Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak takes a tough swipe at Tesla’s Autopilot (and AI in general)

Steve Wozniak is not the type to make useless pleasantries. The co-founder of Apple and the brilliant creator of the Apple 1 has never hesitated to sharply criticize the strategic choices of his former company, a freedom of tone which another American giant has just paid the price: You’re here. Asked by a CNN reporter, Wozniak lamented the gap between Elon Musk’s promises and reality: “I believed what he said. That a car would drive itself across the country by the end of 2016… I actually believed all of those things, and it’s not even close to the truth…. But we’re still waiting for that to happen, despite rolling out what Tesla calls “Full Self-Driving,” which is anything but safe! “.



And to strike ruthlessly: “If you want a badly designed AI that’s prone to lots of complaints, and tries to kill you at every possible opportunity, then buy yourself a Tesla!” » . In general, Wozniak is more than skeptical about the rise of AI: “These tools can be used by people to do evil things (Spam, Fake news, etc, Editor’s note)” . As a reminder, Steve Wozniak is one of the signatories of the call for a break in AI research, a forum also signed by a certain… Elon Musk!

The Woz, on the other hand, carefully avoided addressing the Twitter issue, admitting to his interlocutor that he was almost never on social networks.