Elon Musk Admits He Doesn't Know How to Make Chips After Predicting China's Progress in Semiconductors

Although Elon Musk recently said China is overcoming limitations in semiconductor production, he now says he doesn't know much about chip manufacturing.

Although Elon Musk recently said that China is pushing the boundaries of semiconductor production, he now says he doesn't know much about chip production.

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After telling the Chinese media late last month that the country could overcome the limitations of chip production in a few years, Elon Musk has now admitted that he himself does not have enough knowledge to make semiconductors. Musk made these comments in an interview with the Tesla Owners Club in Silicon Valley. He also said that he has experienced what he calls "AI psychosis" a few times this year while watching AI-produced music videos.

Musk's efforts to enter the chip manufacturing industry through the Terafab project have been in the spotlight for the past few weeks; Especially after speculations about the participation of the Taiwanese company TSMC, one of the giants of the chip manufacturing industry, in this project increased.

Musk's recent comments indicate that TSMC may at best become a tenant of the project's facilities. His programs have also caused reactions in Taiwan; An issue related to Tesla's business interests in China.

At the end of September, Musk announced in an interview with China's CGTN network that he believes that the country can overcome the limitations of processing power, lithography and chip production in the next two to three years.

However, in an interview with the Tesla Owners Club, he admitted that he still had "a lot to learn about making chips" and clarified that he "doesn't know how to make chips". Of course, Musk, who is always known for being optimistic, believes that he and the Terafab project team will eventually find the necessary solutions.

One aspect of the current chip manufacturing process that has caught Musk's attention is the uniformity of equipment used in factories. Accustomed to using custom manufacturing processes at his automotive and aerospace companies, he noted that the machinery used at Samsung, Intel and TSMC facilities are all similar.

Musk then linked this to his plans for the Terafab project, saying:

"I think what we're going to do is start with conventional equipment. Then we improve this equipment to increase the throughput. "Then, wherever we see bottlenecks, we build custom equipment so we can process wafers much faster."

Acknowledging that these programs could take "several years" to come to fruition, Musk explained that the main goal is to create a repeatable process for making lithographic masks, manufacturing chips, and packaging the final products in a single assembly. The team can then increase wafer production throughput and achieve other improvements by gradually refining each step.

In another part of the conversation, Musk discussed the advances in artificial intelligence and explained that training data plays an important role in the correct functioning of models.

He recently said that perhaps only people who have worked with the technology to the point of psychosis will be able to properly recognize AI advances. In this conversation, Musk referred to videos and music videos to explain what he meant, and said that several artificial intelligences working together could produce a very impressive music video on their own.

He added that AI's ability to create such videos is indicative of what he calls "taste." Musk means by this concept, the ability to understand the emotional reactions of humans and to recognize the factors that can affect the audience emotionally.

He went on to say about his experience of psychosis related to artificial intelligence:

“I think artificial intelligence is going to be fantastic. In fact, it has largely already reached that stage. The thing is, I've also developed a bit of artificial intelligence psychosis; Maybe even a lot more than a little. "At various points this year, I've probably had AI or superintelligence psychosis about half a dozen times."

However, Musk cautioned that training AI requires a solid set of data and consistent principles. He explained that if a model is taught false beliefs, especially if it is presented with two self-evident and fundamentally incompatible principles and asked to hold them both true, the model may reach contradictory conclusions.

"If you give AI an inherently inconsistent logic, it will end up reaching impossible conclusions. "If it's fundamentally impossible to achieve logical consistency, I think it's possible to drive AI into a kind of madness."

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