Elon Musk says training Tesla's Optimus robot is like raising a toddler
Source: Business Insider ·
Elon Musk said Optimus has to learn by watching people do tasks and practicing them itself, a process similar to how humans learn.
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Elon Musk compared training Optimus to raising a toddler.Riccardo De Luca/Anadolu via Getty ImagesElon Musk said a shortage of training data meant teaching Tesla's Optimus robot is like raising a toddler.Tesla has built an "Optimus Academy" where robots can learn through "self-play," Musk told investors.The EV giant said on Wednesday that it had begun production of Optimus.Tesla is sending its Optimus humanoid robot back to school.Speaking on the company's earnings call on Wednesday, CEO Elon Musk compared training the EV maker's humanoid robot to raising a toddler.Musk said that while Tesla's autonomous driving models can learn from data collected by its massive fleet of vehicles, its Optimus robot has to learn by watching people do tasks and practicing them itself, a process similar to how humans learn."You can see this when you have a toddler, and they initially are sort of wobbly, and they don't know how to do things, and eventually, they learn to wipe their own ass, which is a…