While not an Musk company, it is worth remembering Theranos demos being convincingly faked as well. I don't know if it is happening here but it does happen.
That's not faked though.. according to your link they tried multiple times and only showed the success video. But the statement that the software drove with no intervention was accurate, and the video was authentic.
How about that time they claimed the Cybertruck beats a Porsche in a 1/4 mile race, but they only did a 1/8 mile race and then just made up a 1/4 mile time based on their feelings? [1]
Or that time they lied about 120,000 defective suspensions that broke causing crashes and fatalities and then blamed their customers and covered it up so they would not have to issue a recall in the US (they were forced to issue a recall for the issue in China)? [2]
A decade of unequivocal lies about delivering autonomous vehicles [3] while knowingly killing tens to hundreds.
But other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?
The link says that the route was pre-determined, pre-mapped, tried multiple times and crashed once during the trials.
By the same logic, this video would not be faked even if in fact it's the same chess move he tried for 2 months and it's the only one working, and also another patient died.
Not saying it's the case - clearly not. But yeah, let's be real.
That's at least misleading. By that standard, the current video wouldn't be fake if the subject were primarily operating his computer through eye-tracking software, since no explicit representations were made about the mechanism of control.
Doesn’t have to be faked either, I remember the Emotiv made similar claims and had similar demos where to the best of my understanding eventually people figured out it wasn’t really reading your brainwaves but rather facial muscles or something (a friend of mine works in brain computer interfacing and explained it to me once but I don’t remember the details — it wasn’t that they were actively trying to mislead necessarily, more akin to leaking validation data into neural network training than to outright deceiving).
I don't think it's fake in this sense - the technology already exists for quite some time - there are devices like that even allow people to talk - check Synchron for example.
But it may be fake in the sense that it's not viable for a long term use and / or necessitates a very controlled environment. That would indeed match the pattern for Musk companies - articulate a grandiose vision, show a working demo to amaze the world, then show progress on some scale but without disclosing the issues that actually would make to product not viable or not financially viable in the long term, and sell the hell out of it to investors.
If you look closely, all his companies work like that. Yes, including Tesla ! Their car business is at the point where they may start loosing money again - competition, slowdown in EV subsides, but also factors that allowed them to reach an apparent profitability - for example, their service is nonexistent, while it used to be great. Basically they sold millions of cars, while their service centers are still scaled for thousands, not millions. This will a big financial liability, but not really visible in their financial for now.
But hey, they already transitioned to another business that promise to make even more money in the future with other promising tech ! AI anybody ?
This is some weird stock market doom and gloom astroturfing and is a massive stretch to discuss given the context of the OP
Also after reviewing your post history, it’s overwhelmingly you shitting on the same stocks with really ridiculous hyperbole and not much else. And a warren buffet quote thrown in for good measure.
FSD being good isn't really the same as the Robotaxi idea. Robotaxi was where you could rent out your car and it could completely autonomously drive other people for a fare. Your car would make money.
I haven't seen 12.3 but other versions had some frightening mistakes in videos. It feels like it will eternally be 90% there but never actually reach the end goal of completely autonomy.
Personally I love Autopilot even if I only use it to drive on the freeways for me when I'm tired.
I think everybody understand that Musk (and others) were way to aggressive on self driving stuff. What their new version can do is impressive, but as you say, Robotaxi aren't all that close.
But do think saying this demo is fake based on to aggressive timelines for self driving is a stretch.
No, they were unequivocal lies. In 2019:“ I think we will be feature-complete full self-driving this year, meaning the car will be able to find you in a parking lot, pick you up, take you all the way to your destination without an intervention — this year. I would say that I am certain of that. That is not a question mark." [1].
See the part where he says: "That is not a question mark." That is called making a clear and direct, unequivocal, unqualified, statement that he knew for certain was wrong. That is called lying.
Not if he believed what he was saying, which is about intent, and impossible to prove. It is rather a lot easier to make unfounded claims about someone's intention than it is to engineer self-driving cars, reusable rockets, high resolution BCIs, world wide space internet, and faster lighter cheaper underground tunnel boring machines, let alone all of them at once.
Thank the stars someone is not judging you so harshly.
The headline is wrong, the video was not faked (nor edited). The guy just said what was in the video was not currently shipping to customers, i.e. it was a tech demo.