Tampa, FL — Steve Wozniak has bought into the hype about artificial intelligence for a while. But now he is skeptical that it will ever come close to the human brain.
“Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, Bill Gates [were] Apple co-founder Wozniak told conference attendees on Civo Navigate on Tuesday.
“Then my son, my really good son, convinced me that I was wrong. It’s the high end of today’s technology and will never outrun us anyway.”
A computer can try something a billion times — humans can’t — and find the best way to do a task. This is what we call “intelligence,” and it follows human direction.
“Can you really recreate a brain? I was at a company where engineers found a way to actually create a brain. It takes nine months.” No one can predict … we call it [intelligence] But it differs from intelligence because it has no emotions. ”
About Tesla and Lucid electric cars
Wozniak also said he was disillusioned with electric cars made by Tesla and Lucid and owns both. He and his wife both enjoy long road trips, but he said the Tesla would act jerky and unpredictable. Also, the navigation was bad, he added.
“I’m very skeptical of Tesla — [it] Lied, I dropped a lot of money on it,’ he said. By then, we will have automated driving all over the country.”
He glanced at his watch.
“And I soon realized that I couldn’t recognize or even approach a small child in front of the car. The following year, [Musk] It said it had a new sensor and eight cameras. They laid off the sensor company. Sensor companies couldn’t do what they wanted. By the end of 2017, he plans to have eight cameras self-driving across the country. ”
Another dramatic look at the watch.
“If you have a Tesla, the navigation is pretty terrible,” Wozniak said, “but it doesn’t tell you to turn when it’s too late or give you good advice like a human would.” can drive a Tesla and say ‘take me from here to there’ and it makes so many horrible mistakes just by telling it to ‘stay in the lane’ by itself to commit You need to quickly grab the controls and hit the brakes. ”
He also added that Tesla cars aren’t trained in unusual things that may be on the road, like tires, or unusual things that other drivers may do.
As for Lucid, after a few weeks of driving, he sent the company a two-page note about his issues with the user interface and the rest of the car. Initially, Lucid refused to return the vehicle. had It was hit by a drunk driver on the second day of ownership, but was repaired. But his wife told the company that she would only sell her two-page review of Wozniak’s product on eBay. Lucid canceled the sale and got the car back.
“We talk like we’ve made a lot of progress, but we’re not there like humans,” he said.
He’s currently waiting for a new electric Mercedes, but misses the Toyota RAV4 he rented when Lucid was in the shop.
“They gave us this little RAV4 petrol car, an old petrol car. We needed Apple CarPlay for navigation. It’s been a great week,” he said. “I keep telling his wife that I will drive the RAV4 anyway.
correct the record
Wozniak talks about his childhood growing up around other “electronic kids”, his first attempts at designing a computer (all on paper because he couldn’t afford chips), and his college days. entertained the audience.
Wikipedia claims that Wozniak was expelled from the University of Colorado at Boulder for hacking into the system, but it says otherwise. He enrolled in graduate-level courses and ran all sorts of programs, but he didn’t know there was a budget for the classes, he said. They eventually stopped running his program when it turned out that the class’ computing usage was $50,000 above his budget.
After that, he didn’t go back to college, but went to community college for two years. After earning a BA in Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley, he survived a plane crash after founding Apple.
Wozniak also shared some stories about his favorite jokes and pranks. This often leads people to suspect that he is using counterfeit bills. He is mostly misleading. He also wears a Covid mask adorned with a gray beard and a smiling mouth that matches his true face.
“I’m Steve Wozniak. My mouth doesn’t move when I speak,” he said, wearing a mask.
He also set records for a few other things, including how he came to create the Apple I and II. He told the audience that the film sometimes goes wrong regarding the roles he and Steve Jobs played in setting up Apple’s computers. and showed everyone there his newly designed computer.
In fact, Wozniak said he was the one who brought the computer to the club.
“What the hell?” he said of the film’s historical inaccuracies. “I’ve been in that club every day since it started. Steve had never been there.”
Civo paid for Lorraine Lawson’s travel and lodging expenses to attend the conference.
