• Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, has criticized Elon Musk for failing to deliver on his promise of self-driving cars.
• Wozniak noted that he had paid an extra $50,000 for the car upgrade with the expectation of getting a self-driving car by 2016.
• However, none of these features has been delivered and Wozniak believes Tesla is an example of AI gone wrong as it could kill.
Steve Wozniak Criticizes Elon Musk
Technology entrepreneur and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has criticized Elon Musk, billionaire CEO of Tesla and also owner and CEO of Twitter, for failing to fulfill the promise to launch self-driving cars. In a recent interview with CNN, Wozniak noted that he had paid an extra $50,000 for the car upgrade with the expectation of getting a self-driving car by 2016. He said: „If you want a study of AI gone wrong and taking a lot of claims and trying to kill you every chance it gets… see what Tesla’s doing.“
Wozniak’s Claims Against Tesla Cars
Wozniak claimed that despite Elon Musk’s efforts to promote electric vehicles, none of his promises about introducing self-driving cars have come close to reality yet. The tech mogul also said that another model with eight cameras was touted to self-drive at the end of 2017 but this did not happen either. Rather than fulfilling its promises, Wozniak believesTesla is an example of artificial intelligence (AI) “gone wrong” as it could lead to something dangerous or even kill people due to its uncertainty in driving decisions.
Steve Woznial’s Relationship With Elon Musk
When asked about his relationship with Elon Musk during the interview with CNN, Steve Wozniak replied that he hasn’t met or spoken against him before. He did praise him for advocating electric vehicles but made clear his disappointment over failed promises regarding self-driving cars from the Tesla boss.
Elon Musk Responds To Criticisms
In response to such criticisms from Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak ,Musk tweeted: „It is correct that I said Autopilot would get full self driving features this year & I’m confident we will.“ He also added: „Enormous effort being put into this & probably only 3 months away from our first relatively safe & complete autonomous drive feature.“
Conclusion
Overall, Apple Co-founder Steve Wozniak has given Tesla cars as an example AI gone wrong based on their failure in delivering promised features such as autopilot driving capabilities since 2016 when upgrades were done on some models at an extra cost worth $50k .He also stated he hasn’t met or talked directly with Elon musk concerning this matter but instead responded via twitter promising safety in their autonomous drive features which may be 3 months away from completion .