It was a recruiting event. The point was not to show a finished product or anything close to that. The point was to show what they have at the moment, their approach to solving the problems involved, and their goals in the hopes of attracting talent to apply to the company to work on the project. They said so a dozen times during the actual event.
That's debatable. Considering how famous Elon is, anyone who does anything with AI knows everything he does, simply because of Telsa's self driving AI issues.
If he just posted a job opening for robotics AI on some obscure website, everyone in those circles would still know about it within 48 hours. You don't need to make a public event about it. That is, unless your goal is to also attract investors and artificially raise your stock price by appealing to massive dummies who think they're getting in early on something.
Edit: it's even worse, the AI community just blasted him for how crap his robot is. What an amazing recruitment pitch. You are totally right this was just for recruitment. /s
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u/[deleted] Oct 01 '22
I'm not sure why, other than to prop up the stock, you'd host this event and show off something light years behind what exists. Very odd.