decisions like, let's calculate the life expectancy of the people that I'm about to wipe out. They're not doing that. They're looking at, there's …”

“At some point when the autonomy comes into the equation, then it might get close to the Price at which you sort of own and operate and drive your own car.”

“For autonomy, we are still very much down in the muddy hole in the ground, digging foundations. Mixed reality is just sort of moving out of that to the point that you can throw the frame up. For cryptocurrency, the frame has gone up. We're just trying to work …”