DeepSeek and tariffs fail to undermine the AI investment boom (so far)
(Author also argues in The Washington Post that Tesla's survival depends on Musk's efforts toward Optimus -- the pro-Humanoid side versus the East. Critics cite connectionist and symbolic as insufficient so far. Where do the next breakthroughs appear, e.g. quantum, nano, bio, or is there another implicit or tacit field? Is it knowledge or intelligence at all? Does it also trigger autonomy? Is it less robotic and more bionic? Or what was the makeup of Hermes' caduceus? investors may consider it like "hedge" computing. Incidentally, Grok identifies remaining AI Proxies as behaviorist or evolutionary. Deep Search tosses in agent-based or artificial life as secondaries. And humanoids themselves may form a substrate or swarm like drones. Elsewhere miniature versions of the latter are used in pollination, so does that also apply to factories? Or extreme environment. The Friday memo types might be happy with a dashboard. Who picks the roadmap? When do goals, values, intentions, or agency signal sentience? Or life? If Mars agrees. Was morphogenesis related to AI?)
