Elon Musk's Tesla AI robots are not as advanced as you might think

Fears are high of AI robots taking over everything from education to art to laundry...well most of us wouldn't mind losing laundry from our chore list. Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi spoke with Sizzle AI's Founder and CEO Jerome Pesenti on Opening Bid about the future of robots, with him saying that the technology is still quite limited: "we're at least a decade away."

Pesenti -- the former of VP of AI at Meta (META) -- also downplayed the potential for Elon Musk's humanoid robots being developed by Tesla (TSLA).

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Video Transcript

I used to have a little, a little puppy in like the early eighties and it was a puppy.

It would like bark and would walk across the, I mean, that was battery power.

It's not much better now, to be honest.

I mean, it's not much better and these things work, you know, half the time and, you know, so, you know, when we talk about, you know, a I taking over our humanity, like, look at the state of robots today.

I mean, they work well in, in, in factories, right?

When they have a small set of actions but they don't, you know, they don't wash our clothes, they don't empty our dishwasher, they don't fold this stuff.

We're trying.

Not yet.

Not yet, but we're still pretty far that, you know, where we are, we are at least a decade away from this.

Right?

It is then is the Tesla bot a look into the future, you know, sometimes we have to call it what it is, right?

Like, I mean, have you seen this thing?

Like, have you seen, I knew I knew this was gonna be a good chat with you people.

I mean, the prime when you've been in the ifl, as long as I have been in, like, you get tired of people all their way through, you know, it's just like, well, what's the limitations do you think?

So?

Something like that for right now in its current form is, is resigned to a factory floor.

Yes, because it's a, more, because the Real World is very, it's very complicated and very unpredictable.

Ok. And it's pretty amazing, I think to see.

I mean, we finally may be getting there.

I think we, you know, I've actually never taken car, of course.

And so that is starts to be this breakthrough.

But people will all tell you that it's the, the 1% you know, like you think you have a handle on 99 990 100% of the situation, but you have only 100 and 99%.

The last 1% maybe, you know, more work than the 1st 99%.

That's the problem.

Right.

In a, in a home, you try to do something.

You don't realize that humans are extremely smart, right?

They try to, they need to handle a lot of situation.

We used to think.

Oh, this is very menial work.

But actually this is where humans are extremely intelligent, all of us right.

Being able to manipulate the world, walking, tripping on something, understanding all the thing that not hurting yourself.

You know, it's very, very complicated and robots are like super, super far from doing that.