Musk: real-world AI is the truly hard problem, everything else is easy
CyberRobooo · x · 2026-09-10
Elon Musk replied that "except for real-world AI, which is super hard", implying embodied AI in the physical world is the real technical frontier. The comment aligns with his heavy investment in robotics and adds a high-profile endorsement to the embodied intelligence wave.
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