COLOGNE, GERMANY – SEPTEMBER 13: Co-founder of Apple Steve Wozniak attends the Digital X 2022 occasion … [+]
Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, was requested what he considered Elon Musk on Tuesday throughout an look on CNN. And the hosts appeared genuinely shocked on the response—which wasn’t very flattering of the billionaire Tesla CEO.
CNN This Morning host Kaitlan Collins requested Wozniak whether or not he ever talks with Musk.
“I’ve by no means really met him and spoke with him. I like some issues that he’s finished for the world, altering us in the direction of electrical vehicles,” Wozniak informed the CNN hosts.
However then issues took a darker flip, with Wozniak mentioning Musk’s many guarantees within the 2010s that self-driving vehicles have been simply over the horizon.
“However you realize, his actual motivations inside—is he actually a purist of making an attempt to scrub the air and all that—will get shadowed by quite a lot of different issues. And he principally acquired some huge cash from myself for a automotive, I believed issues he stated. {That a} automotive would drive itself throughout the nation by the top of 2016. Oh, I needed to improve to that mannequin. , $50,000 after which it wouldn’t do something,” Wozniak stated.
However it didn’t cease there. Wozniak defined the guarantees that appeared to simply preserve coming.
“I might inform it might by no means make it throughout the nation, and he stated ‘Right here we now have a brand new one with eight cameras, it’ll make throughout the nation by the top of 2017,’” Wozniak stated.
“I really believed these issues, and it’s not even near actuality. And boy, if you need a research of AI gone incorrect and taking quite a lot of claims and making an attempt to kill you each likelihood it could possibly, get a Tesla,” Wozniak continued.
Musk made quite a lot of guarantees for self-driving vehicles beginning in 2014, with absolutely autonomous driving at all times simply one or two years away. However we’re nonetheless ready on that to occur, regardless of Tesla rolling out one thing known as “Full Self-Driving” which is something however.
“My guess as to once we would assume it’s protected for anyone to basically go to sleep and get up at their vacation spot?” Musk stated in 2019. “In all probability in the direction of the top of subsequent 12 months.”
Collins and her co-host Poppy Harlow appeared shocked at Wozniak’s evaluation of a fellow tech mogul. Harlow moved on to ask about how Musk was operating Twitter, the social media platform Musk purchased for $44 billion in October 2022. And Wozniak stated he didn’t actually have any robust opinion on that since he didn’t use social media a lot.
“Nicely, it’s type of bumbling. I can’t say good or unhealthy. I’m not likely there. And Twitter, you realize, in all probability wants quite a lot of change and revamping in most individuals’s eyes. So we’ll see. I imply, Twitter is a social community and I just about keep away from the social networks,” Wozniak stated.
