Tesla股價可再升4倍？ Elon Musk：我同意
Tesla股價可再升4倍？ Elon Musk：我同意
【e-zone 專訊】有「連登契媽」之稱，方舟基金（Ark Invest）創辦人 Cathie Wood 雖然近來備受中概股插水打擊，令旗下基金價值大跌，讓不少投資信徒感到動搖，不過 Ark Invest 依然對未來充滿信心，近來更發表報告指出，該公司有份投資的電動車企業 Tesla 在 2025 年的衝上 3,000 美元，比目前再升約 4 倍。
如果 Ark Invest 提出 3,000 美元的目標成真，對應市值將達 3 萬億美元，將令公司成為世界第一大市值公司。早前有網站引述，Tesla 行政總裁 Elon Musk（上圖）在內部員工通訊中表示，「在我們做得好的前提下，我同意 Ark Invest 的觀點。」（原句：If we execute really well, I agree with Ark Invest）而上述提到的發展目標，除了 在加入 Model Y 與 Cybertruck 等新型車款後，整體產能提升與刺激銷售外，更包括新的 4680 型電池成功量產，同時推動全自動駕駛等技術。
只在內部通訊評論股價
屆時市值達 3 萬億美元
今次只選擇在內部通訊評論股價，原來是有前科。Elon Musk 曾經因為在 Twitter 發表左右公司股價的言論，而被美國證券交易委員會（SEC）禁止出任 Tesla 公司主席最少 3 年，事後他在社交平台上的風格稍為收斂，並把大部分話題轉移到加密貨幣或 SpaceX 相關題目。
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從經歷家暴到成為銀髮超模，Elon Musk 母親 Maye Musk 如何開啟亮麗第二人生？
我們想與你分享的是… 若說每個成功男人的背後，都會有
一個偉大的女人，那麼電動車大廠
特斯拉執行長伊隆馬斯克背後的偉
大女人，絕對非他母親莫屬。
（本文經《Women In Work》網站授權，未經許可請勿轉載）
「如果你抱持良好態度、訂定計劃並勇於冒險，就算登上火星也不是問題。」究竟是經歷過什麼，讓人得到如此的感觸？說出這句話的，正是打造火星移民計劃的 Elon Musk 之母——Maye Musk。現年 73 歲的她，雖然是在兒子成名後才逐漸廣為人知，但她的故事可說是跌宕起伏，蘊藏著人生的自信與智慧，人生精彩程度不比兒子「遜色」。
從電動車到太空船！特斯拉創辦人馬斯克：人得先累積可信度才能承擔重任！
#充滿溫馨與關愛的成長生涯
Maye Musk 出生於加拿大（舊姓為 Haldeman），母親是專業舞者，父親則是脊椎矯正師兼飛行員，在 2 歲時她舉家搬到南非展開新生活，童年記憶像是溫馨的家庭電影一樣，充滿愛與探險精神。而身材高挑且外型亮眼的她，15 歲便首次登台走秀，進而開啟漫長的模特兒生涯，更曾進過南非小姐選美大賽的決賽。
貝克漢一家人參加維多利亞貝克漢品牌時尚秀，布魯克林拍下母親背部全裸照！
#婚姻成為不幸的開始
Maye Musk 在 22 歲時與高中同學 Errol Musk 共結連理，婚後生下 3 個孩子，然而婚姻生活卻並不快樂。她一邊照顧孩子，一邊攻讀營養學的碩士學位，並同時兼職做模特兒，可是在丈夫的眼裡，他絲毫不希望太太拋頭露面，因而除了對她言語羞辱之外，甚至還會當著孩子的面動手。當先生的事業蒸蒸日上時，Maye Musk 卻越發覺得悲傷。然而，她沒有勇氣提出離婚，而身上的瘀傷也使她無法繼續擔任模特兒，從以往滿載快樂的生活，頓走入充滿暴力與眼淚的世界，對 Maye Musk 來說儼如是個噩夢。
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#為養家身兼數職
直到南非頒布正式的離婚條例後，Maye Musk 向法院訴請離婚程序，且為了徹底和前夫斷絕關係，表示自己除了孩子的監護權外什麼都不要。走出家暴陰霾後，也意味著 Maye Musk 得開始一肩扛起家中經濟，她帶著孩子回到加拿大，除了經營模特兒學校，還在多倫多大學當研究員以及到營養學校教書，過著省吃儉用的生活。
#全力支持孩子做的事
幸好孩子們不但懂事，還會貼心分擔她的工作，她也非常鼓勵他們發展興趣，「在我拿到第一份薪水後所做的第一件事，就是買了一張平價地毯——因為當時家裡連椅子都沒有。然而第二件事，便是買一台給 Elon 的電腦。」Maye Musk 引導孩子追求自己的夢想，而 3 個孩子看著母親努力工作的背影長大，自然也學會為自己負責，Elon Musk 收到電腦後自學寫程式，現成為在世界知名的企業家，而二兒子開連鎖餐廳，小女兒則是導演兼監製，各自在不同的領域發光發熱。
#展開第二人生
當孩子長大獨立後，Maye Musk 繼續做自己喜歡且擅長的事情，她在加拿大、美國和南非擁有開業的專業營養師執照，現在除了擔任二兒子餐廳的董事，更成為時尚圈炙手可熱的超模，不僅走過時裝週伸展台，還登上各大時尚雜誌封面。回首過往，年逾古稀的她深信人生成就與年齡無關，只要憑藉著努力、樂觀和誠實的心，不論幾歲都能擁有你想要的生活，就像她曾說的：「這些好事都是因為我堅持不懈才會發生。」
（本文經《Women In Work》網站授權，未經許可請勿轉載）
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Elon Musk’s Tesla Bot raises serious concerns – but probably not the ones you think
Elon Musk announced a humanoid robot designed to help with those repetitive, boring tasks people hate doing. Musk suggested it could run to the grocery store for you, but presumably it would handle any number of tasks involving manual labor.
Predictably, social media filled with references to a string of dystopian sci-fi movies about robots where everything goes horribly wrong.
As troubling as the robot futures in movies like I, Robot, The Terminator and others are, it’s the underlying technologies of real humanoid robots – and the intent behind them – that should be cause for concern.
Musk’s robot is being developed by Tesla. It’s a seeming departure from the company’s car-making business, until you consider that Tesla isn’t a typical automotive manufacturer. The so-called “Tesla Bot” is a concept for a sleek, 125-pound humanlike robot that will incorporate Tesla’s automotive artificial intelligence and autopilot technologies to plan and follow routes, navigate traffic – in this case, pedestrians – and avoid obstacles.
Dystopian sci-fi overtones aside, the plan makes sense, albeit within Musk’s business strategy. The built environment is made by humans, for humans. And as Musk argued at the Tesla Bot’s announcement, successful advanced technologies are going to have to learn to navigate it in the same ways people do.
Yet Tesla’s cars and robots are merely the visible products of a much broader plan aimed at creating a future where advanced technologies liberate humans from our biological roots by blending biology and technology. As a researcher who studies the ethical and socially responsible development and use of emerging technologies, I find that this plan raises concerns that transcend speculative sci-fi fears of super-smart robots.
A man with big plans
Self-driving cars, interplanetary rockets and brain-machine interfaces are steps toward the future Musk envisions where technology is humanity’s savior. In this future, energy will be cheap, abundant and sustainable; people will work in harmony with intelligent machines and even merge with them; and humans will become an interplanetary species.
It’s a future that, judging by Musk’s various endeavors, will be built on a set of underlying interconnected technologies that include sensors, actuators, energy and data infrastructures, systems integration and substantial advances in computer power. Together, these make a formidable toolbox for creating transformative technologies.
Musk imagines humans ultimately transcending our evolutionary heritage through technologies that are beyond-human, or “super” human. But before technology can become superhuman, it first needs to be human – or at least be designed to thrive in a human-designed world.
This make-tech-more-human approach to innovation is what’s underpinning the technologies in Tesla’s cars, including the extensive use of optical cameras. These, when connected to an AI “brain,” are intended to help the vehicles autonomously navigate road systems that are, in Musk’s words, “designed for biological neural nets with optical imagers” – in other words, people. In Musk’s telling, it’s a small step from human-inspired “robots on wheels” to humanlike robots on legs.
Easier said than done
Tesla’s “full self-driving” technology, which includes the dubiously named Autopilot, is a starting point for the developers of the Tesla Bot. Impressive as this technology is, it’s proving to be less than fully reliable. Crashes and fatalities associated with Tesla’s Autopilot mode – the latest having to do with the algorithms struggling to recognize parked emergency vehicles — are calling into question the wisdom of releasing the tech into the wild so soon.
This track record doesn’t bode well for humanlike robots that rely on the same technology. Yet this isn’t just a case of getting the technology right. Tesla’s Autopilot glitches are exacerbated by human behavior. For example, some Tesla drivers have treated their tech-enhanced cars as though they are fully autonomous vehicles and failed to pay sufficient attention to driving. Could something similar happen with the Tesla Bot?
Tesla Bot’s ‘orphan risks’
In my work on socially beneficial technology innovation, I’m especially interested in orphan risks – risks that are hard to quantify and easy to overlook and yet inevitably end up tripping up innovators. My colleagues and I work with entrepreneurs and others on navigating these types of challenges through the Risk Innovation Nexus, an initiative of the Arizona State University Orin Edson Entrepreneurship + Innovation Institute and Global Futures Laboratory.
The Tesla Bot comes with a whole portfolio of orphan risks. These include possible threats to privacy and autonomy as the bot collects, shares and acts on potentially sensitive information; challenges associated with how people are likely to think about and respond to humanoid robots; potential misalignments between ethical or ideological perspectives – for example, in crime control or policing civil protests; and more. These are challenges that are rarely covered in the training that engineers receive, and yet overlooking them can spell disaster.
While the Tesla Bot may seem benign – or even a bit of a joke – if it’s to be beneficial as well as commercially successful, its developers, investors, future consumers and others need to be asking tough questions about how it might threaten what’s important to them and how to navigate these threats.
These threats may be as specific as people making unauthorized modifications that increase the robot’s performance – making it move faster than its designers intended, for example – without thinking about the risks, or as general as the technology being weaponized in novel ways. They are also as subtle as how a humanoid robot could threaten job security, or how a robot that includes advanced surveillance systems could undermine privacy.
Then there are the challenges of technological bias that have been plaguing AI for some time, especially where it leads to learned behavior that turn out to be highly discriminatory. For example, AI algorithms have produced sexist and racist results.
Just because we can, should we?
The Tesla Bot may seem like a small step toward Musk’s vision of superhuman technologies, and one that’s easy to write off as little more than hubristic showmanship. But the audacious plans underpinning it are serious — and they raise equally serious questions.
For instance, how responsible is Musk’s vision? Just because he can work toward creating the future of his dreams, who’s to say that he should? Is the future that Musk is striving to bring about the best one for humankind, or even a good one? And who will suffer the consequences if things go wrong?
These are the deeper concerns that the Tesla Bot raises for me as someone who studies and writes about the future and how our actions impact it. This is not to say that Tesla Bot isn’t a good idea, or that Elon Musk shouldn’t be able to flex his future-building muscles. Used in the right way, these are transformative ideas and technologies that could open up a future full of promise for billions of people.
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But if consumers, investors and others are bedazzled by the glitz of new tech or dismissive of the hype and fail to see the bigger picture, society risks handing the future to wealthy innovators whose vision exceeds their understanding. If their visions of the future don’t align with what most people aspire to, or are catastrophically flawed, they are in danger of standing in the way of building a just and equitable future.
Maybe this is the abiding lesson from dystopian robot-future sci-fi movies that people should be taking away as the Tesla Bot moves from idea to reality — not the more obvious concerns of creating humanoid robots that run amok, but the far larger challenge of deciding who gets to imagine the future and be a part of building it.