Steve Wozniak is not afraid to speak his mind. The co-founder of Apple is comfortable enough in his own skin to take shots at fellow tech titans when he feels it is warranted, and caught in the cross-hairs of his latest verbal dart is none other than Elon Musk.
During an interview with CNN, Woz was asked about his relationship with Musk.
“I never actually met him and spoke with him. I admire some of the things he’s done for the world, changing us towards electric cars.”
That was the nice part. He then opened up about his experience owning a Tesla, specifically the self-driving promises he feels Musk has made that are bogus.
“He basically got a lot of money from myself for cars. I believed things he said—a car would drive itself across the country by the end of 2016. I had to upgrade to that model, you know, $50,000… and it wouldn’t do anything. I could tell it wouldn’t make it across the country.”
Woz is referring to a claim Musk made several years ago that a self-driving Tesla would be able to go across the country by 2018. That didn’t happen.
He refers to this failure as a classic example of Artificial Intelligence that isn’t quite ready for prime time, saying, “If you want a study of AI gone wrong and taking a lot of claims and trying to kill you every chance it can get a Tesla.”
One thing Wozniak has in common with Musk is a fear of how AI can become destructive. He joined Musk in signing an online petition calling for OpenAI to slow their roll on new developments for GPT-4.
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