Just over 6 months later, Opus 5 now produces near-superhuman level spreadsheets and slide decks that match what a consultant would make. Things are changing fast.
Elon Musk on Optimus:
"You've probably seen lots of impressive demonstrations of robots on the Internet, but those demonstrations you're seeing are pre-programmed or remote-controlled. So there is no humanoid robot that is actually able to do generalized tasks. Optimus will be the first one that is capable of doing that.
It's not just a demo, it's genuinely useful in day-to-day life. Optimus is designed to have full human dexterity, so a hand that has the same level of dexterity, if not higher, than a human hand.
The human hand is an incredible thing. The more you study the human hand, the more amazing you realize how amazing hands are. The nuances of how human hands work are amazing. Optimus will have that capability. It will have superhuman dexterity, so it's really going to be quite something."
SUPERMAN IN MIAMI 🔥
22 years ago today, the Lakers traded Shaq to the Heat. He guaranteed he was going to bring Miami their first NBA Championship. In 2005, he was 2nd in MVP voting. In 2006, the Heat won the NBA Finals.
Elon Musk just proved every sighted person on Earth is blind.
Your eye captures 0.0035% of the electromagnetic spectrum.
You are not seeing the universe. You are seeing the sliver your biology decided was enough to keep you alive.
That was never vision. That was a survival filter bolted onto your perception four hundred million years ago.
No one has ever removed it.
Musk: “Blindsight will enable those who have total loss of vision to be able to see again. Including if they have lost their eyes, or the optic nerve.”
No eyes. No nerve. The entire optical system physically absent from the skull.
Neuralink does not rebuild what broke.
It routes around biology entirely. It streams synthetic signal straight into the visual cortex.
Your eye never saw anything.
Your brain did.
Your brain sits in total darkness inside a vault of bone.
It has never seen the sun. It has never seen anything.
It builds reality out of whatever electrical signal the eye allows through.
The eye is the bottleneck between your mind and the universe.
Neuralink removes the bottleneck.
Musk: “Maybe have never seen, were even blind from birth.”
A human who has never perceived a single photon of light.
Given sight for the first time.
Not through medicine. Through engineering.
Musk: “You can see in radar, you can see in infrared, ultraviolet.”
Infrared is pouring off every surface in the room around you.
Radio waves are passing through your body right now.
Ultraviolet is painting patterns across everything you have ever looked at.
You cannot see any of it.
Your biology locked you out before you were born.
Musk: “Superhuman capabilities.”
The person born blind would not be restored to human sight.
They would see more of the universe than any sighted person who has ever lived.
The blind would out-see the sighted.
You will not pity them.
You will envy them.
Musk: “Cybernetic enhancement.”
Every human sense is a sensor converting the world into electrical signal.
Replace the sensor and the brain does not care where the signal came from.
It just processes.
Your senses were never built to show you reality. They were built to show you just enough of it to survive.
Evolution built a keyhole. We called it sight.
Elon Musk is not fixing blindness.
He is fixing sight.
interesting position paper throwing cold water on autoresearch/ai scientist: LLMs can't jump.
The thought experiment is this: Take an LLM with a 1905 knowledge cutoff. Feed it every paper, every dataset, every equation of that era. Could it invent general relativity?
No.
Discovery isn't one thing. It's three. You can induce — generalize from data, which lands you at Newton plus some epicycles to explain Mercury's weird orbit. You can deduce — derive rigorously from axioms you already have, which never gives you new axioms. Or you can jump — invent the frame itself, decide that spacetime curves. That third move is the one that matters, and it's exactly the one induction and deduction can't reach.
Penrose put it as three worlds: Physical, Mental, Platonic. Data flows from the world into a mind fine. But the new law has to be discovered into the Platonic world first — and that step is the jump. LLMs are induction machines running over what already exists. Structurally, they don't take it.
I think it’s a warning to AI scientists/autoresearch against collapsing two very different things into one word.
Hill-climbing: LLMs are already superhuman here, and autoresearch in this sense is real and moving fast.
Abduction/leap/jump: a new frame that reorganizes the field, that is a different act entirely, and nothing about scaling induction suggests you get there.
Most of what Autoresearch ships today will be spectacular hill-climbing. The jump is still ours for now.