In a lengthy and freewheeling discussion with Chris Anderson of TED a week ago, SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk expanded on his idea of what it could look like to share daily life with automation doing humans' bidding.
Indeed, a Futurism report said that to Musk, "the future is teeming with humanoid robots." More so, predictably, this discussion jumped directly into the sexual essences of humanoid androids.
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After being asked if robots could ever turn romantic or even partners in bed, the company executive said, "It's probably inevitable."
Elaborating his answer, Musk said he meant he did promise the internet that would develop catgirls and added that they could invent a robot catgirl.
SpaceX owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk
Musk's Infatuation with Catgirls
Musk has repeatedly talked about how infatuated he is with catgirls. These are fictional human female characters that have cat ears, whiskers, and tails—frequently portrayed in manga and anime.
In 2019, he even joked that an upcoming software feature by Tesla would not just blow the minds of customers but would also be a "crucial step towards catgirls."
While he is laughing by bringing an odd meme to an otherwise earnest discussion, Tesla is working on a humanoid robot called Optimus.
However, all the public has seen thus far is a performer in a black and white jumpsuit that danced on stage at Tesla's AI Day event in 2021.
Cat Girls
On the Know Your Meme site, a catgirl, also called Neko, is described as a "fictional character" mainly portrayed in manga and anime.
Essentially, a catgirl is a female character with feline characteristics but an otherwise human body. Catgirls may have been prevalent in Japanese culture since the 1700s
Nevertheless, they have surfaced in the internet discourse stemming from their use during the 1990s in anime and going into the early 2000s. They became a topic of memes and online humor as early as the beginning of the 2000s.
The earliest occurrence of the female-cat hybrid is the Egyptian goddess of cats, joy, music, dance, protection, and love called "Basted.
The Performer in a Black and White Jumpsuit
Earlier on, in 2021, Futurism already reported about the performer in a black and white jumpsuit. During the AI event of Tesla, Musk revealed that the company was working on a humanoid model that the public would get the first glimpse at some time in 2022.
To devise its robot assistant, the electric car manufacturer is drawing from the existing encounters with car manufacturing robotics and its computer chips powered by artificial intelligence that allows its fleet of cars to drive themselves nearly.
In a 2020 report, Musk said it was a rather odd left turn for him, who had repeatedly warned people of the dangers of AI. He had been banging the AI drum for ten years.
Commenting about AI, the entrepreneur and business magnate said, "We should be concerned about where AI is going." He added that the people he sees being the most wrong about artificial intelligence are very smart as they cannot imagine that a computer could be far smarter than them.
Despite his repeated cautions, Musk reiterated at the AI event that its so-called "Tesla Bot" is designed intentionally to be friendly and function slower, not to mention weaker than any human.
The billionaire described the invention with a five-feet-eight-inch height and 125-pound weight. It reportedly featured "human-level" hands.
A report about Elon Musk discussing engineered "catgirls" is shown on Pointless's YouTube video below:
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