Let's Hold Our Horses on AI – The Startup – Medium

As an example, consider Elon Musk's statements backtracking on the practical nature and benefits of using automated workers in his factories to boost Model 3 production. A piece in Bloomberg covers the Silicon Valley darling's explanation by drawing attention to his Twitter post: "Excessive automation at Tesla was a mistake. To be precise, my mistake." That was swept under the rug pretty quickly, right? It feels like a repetition of the trend of these breakthrough advancements in cancer treatments, where every other week it seems like some doctor, researcher, or precocious high school student has designed some new method that could lead to the potential "cure to cancer."