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On the All-In Podcast, hosted by Chamath Palihapitiya, Jason Calacanis, David Sacks, and David Friedberg, a prediction suggests in seven years, middle-class American homes will own a robot costing $1,000/month. And Musk agreed with Calacanis, stating "true" in an X post. While Calacanis made the prediction, Friedberg said robots would be a bigger money maker for industrial use cases rather than consumer applications.
It's not unrealistic to say that American households could have domestic robots. After all, Amazon and Apple have progressed toward making it the new norm. For example, Apple is working on home robotics after scraping its EV project. The tech giant is developing a mobile robot that tags along a user in their home and a tabletop device featuring a robotic arm designed to change a display's position.
On the other hand, Amazon is working on improving its Astro robot and including features similar to ChatGPT. Last year, this robot, running on the Burnham AI, used large language model-based tech to memorize and understand its interactions and what it sees. It also performs certain actions by engaging in Q&As.
Companies have been rethinking college degree requirements for job seekers, further affirming Musk's beliefs surrounding education. "I think college is basically for fun and to prove that you can do your chores, but they're not for learning," Musk said at the Satellite 2020 conference in Washington. His thoughts prove that it may not be required to take educational paths to obtain certain skills or become successful.
For instance, he explained that jobs at Tesla and SpaceX shouldn't have a college degree requirement and calls those prerequisites "absurd." He chooses to hire people based on their "exceptional ability" instead.
According to an Intelligent.com 2023 survey, 55% of companies have shifted from college degrees as a hiring requirement for specific job roles to make their workforce more diverse while expanding the talent pool. Delta CEO Ed Bastian has already removed the degree requirements for every job at the company.
This trend is setting the stage, especially because Musk dropped out of the Stanford Ph.D program after two days, even though he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania. His career path demonstrates that anyone can find success without depending on traditional education frameworks. His remarks could point toward a future where more companies prefer to hire individuals who learn independently instead of educational accomplishments.
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