Elon Musk: In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space [video]

Re:Elon Musk: In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI wil... by bediger4000 on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @02:23PM (#49172760)

What's the consensus on this? I feel like the packaging and heat dissipation issues need some work. Its much harder to fly electronics on a big noisy rocket than most people think

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Re:Elon Musk: In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI wil... by sybercecurity on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @02:29PM (#49172835)

Sales pitch for a rocket company.

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Re:Elon Musk: In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI wil... by gogurt2000 on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @02:46PM (#49173102)

Musk is doing what he's always done: making outrageous promises/predictions that won't come true but sound like science fiction to lure the uneducated into investing.

* The hardware is outdated quickly and putting it in space just makes it impossible to replace or service.

* Dissipating the heat generated is a real problem that limits the hardware you can put in one satellite.

* Satellites will always have greater latency and worse bandwidth than land-based connections.

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Re:Elon Musk: In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI wil... by jqpabc123 on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @02:50PM (#49173152)

"From a technology standpoint, Tesla will have a car that can do full autonomy in about three years, maybe a bit sooner."

--- Musk, 2015

"I mean, it does look like [full autonomy is] gonna happen this year."

--- Musk, 2023

"I think [FSD] will be available for unsupervised personal use by the end of this year in certain geographies."

--- Musk, 2025

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Re:Elon Musk: In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI wil... by oidar on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @02:59PM (#49173291)

Oh, and free charging anywhere there is sun! https://x.com/elonmusk/status/250453089562263552

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Re:Elon Musk: In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI wil... by lawn on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @04:34PM (#49174696)

Buying a Tesla would earn you money as you could rent it out as a cab!

And when not driving around you could rent out its computational ability to form a mesh super computer!

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Re:Elon Musk: In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI wil... by jqpabc123 on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @07:27PM (#49176673)

Musk thinks people are stupid enough to believe this. And sadly, he's right in a lot of cases.

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Re:Elon Musk: In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI wil... by rsynnott on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @11:59AM (#49184678)

It's a bold claim, a few years distant, by Elon Musk. Just on that alone you can pretty much assume "definitely bullshit".

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