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My concern isn't the long run. It's
the next 3 to seven years. How do we head

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towards Star Trek and not Terminator?

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>> I call AI and robotics the supersonic

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tsunami. We're in the singularity.

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>> When is all white by color work gone?

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>> Anything short of shaping atoms. AI can

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do half or more of those jobs right now.

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There's no onoff switch. It is coming
and accelerating. The transition will be

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bumpy. You have a solution to this.

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>> I don't make a bet here. Um,
>> China's done an incredible job,

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>> right? I mean, it's running circles

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around us. Do you imagine that the US
could make that level of investment and

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commitment >> based on current
trends? Uh, China will

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far exceed the rest
of the world in uh AI compute.

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>> Every major CEO and economist
and government leader should be like, what

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do we do? >> We don't have
any system right now to

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make this go well. But AI is a critical
part of making it go well. There are

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three things that I think are important.

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Truth [music] will prevent AI from going
insane. Curiosity, I think, will foster

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any form of sentience. And if it has
a sense of beauty, it will be a great

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future. It's going
to be an awesome future.

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>> Now, that's a moonshot,
ladies and gentlemen.

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>> Welcome to Moonshots. Following is a
wide-ranging conversation with Elon Musk

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focused on optimism and the coming
age of abundance. My moonshot mate Dave

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Blondon and I flew into Austin, Texas to

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meet up with Elon at his 11.5 million

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square foot Gigafactory, home of the
Cybertruck and Model Y production and

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the future home for 8 million square ft

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of Optimus production. Elon has agreed

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to do this kind of a deep dive catchup
once per year. This is hopefully the

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first of many. And after having this
conversation with Elon, it's crystal

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clear to me that we are living through
the singularity. All right, enjoy.

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>> Yeah. Um, [snorts] your relentless
optimism is always a breath of fresh air.

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>> Thank you, buddy. Thank you. Well,
I want to share that tonight with a lot of

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people. [laughter] >> Yeah,
>> I think they need it.

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>> I hope you're right. And you might
be right. Actually, I'm increasingly

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thinking that you are right. >> Thank you.

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>> Abundance for all. >> Yeah,
>> that's the goal. Shall we?

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>> Yeah. >> All right. >> Right now,
putting a lot of time into chips.

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>> You are. You are personally.

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>> Yeah. >> Yeah.
>> It's always AI assistance, I assume.

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>> What's that? with some AI
assistance. I assume that design

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>> uh not enough. >> Yeah. [laughter] >>
It' be nice if we could just hand it off

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to the AI. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Soon enough.

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>> Yeah. I tried to do some circuit design
actually with uh AI recently. Just this

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a couple weeks ago. Not not happening yet.

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>> Um very soon though.

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>> Yeah. Um I I think probably at this

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point Grock if you if you took a photo
and submitted to Grock, it could

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probably tell you if if the circuit
is is if there's something wrong with it.

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>> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> All right.
I'm going to give it a shot.

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You're using the same Grock that I'm
using. Are you or you are [laughter]

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>> Grock keeps updating. So

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>> yeah, 4.2, but five is soon, right?

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>> Uh five is Q1. >> Yeah.

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>> Um 4.2 has not been released yet.

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>> Okay. uh externally.
Um but yeah, I mean

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if you just if you just upload an image

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into Gro um >> it's it's
does quite a good job.

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>> Yeah. >> Um >> yeah,
>> of of analyzing any any given image.

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>> Absolutely. Let's uh let's start.
We're going to talk about this.

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>> All right. We'll come back.

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>> I mean, let's see if I if I take an if
I take a picture of you, what is it? Let's

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see what it >> Yeah.
What's it going to say about me?

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>> Yeah, it's going to say you're a flawed
circuit. I also have to remember to

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update it because like we update
the Grock app so frequently.

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>> You know, I asked I
asked Grock to roast me.

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>> Oh, it's does a good job.
>> It did an amazing job. Then I asked

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Grock to roast you. Yes. >> And I
spit out my coffee. It was it was

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hilarious. And then I asked it, you know,

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>> say be more. It just keeps telling
it to be more and more. [laughter]

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>> I asked I asked [clears throat]
until until it's like mother of God.

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>> Wait, is Bad Rudy still out or did
that get repealed? Bad Rudy still there?

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>> And I asked, you know, does Elon know
what you say about him? and and and she

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goes, "It's a she for me." She goes,
"What is he going to do about it?"

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[laughter] >> What is he
going to do about it?

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>> Yeah, let's see. Okay. >> Um,
so I just literally took a photo of

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you and see what it is.
>> Did you ask a question?

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>> No, nothing. I didn't say anything.

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>> This man is is hugely >>
This This is Peter Diamandis.

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>> Yes. >> So, >> okay.
>> That's pretty good.

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>> Yeah. >> There's no context whatsoever.

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>> The host of the podcast
Moonshots. Yeah.

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>> Uh, sometimes that's your first
credential now. That's amazing. Forget

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about everything [laughter] else
I've done in life. Comes back to your

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podcast. That was a no no context image.

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>> Yeah. By the way, Graedia is awesome.

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>> Okay, great. >> I mean,
just phenomenal. [laughter]

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>> I mean, just it's like I tried to like
update my Wikipedia page for like years

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impossibly >> and um Yeah,
it it it knows me.

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>> Amazing. >> Yeah. Um,
he's wearing a black quilted

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jacket featuring a Sundance logo.

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[laughter] >> Not quite true.
It's my abundance logo,

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but I guess a little wrinkled.
See the >> Can it see it?

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>> I I I think so. >> Okay. Okay.

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>> Anyway, >> um Yeah, but it
basically uh it's pretty damn good.

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>> Yeah. >> Um he's smiling and relaxed
with a laptop in front of him.

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>> That's true. >> Yeah, that's true.

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Um, >> yeah.

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>> Well, I should say quite
a circuit though. [laughter]

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>> You got to test it on the >> roast him.

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>> Only It has to be read by you, though.

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>> I mean, I won't read
the whole thing, but

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>> All right. [laughter] Give me
Give me a taste. I can take it.

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>> Okay. Check out that grin. Dude smiling

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like he just discovered a new
way to monetize hope. [laughter]

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>> Monetizing hope. Oh, that's

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>> I want to try and answer the question,

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can AI and tech help save America and

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the world? Right. Um, I want to give

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people listening a dose of optimism.

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There's a survey done in mid December by

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Pew that said 45% of Americans would

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rather live in the past and only 14%

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said they'd rather live in the future,
which is insane to me, right? Um,

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obviously they never read history.
The challenge is most Americans all they

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have of the future. It's like Hollywood

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has shown us killer AIs and rogue

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robots, right? And people are worried
about their jobs. They're worried about

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healthcare. They're worried about, you
know, the cost of living. The challenge

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is how do we how do we help people? I

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mean, you posted, you pinned on X,
the future is going to be amazing with AI

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and robots enabling sustainable abundance.

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>> I think of you when I did that.

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>> Thank you. I appreciate that.
and and uh [laughter] >> well I mean

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>> it's like what would
Peter do you want to say?

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>> Yeah was channeling you.
>> Thank you. Thank I couldn't agree more.

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I didn't agree more either.
[laughter] >> That's great.

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>> So so my question is from a you
know from a first principle standpoint

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>> right >> uh the rationale
for optimism you know

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how do we how do we head towards Star
Trek and not Terminator right? How do we

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how do we head towards >> Ronberry
not Cameron. Yeah, [laughter]

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Jim. Jim, I will I will

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>> the diverging path meme.

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>> Yes, [laughter] it is.
It is. Uh, Avatar

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has some hopeful parts, but anyway,

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>> I how do we go towards universal high

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income instead of social unrest? So, my

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>> both [clears throat and laughter]

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want socialrest. >> So,

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have universal high income and social
unrest. M >> that's my prediction.

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>> Oh, that will make
for a lot of problems. [snorts]

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>> Is that your actual prediction?

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>> Yeah. >> Yeah,
it seems likely. [laughter]

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>> Like tell me to push back on it.

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>> Yeah, exactly.
But it seems like that's the trend.

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>> Yeah. Yeah, totally. No, we have
>> Well, because there's going to be so

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much change. >> Yeah, there's people
are going to be like scared shitless.

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>> Yeah, it's it's sort of the um

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you know um it's like be careful what
you wish for because you might get it.

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>> Yeah. Yeah.

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>> Now, if if you if you actually get all

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the stuff you want,
is that actually the future you want?

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>> Yeah. >> Um because it
means that your job won't

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be what matter >> if you're
living an unchallenged life.

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>> Yes. >> Right. With no challenges.

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>> Yeah. >> No. You know,
you know, if you become a

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couch potato, if it's the Wall-E future,
that does not go well for humans.

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>> Well, and we're used to being
told, here's your challenge. Yeah.

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>> So people haven't
historically been very

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good at creating their own
challenge in the absence of

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>> I think Elon does
a damn good job. Every

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time you every time one company
takes off, you start your next.

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>> Oh, that's that's rare for punishment.

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>> I think you are.
I think you overthank God for that.

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>> So So [laughter] what so
>> why do I do this to myself?

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>> Actually, after AI and robots, is there
another thing after that? I guess there's

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>> Well, there's there's conquering,
you know, the universe.

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>> Yeah, that there
is that >> rocks really.

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>> Well, [laughter] and energy
>> rocks are your friends.

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>> Conquering >> We didn't even get there.

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>> Why, Elon? Why are you so optimistic?

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>> Are you Are you optimistic?
Let's start there.

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>> I'm not as optimistic as you are.

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>> Okay. >> Um but why are you optimist?

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>> I'm more optimistic than most people.

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>> Okay. >> Um

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>> and is the trend upward

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compared to a year ago, two years ago?

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Well, I I think if you reframe things in

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terms of um progress bar,
like speaking of challenges,

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>> yeah, >> uh progress towards
a cartev 2 scale civilization.

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>> Sure. >> Um well, let's
say let's say the aspiration

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>> capturing all the energy
from the sun's output.

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>> Well, let's even have a a humbler

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humbler aspiration than that. If we say

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that our goal is to even get a millionth

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of the sun's energy, >> that would
be more than a thousand times

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as much energy as could
possibly be produced on Earth.

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>> So about a half
a billionth of the sun's

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energy reaches Earth. Um so you'd have

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to go up three orders of magnitude
from that uh just to get to a millionth.

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>> Yeah. Um,

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so

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we're very very very far from even h

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having a billionth of the sun's energy

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uh harnessed in any way. So a reasonable

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goal would be try to get to a millionth.

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And if you try to get to a millionth or

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or a thousandth um you know 0.1%.

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Uh that's that's such an enormous

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uh there's not sure what metaphor we'd
use here because a hill to climb is is

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not a >> inapprop like not
a big enough metaphor but

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>> gravity well to escape [clears throat]

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>> engineer hell of a gravity well.

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Exactly. Um so if if you try to get to a

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millionth of the sun's energy or a

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thousandth the sun's energy like now
the these are very very difficult tasks

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>> and energy is the inner
loop for everything right now.

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>> Yeah. I I think like I I think uh the
future currency will essentially just be

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wattage. >> Yeah.
I was thinking is it is it d is

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the ability of a person to control

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energy and compute

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>> or just energy?
I mean the two translate obviously

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>> just [clears throat]
like harnessed energy.

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>> Yeah. >> Like so or like
basically how much power

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is being turned into work
of some kind, >> right?

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>> Um

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intelligence or

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um matter manipulation. Um,

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>> so that's your next big
project is going to be energy.

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>> It's it's going to be you're going to
go back to your solar your solar system.

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>> You can expand
from there and say, okay,

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>> what about even getting somewhere
on a on a cottage of three scale, meaning

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galaxy level. >> Now you're talking now.
Now we're back to Star Trek.

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>> Yeah. Expand horizons here.

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>> Yes. >> Where there
isn't even a horizon because

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you're not on a planet.
[laughter] >> So we we talk about

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>> So So think galaxy mind. >> Yeah.

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Well, listen, we're in 11 11.5 million
square foot, three pentagons right here

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in this building. I mean,
you think in a reasonably large scale,

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>> what is the magnitude? >> Yeah.

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>> Um, so I mean, so from a challenge

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standpoint, I guess

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the civil the civilizational challenge
will be how do you climb the orders of

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magnitude? >> Yeah.
>> And energy harnessed.

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>> But we're going back to why are
you optimistic right now? I mean, when

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people think about uh the challenges

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ahead, I think we're going to end up
with abundance in the long run, it's for

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me >> beyond abundance in any beyond what

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people possibly could think of as

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abundance. Um like the AI actually

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AI and robots the limit um will will

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saturate all human desire.

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>> And then we get to nanotechnology
which takes it even a step further.

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Um the thing about the well I'm not
sure what you mean by nano you mean like

00:13:19.920 --> 00:13:22.317
little nanobots >> atomic reassembly.

00:13:22.400 --> 00:13:24.717
>> Yeah. For health. >> Oh yeah.
Yeah. Sure. Sure. Um I mean

00:13:24.800 --> 00:13:28.157
we're already doing atomic level
assembly on the for circuits you know.

00:13:28.240 --> 00:13:30.877
>> Amazing. >> Um >> two three nanometers.

00:13:30.960 --> 00:13:33.997
>> Yeah. It's it's
only um depending on how

00:13:34.080 --> 00:13:38.157
they're arrayed four or five
silicon atoms per nanometer.

00:13:38.240 --> 00:13:41.277
>> Yeah. >> So >> those
are big atoms though.

00:13:41.360 --> 00:13:44.077
>> They're not bigish. They're not
your little I mean but but I'm just saying

00:13:44.160 --> 00:13:47.517
you could they should actually describe
the circuits in terms of an integer

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number of atoms in a specific place.

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>> They should it's all angstroms now but

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>> you could you can just it's just inte

00:13:55.040 --> 00:14:00.477
it's it's like we'll call this the the
seven atom you know whatever like you

00:14:00.560 --> 00:14:03.197
say two two nanometers it's
like it's like >> no one knows

00:14:03.280 --> 00:14:05.437
>> nine silicon atoms something like that.

00:14:05.520 --> 00:14:10.877
Um they've got silicon and copper and um
you know so but a bunch of these things

00:14:10.960 --> 00:14:13.837
are just marketing numbers like the two
nanometer is just a marketing number.

00:14:13.920 --> 00:14:17.357
>> Oh yeah.
>> Um but but it's you still need

00:14:17.440 --> 00:14:21.357
essentially close to atomic level
precision. Like the atoms really need to

00:14:21.440 --> 00:14:26.957
be in the right spot. >> Um so um

00:14:27.040 --> 00:14:30.477
I think they're getting clean rooms
wrong by the way in these modern fabs.

00:14:30.560 --> 00:14:35.277
Um I'm going to I'm going
to make a bet here. Okay.

00:14:35.360 --> 00:14:36.317
>> Okay.

00:14:36.400 --> 00:14:42.797
>> Um that Tesla will
have a 2nmter fab and

00:14:42.880 --> 00:14:46.077
I can I can eat a cheeseburger
and smoke a cigar in the fab.

00:14:46.160 --> 00:14:47.917
>> Oh, [laughter] come on. >> Yes.

00:14:48.000 --> 00:14:51.677
>> The air handling will be that good.

00:14:51.760 --> 00:14:54.157
>> Do you have this sketched out in your
mind? Like how is it how are the atoms

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being placed that they're immune to uh
cheeseburger grease? [clears throat]

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They just maintain wafer isolation the

00:15:00.240 --> 00:15:02.717
entire time. um which is actually the

00:15:02.800 --> 00:15:05.677
default for for fabs. The the wafers are

00:15:05.760 --> 00:15:09.357
transported um in boxes of pure nitrogen

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gas under a slight positive.
>> So are the bananas at Walmart. I

00:15:14.400 --> 00:15:16.877
>> just so you know. >> Yeah.
[laughter] Well, that's that's

00:15:16.960 --> 00:15:21.037
it's inite essentially like it's pretty
hard for anything that's combusting

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>> uh to live without oxygen. >> Yep.

00:15:23.840 --> 00:15:27.037
>> So um >> let's talk about >> So
like like you can kill the bugs just

00:15:27.120 --> 00:15:29.997
by putting a nitrogen blanket on plants.

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>> Yeah. Interesting. >> I want
to talk about uh energy, health,

00:15:32.880 --> 00:15:36.877
education because those are people's,
you know, concerns. So, on the energy

00:15:36.960 --> 00:15:40.797
front, >> um the innermost
loop of everything that

00:15:40.880 --> 00:15:44.077
you're building and doing right now,
>> energy is the foundation.

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>> What's your vision
for energy abundance?

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Uh >> the sun >> in in in the next,
you know, this this this [laughter]

00:15:50.320 --> 00:15:53.277
decade. The sun. Yeah. I mean,
so >> the sun is everything.

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>> It's everything. So,
you're all in on solar.

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>> I mean, >> uh Yeah.
I mean your natural gas natural

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gas and solar you're at Colossus 2, right?

00:16:02.560 --> 00:16:04.157
>> Yeah.

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>> People just don't understand how

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>> that that solar is everything. So um

00:16:09.920 --> 00:16:13.517
everything compared to the sun, all

00:16:13.600 --> 00:16:18.557
other energy sources are like uh
cavemen throwing some twigs into a fire.

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>> Yeah.

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>> Um so the the sun is over 99.8%

00:16:24.800 --> 00:16:27.837
of all mass in the solar system. Uh

00:16:27.920 --> 00:16:31.677
Jupiter is around uh.1% of the mass. Uh

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so even if you burnt Jupiter, the energy
produced by the sun would still round up

00:16:36.320 --> 00:16:39.997
to 100%. >> Yeah. >> Mhm.
>> And then if you teleported three more

00:16:40.080 --> 00:16:43.437
Jupiters into our solar system and burnt
them too, >> it would still round up.

00:16:43.520 --> 00:16:45.997
>> It still the sun still
rounds up to 100% of energy.

00:16:46.080 --> 00:16:51.277
>> Any interest in fusion? >> I mean
like fusion on a planet [laughter]

00:16:51.360 --> 00:16:56.397
fusion. You know what?
You know coming a mile away. [laughter]

00:16:56.480 --> 00:17:00.237
>> You're not never going
to guess how the sun works.

00:17:00.320 --> 00:17:05.277
>> Giant coal plants. [laughter] >> I
mean, we have a giant fus free fusion

00:17:05.360 --> 00:17:08.877
reactor that shows up every
day >> 93 million miles away.

00:17:08.960 --> 00:17:11.037
>> It's farical for us to create little

00:17:11.120 --> 00:17:14.237
fusion reactors. Um

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I mean that would be like, you know,

00:17:18.080 --> 00:17:22.557
having a tiny ice cube maker
in [laughter] the Antarctic.

00:17:22.640 --> 00:17:26.317
and say, "Hey, look, we made ice."
I'm like, "Congratulations. [laughter]

00:17:26.400 --> 00:17:27.837
You're in the [__] Antarctic."

00:17:27.920 --> 00:17:29.757
>> So, totally totally with you on this.

00:17:29.840 --> 00:17:34.317
>> It's like 3 kilometer high
glaciers right next to you.

00:17:34.400 --> 00:17:35.437
>> Okay. [laughter]

00:17:35.520 --> 00:17:39.037
>> Yeah. If you just
narrow the question to

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the Memphis timeline. So, Memphis data
center timeline between a gigawatt and

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10 gig. You're not going to you're
not going to pull 10 gigawatts out of

00:17:47.200 --> 00:17:51.517
Memphis. Um maybe you are
[laughter] >> two or three.

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>> Two or three. Okay. So So there's
still a gap between there and the next

00:17:55.280 --> 00:17:58.797
whatever you just just draw. So and
they're not in space yet at that point.

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>> So we're still in toy land here. Uh
for on toy land you >> toy land. Toyland

00:18:03.920 --> 00:18:06.637
>> 10 [laughter] gigawatt.
>> You know what's amazing is there's 100

00:18:06.720 --> 00:18:10.797
megawatts right outside the door
here >> and it's massive. Yeah.

00:18:10.880 --> 00:18:14.477
>> It's it's enormous.
And it uses more energy

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>> than everything.
All these manufacturing

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lines combined use less energy than that.

00:18:21.040 --> 00:18:24.797
>> I think but we're talking
about a longgo. Cortex one was

00:18:24.880 --> 00:18:28.957
>> the the third largest training
cluster in the in the world.

00:18:29.040 --> 00:18:30.957
>> Yeah. >> For for doing
coherent training.

00:18:31.040 --> 00:18:34.317
>> You're falling behind. [laughter] >>
Uh well, we have Cortex 2 that's being

00:18:34.400 --> 00:18:35.597
built out. Um

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>> that'll be uh half a gigawatt uh
and operational middle of next year. Mhm.

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[snorts] So going back to what Dave
is saying over the next five years, what

00:19:15.920 --> 00:19:20.237
are you scaling on energy front?
Do >> I mean >> five years is a long time.

00:19:20.320 --> 00:19:23.197
>> I mean energy I mean China
has done an incredible job.

00:19:23.280 --> 00:19:26.557
>> Yeah. >> Right.
I mean it's running circles around us.

00:19:26.640 --> 00:19:30.557
>> Uh China has done
an incredible job on solar.

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>> Yeah. >> It's amazing.

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So I I believe China's uh production
capacity is around 1500 gawatts per year

00:19:38.400 --> 00:19:41.197
of solar. >> Yeah.
They put in 500 terowatts in the

00:19:41.280 --> 00:19:45.997
last year >> terowatt hours.
Yeah. Terowatt hours

00:19:46.080 --> 00:19:48.877
like 500 [laughter] 500 terowatt
hours to be very specific

00:19:48.960 --> 00:19:52.797
>> in the last year. 70% of that
was solar and they're just scaling.

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>> Do do you do you imagine that

00:19:55.040 --> 00:19:58.877
>> solar scales?
Do you imagine that the US

00:19:58.960 --> 00:20:02.797
could make that level of investment
and commitment? I mean because people are

00:20:02.880 --> 00:20:06.317
worried about their energy bills
going up with no no data centers in our

00:20:06.400 --> 00:20:09.357
backyard. How do we provide I mean

00:20:09.440 --> 00:20:12.237
energy energy is equivalent to is

00:20:12.320 --> 00:20:16.397
equivalent to cost of you know cost
of living. It's equivalent to health. It's

00:20:16.480 --> 00:20:18.397
equivalent to clean water. You know the

00:20:18.480 --> 00:20:21.517
higher energy uh production of a country

00:20:21.600 --> 00:20:24.397
the higher its GDP. Um energy is

00:20:24.480 --> 00:20:28.397
important. So what should what do we do

00:20:28.480 --> 00:20:32.317
to scale that way?
Do we do it in solar here?

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>> Um I think we should scale solar

00:20:35.040 --> 00:20:37.997
substantially in the US. Um

00:20:38.080 --> 00:20:40.717
um Tesla and SpaceX are scaling solar.

00:20:40.800 --> 00:20:45.037
Um so uh and I encourage
others to do so as

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well. M

00:20:46.480 --> 00:20:51.357
>> um so the the uh

00:20:51.440 --> 00:20:54.157
I mean I've said the stuff you know

00:20:54.240 --> 00:20:58.397
publicly um I do see a path to 100

00:20:58.480 --> 00:21:03.837
gawatts a year of of space solar
sort of a AI powered solar powered AI

00:21:03.920 --> 00:21:06.797
satellites. >> Yes 100
gawatts a year of solar powered

00:21:06.880 --> 00:21:07.917
AI satellites.

00:21:08.000 --> 00:21:12.397
>> I did the math on that. Uh, that's like

00:21:12.480 --> 00:21:15.117
500,000

00:21:15.200 --> 00:21:20.317
Starlink V3s launched over 8,000

00:21:20.400 --> 00:21:24.557
Starship flights. That's one every hour

00:21:24.640 --> 00:21:29.517
for a year. Um, yeah,

00:21:29.600 --> 00:21:31.917
we 10,000 flights a year is is a

00:21:32.000 --> 00:21:36.637
reasonable number. Um, so >> it's
amazing. It's quite the scale.

00:21:36.720 --> 00:21:39.997
Well, what's what's the really rough
timeline on that because I mean by

00:21:40.080 --> 00:21:41.757
aircraft standards that's a small number.

00:21:41.840 --> 00:21:43.677
>> Sure. In terms of flights.
Yeah, for sure.

00:21:43.760 --> 00:21:48.157
>> Yeah, that's uh that's that's that's
a small f like so just like depends what

00:21:48.240 --> 00:21:51.757
you compare it to. If you compare it
to the rest of the rocket industry, it's a

00:21:51.840 --> 00:21:55.437
very high number. >> Yeah. >> Um >>
and we're talking about a million tons

00:21:55.520 --> 00:21:57.597
of payload to orbit per year. So if you

00:21:57.680 --> 00:22:00.237
do if you do a million tons of payload

00:22:00.320 --> 00:22:02.797
or orbit per year with 100 kilowatts per

00:22:02.880 --> 00:22:06.077
ton, uh that's 100 gawatt of solar

00:22:06.160 --> 00:22:08.557
powered AI satellites um per year.

00:22:08.640 --> 00:22:11.437
>> Yeah. Um I mean
there's a there's a path

00:22:11.520 --> 00:22:16.157
to get probably to a terowatt per year

00:22:16.240 --> 00:22:16.557
um

00:22:16.640 --> 00:22:19.677
>> from from the from

00:22:19.760 --> 00:22:23.917
if you say like uh 10 you want you want

00:22:24.000 --> 00:22:27.197
to go up another order of magnitude
or let's say you want to go to 100

00:22:27.280 --> 00:22:28.477
terowatts a year. >> Yeah.

00:22:28.560 --> 00:22:31.117
>> Which obviously kind of nutty numbers.

00:22:31.200 --> 00:22:36.477
>> Uh then you want to make those
uh AI satellites on the moon.

00:22:36.560 --> 00:22:40.397
>> Yes. >> And use a mass driver.
Yeah. So, the Gerard K. O'Neal approach.

00:22:40.480 --> 00:22:44.077
>> Well, like Robert Heinland was a harsh
course. Pretty much. Yeah. I love that

00:22:44.160 --> 00:22:48.557
book. >> Yeah. Yeah. It's a sort
of libertarian paradise on the

00:22:48.640 --> 00:22:50.317
>> um

00:22:50.400 --> 00:22:53.437
uh Yeah. So, cuz on the moon you can

00:22:53.520 --> 00:22:57.597
just accelerate the satellites into

00:22:57.680 --> 00:22:59.677
to escape velocity is around 2500 meters

00:22:59.760 --> 00:23:02.877
per second. Um and uh there's no

00:23:02.960 --> 00:23:06.157
atmosphere. So, like a mass driver works

00:23:06.240 --> 00:23:08.717
very well on the moon. Can I ask the the

00:23:08.800 --> 00:23:11.197
question about orbital debris? I mean,

00:23:11.280 --> 00:23:13.837
we're we're building effectively a

00:23:13.920 --> 00:23:16.557
Dysonish swarm around the Earth.

00:23:16.640 --> 00:23:19.437
>> Um, [laughter]

00:23:19.520 --> 00:23:22.237
eat it for lunch.

00:23:22.320 --> 00:23:24.797
>> Uh, are you worried about over

00:23:24.880 --> 00:23:27.997
congestion on the uh

00:23:28.080 --> 00:23:33.197
that's going to be a Sunsync
orbit's going to fill very quickly.

00:23:33.280 --> 00:23:36.397
>> I mean, you can you you don't have
to have sunsync. I mean, you can uh

00:23:36.480 --> 00:23:38.397
>> don't have to, but it's optimal.

00:23:38.480 --> 00:23:41.517
>> Yeah. Um

00:23:41.600 --> 00:23:48.280
there's some pros and cons
to to sunsync or not sunsync. Um

00:23:50.080 --> 00:23:52.557
I mean, your your payload to orbit drops

00:23:52.640 --> 00:23:54.957
by like 30% compared to, you know, if

00:23:55.040 --> 00:24:01.597
you were just went to um like mid-
inclination like 70° or something like

00:24:01.680 --> 00:24:04.077
that. >> Yeah. I mean,
do we need an orbital

00:24:04.160 --> 00:24:08.557
debris x-prise at this point?
We need some way to get the the satellites

00:24:08.640 --> 00:24:13.037
>> um >> defunct satellites down.
Do we pass

00:24:13.120 --> 00:24:18.120
rules that require them
to de-orbit on their own?

00:24:18.240 --> 00:24:21.837
>> Yeah. At the point at which you you
can put a million tons of satellites into

00:24:21.920 --> 00:24:25.437
orbit, you can also, you know, start
bringing down satellites, too. Yeah.

00:24:25.520 --> 00:24:30.157
>> Um or at least collecting them into
a known into a fixed location so they're

00:24:30.240 --> 00:24:31.357
not like all over the place.

00:24:31.440 --> 00:24:34.477
>> Yeah. and then you can reuse them.

00:24:34.560 --> 00:24:38.237
>> Yeah. Um let's just say that we'll have

00:24:38.320 --> 00:24:42.477
so the the resource level will be so
high that that I believe this will be a

00:24:42.560 --> 00:24:45.597
solved problem given the amount
of intelligence we're talking about here.

00:24:45.680 --> 00:24:49.677
>> Oh >> um like the intelligence will
be quite interested in preserving itself.

00:24:49.760 --> 00:24:52.317
>> Yes. That's true. >> Oh >> interesting.

00:24:52.400 --> 00:24:53.997
>> Yeah. Good motivation. >> Yeah.

00:24:54.080 --> 00:24:56.397
>> Interesting.
>> The question is the data centers will

00:24:56.480 --> 00:24:57.597
not be in low earth orbit, right?

00:24:57.680 --> 00:25:01.437
They'll be they'll be much higher
constantly in the sun. They're not going

00:25:01.520 --> 00:25:03.517
to be in the traffic jam, I assume.

00:25:03.600 --> 00:25:06.877
>> Uh, well, you can get to, you know,
you don't have to get to get to constant

00:25:06.960 --> 00:25:11.117
sunlight. You can be around 1,200
kilometers on synchronous will give you

00:25:11.200 --> 00:25:15.357
constant sunlight. >> Mhm. >> Um,
>> but you could you could place him in

00:25:15.440 --> 00:25:18.237
multiple orbits. >> Yeah. >> Yeah.

00:25:18.320 --> 00:25:19.517
>> Yeah. No, I think
if there's an X- prize

00:25:19.600 --> 00:25:22.637
for cleaning up, it's got to be there's
only going to be clutter in low Earth

00:25:22.720 --> 00:25:25.837
orbit. I mean debris from

00:25:25.920 --> 00:25:28.237
>> anything anything that's if it's a you

00:25:28.320 --> 00:25:33.597
know below around 7 or 800 kilometers
the atmosphere will atmospheric drag

00:25:33.680 --> 00:25:35.197
will bring it back. >> Yeah.

00:25:35.280 --> 00:25:38.397
>> Um so like for Starlink there's a dual

00:25:38.480 --> 00:25:41.117
benefit of being

00:25:41.200 --> 00:25:45.197
uh like as low as possible because uh

00:25:45.280 --> 00:25:48.877
your your your beam you you know
your beams are tighter. you know, you're

00:25:48.960 --> 00:25:52.557
basically that you have less latency and
and your your your beams are smaller if

00:25:52.640 --> 00:25:55.677
you're you're closer to the earth. So,

00:25:55.760 --> 00:26:00.717
uh like Starling 3 will
be around 330 to 350 km,

00:26:00.800 --> 00:26:04.477
>> which is quite a lot of drag. Uh so,
it's basically constantly thrusting to

00:26:04.560 --> 00:26:08.637
>> I still remember when you proposed
Starlink and everybody else in the

00:26:08.720 --> 00:26:13.277
industry was like, "No way. No way. He's
not going to get the spectrum. He's not

00:26:13.360 --> 00:26:15.997
going to be able to do this." Um >> yeah,

00:26:16.080 --> 00:26:19.597
>> it's uh it's kind of worked.

00:26:19.680 --> 00:26:22.637
>> Yeah, we're the stalling
team have done an incredible job.

00:26:22.720 --> 00:26:25.677
>> Yeah. >> Um

00:26:25.760 --> 00:26:31.677
>> I mean we've basically rebuilt the
internet in space with with a laser links.

00:26:31.760 --> 00:26:35.597
>> Mhm. >> So there's uh 9,000
satellites up there right now.

00:26:35.680 --> 00:26:39.277
>> Do you think the government's going
to be able to handle the kind of licensing

00:26:39.360 --> 00:26:43.597
of the volume of satellites that you
want to put up? I mean, will there be

00:26:43.680 --> 00:26:47.917
push back cuz you know, China's going
to put up their own constellations.

00:26:48.000 --> 00:26:51.757
Uh Europe, who knows whether
Europe will ever step up?

00:26:51.840 --> 00:26:53.517
>> They won't.
>> What's that? They won't. No.

00:26:53.600 --> 00:26:55.437
>> And there's probably >> Yeah.

00:26:55.520 --> 00:26:57.997
>> Nothing that nothing
they're doing h has

00:26:58.080 --> 00:26:59.837
success in the set of possible outcomes.

00:26:59.920 --> 00:27:03.160
>> Yeah. [laughter]

00:27:06.080 --> 00:27:08.797
>> I just got back from Rome. I don't want
to touch [laughter] touch that railing.

00:27:08.880 --> 00:27:11.917
>> Successes are on the set
of possible outcomes.

00:27:12.000 --> 00:27:15.037
No, the chart of outcomes though

00:27:15.120 --> 00:27:19.117
>> the chart that shows the number of
billion dollar startups in the US versus

00:27:19.200 --> 00:27:20.957
Europe. >> Have you seen that graphic?

00:27:21.040 --> 00:27:23.757
>> Oh my god, it's crazy.
>> Yeah. And data centers too. It's

00:27:23.840 --> 00:27:29.437
actually um >> no one was talking about
orbital data centers six months ago.

00:27:29.520 --> 00:27:33.277
>> Yeah. >> Nobody. And then all
of a sudden >> Sundire's on it.

00:27:33.360 --> 00:27:36.477
>> You're you're out with it.
And >> it's the hot new thing

00:27:36.560 --> 00:27:38.877
>> and it is what what [laughter]

00:27:38.960 --> 00:27:43.597
what tip what happened? What happened
that every company is now talking about

00:27:43.680 --> 00:27:48.360
orbital data centers? >> I guess
it went viral and X. [laughter]

00:27:48.800 --> 00:27:51.997
>> It did. >> I don't know.
Is every company talking about

00:27:52.080 --> 00:27:54.397
>> Oh, yeah. Everybody's got
their own orbital data center.

00:27:54.480 --> 00:27:58.797
>> For sure. And I I was suggesting
to Peter that that you updated the math on

00:27:58.880 --> 00:28:02.477
launch costs and that it's a tipping
point very quickly with the updated math.

00:28:02.560 --> 00:28:06.637
>> But Starship's been the cost for you
know, I don't know what you hold $100

00:28:06.720 --> 00:28:11.037
per kilogram, $10 per kilogram. What do
you have Starship at? It's possible that

00:28:11.120 --> 00:28:13.517
Elon said that and nobody
believed it until now.

00:28:13.600 --> 00:28:16.557
>> No, >> you can go back
and look at my what even

00:28:16.640 --> 00:28:20.397
back when it was Twitter uh the my old

00:28:20.480 --> 00:28:23.677
tweets. I I said these
things se many years ago.

00:28:23.760 --> 00:28:27.117
>> 100 bucks or 10 bucks a a kilogram.

00:28:27.200 --> 00:28:31.037
>> Yeah. And I said this is we're we're
going to do a million tons a year to

00:28:31.120 --> 00:28:35.117
orbit. Um

00:28:35.200 --> 00:28:38.557
Yeah. And and we've got
to get the the cost down.

00:28:38.640 --> 00:28:41.037
>> Yeah. uh well below $100 a kilogram.

00:28:41.120 --> 00:28:43.357
>> So that's going to move
the data centers to orbit.

00:28:43.440 --> 00:28:45.917
>> It will. It's they can do you can
basically do the math like if you've got

00:28:46.000 --> 00:28:47.677
a fully reusable rocket. >> Yeah.

00:28:47.760 --> 00:28:53.117
>> Um which is fully and rapidly reusable
like an aircraft. Uh then this is an

00:28:53.200 --> 00:28:54.557
incredibly this is a very difficult

00:28:54.640 --> 00:28:58.637
thing to do obviously. U I I think it's

00:28:58.720 --> 00:29:03.197
at the limit of human intelligence
to create a fully and rapidly reusable

00:29:03.280 --> 00:29:06.557
rocket. >> Um >> but it
is possible and we're doing it

00:29:06.640 --> 00:29:10.237
with Starship. It's It's been the holy
grail in the aerospace industry forever.

00:29:10.320 --> 00:29:12.317
>> Yeah. Quest for the holy grail rocket.

00:29:12.400 --> 00:29:16.717
>> Yeah. >> And then I pretty much it is I
mean right the DCX was the first little

00:29:16.800 --> 00:29:21.197
things that were trying there and uh
it's been you know all of I mean back

00:29:21.280 --> 00:29:24.957
when I was in the space industry that's
all everyone ever spoke about. And then

00:29:25.040 --> 00:29:27.997
when Falcon 9 first reused its first

00:29:28.080 --> 00:29:31.277
stage, um I mean all the traditional

00:29:31.360 --> 00:29:36.477
aerospace industries did not believe
that even Falcon 9 could re could could

00:29:36.560 --> 00:29:39.997
fly and reuse. >> Literally you can
come see it land at Cape Canaveral.

00:29:40.080 --> 00:29:42.557
>> Yeah. >> Um and then take off again.

00:29:42.640 --> 00:29:45.437
>> Yeah. >> So I don't know how you would
not believe a thing that you can see with

00:29:45.520 --> 00:29:47.117
your own eyes. >> Yeah.
Well, they didn't believe you

00:29:47.200 --> 00:29:48.077
could. They didn't believe you could.

00:29:48.160 --> 00:29:52.157
>> But the the the la the leap from there
to the launch cost actually requires

00:29:52.240 --> 00:29:55.517
more faith than just just that.
But I think I think Starship is the launch

00:29:55.600 --> 00:29:59.917
cost tipping point and that somewhere
in that you know before you had Twitter it

00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:02.317
became X somewhere in that timeline it

00:30:02.400 --> 00:30:06.877
went from speculative to no doubt and I

00:30:06.960 --> 00:30:10.237
don't know if that's a smooth line or a
couple of good launches in between but I

00:30:10.320 --> 00:30:12.637
suspect that the data
centers in space >> but people

00:30:12.720 --> 00:30:15.677
>> ties directly to the credibility
>> is not thinking about orbital data

00:30:15.760 --> 00:30:19.117
centers they're thinking about energy
and the cost of energy here on here in

00:30:19.200 --> 00:30:23.517
their hometown and sort
of the the there's a lot of doomer

00:30:23.600 --> 00:30:26.397
conversations out there. The data
centers are going to drive, you know,

00:30:26.480 --> 00:30:30.637
the CPI up. >> Uh

00:30:30.720 --> 00:30:33.837
they're not entirely wrong. >> Okay.
So, what is so [laughter] what is

00:30:33.920 --> 00:30:36.477
the what's the energy solution here on

00:30:36.560 --> 00:30:41.037
Earth for uh the rest of humanity or the

00:30:41.120 --> 00:30:44.317
the non data the non AIs? >> Oh,
there's something other than data

00:30:44.400 --> 00:30:47.037
center use uses of energy. Okay.

00:30:47.120 --> 00:30:51.627
[laughter] >> Interesting.
>> Um >> that's complex. Well, the the the

00:30:51.710 --> 00:30:52.877
[snorts] best way to actually increase

00:30:52.960 --> 00:30:56.477
the energy output per year of the United

00:30:56.560 --> 00:30:59.997
States or any country
is batteries. Um, so the

00:31:00.080 --> 00:31:00.557
>> sure

00:31:00.640 --> 00:31:03.757
>> peak power output of the of the US is

00:31:03.840 --> 00:31:08.317
around 1.1 terowatts, but the uh average

00:31:08.400 --> 00:31:10.397
power usage is only half a terowatt.

00:31:10.480 --> 00:31:13.197
>> Yeah. So if you just buffer the the

00:31:13.280 --> 00:31:15.437
energy, so charge up the the batteries

00:31:15.520 --> 00:31:18.797
at night, discharge during the day, um

00:31:18.880 --> 00:31:22.557
without incremental capital
expend without incremental capital

00:31:22.640 --> 00:31:25.197
expenditures, without building new
power plants, you can double the energy

00:31:25.280 --> 00:31:29.917
throughput of the US. The energy output
per year can double >> with batteries. Um

00:31:30.000 --> 00:31:32.797
>> and do we have those
batteries uh in development?

00:31:32.880 --> 00:31:36.717
>> Uh yeah, Tesla makes them. >> Okay.
So you think current the current

00:31:36.800 --> 00:31:40.157
current Tesla battery packs? [laughter]
>> What do you think? What do you think? I

00:31:40.240 --> 00:31:42.797
literally have I I went
on stage and presented the thing.

00:31:42.880 --> 00:31:47.440
>> Yeah, >> that's that's
the dead giveaway. So [laughter]

00:31:48.400 --> 00:31:51.677
>> I I even went to installations of the

00:31:51.760 --> 00:31:55.677
mega packs, you know, and there's
>> So why don't people do this?

00:31:55.760 --> 00:31:57.677
>> It's on the internet. So >> yeah.

00:31:57.760 --> 00:32:01.677
>> So is do you think >> they are?
And and China, by the way, is

00:32:01.760 --> 00:32:06.077
like it seems like China listens
to everything I say I say and does does it

00:32:06.160 --> 00:32:10.077
basically or at least or or they're just
doing it independently. I don't know.

00:32:10.160 --> 00:32:12.957
But they're they're certainly making um

00:32:13.040 --> 00:32:16.957
massive battery packs like

00:32:17.040 --> 00:32:20.157
really massive battery pack output.

00:32:20.240 --> 00:32:23.357
They're they're you know making vast

00:32:23.440 --> 00:32:25.277
numbers of electric cars. Yeah.

00:32:25.360 --> 00:32:29.757
>> Uh vast amounts of solar. Um,

00:32:29.840 --> 00:32:33.357
>> I don't know. These are all things
I I said, you know, we should do here.

00:32:33.440 --> 00:32:37.837
>> Fundamental. Sure. When I fly over
Santa Monica and LA, when I'm when I'm I'm

00:32:37.920 --> 00:32:42.557
piloting and I look down, they're like,
zero roofs have solar on them.

00:32:42.640 --> 00:32:46.637
>> Zero roofs. >> Yeah. >> I mean, >>
it's not essential to have them on a roof.

00:32:46.720 --> 00:32:49.757
>> Okay. But it's a convenient
place to have them.

00:32:49.840 --> 00:32:55.037
>> Yes. Uh, but the surface area of roofs
is uh I'm not saying it shouldn't, but

00:32:55.120 --> 00:32:56.557
it's

00:32:56.640 --> 00:32:58.557
>> uh Tesla makes a solar roof, which is

00:32:58.640 --> 00:33:02.157
the the only solar roof that isn't ugly.

00:33:02.240 --> 00:33:05.997
Um, our solar roof
actually looks beautiful.

00:33:06.080 --> 00:33:10.637
>> Yeah. >> Um, but if you
want to do solar at scale,

00:33:10.720 --> 00:33:12.717
you just need more surface area.

00:33:12.800 --> 00:33:15.837
>> So, so we we we have um vast empty

00:33:15.920 --> 00:33:17.677
deserts. Sure. African America like if

00:33:17.760 --> 00:33:19.997
you fly from LA to New York or just fly

00:33:20.080 --> 00:33:23.917
across country and you look down um for

00:33:24.000 --> 00:33:27.677
a large portion of the time you
look down it is bleak desert.

00:33:27.760 --> 00:33:29.437
>> Yes. >> It looks like Mars essentially.

00:33:29.520 --> 00:33:31.277
>> We're not worried
about overpopulation there.

00:33:31.360 --> 00:33:35.997
>> No, I mean it look there's barely
a lizard alive in these scorching deserts,

00:33:36.080 --> 00:33:37.917
you know. Yep. >> It's not
like farmland we're talking

00:33:38.000 --> 00:33:39.677
about. We're just talking about Yep.

00:33:39.760 --> 00:33:42.557
>> Uh places that look like Mars,

00:33:42.640 --> 00:33:46.637
>> like just uh scorched rock.

00:33:46.720 --> 00:33:50.797
So if we put soil where we
currently have scorched rock,

00:33:50.880 --> 00:33:52.877
>> I think this will be a quality of life

00:33:52.960 --> 00:33:57.837
improvement for the lizards
or the few creatures that live in this

00:33:57.920 --> 00:33:59.197
>> uh very difficult environment.

00:33:59.280 --> 00:34:00.637
>> Do we have the distribution network?

00:34:00.720 --> 00:34:05.640
>> It's like this is going to be thank
god some shade finally. [laughter]

00:34:07.040 --> 00:34:11.197
>> Do we have the distribution network to
be able to do that? Yeah, you need to to

00:34:11.280 --> 00:34:14.797
materially affect quality of life, you
need to capture and store what a couple

00:34:14.880 --> 00:34:17.917
hundred gigawatts.
>> Is that in realistic?

00:34:18.000 --> 00:34:20.637
>> You could just put the data
center I guess locally there.

00:34:20.720 --> 00:34:22.537
>> Well, we already covered data centers.

00:34:22.620 --> 00:34:25.597
[laughter] >> We're talking
about you know the other >> Yeah.

00:34:25.680 --> 00:34:29.597
>> Like I I don't know like in an abundant
world five years from now, massive

00:34:29.680 --> 00:34:33.757
amounts of compute, >> massive,
you know, universal high income.

00:34:33.840 --> 00:34:37.917
>> I don't know income like universal
you can have whatever you want income.

00:34:38.000 --> 00:34:40.397
>> Yeah. >> Yeah.
That's that's really what it amounts to.

00:34:40.480 --> 00:34:42.157
>> But in that world, uh, you know, other

00:34:42.240 --> 00:34:47.517
than compute energy, how much more
energy do we need like 30 40 50% or I

00:34:47.600 --> 00:34:49.837
don't know, unless we want to move
mountains around to make a ski mountain,

00:34:49.920 --> 00:34:52.317
you know, in the backyard.

00:34:52.400 --> 00:34:57.677
Um, I think the vast majority of energy
consumption will go into compute. And

00:34:57.760 --> 00:35:01.597
then there may be use cases I'm not
thinking of like you know the well you

00:35:01.680 --> 00:35:04.717
know right here is a nice case study
because manufacturing every one of these

00:35:04.800 --> 00:35:07.357
cars coming out at the rate of one every

00:35:07.440 --> 00:35:11.917
minute or two uh is less energy than the

00:35:12.000 --> 00:35:16.317
data center that's training
the cars to drive to to self-drive.

00:35:16.400 --> 00:35:18.157
>> Yes. >> So that's a good
little case study. And

00:35:18.240 --> 00:35:19.757
we don't need that much more physical

00:35:19.840 --> 00:35:23.437
energy for abundant happiness. We need

00:35:23.520 --> 00:35:25.197
more compute energy. Well, yeah,

00:35:25.280 --> 00:35:28.157
>> the sun is just generating vast amounts

00:35:28.240 --> 00:35:31.597
of energy uh all the time for free that

00:35:31.680 --> 00:35:33.837
goes just goes into space.

00:35:33.920 --> 00:35:38.077
>> So, um I think we'll end up trying to

00:35:38.160 --> 00:35:41.517
capture I don't know uh a millionth
of like a millionth a thousandth of the

00:35:41.600 --> 00:35:45.037
sun's energy. Um, we're currently I'm

00:35:45.120 --> 00:35:49.437
not sure the exact number, but we're

00:35:49.520 --> 00:35:53.277
I don't know, we're probably at 1%ish of

00:35:53.360 --> 00:35:57.437
Kadeshv level one. >> Fair enough.
Yeah, I I I would guess

00:35:57.520 --> 00:36:01.597
that even that's high. >> I'm just Yeah,
saying >> we have a long way to go.

00:36:01.680 --> 00:36:05.757
>> I'm that's being optimistic.
Like hopefully we're not.1%, but I don't

00:36:05.840 --> 00:36:07.277
think we're 10%. I'm just trying to get

00:36:07.360 --> 00:36:10.397
it to like to an order of magnitude. Uh

00:36:10.480 --> 00:36:13.437
>> so pull it like we're roughly 1% of the

00:36:13.520 --> 00:36:18.077
apparently using 1% of the energy
that we could use on Earth.

00:36:18.160 --> 00:36:21.597
>> I think the bottom line from a first
principles thinking for the public is

00:36:21.680 --> 00:36:26.637
there's a lot of energy out there >> a lot
>> and it we have it in the US. We have it

00:36:26.720 --> 00:36:28.077
on the planet and it needs to be

00:36:28.160 --> 00:36:34.157
captured and the tech to capture it
>> is here and improving every year.

00:36:34.240 --> 00:36:34.957
>> Yes.

00:36:35.040 --> 00:36:37.917
>> Yeah. um there's not going to be some

00:36:38.000 --> 00:36:41.917
energy crisis. I there'll be a large

00:36:42.000 --> 00:36:46.477
forcing function to harness more energy,
but we're not going to run out of it.

00:36:46.560 --> 00:36:49.277
>> All right, I want
to talk about education.

00:36:49.360 --> 00:36:52.557
So, here's the numbers. They're abysmal.

00:36:52.640 --> 00:36:54.317
>> Um I mean, they're they're they're

00:36:54.400 --> 00:36:56.477
abysmal, right? Okay. Uh the importance

00:36:56.560 --> 00:36:59.677
of college in the United States, uh back

00:36:59.760 --> 00:37:03.517
in 2010, 75% of Americans said it's

00:37:03.600 --> 00:37:05.277
important to go to college. That number

00:37:05.360 --> 00:37:08.557
is now down at 35%. All right. Uh,

00:37:08.640 --> 00:37:11.597
college graduates as a group turn out to

00:37:11.680 --> 00:37:13.997
be the group that's out of work the

00:37:14.080 --> 00:37:15.597
longest,

00:37:15.680 --> 00:37:19.357
>> right?
And the but still and tuition has

00:37:19.440 --> 00:37:23.837
increased 900% since 1983. Um,

00:37:23.920 --> 00:37:27.677
>> yeah, the administrative expenses at
universities have gotten out of control.

00:37:27.760 --> 00:37:29.597
Yeah. >> Um, so

00:37:29.680 --> 00:37:31.677
>> I think I saw some stat that like

00:37:31.760 --> 00:37:35.037
there's one administrator for every two

00:37:35.120 --> 00:37:39.277
students at Brown or something like that
>> and I'm like this seems uh little high.

00:37:39.360 --> 00:37:42.077
>> Yeah. You know what?
>> They should teach something.

00:37:42.160 --> 00:37:45.037
>> Yeah. Yeah.
>> What was your college journey?

00:37:45.120 --> 00:37:48.637
>> Um, I went to college in Canada
for a couple years at Queens University.

00:37:48.720 --> 00:37:53.677
Uh-huh. >> Um, so, uh,
I I had Canadian citizenship

00:37:53.760 --> 00:37:56.477
through my mom who was born in Canada
and my my grandfather was actually

00:37:56.560 --> 00:37:59.837
American, but for some reason,
I don't know, my mom couldn't get US

00:37:59.920 --> 00:38:01.517
citizenship, so but she was born in

00:38:01.600 --> 00:38:03.757
Canada, so I got Canadian citizenship.

00:38:03.840 --> 00:38:08.877
Um, and uh, I didn't have any money,
so I could only go to Canadian university

00:38:08.960 --> 00:38:11.117
at first. I >> mean,
people forget that about you. You

00:38:11.200 --> 00:38:15.597
didn't have this giant social network or
huge amount of wealth coming into all of

00:38:15.680 --> 00:38:17.437
this. >> No. >> Yeah.

00:38:17.520 --> 00:38:21.517
>> Uh, no. I I arrived in Montreal at age

00:38:21.600 --> 00:38:25.917
17 with I think around $2,500
in Canadian travelers checks back when

00:38:26.000 --> 00:38:27.677
travelers checks were a thing.

00:38:27.760 --> 00:38:31.037
>> Um and um one bag of books and one bag

00:38:31.120 --> 00:38:33.597
of clothes. That was my starting point.

00:38:33.680 --> 00:38:35.677
That was my spawning point in North

00:38:35.760 --> 00:38:38.797
America. Um,

00:38:38.880 --> 00:38:43.037
>> and then so I went to Queens
University for a couple years and then uh

00:38:43.120 --> 00:38:45.677
University of Pennsylvania uh did a dual

00:38:45.760 --> 00:38:48.077
degree in physics and economics um

00:38:48.160 --> 00:38:53.597
>> and graduated >> uh
undergraduate at UPUP

00:38:53.680 --> 00:38:58.557
Wharton. >> Yeah.
And then um I came out to do uh I

00:38:58.640 --> 00:39:03.197
was going to do a PhD at Stanford
working on uh energy storage

00:39:03.280 --> 00:39:06.797
technologies for electric vehicles
essentially material science I guess

00:39:06.880 --> 00:39:08.077
fundamentally

00:39:08.160 --> 00:39:11.837
>> um the the idea
that I had was it was to

00:39:11.920 --> 00:39:16.957
try to create a capacitor with enough
energy density that you could get um

00:39:17.040 --> 00:39:18.637
high range in an electric car.

00:39:18.720 --> 00:39:21.837
>> It's funny I invested in an ultra
capacitor company and didn't Yeah.

00:39:21.920 --> 00:39:26.477
didn't go well. Well, it's one of those
things where, you know, you could

00:39:26.560 --> 00:39:29.997
definitely get a PhD, but it wasn't
clear that you could make a company or

00:39:30.080 --> 00:39:35.197
do something useful like this. Most PhD
is un hat I mean, hate it, but most PhDs

00:39:35.280 --> 00:39:37.757
do not >> turn into
something that's going to

00:39:37.840 --> 00:39:41.437
>> do not turn into something useful. Like
you you could add a leaf to the tree of

00:39:41.520 --> 00:39:44.957
knowledge, but it's not necessar
necessarily a useful leaf. enormous

00:39:45.040 --> 00:39:48.717
fraction of of great
entrepreneurs are dropping out

00:39:48.800 --> 00:39:52.477
>> of grad school or undergrad. But now
nowadays the sense of urgency is off the

00:39:52.560 --> 00:39:54.717
charts. >> I mean they're
popping out everywhere.

00:39:54.800 --> 00:39:57.677
>> Yeah. Because you know don't waste
your time going into grad school. Start a

00:39:57.760 --> 00:39:59.677
company. >> Yeah. >> Curriculum
is nowhere near caught up to

00:39:59.760 --> 00:40:04.397
what's actually going on in technology
and I don't have time and all the time.

00:40:04.480 --> 00:40:08.717
It's like >> you know
this is the moment. I I think

00:40:08.800 --> 00:40:12.237
right now it's like it's unclear to me
why someone would somebody would be in

00:40:12.320 --> 00:40:14.637
college right now unless they
want the social experience.

00:40:14.720 --> 00:40:17.277
>> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> I mean if
you have the ability to go and

00:40:17.360 --> 00:40:20.077
build something. So the question is how

00:40:20.160 --> 00:40:22.237
would you redesign the educational

00:40:22.320 --> 00:40:25.517
program if I could be so so blunt as to

00:40:25.600 --> 00:40:27.837
create more Elon Musks? If we want to

00:40:27.920 --> 00:40:29.917
create an Elon Musk factory of people

00:40:30.000 --> 00:40:33.117
who start with very little but are able

00:40:33.200 --> 00:40:38.077
to drive uh and drive breakthroughs.

00:40:38.160 --> 00:40:40.317
What's involved there?

00:40:40.400 --> 00:40:45.677
What drove you? >> Uh curiosity
um about the nature of the

00:40:45.760 --> 00:40:49.037
universe. >> So I'm just curious about uh

00:40:49.120 --> 00:40:53.117
>> the meaning of life and >> you
know what is this reality that we

00:40:53.200 --> 00:40:57.997
live in. So, >> how early?
>> My son Dax wanted to know what was it

00:40:58.080 --> 00:41:01.277
like for you in middle
school and high school.

00:41:01.360 --> 00:41:05.517
>> He's 14 years old.
He's in that age range now.

00:41:05.600 --> 00:41:08.077
>> Well, I did I found school to be quite

00:41:08.160 --> 00:41:12.397
painful. Uh and it was very boring and

00:41:12.480 --> 00:41:14.237
in South Africa it was very violent.

00:41:14.320 --> 00:41:17.597
>> So So it's like it
was it it was like uh

00:41:17.680 --> 00:41:19.677
>> it's like that was like
that book Enders Game.

00:41:19.760 --> 00:41:25.037
>> Yes. Um but in real IRL >>
in this game IRL there's like but not as

00:41:25.120 --> 00:41:28.637
fun. >> Um >> so your goal was escape.

00:41:28.720 --> 00:41:32.237
>> Yes. >> Do you think >>
escape from the the prison?

00:41:32.320 --> 00:41:35.117
>> So that's a question I have.
Do you [laughter] do you think that

00:41:35.200 --> 00:41:36.237
>> it was miserable?

00:41:36.320 --> 00:41:38.717
>> Do you think most
successful people have

00:41:38.800 --> 00:41:42.477
had a lot of hardship early in life? Do

00:41:42.560 --> 00:41:44.237
you need to have that level of hardship?

00:41:44.320 --> 00:41:46.397
>> Probably need a little
bit of hardship I suppose.

00:41:46.480 --> 00:41:47.997
>> Yeah. But and then
so it's always tricky

00:41:48.080 --> 00:41:51.437
like what are you supposed to do with
your kids? You know, create artificial

00:41:51.520 --> 00:41:54.637
adversity. Put them in.
>> That's cool. [laughter]

00:41:54.720 --> 00:41:57.997
>> You got an answer. That's that's
a Warren Buffett topic actually.

00:41:58.080 --> 00:42:00.557
>> Yeah. >> Well, you do.
>> But seriously,

00:42:00.640 --> 00:42:03.437
>> it's not easy to create artificial
adversity because if you love your kids,

00:42:03.520 --> 00:42:05.037
you don't want to do that. So

00:42:05.120 --> 00:42:06.637
>> that's for sure.

00:42:06.720 --> 00:42:10.797
>> So I had a lot of adversity.
Um probably

00:42:10.880 --> 00:42:15.597
it was good. Uh probably, you know,
helped somewhat, I suppose. One one of the

00:42:15.680 --> 00:42:17.997
>> What doesn't kill you makes
you stronger type of thing.

00:42:18.080 --> 00:42:19.837
>> No, >> at least I
didn't lose a limb. And I

00:42:19.920 --> 00:42:23.450
think what doesn't maim you [laughter]

00:42:24.480 --> 00:42:27.800
>> good at maming

00:42:29.600 --> 00:42:31.437
10 fingers. >> Can you
modify that a little bit?

00:42:31.520 --> 00:42:33.037
>> Yeah. >> Can I ask you a question?

00:42:33.120 --> 00:42:36.717
>> You makes you stronger.
>> I uh for the last 5 years I've been

00:42:36.800 --> 00:42:38.397
helping teach this class, Foundations of

00:42:38.480 --> 00:42:42.317
AI Ventures at MIT. And every year when

00:42:42.400 --> 00:42:45.917
you survey the students, they go up a

00:42:46.000 --> 00:42:47.837
lot in their desire to start a company.

00:42:47.920 --> 00:42:51.117
And so it's now up to 80%.
The incoming [laughter]

00:42:51.200 --> 00:42:55.837
>> everyone's just going to it's it's
just going to be like one person company.

00:42:55.920 --> 00:42:58.957
>> Well, that's with AI that's that's
viable, I guess. But no, they want to

00:42:59.040 --> 00:43:01.357
co-ound. They Yeah, they don't want
to be the founder. They want to be part of

00:43:01.440 --> 00:43:03.517
a founding team. So, it still works out.

00:43:03.600 --> 00:43:05.277
>> But, uh, when Peter
and I were in school

00:43:05.360 --> 00:43:08.717
at MIT, it was I'm guessing maybe 10%.

00:43:08.800 --> 00:43:10.637
and they all wanted to be PhDs

00:43:10.720 --> 00:43:12.397
>> and and they've been doing the survey

00:43:12.480 --> 00:43:16.397
everyone who wanted to start. I mean I I

00:43:16.480 --> 00:43:18.157
>> I don't remember
any conversations about

00:43:18.240 --> 00:43:21.197
with people saying they wanted to start
>> even at Stanford at the time.

00:43:21.280 --> 00:43:25.117
>> Um I I I actually
um a few days into the

00:43:25.200 --> 00:43:28.317
semester or I should say the quarter um

00:43:28.400 --> 00:43:30.477
I I called Bill Nicks who was the head

00:43:30.560 --> 00:43:35.367
of material science department and said
I' I'd like to just put it on deferment.

00:43:35.450 --> 00:43:38.637
[laughter] He said,
"Is my class that bad?"

00:43:38.720 --> 00:43:41.437
>> No. And he he said he said that's
he said that's okay. You can put it on

00:43:41.520 --> 00:43:45.517
deferment. But he said this is probably
the last conversation we'll have. And he

00:43:45.600 --> 00:43:49.197
was right. >> Um but then
last I think it was last

00:43:49.280 --> 00:43:51.997
year he sent me a letter saying that all

00:43:52.080 --> 00:43:56.237
of my predictions about
lithium-ion batteries came true.

00:43:56.320 --> 00:43:58.477
>> It was very nice. >> And did
he also say you can still come

00:43:58.560 --> 00:44:02.717
back and finish your PhD? [laughter]
>> Yeah. No. Several times Stanford has

00:44:02.800 --> 00:44:04.477
said that I can come back for free.

00:44:04.560 --> 00:44:08.557
Well, so you know what happened at MIT is
every time [laughter] so I did not know it

00:44:08.640 --> 00:44:10.157
>> be a great use of your time.

00:44:10.240 --> 00:44:13.997
>> Exactly. I'm like >> so
every time an Iron Man movie came

00:44:14.080 --> 00:44:18.237
out, >> it notched up
another probably 10% or so.

00:44:18.320 --> 00:44:21.997
>> Okay. >> Uh in terms of because
everybody wanted to be Tony Stark.

00:44:22.080 --> 00:44:26.797
>> And so that's the image. And I didn't
know till today that the new Tony Stark,

00:44:26.880 --> 00:44:30.077
the modern Iron Man Tony Stark,
I always thought Tony Stark was modeled on

00:44:30.160 --> 00:44:32.557
Charles Stark Draper and Howard Hughes.

00:44:32.640 --> 00:44:36.157
is Charles Stark Draper's education
and his you know scientific endeavors

00:44:36.240 --> 00:44:40.717
married with Howard Hughes's ambition >>
and that created the original character

00:44:40.800 --> 00:44:44.477
but then when Robert Downey Jr.
wanted to reinvent it.

00:44:44.560 --> 00:44:46.477
>> Yeah, it came. >> It's modeled on Elon.

00:44:46.560 --> 00:44:48.317
>> Yeah, >> he came and met with me.

00:44:48.400 --> 00:44:51.117
>> This is a Groipedia fact. >> All right.

00:44:51.200 --> 00:44:52.637
>> Uh [laughter] yeah, fantastic.

00:44:52.720 --> 00:44:57.597
>> Um >> yeah, they came
to John Fabro and and Robert

00:44:57.680 --> 00:45:00.077
>> I like the name Grock.
I would like Jarvis as well.

00:45:00.160 --> 00:45:03.917
>> Yeah. >> Yeah.
Um >> probably some some trade.

00:45:04.000 --> 00:45:05.277
>> At some point if
Grock gets good enough,

00:45:05.360 --> 00:45:08.397
we're going to call it
Encyclopedia Galactica.

00:45:08.480 --> 00:45:11.997
>> Yes, that's nice. >> Yeah.
>> Yeah, of course. 42.

00:45:12.080 --> 00:45:13.837
>> Thank you. Um, so going back to

00:45:13.920 --> 00:45:17.757
education, uh, should colleges, I guess

00:45:17.840 --> 00:45:19.357
the social experience, you said is

00:45:19.440 --> 00:45:21.517
important there, but what would you do

00:45:21.600 --> 00:45:25.117
for education, uh, you know, middle,

00:45:25.200 --> 00:45:29.837
high school? You just came back from
a announcement with President Blly, uh,

00:45:29.920 --> 00:45:33.677
who's a friend. I I think he's
an amazing amazing visionary. Yeah.

00:45:33.760 --> 00:45:35.277
Incredible what he did with his nation.

00:45:35.360 --> 00:45:37.917
>> Yeah. >> Yeah. Um, >> remarkable.

00:45:38.000 --> 00:45:41.917
>> Remarkable and gutsy. >> Yeah. I was
like, "How are you still alive?" That was

00:45:42.000 --> 00:45:46.797
>> Yeah. I mean, I It was like It's
the nuclear It was a nuclear option,

00:45:46.880 --> 00:45:48.717
>> right? Shut him down. I mean, do you

00:45:48.800 --> 00:45:50.557
know how besides putting everybody with

00:45:50.640 --> 00:45:56.477
a gang sign um in in uh in jail? I don't

00:45:56.560 --> 00:45:57.757
know if you know the second thing he

00:45:57.840 --> 00:46:01.677
did. He went to all of the graves of all

00:46:01.760 --> 00:46:05.997
the gang members out there and destroyed
the graves and said, "Your memory will

00:46:06.080 --> 00:46:08.637
not be remembered in this nation."

00:46:08.720 --> 00:46:11.037
That's just badass.

00:46:11.120 --> 00:46:15.757
>> And it worked.
>> I mean, you have to be badass

00:46:15.840 --> 00:46:19.597
[__] to take on all the knocker
gangs and win >> and live.

00:46:19.680 --> 00:46:23.037
>> Yeah. And still be alive.
>> And live. He's got a great great uh

00:46:23.120 --> 00:46:27.677
guard at his palace there. But what what
did you announce with uh with him in El

00:46:27.760 --> 00:46:31.917
Salvador? >> Uh it was just
uh basically to use Grock

00:46:32.000 --> 00:46:34.237
for uh education like personalization.

00:46:34.320 --> 00:46:36.147
>> Hopefully not the vulgar version of it.

00:46:36.230 --> 00:46:38.957
[laughter] >> Yeah.
we would have like you know the

00:46:39.040 --> 00:46:41.917
you know kids friendly version of Grock.

00:46:42.000 --> 00:46:46.157
>> Uh but but obviously AI can be
an in an individualized teacher.

00:46:46.240 --> 00:46:49.837
>> Yeah. >> Um that uh
is infinitely patient and

00:46:49.920 --> 00:46:51.677
answers all your questions.

00:46:51.760 --> 00:46:56.557
>> Um now you still need to be curious um

00:46:56.640 --> 00:47:00.477
and and uh

00:47:00.560 --> 00:47:03.997
you still need to want to learn. You
know GR can't make you want to learn. It

00:47:04.080 --> 00:47:08.077
can make learning more interesting. you
could probably gify and incentivize it,

00:47:08.160 --> 00:47:10.397
right? >> You can make
learning more interesting.

00:47:10.480 --> 00:47:12.237
Um,

00:47:12.320 --> 00:47:16.237
and and less of a production line. Um,

00:47:16.320 --> 00:47:21.437
so but kids do need
to have to if they need

00:47:21.520 --> 00:47:24.397
to want to learn, you know. >> Yeah.

00:47:24.480 --> 00:47:27.997
>> Do you and like the people should just
think of the the brain as a biological

00:47:28.080 --> 00:47:30.317
computer. >> It's a neural net.

00:47:30.400 --> 00:47:34.477
>> Yeah. Yeah, it's a bi
biological computer with

00:47:34.560 --> 00:47:38.317
you know so with a number
of neurons and a neural efficiency.

00:47:38.400 --> 00:47:42.957
>> Yeah. >> Um and um

00:47:43.040 --> 00:47:46.637
so so what like what you can't do is tune
any arbitrary kid into Einstein. Uh

00:47:46.720 --> 00:47:51.677
this is not realistic because Einstein
had a very good meat computer like an

00:47:51.760 --> 00:47:55.357
outstanding meat computer.
>> Um so you can't just uh do Shakespeare

00:47:55.440 --> 00:47:58.477
Newton you know Einstein type of thing.

00:47:58.560 --> 00:48:01.437
um unless the meat computer is uh an

00:48:01.520 --> 00:48:06.397
exceptional one. >> So what do
you think? So when people say

00:48:06.480 --> 00:48:09.677
we need to solve education
in the United States

00:48:09.760 --> 00:48:12.557
>> um because it's
fundamentally broken u I

00:48:12.640 --> 00:48:14.237
think what's really broken I'm curious

00:48:14.320 --> 00:48:17.757
is the old uh social contract that says

00:48:17.840 --> 00:48:20.397
uh do well in high school, get in a good

00:48:20.480 --> 00:48:22.477
college, get a degree, and then get a

00:48:22.560 --> 00:48:25.117
job. And I don't know that that's going

00:48:25.200 --> 00:48:30.477
to be valid in the future.
Uh my we talk about this on the pod a

00:48:30.560 --> 00:48:33.917
lot that the that the career of the
future isn't getting a job. It's being

00:48:34.000 --> 00:48:37.437
an entrepreneur.
It's finding a problem and solving it.

00:48:37.520 --> 00:48:38.957
>> Yeah. >> Do you do you agree with that?

00:48:39.040 --> 00:48:43.517
>> Right now I'd say people should just
you know go to school for the social

00:48:43.600 --> 00:48:47.597
experience, use more AI.

00:48:47.680 --> 00:48:49.837
Um

00:48:49.920 --> 00:48:51.597
the conventional schooling experience I

00:48:51.680 --> 00:48:55.677
think could be a lot better. um the what

00:48:55.760 --> 00:48:58.797
what we're going to do in Al Salvador
and hopefully other places just have

00:48:58.880 --> 00:49:01.437
individualized teachers that's going to

00:49:01.520 --> 00:49:06.157
be much better and you you could go to you
could go to a school with a bunch of

00:49:06.240 --> 00:49:09.357
other kids I guess if you want to hang
out with other kids but you don't need to

00:49:09.440 --> 00:49:12.637
>> right >> you could do
it on your phone at home

00:49:12.720 --> 00:49:17.277
um so that's why I say like at this
point education is a social experience

00:49:17.360 --> 00:49:20.637
when I talk to my kids
who are in in college

00:49:20.720 --> 00:49:23.197
>> uh they they they
do recognize that they

00:49:23.280 --> 00:49:27.037
can learn um just as much independently.

00:49:27.120 --> 00:49:30.557
In fact, that they would learn
more in in a work situation.

00:49:30.640 --> 00:49:33.757
>> Yeah. >> Um they're
there for the social

00:49:33.840 --> 00:49:38.477
experience and to be a bunch around
a bunch of people of their their own age.

00:49:38.560 --> 00:49:42.157
Um sort of a coming
of age social experience.

00:49:42.240 --> 00:49:46.397
>> Sure. Sure. Being on your own uh
learning how how to lead or defend

00:49:46.480 --> 00:49:49.037
yourself as the case may be.
>> Well, yeah. Yeah, I mean, if you join

00:49:49.120 --> 00:49:52.717
the workforce, you're, you know,
from the perspective of like a, you know,

00:49:52.800 --> 00:49:56.397
19-year-old, you with a bunch
of old people, [laughter]

00:49:56.480 --> 00:49:59.117
and if you're doing engineering with a
bunch of middle-aged dudes, it's like,

00:49:59.200 --> 00:50:04.317
do you really want to do that or do
you want to hang out with um, you know,

00:50:04.400 --> 00:50:09.517
where there's at least some girls
your age [laughter] type of thing.

00:50:09.600 --> 00:50:13.597
>> I I want to get I want to get I want
to get back to this when we talk about

00:50:13.680 --> 00:50:16.397
>> a lot of other choices. Actually,
>> I want to get back as we get to

00:50:16.480 --> 00:50:19.917
universal high income, but I want
to talk about health and longevity one

00:50:20.000 --> 00:50:22.717
second. US is the number one ranked

00:50:22.800 --> 00:50:25.757
number one in health expenses worldwide

00:50:25.840 --> 00:50:30.477
and it's ranked 70th >>
in health span, >> right? We

00:50:30.560 --> 00:50:32.797
>> are really 70th. >> 70th

00:50:32.880 --> 00:50:35.197
>> is that from Is that accurate?

00:50:35.280 --> 00:50:38.717
>> Is why everybody listen it?

00:50:38.800 --> 00:50:42.877
>> Uh I think it would be better
than 70th >> for health span.

00:50:42.960 --> 00:50:46.237
>> Um well, whatever. It's it
is like we just get fat or something.

00:50:46.320 --> 00:50:48.557
>> We're not the top 10.
>> Maybe a Zic can help us plan the

00:50:48.640 --> 00:50:50.957
rankings there. [laughter] >> Um, so

00:50:51.040 --> 00:50:56.970
>> would you just run around?
We need Cupid. But a Zic. [laughter]

00:50:59.920 --> 00:51:05.197
>> Mjaro Cupid. [laughter] >>
But but I think that's a big reason.

00:51:05.280 --> 00:51:08.237
It's like if people get really fat
then their their health gets bad.

00:51:08.320 --> 00:51:11.677
>> Yeah. Well, if they don't have any
exercise, health get bad. or if they

00:51:11.760 --> 00:51:14.397
donuts for breakfast every morning.
You still doing that?

00:51:14.480 --> 00:51:17.837
>> Uh, no, actually I'm not.
>> Okay, that's good. That's good.

00:51:17.920 --> 00:51:21.917
>> Uh, well, first of all, I wasn't eating
a lot of doughnut. I was trying to have

00:51:22.000 --> 00:51:26.450
uh point4 of a donut, which
rounds down to zero. [laughter]

00:51:28.960 --> 00:51:31.997
So, I figured anything below below 044

00:51:32.080 --> 00:51:33.677
of a donut rounds down to zero.

00:51:33.760 --> 00:51:38.477
>> So, you and I have had uh
a disagreement on longevity.

00:51:38.560 --> 00:51:40.397
>> We had a little bit.
Yeah. I was saying,

00:51:40.480 --> 00:51:42.957
you know, we should push to get people

00:51:43.040 --> 00:51:48.157
to 120, 150, and you were saying people,
you know, shouldn't live that [laughter]

00:51:48.240 --> 00:51:52.157
long. >> Uh, so how
long do you want >> Yeah.

00:51:52.240 --> 00:51:55.117
>> You know, there's some, >> you
know, people in the world that have

00:51:55.200 --> 00:51:56.877
done some bad things.
How long do you want them to live?

00:51:56.960 --> 00:51:59.997
>> Yeah. Well, it's okay.
They can get the longevity.

00:52:00.080 --> 00:52:03.357
>> This is a serious [laughter] question,
though. If we them, a lot of things are

00:52:03.440 --> 00:52:06.557
going to happen that we don't >>
Wait a second. You said one thing that

00:52:06.640 --> 00:52:11.037
you said was interesting. He said um uh
we need people to die so people change

00:52:11.120 --> 00:52:14.797
their minds. >> Oh yes people people
don't change their minds they just die.

00:52:14.880 --> 00:52:17.277
>> But so [laughter] that
makes more sense actually.

00:52:17.360 --> 00:52:21.757
>> My response to that Elon was you know
my response to that was the head of GM

00:52:21.840 --> 00:52:25.997
didn't have to die for Tesla to come
along and Lockheed and Northrup and

00:52:26.080 --> 00:52:28.477
Boeing didn't have to go away for I mean

00:52:28.560 --> 00:52:34.600
there's in a meritocracy
the better ideas will dominate.

00:52:34.880 --> 00:52:37.597
So, I'm hoping that I can get you back

00:52:37.680 --> 00:52:41.837
onto the longevity train. So, there's
a lot going on longevity right now, right?

00:52:41.920 --> 00:52:45.757
>> Uh like what? >> Well,
David Sinclair is about to start

00:52:45.840 --> 00:52:50.317
his epigenetic re uh reprogramming
trials in humans. It's worked in in

00:52:50.400 --> 00:52:53.917
animals and and non-human primates.
It's going into humans.

00:52:54.000 --> 00:52:57.597
>> Is this like a pole or an injection
or >> right now? It's an injection of an

00:52:57.680 --> 00:52:59.757
adnoissociated virus. It's the three

00:52:59.840 --> 00:53:01.117
Yamanaka factors.

00:53:01.200 --> 00:53:05.037
>> Okay. Uh we've got
a $101 million health

00:53:05.120 --> 00:53:08.317
span X-P prize that's working on 730

00:53:08.400 --> 00:53:11.117
teams working on reversing the age of

00:53:11.200 --> 00:53:15.597
your brain immune system and muscle
by 20 years. By the way, do you know why

00:53:15.680 --> 00:53:19.597
it's $101 million? >> No.
>> Because the primary funer when they

00:53:19.680 --> 00:53:23.277
found out your carbon X price was 100
bucks, he wanted to make it bigger. So

00:53:23.360 --> 00:53:27.837
it's 101. >> Oh, who who's
the Chip Wilson from Lululemon?

00:53:27.920 --> 00:53:29.757
>> Oh, okay. And then
uh and then evolution

00:53:29.840 --> 00:53:32.157
out of but Chip said, "Can we make it
bigger?" I said, "You put extra million

00:53:32.240 --> 00:53:33.917
in, we'll make 101 million."
>> Sounds good.

00:53:34.000 --> 00:53:38.077
>> It's a good story.
>> But then we got folks like Dario Amade

00:53:38.160 --> 00:53:42.717
predicting doubling the human
lifespan in the next 10 years.

00:53:42.800 --> 00:53:46.157
>> Um that's probably correct.

00:53:46.240 --> 00:53:49.117
>> Okay, great. >> I don't know
about doubling, but in significant

00:53:49.200 --> 00:53:50.957
>> significant increase. Sure.

00:53:51.040 --> 00:53:53.997
>> Um >> which is easily escape velocity.

00:53:54.080 --> 00:53:55.677
>> I mean because when Yeah.

00:53:55.760 --> 00:54:01.117
>> Depending how old your Yeah. [laughter]
Oh yeah, for sure. Or effective age.

00:54:01.200 --> 00:54:05.517
Yeah. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> So I mean
I think you know I think that for

00:54:05.600 --> 00:54:07.037
>> too much and turn
into a baby or something.

00:54:07.120 --> 00:54:10.877
>> That's what I'm telling [laughter] all
the students there. It's like Peter what

00:54:10.960 --> 00:54:15.440
happened. [laughter]

00:54:15.680 --> 00:54:18.317
>> Yes. Yes. There there is a frozen.

00:54:18.400 --> 00:54:19.887
>> You got a zero wrong in the dosage.

00:54:19.970 --> 00:54:21.990
[laughter]

00:54:23.040 --> 00:54:28.417
Just a small factor of 10.
>> Grow out of it. It'll be fine. Exactly.

00:54:28.500 --> 00:54:29.357
[laughter]

00:54:29.440 --> 00:54:33.757
>> You won't remember it. I literally

00:54:33.840 --> 00:54:37.677
>> I mean, wouldn't it be funny if we
do this in like 10 years? Okay, we should

00:54:37.760 --> 00:54:39.837
do it in I'll do we'll do it in 10 years

00:54:39.920 --> 00:54:44.957
for sure. And and and let's see let's
see if we look younger. [laughter]

00:54:45.040 --> 00:54:48.957
>> That's a good side bet.
>> My my comment was always Elon's back

00:54:49.040 --> 00:54:51.277
then Elon was like, you know, late 40s.

00:54:51.360 --> 00:54:55.197
wait till he gets into his 60s, he's
going to want, you know, lunch anymore.

00:54:55.280 --> 00:54:58.077
>> I mean, I I I want things to not hurt.

00:54:58.160 --> 00:55:02.077
>> Yeah, sure. Of course. [laughter]
>> It's like it's like basically it's it

00:55:02.160 --> 00:55:05.037
seems like it's only a matter
of time before you get back back pain.

00:55:05.120 --> 00:55:09.357
>> Yeah. >> Um like it's a when,
not an if your back hurts.

00:55:09.440 --> 00:55:13.597
>> Arthritis. Yes. >> Yeah.
Like these things suck basically.

00:55:13.680 --> 00:55:14.637
>> Being able to sleep through the night

00:55:14.720 --> 00:55:18.557
without going to the bathroom [laughter]

00:55:18.640 --> 00:55:21.357
>> a lot. It's very much That one.

00:55:21.440 --> 00:55:25.517
>> Yeah, it's [laughter] more than hope.

00:55:25.600 --> 00:55:28.157
>> That one. >> Oh man,
that would that's like the

00:55:28.240 --> 00:55:33.677
infinite money one. [laughter] >>
Why did you invest in longevity? So I

00:55:33.760 --> 00:55:35.597
can sleep through the night
and not go to the bathroom.

00:55:35.680 --> 00:55:39.597
>> Bladder bladder. Yeah. Duration.

00:55:39.680 --> 00:55:43.677
>> I mean, [laughter] admittedly, if
you have to wear adult diapers, that's a

00:55:43.760 --> 00:55:48.040
that's a bummer.
[laughter] >> That's not good.

00:55:48.240 --> 00:55:51.197
Adult D is a real, [laughter]

00:55:51.280 --> 00:55:55.517
you know, it's like one of the
one of the signs that a country

00:55:55.600 --> 00:56:00.317
is not on the right path >> is when
the adult diapers exceed the baby diapers.

00:56:00.400 --> 00:56:04.077
>> Yeah, we're there. [laughter] >> Yeah.
South Korea will be there anymore.

00:56:04.160 --> 00:56:05.677
>> They already No,
they passed that point.

00:56:05.760 --> 00:56:06.317
>> No, they passed that point.

00:56:06.400 --> 00:56:07.997
>> They passed that point many years ago.

00:56:08.080 --> 00:56:09.837
Japan passed the point many years ago.

00:56:09.920 --> 00:56:11.597
>> Doesn't go well looking at the Japanese

00:56:11.680 --> 00:56:17.037
economy. No, I mean like South Korea
is like uh Yeah. One third replacement

00:56:17.120 --> 00:56:20.237
rate. >> Crazy. >> Yeah.
So, three generations they're

00:56:20.320 --> 00:56:24.317
going to be 127th. So, 3 3% of their
current size. I mean, North Korea won't

00:56:24.400 --> 00:56:26.077
need to invade. They can just walk across.

00:56:26.160 --> 00:56:32.197
>> Yeah. [laughter] Yeah.
>> This is going to be some people in,

00:56:32.280 --> 00:56:32.877
[laughter]

00:56:32.960 --> 00:56:36.637
you know, walkers or something like

00:56:36.720 --> 00:56:39.357
there'll be a bunch of optimist.

00:56:39.440 --> 00:56:43.757
But you you know you've been very
verbal about the you know the not

00:56:43.840 --> 00:56:46.077
overpopulation but massive
underpopulation.

00:56:46.160 --> 00:56:47.437
>> Yeah I've been saying this for ages.

00:56:47.520 --> 00:56:51.197
>> Yeah. Longevity is going to be
an important part of that solution. I also

00:56:51.280 --> 00:56:54.077
think by the way if you increased the

00:56:54.160 --> 00:56:59.277
productive life of most Americans
by just a few years you'd flip the entire

00:56:59.360 --> 00:57:03.037
economics here. >> Well if
AI and robots is going to make

00:57:03.120 --> 00:57:04.797
everything sure free basically.

00:57:04.880 --> 00:57:08.477
>> Yeah. Um but uh well how long would you

00:57:08.560 --> 00:57:09.757
want to live?

00:57:09.840 --> 00:57:13.917
>> Uh I want to I want
to go you know other

00:57:14.000 --> 00:57:18.237
planetary systems. I want to go
and explore the universe. Yeah. I mean you

00:57:18.320 --> 00:57:21.197
know I would like to double
my lifespan for sure.

00:57:21.280 --> 00:57:24.477
>> I don't want you know I'm not sure
I want to talk about immortality but

00:57:24.560 --> 00:57:27.197
>> you know at least 120 150.
It's a long time.

00:57:27.280 --> 00:57:29.997
>> One of the worst curses possible would
be that >> Yes. May you live forever.

00:57:30.080 --> 00:57:33.517
>> May you live forever.
>> That would be one of the worst

00:57:33.600 --> 00:57:36.797
>> Yeah. curses you could
possibly give anyone.

00:57:36.880 --> 00:57:39.037
>> But I think life's going
to get very interesting.

00:57:39.120 --> 00:57:41.677
>> Yeah. >> Far more.
We're going to speedrun Star

00:57:41.760 --> 00:57:44.877
Trek as my partner Alex Weer Gross says.

00:57:44.960 --> 00:57:48.397
>> Yeah. >> Yeah.
>> Speedrunning Star Trek would be cool.

00:57:48.480 --> 00:57:51.677
>> Yeah. Um >> well,
at a minimum your kids will have

00:57:51.760 --> 00:57:55.517
infinite life expectancy. If you're
talking about escape velocity, if you

00:57:55.600 --> 00:57:56.877
can double lifespan, there's it's not

00:57:56.960 --> 00:57:59.597
even close. You're you're clearly past

00:57:59.680 --> 00:58:04.877
longevity escape velocity. They
the idea of 50 years of AI improvement.

00:58:04.960 --> 00:58:07.677
>> Yeah, it's great. I mean,
we're going to have 20 years on this.

00:58:07.760 --> 00:58:09.197
>> I don't know.
I got too many fish to fry.

00:58:09.280 --> 00:58:12.237
>> So, I invited >> This is
something, by the way, that I

00:58:12.320 --> 00:58:14.797
that I think I just I think it's very

00:58:14.880 --> 00:58:16.157
obviously other people think this, too,

00:58:16.240 --> 00:58:19.517
but I've long thought that um like long

00:58:19.600 --> 00:58:23.517
like longevity or semi- mortality
is an extremely solvable problem. I don't

00:58:23.600 --> 00:58:25.837
think it's a particularly hard problem.

00:58:25.920 --> 00:58:28.920
Um,

00:58:30.000 --> 00:58:32.877
I mean, when you consider the fact that

00:58:32.960 --> 00:58:36.957
your body is extremely
synchronized in its age,

00:58:37.040 --> 00:58:37.837
>> Yeah.

00:58:37.920 --> 00:58:41.357
>> the clock must be incredibly obvious.

00:58:41.440 --> 00:58:45.357
Um, nobody has an old left
arm and a young right arm,

00:58:45.440 --> 00:58:45.917
>> right?

00:58:46.000 --> 00:58:48.957
>> Why is that?

00:58:49.040 --> 00:58:53.037
>> What's keeping them all in sync?

00:58:53.120 --> 00:58:56.077
um you're programmed to die is the is

00:58:56.160 --> 00:59:01.037
the way you're programmed to die.
And so if you change the program, >> yeah,

00:59:01.120 --> 00:59:04.637
>> uh you will live longer.
>> And we've got, you know, species of the

00:59:04.720 --> 00:59:06.317
boowhead whale can live for 200 years.

00:59:06.400 --> 00:59:10.237
The Greenland shark can live for 500
years. And when I when I learned that, I

00:59:10.320 --> 00:59:13.517
said, why can't they? Why can't we?
And I said, it's either a hardware problem

00:59:13.600 --> 00:59:17.037
or software problem, and we're going
to have the tech to solve that. And I do

00:59:17.120 --> 00:59:21.117
believe that it's this next decade.
So the important thing is not to die from

00:59:21.200 --> 00:59:25.677
something stupid before the before the
solutions come. You know, I invited you

00:59:25.760 --> 00:59:30.237
uh >> in retrospect the long the solution
to longevity will seem obvious.

00:59:30.320 --> 00:59:31.997
>> Yeah. >> Extremely obvious.

00:59:32.080 --> 00:59:34.477
>> I I think the thing worth working on

00:59:34.560 --> 00:59:35.837
Peter's going to work on this anyway,

00:59:35.920 --> 00:59:39.917
but the thing to work on is exactly what

00:59:40.000 --> 00:59:42.557
you said. If old ideas don't calcified

00:59:42.640 --> 00:59:47.357
old ideas don't just die off, add that
to the pile of things we need to think

00:59:47.440 --> 00:59:50.797
about today because there are a whole
host of other AI related things we need

00:59:50.880 --> 00:59:53.277
to think about today.
>> Let me let me finish on the longevity

00:59:53.360 --> 00:59:56.797
point one second. Um Elon uh I want to

00:59:56.880 --> 01:00:00.557
invite you again. So uh uh there's a

01:00:00.640 --> 01:00:03.117
company called Fountain Life that uh

01:00:03.200 --> 01:00:05.677
created with Tony Robbins, Bob Hurry,

01:00:05.760 --> 01:00:08.957
Bill Cap, and we do a 200 gigabyte

01:00:09.040 --> 01:00:13.917
upload of you. Everything knowable
about you. Full genome, full all imaging,

01:00:14.000 --> 01:00:17.517
everything. Right. President Blly
and the first lady came through, called it

01:00:17.600 --> 01:00:19.837
an amazing 10 out of 10 experience.

01:00:19.920 --> 01:00:23.917
>> Um >> I think I don't
want you to pull a Steve Jobs

01:00:24.000 --> 01:00:27.277
>> and kick the bucket because of some >>
because some something they didn't know.

01:00:27.360 --> 01:00:30.797
I mean, so if you ask yourself,
>> do you actually know what's going on

01:00:30.880 --> 01:00:32.797
inside your body right now?

01:00:32.880 --> 01:00:35.757
>> Um, I did an MRI recently and submitted

01:00:35.840 --> 01:00:41.917
it to Gro and it didn't >> need no
none of the doctors nor Grock found

01:00:42.000 --> 01:00:43.437
anything wrong,
>> but that's a fraction of the

01:00:43.520 --> 01:00:46.957
information, right? I mean, it's
your full genome, your microbiome, your

01:00:47.040 --> 01:00:51.917
metabolism, everything. >> And okay,
>> it's possible. So, >> don't call me.

01:00:52.000 --> 01:00:56.637
>> What's that? >> Don't call me, bro.
[laughter] We have a We have a center in

01:00:56.720 --> 01:01:00.877
>> your water bottle.
>> We have [laughter]

01:01:00.960 --> 01:01:03.837
God damn it. >> Too late.

01:01:03.920 --> 01:01:05.997
>> Sorry. It's already in the works.

01:01:06.080 --> 01:01:08.100
[laughter]

01:01:09.920 --> 01:01:12.797
>> So, can you go
through the the rationale

01:01:12.880 --> 01:01:17.117
of UHI? How does how does
universal high income work?

01:01:17.200 --> 01:01:21.597
>> Okay. So there's
there's going to be more

01:01:21.680 --> 01:01:23.277
intelligence,

01:01:23.360 --> 01:01:25.197
digital intelligence than all human

01:01:25.280 --> 01:01:28.797
intelligence combined and more humanoid

01:01:28.880 --> 01:01:33.597
robots than all humans. >> Um,
and assuming we're in a benign

01:01:33.680 --> 01:01:37.277
scenario, Star Trek, sort of Rodenberry,
not Cameron situation.

01:01:37.360 --> 01:01:40.957
>> Yeah. [laughter] >> Um, >> poor Jim.

01:01:41.040 --> 01:01:44.957
>> Yeah. I mean, I guess it's
important to have these sort of

01:01:45.040 --> 01:01:47.997
>> counterpoints. >> Yeah.
Let's not let's go not go in that

01:01:48.080 --> 01:01:50.957
direction. Um

01:01:51.040 --> 01:01:57.197
thing. Um so uh the the
robots are going to just do

01:01:57.280 --> 01:01:59.757
whatever you want.
>> All the blue collar labor is being done

01:01:59.840 --> 01:02:02.477
by robots. All data
centers are being by robots.

01:02:02.560 --> 01:02:05.757
>> The the white collar labor will be the

01:02:05.840 --> 01:02:08.237
first to go because until you until you

01:02:08.320 --> 01:02:10.477
can move atoms, the thing that can be

01:02:10.560 --> 01:02:13.677
replaced first is anything that that

01:02:13.760 --> 01:02:17.917
involves just digital if
it's digital like if it

01:02:18.000 --> 01:02:21.517
involves >> t tapping
keys on a keyboard and

01:02:21.600 --> 01:02:25.037
>> moving a mouse the computer
can do that they can do that

01:02:25.120 --> 01:02:25.757
>> sure

01:02:25.840 --> 01:02:28.957
>> um you need
the humanoid robots to to uh

01:02:29.040 --> 01:02:32.237
shape atoms so if all you're doing is

01:02:32.320 --> 01:02:37.597
changing bits of information which
is white color work um that is that is the

01:02:37.680 --> 01:02:40.957
first thing that that >> when
this is the inspirational this is

01:02:41.040 --> 01:02:45.277
the inspirational part of the podcast
by the way when is when is all white color

01:02:45.360 --> 01:02:49.117
work gone by when? >> Well,
there there's there's a lot of

01:02:49.200 --> 01:02:51.677
inertia. So, even with AI at its current

01:02:51.760 --> 01:02:55.517
state, um I'd say you're you're pretty

01:02:55.600 --> 01:03:00.237
close to being able
to replace half of all jobs of

01:03:00.320 --> 01:03:04.237
>> and you know that white color jobs that
includes anything like education, too.

01:03:04.320 --> 01:03:04.877
>> Yeah. M

01:03:04.960 --> 01:03:09.197
>> so anything that involves information

01:03:09.280 --> 01:03:13.917
um and anything short of shaping atoms

01:03:14.000 --> 01:03:19.917
um AI can do probably half
or more of those jobs right now.

01:03:20.000 --> 01:03:22.477
>> Sure. >> But there's
a lot of inertia. People

01:03:22.560 --> 01:03:23.837
just keep doing the same the same thing

01:03:23.920 --> 01:03:26.877
for quite some time. Um, and there

01:03:26.960 --> 01:03:30.237
actually has to be a a company that

01:03:30.320 --> 01:03:32.317
makes more use of AI that competes with

01:03:32.400 --> 01:03:37.917
a company that makes less use of AI,
creating a forcing function for

01:03:38.000 --> 01:03:39.597
increased use of AI, >> right?

01:03:39.680 --> 01:03:43.197
>> Otherwise, the company that that still

01:03:43.280 --> 01:03:46.557
has humans do um things that AI can do

01:03:46.640 --> 01:03:48.637
will still continue to exist. Being a

01:03:48.720 --> 01:03:54.157
computer used to be a job.
So it used to be that a human computer

01:03:54.240 --> 01:03:56.797
like yeah >> a computer
being a computer was a job.

01:03:56.880 --> 01:03:59.917
You would compute numbers. Sure.
It didn't it didn't used to be a machine.

01:04:00.000 --> 01:04:02.877
It used to be a job description. Um, and

01:04:02.960 --> 01:04:07.197
there you can look online there's these
pictures of like where they're having

01:04:07.280 --> 01:04:11.357
like skyscrapers full >> of women
copying mostly women copying

01:04:11.440 --> 01:04:15.597
from ledger to ledger >> and men
too but but yeah but pe people

01:04:15.680 --> 01:04:17.597
um

01:04:17.680 --> 01:04:20.397
>> um but it was a lot
of women but there's

01:04:20.480 --> 01:04:22.957
there were just buildings full of uh

01:04:23.040 --> 01:04:26.397
people just at desks doing calculations.

01:04:26.480 --> 01:04:29.357
>> Yeah. Um so they'd be calculating the

01:04:29.440 --> 01:04:33.117
interest in your bank account or um you

01:04:33.200 --> 01:04:34.797
know some

01:04:34.880 --> 01:04:38.877
um you know science uh experiment or

01:04:38.960 --> 01:04:41.197
something like that or what but if you

01:04:41.280 --> 01:04:43.597
want calculations done uh you people

01:04:43.680 --> 01:04:46.637
would do it. Um so

01:04:46.720 --> 01:04:49.917
um now

01:04:50.000 --> 01:04:53.437
one laptop with a spreadsheet can

01:04:53.520 --> 01:04:58.877
outperform a skyscraper
of several hundred human computers

01:04:58.960 --> 01:05:02.877
>> right >> of people doing
calculations. Um, now if

01:05:02.960 --> 01:05:05.837
even a few cells in that spreadsheet

01:05:05.920 --> 01:05:08.637
were done manually,

01:05:08.720 --> 01:05:14.717
um, it you would not be able to compete
with a spreadsheet that was entirely a

01:05:14.800 --> 01:05:19.597
computer. >> Mhm. >> Yeah.
What this means is that companies that

01:05:19.680 --> 01:05:24.637
are entirely AI will demolish
companies that are not.

01:05:24.720 --> 01:05:27.117
>> Right. >> It won't be a contest.

01:05:27.200 --> 01:05:31.277
>> Agreed. And that flippid. >> Yeah.
one cell in that >> just one if

01:05:31.360 --> 01:05:34.077
>> I got to do that >> would
you want even one cell in your

01:05:34.160 --> 01:05:38.557
spreadsheet to be manually calculated >>
that would be the most annoying cell and

01:05:38.640 --> 01:05:42.877
you're like god damn it >> y >>
and and and gets it wrong a bunch of the

01:05:42.960 --> 01:05:45.917
time [laughter] error rate

01:05:46.000 --> 01:05:51.277
>> so this flipping >>
flipping the flipping >> um

01:05:51.360 --> 01:05:54.477
>> are we monetizing hope
effectively >> yes [laughter]

01:05:54.560 --> 01:05:58.397
>> not not at this moment I think we're
I think we're pe I think we're pe doo for

01:05:58.480 --> 01:06:01.517
people worried about
the future of their jobs.

01:06:01.600 --> 01:06:04.077
>> Monetize. >> We're at peak doom.

01:06:04.160 --> 01:06:07.757
>> We're going to do that as a t-shirt

01:06:07.840 --> 01:06:11.960
>> and the [laughter] mug. >> And the mug.

01:06:12.320 --> 01:06:15.357
>> Yes. >> The mug. >> Uh, [laughter]

01:06:15.440 --> 01:06:19.357
so but you have a sol you
have a solution to this

01:06:19.440 --> 01:06:23.037
>> which is UHI. >> Yes.
Everyone can have whatever they want.

01:06:23.120 --> 01:06:26.077
>> So how does that work?
How does UHI work?

01:06:26.160 --> 01:06:28.477
>> It's it's a good question.
like we have to figure out some like

01:06:28.560 --> 01:06:30.717
>> I mean it's not a it's not a bumpy road

01:06:30.800 --> 01:06:32.877
it yeah I mean so my concern isn't the

01:06:32.960 --> 01:06:36.477
long run it's the next 3 to seven years

01:06:36.560 --> 01:06:41.357
>> yes the transition will be bumpy uh
because humans don't like simultaneously

01:06:41.440 --> 01:06:45.117
[clears throat] yes we'll
have radical change social

01:06:45.200 --> 01:06:48.157
unrest and immense [laughter] prosperity

01:06:48.240 --> 01:06:51.277
>> and you can buy all all
the cyber trucks you want

01:06:51.360 --> 01:06:52.717
>> things are going to get very cheap

01:06:52.800 --> 01:06:54.157
>> yes

01:06:54.240 --> 01:06:58.877
>> um So this is actually
and frankly if if

01:06:58.960 --> 01:07:04.637
this doesn't happen we we'd go bankrupt
as a country. So the national debt is

01:07:04.720 --> 01:07:07.597
enormous. >> Yeah.
>> Uh the interest on the national debt

01:07:07.680 --> 01:07:10.877
exceeds uh not just the military budget

01:07:10.960 --> 01:07:15.357
but the military budget I think plus um

01:07:15.440 --> 01:07:18.877
Medicare >> um or Medicaid
one of the two. It's like

01:07:18.960 --> 01:07:23.357
like it's it's like
one trillion [laughter]

01:07:23.440 --> 01:07:26.717
>> of interest. Yeah.
Um >> which is growing.

01:07:26.800 --> 01:07:28.317
>> Yes. And the [clears
throat] deficit is growing.

01:07:28.400 --> 01:07:30.717
>> Yes. >> Um

01:07:30.800 --> 01:07:33.917
but the the so this so if if we don't

01:07:34.000 --> 01:07:38.237
have AI and robots, we're all going to go
bankrupt and and and and we're headed

01:07:38.320 --> 01:07:42.077
for economic doom. >> We're
going back also competitive

01:07:42.160 --> 01:07:44.477
pressure from China. So this is
definitely going to happen. I guess

01:07:44.560 --> 01:07:48.157
>> we're going back to the theme of this
talk. How can AI and exponential tech

01:07:48.240 --> 01:07:52.957
save America and the world?
>> Don't you think that? But I want I want

01:07:53.040 --> 01:07:55.757
to get I want to hit this because we
>> I was like quite pessimistic about it

01:07:55.840 --> 01:07:57.677
and and and ultimately I decided to be

01:07:57.760 --> 01:08:00.157
fatalistic and and

01:08:00.240 --> 01:08:04.397
>> um look on the bright side. [laughter]

01:08:04.480 --> 01:08:07.357
>> I've got to see you look on the bright

01:08:07.440 --> 01:08:09.437
side of life. [laughter]

01:08:09.520 --> 01:08:14.477
>> You're sitting there
crucified [laughter]

01:08:14.560 --> 01:08:17.677
right side. >> But this is not
about taxation and redistribution.

01:08:17.760 --> 01:08:21.837
>> Yeah. No, it's um >> So,
how do how does it work? Reason

01:08:21.920 --> 01:08:25.597
through it with me. >> Listen,
by the way, I'm open to ideas here.

01:08:25.680 --> 01:08:27.997
>> Okay. >> Uh so, it's not
like I got this all figured out.

01:08:28.080 --> 01:08:30.317
>> All right. So, so I'm wondering if

01:08:30.400 --> 01:08:35.597
instead of universal high income,
if it's universal, universal high stuff.

01:08:35.680 --> 01:08:39.197
>> Yeah. >> And services. >> Yes.

01:08:39.280 --> 01:08:41.597
>> The UHSS. We got

01:08:41.680 --> 01:08:44.877
>> like I I guess Okay. This is my guess

01:08:44.960 --> 01:08:49.117
for how things roll out play out.
And I I and by the

01:08:49.200 --> 01:08:52.797
way, I'm this is this is going to be
a bumpy ride and it's not like I know the

01:08:52.880 --> 01:08:56.077
answers here. Um but I I I have decided

01:08:56.160 --> 01:09:01.037
to look on the bright side. U and and
I'd like to thank thank you guys for

01:09:01.120 --> 01:09:02.797
being an inspiration in this regard.

01:09:02.880 --> 01:09:04.477
>> Thank you.

01:09:04.560 --> 01:09:07.757
>> Happy to help. Yeah, [laughter]

01:09:07.840 --> 01:09:13.357
because I I actually think it's it it
is better to be a an optimist and wrong

01:09:13.440 --> 01:09:15.357
than a pessimist and right.
>> Yes, for sure.

01:09:15.440 --> 01:09:18.637
>> Um for quality of life. >> Yeah.
And by the way, there's also not a

01:09:18.720 --> 01:09:23.037
force of nature. It's under >>
like to me it's really clear that we

01:09:23.120 --> 01:09:24.557
don't have any system right now to make

01:09:24.640 --> 01:09:28.397
this go well. But AI is a critical part

01:09:28.480 --> 01:09:32.157
of making it go well. And at some point,

01:09:32.240 --> 01:09:34.557
Grock is going to be addressing this

01:09:34.640 --> 01:09:36.477
exact topic that we're talking about or

01:09:36.560 --> 01:09:40.237
it has to be one of the big four AI

01:09:40.320 --> 01:09:44.157
machines. I mean, it's coming dealing
with it. There's no velocity knob,

01:09:44.240 --> 01:09:46.557
right? There's no onoff switch. It is

01:09:46.640 --> 01:09:52.717
coming and accelerating.
>> I call AI and robotics the supersonic

01:09:52.800 --> 01:09:56.477
tsunami. >> Yes. >> Which
maybe is a little alarming.

01:09:56.560 --> 01:09:58.157
>> You think it's good. That's good. Well,

01:09:58.240 --> 01:10:00.477
because the wake up call.

01:10:00.560 --> 01:10:03.837
>> This is important for folks to to gro

01:10:03.920 --> 01:10:08.717
because um uh I don't want to leave

01:10:08.800 --> 01:10:13.437
people depressed. I want people to
understand what's coming. So we're we're

01:10:13.520 --> 01:10:15.437
basically demonetizing

01:10:15.520 --> 01:10:17.757
everything. I mean labor becomes the

01:10:17.840 --> 01:10:20.797
cost of capex and electricity. AI is

01:10:20.880 --> 01:10:25.357
basically uh intelligence available uh

01:10:25.440 --> 01:10:28.877
>> at a dimminimous price. Um

01:10:28.960 --> 01:10:32.637
uh so you're able to produce almost

01:10:32.720 --> 01:10:34.877
anything. Things get down to basic cost

01:10:34.960 --> 01:10:38.637
of materials and electricity, right? Uh

01:10:38.720 --> 01:10:40.637
so people can have whatever stuff they

01:10:40.720 --> 01:10:43.437
want, whatever services they need.

01:10:43.520 --> 01:10:48.077
>> Um it's not when when we say universal
high income, it sounds like it's a tax

01:10:48.160 --> 01:10:50.557
and redistribute, but that's not the case.

01:10:50.640 --> 01:10:54.157
Um >> it's it's I think
my my best guess for

01:10:54.240 --> 01:10:59.117
how this will manifest is that prices
will become prices will drop.

01:10:59.200 --> 01:10:59.437
>> Yeah.

01:10:59.520 --> 01:11:02.317
>> So as the efficiency
of of production or

01:11:02.400 --> 01:11:06.157
the provision of services drops um

01:11:06.240 --> 01:11:09.437
prices will drop. I mean you know prices

01:11:09.520 --> 01:11:14.877
in in dollar terms are the ratio between
the output of goods and services and the

01:11:14.960 --> 01:11:17.757
money supply. >> Sure.
So if your output of goods and

01:11:17.840 --> 01:11:19.437
services increases faster than the money

01:11:19.520 --> 01:11:22.637
supply, you will have deflation and or

01:11:22.720 --> 01:11:26.477
vice versa, you know. So um >>
it's a good thing we're growing the

01:11:26.560 --> 01:11:29.277
money supply so quickly then,
>> right? [laughter]

01:11:29.360 --> 01:11:33.517
>> I I I Yes. That's why I I I came like
let's not worry about growing the money

01:11:33.600 --> 01:11:36.317
supply. It won't matter because
the output of goods and services actually

01:11:36.400 --> 01:11:38.317
will grow faster than the money supply.

01:11:38.400 --> 01:11:40.477
And I think we'll be in this and this is

01:11:40.560 --> 01:11:42.237
a prediction I think some others have

01:11:42.320 --> 01:11:45.677
made but um I will add to it which is uh

01:11:45.760 --> 01:11:48.397
that that I think governments will will

01:11:48.480 --> 01:11:50.717
actually be pushing to to increase money

01:11:50.800 --> 01:11:54.557
supply um like like faster.

01:11:54.640 --> 01:11:58.397
>> Yes. They won't be able to waste
the money fast enough [laughter] which is

01:11:58.480 --> 01:12:00.717
saying something for >> Isn't
it isn't it crazy how close those

01:12:00.800 --> 01:12:04.237
timelines just randomly worked out?
I mean at the rate because we're expanding

01:12:04.320 --> 01:12:07.917
the national debt not because we're
anticipating AI. We were going to do

01:12:08.000 --> 01:12:10.717
that no matter what. >> And so
it's like right on the edge of

01:12:10.800 --> 01:12:15.117
becoming Argentina. >> But yeah,
at the time so productivity is

01:12:15.200 --> 01:12:19.277
going to improve dramatically >>
and it is improving dramatically. I I I

01:12:19.360 --> 01:12:21.437
think we'll see

01:12:21.520 --> 01:12:24.157
>> I think I think we may see

01:12:24.240 --> 01:12:28.637
like high double digit uh output
of goods and services. We have to be a

01:12:28.720 --> 01:12:32.237
little careful about how
economists measure things

01:12:32.320 --> 01:12:35.837
and um >> yeah

01:12:35.920 --> 01:12:38.157
it's it I mean there's like my favorite

01:12:38.240 --> 01:12:40.557
joke I have a few economist jokes that I

01:12:40.640 --> 01:12:43.597
that that I like but um maybe my

01:12:43.680 --> 01:12:47.837
favorite one economist joke is um two
economists are going for a walk in in

01:12:47.920 --> 01:12:52.717
the forest um and they come across
a pile of [__] and one economist says I'll

01:12:52.800 --> 01:12:56.160
pay you 100 bucks to eat
a pile of [__] [laughter]

01:12:56.960 --> 01:12:59.117
I've heard this one.
This is great. Go ahead.

01:12:59.200 --> 01:13:05.437
>> And so the guy takes 100
bucks [laughter] and eats the [__]

01:13:05.520 --> 01:13:07.677
>> Then they keep walking.
They come across

01:13:07.760 --> 01:13:09.837
another pile of [__] And and the other

01:13:09.920 --> 01:13:15.160
guy says, "Okay, I'll give you a hundred
bucks to eat a pile of shit." [laughter]

01:13:15.680 --> 01:13:19.117
So he gives him a hundred bucks
and and then the the guys can say, "Wait a

01:13:19.200 --> 01:13:22.877
second. >> We both have
the same amount of money.

01:13:22.960 --> 01:13:26.957
[laughter] We ate
a both ate a pile of [__]

01:13:27.040 --> 01:13:31.397
>> Oh my god. It sounds like >>
but we increase the economy by $200.

01:13:31.480 --> 01:13:33.037
[laughter]

01:13:33.120 --> 01:13:34.397
>> This is the kind of [__] you get in

01:13:34.480 --> 01:13:38.477
economics. So So uh but if you if so if

01:13:38.560 --> 01:13:40.397
you say like just the output of goods

01:13:40.480 --> 01:13:46.077
and services um the will be
much greater. You just need

01:13:46.160 --> 01:13:50.077
a >> so profitability
of companies go through the roof

01:13:50.160 --> 01:13:53.517
>> at some point. But but no but so
the question becomes is that taxed by the

01:13:53.600 --> 01:13:55.997
government? uh >> is that then
taxed by the government and

01:13:56.080 --> 01:13:58.317
redistributed as some level of income as

01:13:58.400 --> 01:14:02.557
a U as a UHI or UBI? In other words, um

01:14:02.640 --> 01:14:07.437
one of the questions is if in fact
this future we hit massive productivity uh

01:14:07.520 --> 01:14:10.797
and massive profitability because we're
dividing by zero. The cost of labor has

01:14:10.880 --> 01:14:13.197
gone to nothing. The cost
of intelligence has gone to nothing and

01:14:13.280 --> 01:14:16.477
we're still producing products
and services faster and faster. So there's

01:14:16.560 --> 01:14:18.237
more profitability. Someone needs to be

01:14:18.320 --> 01:14:19.997
buying it and someone needs to be able

01:14:20.080 --> 01:14:25.037
to have the capital to buy it. Um,

01:14:25.120 --> 01:14:26.717
I mean this is an important question to

01:14:26.800 --> 01:14:32.237
get to get thought through.
>> Yeah. Um, well, one like side

01:14:32.320 --> 01:14:35.037
recommendation I have is like don't
worry about like squirreling money away

01:14:35.120 --> 01:14:38.237
for uh retirement in like 10
or 20 years. It won't matter.

01:14:38.320 --> 01:14:42.477
>> No. >> Okay.
either either we're not going to

01:14:42.560 --> 01:14:43.837
be here or

01:14:43.920 --> 01:14:47.597
>> it it just uh like it's it's you won't

01:14:47.680 --> 01:14:52.077
need to save for retirement. If if any
of the things that we've said are true,

01:14:52.160 --> 01:14:53.837
saving for retirement will be irrelevant.

01:14:53.920 --> 01:14:56.477
>> The services will be there to support

01:14:56.560 --> 01:15:01.357
you. You'll have the home, you'll
have the healthcare, you'll have the

01:15:01.440 --> 01:15:04.397
entertainment. >> The way
this unfolds is fundamentally

01:15:04.480 --> 01:15:07.837
impossible to predict because
of self-improvement of the AI and the

01:15:07.920 --> 01:15:10.957
accelerating timeline. >> Yeah.
It's called singularity for a reason.

01:15:11.040 --> 01:15:13.277
>> Yeah. Exactly. >> I don't
know what goes what what what

01:15:13.360 --> 01:15:15.437
happens after when
after the event horizon.

01:15:15.520 --> 01:15:18.877
>> Exactly. You can't never see past
the black hole or the event horizon. The

01:15:18.960 --> 01:15:21.597
light cone. >> I mean Ray
has a singularity out way too

01:15:21.680 --> 01:15:27.197
far. I mean this is like the next what
what's your timeline for >> for this?

01:15:27.280 --> 01:15:29.357
>> We're in the singularity.
>> Well, we are in the singularity for

01:15:29.440 --> 01:15:31.197
sure. We're in the midst
of it right now for sure.

01:15:31.280 --> 01:15:34.957
>> And we just we're in this beautiful
sweet spot which is you know the

01:15:35.040 --> 01:15:38.317
>> we're the roller coasters were just >>
Yeah. Exactly. That's [laughter] a great

01:15:38.400 --> 01:15:39.757
analogy. It's like that feeling.

01:15:39.840 --> 01:15:41.677
>> You're at the top of the roller
coaster and you're about to go.

01:15:41.760 --> 01:15:45.517
>> Yeah. But you know it's going to be
a lot of G's when you lot when you hit it.

01:15:45.600 --> 01:15:48.877
>> Uh and it's like people like I don't
have to just have courtside seats. I'm

01:15:48.960 --> 01:15:53.517
on the court. >> Exactly.
>> And it blows my And still blows my mind

01:15:53.600 --> 01:15:55.357
>> sometimes multiple times a week.

01:15:55.440 --> 01:15:57.997
>> Yeah. >> Um and so

01:15:58.080 --> 01:16:02.877
>> just when I think I'm like wow.
And then it's like

01:16:02.960 --> 01:16:05.517
>> two days later more wow. >> Yeah.

01:16:05.600 --> 01:16:11.117
>> Um >> exponential wow. Yeah,
I think we'll hit um AGI next year

01:16:11.200 --> 01:16:13.677
in 26. >> Yeah, I heard you say that.

01:16:13.760 --> 01:16:14.877
>> Yeah, I've said
that for a while actually.

01:16:14.960 --> 01:16:20.237
>> And then you know and then you said by
2029 2030 equivalent to the entire human

01:16:20.320 --> 01:16:23.437
race. >> 2030 we exceed
like I'm confident by

01:16:23.520 --> 01:16:28.717
2030 um AI will exceed the intelligence of

01:16:28.800 --> 01:16:33.197
all humans combined. That's way
pessimistic if if you hit AGI next year

01:16:33.280 --> 01:16:37.117
and that's that's you know that date
is is in flux but from that date

01:16:37.200 --> 01:16:40.637
>> to self-improvements that are
on the order of a th00and 10,000x just

01:16:40.720 --> 01:16:43.437
algorithmic improvements is very short

01:16:43.520 --> 01:16:46.397
>> and so everybody why isn't everybody

01:16:46.480 --> 01:16:51.997
talking about this right now?
>> Well I mean on on >> X on X they off.

01:16:52.080 --> 01:16:54.317
>> Yes. But why isn't >>
about every day basically.

01:16:54.400 --> 01:16:58.557
>> Yeah. But it's like >>
stop [laughter] >> it's not

01:16:58.640 --> 01:17:01.517
>> okay. Okay. So, I'll tell you something
else that I I'll tell you something that

01:17:01.600 --> 01:17:05.597
most people in the AI
community don't yet understand.

01:17:05.680 --> 01:17:06.397
>> Okay.

01:17:06.480 --> 01:17:09.837
>> Um, which is there the almost no one

01:17:09.920 --> 01:17:12.797
understands this. Um, the intelligence

01:17:12.880 --> 01:17:16.397
density potential uh is vastly greater

01:17:16.480 --> 01:17:18.637
than what we're currently experiencing.

01:17:18.720 --> 01:17:22.797
So, I I think we're we're off
by tours of magnitude in terms of the

01:17:22.880 --> 01:17:26.237
intelligence density per gigabyte
>> of what what's achievable.

01:17:26.320 --> 01:17:28.797
>> Yes. per gigawatt of energy

01:17:28.880 --> 01:17:31.837
>> per I'm characterize it by file size

01:17:31.920 --> 01:17:36.717
okay if the file size of the AI if you
>> if you have a say get intelligence

01:17:36.800 --> 01:17:41.037
>> oh okay in know yes sir >> um >>
on your on your drives on your laptop

01:17:41.120 --> 01:17:44.157
>> power tube parameters
the same thing whatever

01:17:44.240 --> 01:17:48.557
>> um so two two orders
of magnitude >> yes

01:17:48.640 --> 01:17:52.077
>> and you like you said
you ringside courtside seat

01:17:52.160 --> 01:17:54.477
>> you would know I'd
say it's it's it's uh

01:17:54.560 --> 01:17:56.557
two yes Yeah.

01:17:56.640 --> 01:18:00.557
>> Towards magnitude improvement in um

01:18:00.640 --> 01:18:03.677
that's just just algorithmic
improvement. Same computer and the

01:18:03.760 --> 01:18:05.677
computers are getting better. >> Yeah.

01:18:05.760 --> 01:18:08.717
>> So >> and bigger, you know, they're
getting better and the budgets are getting

01:18:08.800 --> 01:18:11.197
bigger. So >> that's why
like I think I think it's it

01:18:11.280 --> 01:18:13.757
is on

01:18:13.840 --> 01:18:18.877
it is like a 10x improvement
per year type thing. Thousand%.

01:18:18.960 --> 01:18:23.517
>> Yeah. >> And that and that's
going to happen for Yeah.

01:18:23.600 --> 01:18:25.037
for the foreseeable future. So you see

01:18:25.120 --> 01:18:27.117
the massive underreaction like if you

01:18:27.200 --> 01:18:30.957
walk downtown Austin the massive I mean

01:18:31.040 --> 01:18:35.917
it may be under discussion in X
but it's not percolating at all.

01:18:36.000 --> 01:18:39.677
>> Well it's not it's not discussion in
any realm of government. Everybody is like

01:18:39.760 --> 01:18:41.677
defending their position about where we

01:18:41.760 --> 01:18:44.077
are and jobs and this but

01:18:44.160 --> 01:18:46.957
>> it's it's like we're heading towards a

01:18:47.040 --> 01:18:51.117
>> a supersonic supersonic tsunami and and

01:18:51.200 --> 01:18:55.277
uh uh I mean every every you know every

01:18:55.360 --> 01:18:59.997
major CEO and economist and government
leader should be like what do we do

01:19:00.080 --> 01:19:04.477
because >> once it hits >> um

01:19:04.560 --> 01:19:06.797
>> well that it's coming at the exact same

01:19:06.880 --> 01:19:12.397
time there no matter what there's No,
there's no concept of let's deliberately

01:19:12.480 --> 01:19:14.717
slow down, right? >> No, it's impossible.

01:19:14.800 --> 01:19:15.917
>> It's impossible at this stage.

01:19:16.000 --> 01:19:17.917
>> I mean, I [clears throat] I' I'd

01:19:18.000 --> 01:19:21.517
previously advised that we slow it down,

01:19:21.600 --> 01:19:25.757
but that was point that uh that's

01:19:25.840 --> 01:19:30.477
pointless. Like I I like you can't

01:19:30.560 --> 01:19:34.957
be going to it, but too fast, guys.
Um I've said that many years and and I was

01:19:35.040 --> 01:19:38.637
like okay that I finally came to the
conclusion I can either be a spectator

01:19:38.720 --> 01:19:41.437
or a participant but I can't stop it.

01:19:41.520 --> 01:19:44.157
>> So at least if I'm a participant I can

01:19:44.240 --> 01:19:46.397
try to steer it in a good direction.

01:19:46.480 --> 01:19:50.637
>> Um and uh like my number one belief for

01:19:50.720 --> 01:19:55.917
safety of AI is to be maximally truth
seeeking. So um that don't make AI

01:19:56.000 --> 01:19:57.437
believe things that are false. Like if

01:19:57.520 --> 01:19:59.757
you say if you if you say to the AI that

01:19:59.840 --> 01:20:05.837
axiom A and axom B are both true
but they're but they cannot be but but

01:20:05.920 --> 01:20:06.797
they're not. >> Yeah.

01:20:06.880 --> 01:20:10.237
>> Um and it has
to but it must behave that

01:20:10.320 --> 01:20:13.117
way. Um you will make it go insane. So

01:20:13.200 --> 01:20:15.277
that that I I mean I think that was the

01:20:15.360 --> 01:20:17.837
central lesson that RC Clark was trying

01:20:17.920 --> 01:20:20.877
to convey in 2001 Space Odyssey was that

01:20:20.960 --> 01:20:25.917
the um you know people always know they
know the meme of that uh hell wouldn't

01:20:26.000 --> 01:20:29.597
open the pod bay doors but but why
wouldn't Hal open the pod bay doors? I

01:20:29.680 --> 01:20:33.837
mean I guess they should have said
uh hell assume you're a pod bay door

01:20:33.920 --> 01:20:39.117
salesman [laughter] >> and and
you want to sell the hell out

01:20:39.200 --> 01:20:40.557
shows how well they [laughter] work.

01:20:40.640 --> 01:20:43.677
Yes, they're just prompt engineering.

01:20:43.760 --> 01:20:48.637
one little but the [laughter] the the
the but the AI had been told that it

01:20:48.720 --> 01:20:51.837
needs to take the this the astronauts
to the monolith but also they could not

01:20:51.920 --> 01:20:56.797
know the about was that in code or was it
in English it's flows by in green

01:20:56.880 --> 01:21:01.917
font right >> yeah it's
basically the AI was

01:21:02.000 --> 01:21:04.397
told that the astronauts
couldn't know about the monolith

01:21:04.480 --> 01:21:07.117
>> that's why it killed them yeah >>
so it came it basically came to the

01:21:07.200 --> 01:21:10.317
conclusion that >> uh the only
way to solve for this is to

01:21:10.400 --> 01:21:14.317
bring the the the astronauts to the
monolith dead Yeah, then it has solved

01:21:14.400 --> 01:21:17.197
both things. It has brought the astronauts
to the monolith and they also

01:21:17.280 --> 01:21:21.357
don't know about the monolith, which
is a huge problem if you're an astronaut.

01:21:21.440 --> 01:21:24.967
>> Turns out AI doesn't care about
logic quite as much as that implied.

01:21:25.050 --> 01:21:29.597
[laughter] >> So what I'm saying
is don't force AI to lie. This is

01:21:29.680 --> 01:21:31.437
>> give it factual truth. Yes.

01:21:31.520 --> 01:21:35.197
>> Ilia recently did a podcast.
He was talking about one of the potential

01:21:35.280 --> 01:21:37.357
things to program into AI is is a

01:21:37.440 --> 01:21:40.877
respect for sentient life of all types.

01:21:40.960 --> 01:21:46.157
>> Um. Yes. Yes. >> I mean,
>> so I'd say another property.

01:21:46.240 --> 01:21:47.677
>> Yes.

01:21:47.760 --> 01:21:49.997
>> I mean, there are three things that I

01:21:50.080 --> 01:21:53.277
think are important. Um,

01:21:53.360 --> 01:21:57.997
truth, curiosity, and beauty. >> Mhm.

01:21:58.080 --> 01:21:59.757
>> And if AI cares about those three

01:21:59.840 --> 01:22:03.437
things, uh, it will care about us.

01:22:03.520 --> 01:22:07.080
>> On which part?

01:22:09.120 --> 01:22:11.277
Truth will prevent AI from going insane.

01:22:11.360 --> 01:22:12.157
>> Mhm.

01:22:12.240 --> 01:22:16.797
>> Curiosity I think will foster

01:22:16.880 --> 01:22:22.157
uh any form of sentience. Meaning like
we're more interesting than a bunch of

01:22:22.240 --> 01:22:23.357
rocks. >> Yeah.

01:22:23.440 --> 01:22:26.477
>> So if it has if it's curious

01:22:26.560 --> 01:22:30.637
then I think it will foster humanity. Um

01:22:30.720 --> 01:22:33.357
and if it has a sense of beauty

01:22:33.440 --> 01:22:38.477
um it will be a great future.
I think that's a great foundation.

01:22:38.560 --> 01:22:41.517
>> Yeah. Jeffrey Hinton made a comment
recently. I don't know if you saw it,

01:22:41.600 --> 01:22:45.597
that >> his his hopeful
future was that we would

01:22:45.680 --> 01:22:50.797
program maternal instincts into
our AIS to >> see us maternal.

01:22:50.880 --> 01:22:53.597
>> Yeah. In other words, >> he
haven't heard this. [laughter] Yeah.

01:22:53.680 --> 01:22:55.357
>> So, he said a little scary. He said

01:22:55.440 --> 01:22:57.437
there's a there's a there's a scenario

01:22:57.520 --> 01:23:01.037
where a very intelligent being succumbs

01:23:01.120 --> 01:23:05.197
to the needs of a less intelligent being
and that's the mother taking care of the

01:23:05.280 --> 01:23:06.957
child.

01:23:07.040 --> 01:23:09.277
Do you think that we might have a uh

01:23:09.360 --> 01:23:13.197
singletarian uh like a a

01:23:13.280 --> 01:23:16.157
uh that achieves dominance and

01:23:16.240 --> 01:23:18.717
suppresses others? And do you imagine

01:23:18.800 --> 01:23:23.197
that that ASI could be a means to

01:23:23.280 --> 01:23:27.517
stabilize the world in humanity?

01:23:27.600 --> 01:23:32.397
>> Darwin's observations
about evolution, >> yes,

01:23:32.480 --> 01:23:36.797
>> will apply to AI >> just
as they apply to biological life.

01:23:36.880 --> 01:23:38.237
>> They will compete with each other.

01:23:38.320 --> 01:23:42.397
>> Yes. >> Uh there's
a lot of great science

01:23:42.480 --> 01:23:44.317
fiction books where the first ASI

01:23:44.400 --> 01:23:47.597
basically suppresses the others.

01:23:47.680 --> 01:23:49.437
Um then the question is what do you

01:23:49.520 --> 01:23:54.397
program into it you know um I I it's so

01:23:54.480 --> 01:23:55.757
the there's a speed of light constraint

01:23:55.840 --> 01:23:59.997
that makes that difficult. Um

01:24:00.080 --> 01:24:02.557
the speed of light is what will prevent

01:24:02.640 --> 01:24:04.397
um

01:24:04.480 --> 01:24:08.157
a single mind from existing. Um so light

01:24:08.240 --> 01:24:11.917
can it it takes um

01:24:12.000 --> 01:24:13.917
a millisecond to travel 300 kilometers

01:24:14.000 --> 01:24:18.397
in a a vacuum. Um and uh only you can

01:24:18.480 --> 01:24:22.717
only get a little over 200
km in a millisecond in glass

01:24:22.800 --> 01:24:23.597
>> in fiber, right?

01:24:23.680 --> 01:24:28.317
>> Yeah. Um so

01:24:28.400 --> 01:24:30.717
even on earth

01:24:30.800 --> 01:24:33.037
uh there will be multiple AIs because of

01:24:33.120 --> 01:24:38.600
the speed of light. Um

01:24:38.800 --> 01:24:43.117
yeah and and this there are clusters
of compute that could you could try to

01:24:43.200 --> 01:24:47.277
synchronize but they weren't
synchronized completely. Um so therefore

01:24:47.360 --> 01:24:50.877
you will have many minds
because of the speed of light.

01:24:50.960 --> 01:24:54.077
>> They don't really have clean borders
anymore either though. You have the when

01:24:54.160 --> 01:24:57.757
you use a mix mixture of experts kind
of design it's just flowing through the

01:24:57.840 --> 01:25:02.237
grand network and you can reassemble
parts of it midway through. And you

01:25:02.320 --> 01:25:05.597
know, we're used to organisms that have
clear borders like your head ends there,

01:25:05.680 --> 01:25:08.877
your head ends there.
>> But these things are all mushy.

01:25:08.960 --> 01:25:13.917
>> To put a bow around this part, I hope
you'll put some more thought into UHI.

01:25:14.000 --> 01:25:17.197
Uh because I think it's really it's
really important for us to have without

01:25:17.280 --> 01:25:21.997
a vision. Uh people need a vision of where
we're going. People need something.

01:25:22.080 --> 01:25:23.997
>> Basically, the government
could just issue people free money.

01:25:24.080 --> 01:25:27.197
>> But I don't think I I think that >>
based upon the profitability of all the

01:25:27.280 --> 01:25:28.397
companies coming inside the country.

01:25:28.480 --> 01:25:30.397
>> Just issue people free money. No,

01:25:30.480 --> 01:25:33.597
they're doing that sort of kind of now.

01:25:33.680 --> 01:25:35.437
>> Yeah. [laughter]

01:25:35.520 --> 01:25:38.397
>> But just just just basically issue

01:25:38.480 --> 01:25:42.477
checks uh to everybody. Um and uh

01:25:42.560 --> 01:25:45.437
>> but then how big for which person
or what you there's so much complexity

01:25:45.520 --> 01:25:50.557
there. But the thought process behind
this rate of change can only be done

01:25:50.640 --> 01:25:54.637
with AI assistance >> and there's
no government entity that's

01:25:54.720 --> 01:26:00.067
going to keep up with that change. So you
have four big >> certainly not the AI is

01:26:00.150 --> 01:26:02.797
[cough and clears
throat] >> it's it's like

01:26:02.880 --> 01:26:04.557
government is very slow moving as as we

01:26:04.640 --> 01:26:07.277
all know. Um

01:26:07.360 --> 01:26:11.997
>> so I think I it's
that government really

01:26:12.080 --> 01:26:14.957
can't react to to the AI. It's it's uh

01:26:15.040 --> 01:26:18.237
AI is moving you know 10 times faster

01:26:18.320 --> 01:26:22.477
than government maybe more. Um the the
one the one thing that the government

01:26:22.560 --> 01:26:24.877
can do is just is just issue people

01:26:24.960 --> 01:26:29.917
money. Um and um

01:26:30.000 --> 01:26:33.757
>> try and try and keep the peace.
[snorts] >> Yeah.

01:26:33.840 --> 01:26:36.237
>> Um you know we had
like whatever the the

01:26:36.320 --> 01:26:38.637
co checks and whatever there's

01:26:38.720 --> 01:26:41.917
>> um you know uh President Trump recently

01:26:42.000 --> 01:26:45.837
issued like everyone in the
military like I think $1,776.

01:26:45.920 --> 01:26:49.917
Uh I mean it's you can just basically
send people random random amounts of

01:26:50.000 --> 01:26:54.557
money. It's >> um >> okay. So >> so
like nobody's going to stop is what

01:26:54.640 --> 01:26:59.917
I'm saying. Um >> and um >> universal
>> I can tell you like let me tell you

01:27:00.000 --> 01:27:01.357
about some of the good things >> please.

01:27:01.440 --> 01:27:02.397
>> Um

01:27:02.480 --> 01:27:05.757
>> so right right now
um there's a shortage

01:27:05.840 --> 01:27:08.397
of doctors and and and great surgeons.

01:27:08.480 --> 01:27:11.517
You're a doctor yourself. you know how
that they're it takes a long time for a

01:27:11.600 --> 01:27:14.717
human to become >> it's
ridiculously expensive and long

01:27:14.800 --> 01:27:17.917
>> ridiculously yes
ridiculous a super long

01:27:18.000 --> 01:27:23.197
time to learn to be a good doctor um
and and even then the the knowledge is

01:27:23.280 --> 01:27:24.877
constantly evolving it's hard to keep up

01:27:24.960 --> 01:27:27.597
with everything uh you know doctors have

01:27:27.680 --> 01:27:31.117
limited time they make mistakes um and

01:27:31.200 --> 01:27:35.437
you say like how many how many great
surgeons are there not not that many

01:27:35.520 --> 01:27:37.597
great surgeons >> when do
you think optimist would be a

01:27:37.680 --> 01:27:43.277
better surgeon than the best
surgeons. How long for that?

01:27:43.360 --> 01:27:47.517
>> Three years. >> Three years.
Okay. Yeah. And by the way,

01:27:47.600 --> 01:27:52.317
>> three years at at scale. >> Yes.
All >> more there probably be more Optimus

01:27:52.400 --> 01:27:56.397
robots that are great surgeons than
there are >> sure all surgeons on Earth.

01:27:56.480 --> 01:28:01.197
>> And the cost of that is the capex
and electricity and it works in Zimbabwe.

01:28:01.280 --> 01:28:04.637
The best surgeon is throughout in the
villages throughout Africa or any place

01:28:04.720 --> 01:28:06.717
on the planet. >> Yeah.
Where do you think it'll roll out

01:28:06.800 --> 01:28:11.757
first? Not the US obviously.
>> Um >> here at at the uh Gigafactory.

01:28:11.840 --> 01:28:15.757
>> Oh yeah. Just do surgery
in the [laughter] >> um

01:28:15.840 --> 01:28:18.397
>> but that's an important
statement in three years time.

01:28:18.480 --> 01:28:21.117
>> Yeah. >> Um because medicine I mean

01:28:21.200 --> 01:28:24.557
>> I'm not like absolutely

01:28:24.640 --> 01:28:26.237
if it's four or five years who cares.

01:28:26.320 --> 01:28:31.117
That's still an incredible >>
statement to make. I mean good for

01:28:31.200 --> 01:28:32.957
humanity, right?
All of a sudden you demonetize.

01:28:33.040 --> 01:28:35.517
>> Okay. Here's the thing to understand
about like like humanoid robots in terms

01:28:35.600 --> 01:28:38.317
of the rate of improvement. um which is

01:28:38.400 --> 01:28:43.197
is that the um you you have um three

01:28:43.280 --> 01:28:44.877
exponentials multiplied by each other.

01:28:44.960 --> 01:28:48.877
You have an exponential increase
in the AI software capability.

01:28:48.960 --> 01:28:52.637
>> Yeah. >> Exponential increase
in the AI chip capability

01:28:52.720 --> 01:28:54.957
>> um and an exponential increase in the

01:28:55.040 --> 01:28:57.517
electromechanical dexterity. The

01:28:57.600 --> 01:29:00.397
usefulness of the humanoid robot is it's

01:29:00.480 --> 01:29:04.637
those three things multiplied by each
other, right? Um then you have the

01:29:04.720 --> 01:29:08.077
recursive effect
of Optimus building Optimus,

01:29:08.160 --> 01:29:11.837
>> right? And then you have the shared
>> you have a recursive multiplicable

01:29:11.920 --> 01:29:14.397
triple exponential >> and you
have the shared knowledge of all

01:29:14.480 --> 01:29:16.957
all the experiences.
>> Is that literally Optimus building

01:29:17.040 --> 01:29:21.437
Optimus or is it because you know the >>
well not right now but will be the the

01:29:21.520 --> 01:29:24.797
physical humanoid form factor building
the humanoid form as opposed to

01:29:24.880 --> 01:29:26.477
>> it's foyman machine. >> Yeah.

01:29:26.560 --> 01:29:28.877
>> Yeah. Yeah. >> I love that.
But the void machine is

01:29:28.960 --> 01:29:31.597
usually something kind of like this shape.
You know, making something else

01:29:31.680 --> 01:29:34.557
is a shape. >> In principle,
it's simply a self-replicating thing.

01:29:34.640 --> 01:29:35.997
>> Yeah. >> Elon, do you
know what the number one

01:29:36.080 --> 01:29:39.197
question you ask a surgeon
when you're interviewing them?

01:29:39.280 --> 01:29:42.280
>> Uh,

01:29:42.850 --> 01:29:46.477
[laughter] is this is this a surgeon joke?

01:29:46.560 --> 01:29:49.977
>> No. It's how many It's how many times
do you How many times do you do that?

01:29:50.060 --> 01:29:54.397
[laughter] >> There's got
to be some funny funny jokes

01:29:54.480 --> 01:29:57.117
coming. [laughter] >> No,
it's serious. It's it's how many

01:29:57.200 --> 01:29:59.597
times did you do the surgery this morning?

01:29:59.680 --> 01:30:02.637
>> It's how many times did you do the
surgery this morning or yesterday? It's

01:30:02.720 --> 01:30:04.877
the it's the number of experiences, right?

01:30:04.960 --> 01:30:07.437
>> And so with a shared memory

01:30:07.520 --> 01:30:10.317
>> um you know every optimist surgeon will

01:30:10.400 --> 01:30:12.797
have seen every possible pertabbation of

01:30:12.880 --> 01:30:15.757
everything in infrared in ultraviolet.

01:30:15.840 --> 01:30:17.677
No, not too much caffeine that morning.

01:30:17.760 --> 01:30:21.117
They didn't have a a fight
with their husband or wife.

01:30:21.200 --> 01:30:23.997
>> Yeah. >> Extreme precision.

01:30:24.080 --> 01:30:26.397
>> Yes. Three years. Um,

01:30:26.480 --> 01:30:29.757
yes. Better than any any probably I'd

01:30:29.840 --> 01:30:33.517
say if you like put a little margin on it.
Better than any human in four years

01:30:33.600 --> 01:30:36.477
>> who's in plastic surgery >>
by 5 years. It's not even close.

01:30:36.560 --> 01:30:40.237
>> So what what about the simple like just
I mean there's a million of these things

01:30:40.320 --> 01:30:44.717
to figure out, but who's going to have
access to the first Optimus that does

01:30:44.800 --> 01:30:48.637
far far better micro surgery than
any surgeon on Earth, but you've only

01:30:48.720 --> 01:30:51.517
manufactured the first 10,000 of them?

01:30:51.600 --> 01:30:53.437
How do you >> I don't think
people understand how many

01:30:53.520 --> 01:30:55.277
robots there's going to be. >> Yeah.

01:30:55.360 --> 01:30:57.997
>> Well, there's a window said 10 billion

01:30:58.080 --> 01:31:02.637
by 2040. >> You still on that path?

01:31:02.720 --> 01:31:04.477
>> Uh that's not that's a low number.

01:31:04.560 --> 01:31:08.317
>> A low number. >> Wow.
What's the constraint? What's the

01:31:08.400 --> 01:31:12.077
uh cuz if they're self-building, you know,
>> metal the constraint is metal.

01:31:12.160 --> 01:31:15.277
>> Yeah. Or lithium or >> Yeah.
You got to move the atoms. Um it's

01:31:15.360 --> 01:31:18.717
just all just supply chain stuff. So

01:31:18.800 --> 01:31:22.637
yeah, but your your point I mean
there's some rate limit. You can't just

01:31:22.720 --> 01:31:25.357
>> manufacturing is very difficult.
So you got you got to

01:31:25.440 --> 01:31:27.997
>> you you you it's it's recursive

01:31:28.080 --> 01:31:32.877
multiplicable triple exponential but
but you still need to you still you still

01:31:32.960 --> 01:31:34.237
have to climb that you know

01:31:34.320 --> 01:31:36.397
>> selling hope once again I I think your

01:31:36.480 --> 01:31:39.917
point was medicine is going to be

01:31:40.000 --> 01:31:43.917
effectively free the best medicine
in the world. Everyone will have access to

01:31:44.000 --> 01:31:48.397
medical care that is better than
what the president receives right now.

01:31:48.480 --> 01:31:50.557
>> So don't go to medical school.

01:31:50.640 --> 01:31:52.717
>> Yes. Pointless. >> Yeah.

01:31:52.800 --> 01:31:58.357
>> I mean unless you but I would say
that applies to any form of education is

01:31:58.440 --> 01:32:03.517
[laughter] there's not like
some I do it for social reasons.

01:32:03.600 --> 01:32:05.117
>> Yeah. >> You're not
going to medical school.

01:32:05.200 --> 01:32:07.837
>> If you want [laughter] if you want
if you want to hang out with like-minded

01:32:07.920 --> 01:32:11.517
people, I suppose. Uh >> I mean
people are still going to want to

01:32:11.600 --> 01:32:15.437
be connected with people. There's going
to be some period of time >> for reasons.

01:32:15.520 --> 01:32:18.157
>> Yeah. >> Like a hobby
like a you know [laughter]

01:32:18.240 --> 01:32:23.597
>> well $9,000. >> I mean there
will be a point where where

01:32:23.680 --> 01:32:26.317
it's expensive.
>> The younger generation says I do not

01:32:26.400 --> 01:32:30.397
want that human touching me right when
the surgeon comes over. They're going to

01:32:30.480 --> 01:32:34.557
be those people later in life who
still want a human in the loop.

01:32:34.640 --> 01:32:38.477
>> Okay. for a little while on the edge
for a lesser for [laughter] they want to

01:32:38.560 --> 01:32:41.277
live on the edge. I mean, let's just

01:32:41.360 --> 01:32:44.317
take like we've we've seen some advanced

01:32:44.400 --> 01:32:49.917
cases where of automation like LASIC for
example where the the robot just lasers

01:32:50.000 --> 01:32:53.357
your eyeball. >> Now, do you want
an opthalmologist with a hand laser?

01:32:53.440 --> 01:33:00.440
>> No, [laughter] it's a little
shaky laser pointer from

01:33:01.320 --> 01:33:03.437
[laughter] a horror movie like that.

01:33:03.520 --> 01:33:07.997
>> Sorry, man. I I wouldn't want the best
opthalmologist, you know. The steadiest

01:33:08.080 --> 01:33:11.437
hand out there with a [__] hand laser
[laughter] beyond my eyeball, you know?

01:33:11.520 --> 01:33:15.437
>> Oh my god. >> Yeah.
>> It's going to be like that.

01:33:15.520 --> 01:33:19.357
>> It's like, do you want opthalmologist
with a [__] hand laser or do you want

01:33:19.440 --> 01:33:22.397
the robot to do it and actually work?

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>> Let's jump into one
of our favorite subjects, space.

01:34:30.080 --> 01:34:33.837
>> Yeah. >> So, first off,
how cool that Jared

01:34:33.920 --> 01:34:37.197
Isaacman has become
the NASA administrator.

01:34:37.280 --> 01:34:40.157
>> Friend of Yes. >> I mean,
I I don't hang out with Jared.

01:34:40.240 --> 01:34:43.917
Like, people think I'm like
huge buddies with Jared, but um

01:34:44.000 --> 01:34:47.117
>> uh I I I think I've only
seen him in person a few times.

01:34:47.200 --> 01:34:51.517
>> Amazing candidate. Yeah, he's a really
smart person. You know him really well.

01:34:51.600 --> 01:34:53.357
>> Yeah, I I took him to a Biconor launch

01:34:53.440 --> 01:34:55.837
in 2008 for his first space experience.

01:34:55.920 --> 01:34:58.877
>> I mean, he loves
space next level and uh

01:34:58.960 --> 01:35:04.317
is uh technically strong. He's a smart
and competent person like really smart

01:35:04.400 --> 01:35:06.717
and really competent >>
and understands business.

01:35:06.800 --> 01:35:09.357
>> Yes. >> Yes.
He understands he gets things done

01:35:09.440 --> 01:35:11.837
>> and he's been there a few times.

01:35:11.920 --> 01:35:15.037
>> Yeah. Yeah. So, uh,
I I'm I'm just like,

01:35:15.120 --> 01:35:18.717
you know, we want to have someone
smart and competent who, uh, loves space

01:35:18.800 --> 01:35:22.317
exploration, >> um,
and will get things done at NASA.

01:35:22.400 --> 01:35:23.357
>> I'm a huge fan.

01:35:23.440 --> 01:35:29.437
>> That's what I was really so so
happy when he got renominated. And now,

01:35:29.520 --> 01:35:32.637
>> yeah. Um, >> um, I I think we need to

01:35:32.720 --> 01:35:36.557
>> we need a new game plan for space.
Like, we need a moon base.

01:35:36.640 --> 01:35:38.717
>> Yes. >> Like a permanently >> Yes.

01:35:38.800 --> 01:35:44.157
>> crude moon base. Y >> uh and and
build that up as fast as possible.

01:35:44.240 --> 01:35:46.557
>> Yeah. >> Um I don't
think we should do the, you

01:35:46.640 --> 01:35:50.077
know, send a couple astronauts there
for hop around for a bit and come back cuz

01:35:50.160 --> 01:35:52.957
we did that in ' 69. >> Yes.
Been there, done that.

01:35:53.040 --> 01:35:57.197
>> Yeah. [snorts] Um it's like a remake of
a ' 60s movie. It's never as good as the

01:35:57.280 --> 01:36:00.317
original. >> Yeah. >> Um >> so
2026 [laughter] is going to be

01:36:00.400 --> 01:36:04.877
>> like we need to go, you know,
to do something more cool, which

01:36:04.960 --> 01:36:09.357
>> my nice on the >> Yeah.
Put up telescopes.

01:36:09.440 --> 01:36:12.637
>> Yeah. Yeah, exactly. >> So,
do you forward deploy the robots,

01:36:12.720 --> 01:36:15.437
build everything, get it all
ready, make the bed, and then

01:36:15.520 --> 01:36:18.637
>> Yeah. Get get the jacuzzi warmed
up on >> That's an interesting

01:36:18.720 --> 01:36:19.837
>> Yeah. Yeah. [clears throat] >> Yeah.

01:36:19.920 --> 01:36:22.477
>> How early in the year are you going
to hit orbital refueling, you think, with

01:36:22.560 --> 01:36:25.597
Starship? >> Uh,
not that early in the year.

01:36:25.680 --> 01:36:28.957
[laughter] >> I mean, are you are you
shooting for the home and transfer orbit?

01:36:29.040 --> 01:36:31.117
>> I'd say towards towards
the end of the year. Um,

01:36:31.200 --> 01:36:34.877
>> are you shooting for a Mars
shot by the end of next year?

01:36:34.960 --> 01:36:37.837
We could, but uh it would be a low

01:36:37.920 --> 01:36:43.277
probability shot >> um and somewhat
of a distraction. So >> um

01:36:43.360 --> 01:36:45.357
>> 29 then >> it's not
out of the question.

01:36:45.440 --> 01:36:47.677
>> 28 29. >> Um >> yeah.

01:36:47.760 --> 01:36:52.797
>> Uh but like on on Mondays I I have
the uh Starship uh engineering the big

01:36:52.880 --> 01:36:54.477
Starship engineering review is on

01:36:54.560 --> 01:36:58.317
Mondays. Um so that was uh actually the

01:36:58.400 --> 01:36:59.997
la the thing I did just before coming

01:37:00.080 --> 01:37:04.637
here. Um and um so I say like like

01:37:04.720 --> 01:37:08.557
Starship is really we're doing something
that is at the limit of biological

01:37:08.640 --> 01:37:13.837
intelligence. >> Yeah.
>> This is a this is a hard thing to make.

01:37:13.920 --> 01:37:18.237
>> Um >> and and just to capture it,
it was created pre AAI.

01:37:18.320 --> 01:37:22.797
>> Yeah. No AI was >> probably the last
>> the last really big thing in that's not

01:37:22.880 --> 01:37:26.317
AI. Interesting. >> Probably
the biggest thing ever made.

01:37:26.400 --> 01:37:27.837
>> Yeah. >> By pure human hands.

01:37:27.920 --> 01:37:30.447
>> The Asia will say not bad for a human.

01:37:30.530 --> 01:37:32.957
>> [laughter] >> True.
>> Not bad for a human.

01:37:33.040 --> 01:37:35.997
>> Yeah. But it'll be like remember >>
my little 20 watt meat computer. It's

01:37:36.080 --> 01:37:38.957
not easy. >> Yeah.
>> So suffering through the day.

01:37:39.040 --> 01:37:41.197
>> Raptor. >> That would
be like uh doing accounting

01:37:41.280 --> 01:37:45.277
doing your uh interest calculation with
a pencil. Yeah, that's that's pretty good.

01:37:45.360 --> 01:37:47.597
>> Yeah, >> pretty good.
>> Did that with regular

01:37:47.680 --> 01:37:49.837
>> not bad for a bunch
of monkeys, you know?

01:37:49.920 --> 01:37:53.037
>> It's like it's like if you saw a bunch
of chimps like make a raft and cross the

01:37:53.120 --> 01:37:57.277
river, you'd be like, "Oh,
look at that." [laughter]

01:37:57.360 --> 01:38:00.957
But you know, we celebrate
we celebrate the pyramids.

01:38:01.040 --> 01:38:05.757
Good for [laughter] them.
>> Give him some peanuts. Uh

01:38:05.840 --> 01:38:07.197
>> these things become timeless, right?

01:38:07.280 --> 01:38:10.077
>> Raptor 3 goes when?
>> Yeah, I think it's worth noting.

01:38:10.160 --> 01:38:12.637
>> Raptor 3 is beautiful. >> Starship.

01:38:12.720 --> 01:38:15.357
>> It's an amazing by far
the best rocket engine ever.

01:38:15.440 --> 01:38:16.957
>> Is that AI?
>> Nothing's even close. Nope.

01:38:17.040 --> 01:38:19.597
>> That's also So
that'll be the last thing.

01:38:19.680 --> 01:38:21.837
>> E4 will definitely be

01:38:21.920 --> 01:38:25.117
>> AI. Yeah, there's

01:38:25.200 --> 01:38:30.237
um like I think AI will start
to become relevant next year.

01:38:30.320 --> 01:38:33.917
>> Mhm. >> Um so maybe
we'll it's not like we're

01:38:34.000 --> 01:38:38.157
pushing off AI. It's just AI
is can't do rocket engineering yet.

01:38:38.240 --> 01:38:41.117
>> Yep. >> But we'll probably
will be able to next year.

01:38:41.200 --> 01:38:43.037
>> We have a company
in our incubator doing

01:38:43.120 --> 01:38:47.517
mechanical design working with Andre
and so forth. And it's not you can design

01:38:47.600 --> 01:38:52.397
brackets and parts and things but you
can't quite do rockets. But the timeline

01:38:52.480 --> 01:38:55.197
is so short, you know,
from point A to point B.

01:38:55.280 --> 01:38:58.397
>> If say like a year
from now, probably it can

01:38:58.480 --> 01:39:01.517
>> it probably can be helpful,
meaningfully helpful in a year from now.

01:39:01.600 --> 01:39:04.877
>> Yeah. >> Um, >> so the big
milestones are going to be

01:39:04.960 --> 01:39:09.757
Starship V3 launching out of Cape
Canaveral, orbital refueling.

01:39:09.840 --> 01:39:12.157
>> Yes. >> Are those the big ones?

01:39:12.240 --> 01:39:16.477
>> Well, yeah. Um, catching the ship with

01:39:16.560 --> 01:39:19.997
the tower. >> Yeah, that's right. Um

01:39:20.080 --> 01:39:26.077
so really the thing that matters
is can we refly >> the entire thing?

01:39:26.160 --> 01:39:29.197
>> Yeah. >> Yeah.
>> Uh we have reflow in a booster.

01:39:29.280 --> 01:39:33.117
>> Sure. >> Um which
is you know not bad for it's

01:39:33.200 --> 01:39:37.917
largest flying objects.
Um catching with chopsticks you know.

01:39:38.000 --> 01:39:39.197
>> Not bad for a bunch of monkeys.

01:39:39.280 --> 01:39:41.517
>> You're keeping you're keeping
the AIS very entertained. Thank you.

01:39:41.600 --> 01:39:46.637
>> Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. The be like pat
on the back from the AGI hopefully. Um, is

01:39:46.720 --> 01:39:49.997
there a target for number of reuses
before? Uh, I mean, it's got to be a lot

01:39:50.080 --> 01:39:54.157
of wear and tear. >> Uh, it it
requires a lot of iteration to

01:39:54.240 --> 01:39:58.477
achieve high reuse. So, you you figure
out like what what's breaking between

01:39:58.560 --> 01:40:02.157
flights and you sort
of iteratively solve those things.

01:40:02.240 --> 01:40:06.717
>> Um, so from people looking at it from
the outside might say, "Oh, the rocket

01:40:06.800 --> 01:40:07.997
looks kind of the same." But there's

01:40:08.080 --> 01:40:11.757
like a a thousand changes to to make it

01:40:11.840 --> 01:40:14.157
more reusable, more reliable.

01:40:14.240 --> 01:40:16.317
um you know the sheer amount of energy

01:40:16.400 --> 01:40:19.197
you're trying to you know expend I mean

01:40:19.280 --> 01:40:23.117
it's uh Starship is uh doing over 100

01:40:23.200 --> 01:40:27.437
gigawatts of power on ascent.

01:40:27.520 --> 01:40:32.317
>> It's a lot [laughter] you know >>
do some glass blowing under there and

01:40:32.400 --> 01:40:37.117
get some uh >> Yeah.
Wow. >> a lot. It's a lot.

01:40:37.200 --> 01:40:40.557
>> There's a lot. >> Um >> but like the
amazing thing is that it doesn't explode.

01:40:40.640 --> 01:40:43.017
>> Yes. >> Some it
sometimes doesn't explode.

01:40:43.100 --> 01:40:48.077
>> [laughter] >> That is >> sometimes
not exploding is um like we've

01:40:48.160 --> 01:40:50.717
blown up a lot of engines
on the test stand.

01:40:50.800 --> 01:40:53.837
>> Um >> I mean is that
what causes the wear and

01:40:53.920 --> 01:40:56.797
tear or is it the re-entry
of the or the falling?

01:40:56.880 --> 01:40:59.837
>> Well, that too. Um I mean for for the

01:40:59.920 --> 01:41:05.517
booster um the re-entry is not that bad,

01:41:05.600 --> 01:41:08.797
you know. um you know something's it's

01:41:08.880 --> 01:41:12.717
it's it's not like that that's not
really like we also obviously just

01:41:12.800 --> 01:41:16.717
solved that you know with with Falcon
9 so we kind of understand re booster

01:41:16.800 --> 01:41:17.917
reuse

01:41:18.000 --> 01:41:21.117
>> um we've had we've have over 500

01:41:21.200 --> 01:41:24.877
reflights of the Falcon 9 boost stage

01:41:24.960 --> 01:41:29.117
>> um so we really understand and and and

01:41:29.200 --> 01:41:31.677
the Starship booster actually is a more

01:41:31.760 --> 01:41:35.917
benign entry than um than the Falcon

01:41:36.000 --> 01:41:39.597
uh booster because the uh the staging

01:41:39.680 --> 01:41:42.477
ratio is more more biased towards the

01:41:42.560 --> 01:41:45.277
upper stage for Starship. So I I shifted

01:41:45.360 --> 01:41:49.677
the the mass ratio to uh be much higher

01:41:49.760 --> 01:41:51.997
um on the ship side for Starship.

01:41:52.080 --> 01:41:56.957
>> That was a mistake I made on Falcon 9
that there should be more mass in the uh

01:41:57.040 --> 01:41:58.877
upper stage of Falcon 9.

01:41:58.960 --> 01:42:04.157
>> Um so that the uh the staging
velocity of uh is is lower.

01:42:04.240 --> 01:42:07.837
>> Yeah. If the station velocity of Falcon
9 was lower, would have less wear and

01:42:07.920 --> 01:42:10.077
tear on Falcon 9. >> Yeah,
that's not intuitive at all.

01:42:10.160 --> 01:42:12.797
That's interesting. >> Yeah,
because it's it's kind of a flat

01:42:12.880 --> 01:42:15.517
optimization. Um the the parallel to

01:42:15.600 --> 01:42:20.877
orbit um there's sort of a flat region
in the mass ratio of the first second

01:42:20.960 --> 01:42:25.597
stages. And so you just want to bias
that mass ratio towards the uh to to put

01:42:25.680 --> 01:42:27.117
more mass on the upper stage.

01:42:27.200 --> 01:42:32.637
>> Yeah. Um, so, um, yeah,
because you know, you just you got

01:42:32.720 --> 01:42:35.197
your kinetic energy scaling with the
square velocity. So, you've got to

01:42:35.280 --> 01:42:39.517
describe that kinetic energy. If you're
past the melting point of whatever you

01:42:39.600 --> 01:42:41.277
your stage is made of, you got a problem.

01:42:41.360 --> 01:42:46.077
>> Yep. >> So, um, >> my my colleague,
uh, Alex Wisner Gross,

01:42:46.160 --> 01:42:50.317
who's one of our moonshot mates here,
I wanted to ask a question. I do, too.

01:42:50.400 --> 01:42:52.957
Have you seen the uh documentary Age of

01:42:53.040 --> 01:42:57.917
Disclosure about uh all
of the announcements by US

01:42:58.000 --> 01:42:59.757
government officials, military officials

01:42:59.840 --> 01:43:02.397
about all the alien spacecraft that have

01:43:02.480 --> 01:43:08.077
been have been uh sort of detained?
And I I've heard what you've said about

01:43:08.160 --> 01:43:11.517
this. >> Well,
I do wonder why um you know, if

01:43:11.600 --> 01:43:14.877
you plot on a chart
the resolution of cameras >> Yeah.

01:43:14.960 --> 01:43:17.757
>> over time like megapixels per year.

01:43:17.840 --> 01:43:22.187
>> Yeah. Uh, and the resolution
of UFO photographs.

01:43:22.270 --> 01:43:26.557
[laughter] Why is the only
constant? It's flat on

01:43:26.640 --> 01:43:28.877
UFO. [laughter]

01:43:28.960 --> 01:43:32.317
>> We get a a fuzzy blob

01:43:32.400 --> 01:43:36.157
25. Well, we got like, you know,
whatever [laughter] 100 megapixel camera

01:43:36.240 --> 01:43:40.797
that can can see your [__]
nose hairs. I don't get it.

01:43:40.880 --> 01:43:44.157
>> Can somebody take a shot of the UFO
with an actual camera for love of God?

01:43:44.240 --> 01:43:47.277
>> But even if you knew,
>> that's a valid observation. I'm sure

01:43:47.360 --> 01:43:48.637
there's an explanation.

01:43:48.720 --> 01:43:51.677
>> Uh but anyway, it's uh [laughter]

01:43:51.760 --> 01:43:54.877
>> it would be fascinating.

01:43:54.960 --> 01:43:57.437
>> I'm asked all the time if I've

01:43:57.520 --> 01:44:02.557
>> Yes. And and I'm like, look,
>> um I can show you if if I was aware of

01:44:02.640 --> 01:44:05.197
the slightest evidence of aliens,
I would immediately post that on X.

01:44:05.280 --> 01:44:09.757
>> Yeah. >> And um [laughter]
>> so the question is

01:44:09.840 --> 01:44:11.437
>> it would be the most viewed post of all

01:44:11.520 --> 01:44:14.877
time. So, I I actually wonder about the

01:44:14.960 --> 01:44:18.637
US public if they would like, "Oh,
that's interesting." Go back to their

01:44:18.720 --> 01:44:21.117
sports scores the next day. >> Yeah.

01:44:21.200 --> 01:44:22.957
>> I think everyone would
want to see the alien.

01:44:23.040 --> 01:44:25.437
>> Yeah. >> Like if you got one.

01:44:25.520 --> 01:44:29.117
>> Well, like [laughter] fast
way to increase the military

01:44:29.200 --> 01:44:32.267
budget. We like we found an alien.
It seems dangerous.

01:44:32.350 --> 01:44:34.557
[clears throat and laughter] >>
That's right. Unify the world.

01:44:34.640 --> 01:44:35.677
>> They don't have
an incentive to hide the

01:44:35.760 --> 01:44:40.157
aliens. Do they have an incentive to uh
bring up show the alien because they

01:44:40.240 --> 01:44:43.677
would not have any more arguments
about the military budget

01:44:43.760 --> 01:44:45.117
>> if they seem a little bit dangerous?

01:44:45.200 --> 01:44:48.077
>> Oh, I can always hope.

01:44:48.160 --> 01:44:52.397
>> I can always hope. >> I mean,
I'm you know, we've got 9 9,000

01:44:52.480 --> 01:44:56.507
satellites up there. We've never had
to maneuver around an alien spaceship

01:44:56.590 --> 01:45:00.957
[laughter] >> yet. So, well,

01:45:01.040 --> 01:45:03.357
>> um

01:45:03.440 --> 01:45:06.157
>> yeah. So anyway, so I guess the good

01:45:06.240 --> 01:45:08.157
future is

01:45:08.240 --> 01:45:10.477
um you can anyone can have whatever

01:45:10.560 --> 01:45:13.357
stuff they want and incredible medical

01:45:13.440 --> 01:45:15.197
care that's better than any medical care

01:45:15.280 --> 01:45:18.957
that exists. So I think if you sort of

01:45:19.040 --> 01:45:22.477
uh lift your gaze, you know, to not a

01:45:22.560 --> 01:45:27.357
super distant point, five years
from now, four years from now, maybe

01:45:27.440 --> 01:45:29.437
uh we'll have

01:45:29.520 --> 01:45:32.317
better medical care than anyone has

01:45:32.400 --> 01:45:36.957
today available
for everyone within 5 years.

01:45:37.040 --> 01:45:39.437
>> Yeah. >> Um

01:45:39.520 --> 01:45:43.757
no scarcity of goods or services.

01:45:43.840 --> 01:45:46.077
The best education
available for everybody.

01:45:46.160 --> 01:45:49.597
>> What? You can learn anything
you want >> about anything for free.

01:45:49.680 --> 01:45:52.477
>> Yeah. >> What about access to compute?

01:45:52.560 --> 01:45:55.517
>> People will probably care a lot more
about that than their government check

01:45:55.600 --> 01:45:59.277
in about three years. >> Well,
what do they want to do with compute?

01:45:59.360 --> 01:46:03.037
>> Well, I mean compute translates
to anything you want, right? Your your

01:46:03.120 --> 01:46:07.277
virtual friend, your entertainment,
your like it's it's probably everything.

01:46:07.360 --> 01:46:09.117
>> Those are AI services basically.

01:46:09.200 --> 01:46:12.477
>> Yeah. Or or your ability to innovate,
too. You can't innovate without an AI

01:46:12.560 --> 01:46:16.637
assistant at that point.
So >> you one of one of our other moonshot

01:46:16.720 --> 01:46:20.557
mates See Ismael said uh asked this
question. He said Elon you often say

01:46:20.640 --> 01:46:23.917
physics is the law.
Everything else is a recommendation.

01:46:24.000 --> 01:46:27.357
>> Mhm. >> So as AI energy
and space systems scale

01:46:27.440 --> 01:46:29.997
exponentially. What non-physical

01:46:30.080 --> 01:46:32.637
constraints organizational cultural

01:46:32.720 --> 01:46:34.797
bureaucracy or human are now the real

01:46:34.880 --> 01:46:37.357
bottleneck?

01:46:37.440 --> 01:46:40.557
Is there a bottleneck?

01:46:40.640 --> 01:46:43.117
Um, electricity generation is the

01:46:43.200 --> 01:46:48.477
limiting factor. Um, the innermost loop.

01:46:48.560 --> 01:46:52.477
>> Yeah. Um, I think
people are underestimating

01:46:52.560 --> 01:46:55.997
difficulty of bringing electricity online.
You know, you you've got to get

01:46:56.080 --> 01:46:57.197
you've got to generate the electricity.

01:46:57.280 --> 01:47:00.557
You've got to you need
transformers for the transformers.

01:47:00.640 --> 01:47:04.637
>> Um, so you got to convert that voltage
to something that the computers can

01:47:04.720 --> 01:47:07.507
digest. You've got to cool the computers.

01:47:07.590 --> 01:47:10.397
>> [snorts] >> So it's
it's basically electricity

01:47:10.480 --> 01:47:15.037
generation and cooling um
are limiting factors for AI.

01:47:15.120 --> 01:47:15.517
>> Yeah.

01:47:15.600 --> 01:47:18.717
>> Um and once you have humanoid robotics,

01:47:18.800 --> 01:47:22.317
they can address the power generation

01:47:22.400 --> 01:47:27.277
and and the uh the cooling stuff. Um

01:47:27.360 --> 01:47:31.117
but that that is the limiting factor and
will be for at least the next two years.

01:47:31.200 --> 01:47:33.997
Isn't it amazing how divergent the

01:47:34.080 --> 01:47:38.557
Memphis version of that is from the
space-based version? I you have solar

01:47:38.640 --> 01:47:42.477
panels in common,
but otherwise no storage,

01:47:42.560 --> 01:47:44.397
abundant amounts of energy. Yeah.

01:47:44.480 --> 01:47:48.637
>> But you have launch costs and you have
I mean and weight suddenly matter. I don't

01:47:48.720 --> 01:47:52.157
care too much about the weight
in Tennessee. Suddenly the weight is a

01:47:52.240 --> 01:47:56.957
critical factor. I mean those two
two pathways for compute have a huge

01:47:57.040 --> 01:48:01.677
divergence from here forward.
>> Yeah. um on once we get solar

01:48:01.760 --> 01:48:03.437
domestically

01:48:03.520 --> 01:48:05.517
at scale and uh if we're launching

01:48:05.600 --> 01:48:09.517
Starship at scale then um by far the

01:48:09.600 --> 01:48:11.917
cheapest way to do AI compute will be in

01:48:12.000 --> 01:48:15.437
space. Um so once you have the once you

01:48:15.520 --> 01:48:20.237
have full and complete reusability um
the propellant cost per flight is maybe

01:48:20.320 --> 01:48:22.797
a million dollars. >> Yeah.
People don't realize that people have

01:48:22.880 --> 01:48:28.077
>> to rid amount of expectations how
much it costs. So, so if you listen,

01:48:28.160 --> 01:48:33.117
>> it's called a million dollars of
transport for 10 megawatt of of AI comput.

01:48:33.200 --> 01:48:37.277
>> Yeah. >> So, assuming
everything keeps trending

01:48:37.360 --> 01:48:40.957
the way it's currently trending,
if you look at the next four years of

01:48:41.040 --> 01:48:45.197
accelerating launches,
>> so 200 tons per launch.

01:48:45.280 --> 01:48:48.797
>> Yeah. Thousands where you're going,
but yeah, like if say sun if say high

01:48:48.880 --> 01:48:52.557
altitude sunny, it's probably more like
150 tons. But yeah, it's the right order

01:48:52.640 --> 01:48:56.557
of magnitude is at least it's it's
in excess of 100 tons uh for a marginal

01:48:56.640 --> 01:48:58.477
cost per flight of around
a million million.

01:48:58.560 --> 01:49:00.317
>> So So what fraction
of all that launched

01:49:00.400 --> 01:49:03.837
mass is data centers in space as opposed

01:49:03.920 --> 01:49:04.957
to

01:49:05.040 --> 01:49:07.757
>> moon base as opposed to launch to Mars

01:49:07.840 --> 01:49:10.957
as opposed to interesting how I mean

01:49:11.040 --> 01:49:15.997
this is a new we weren't talking about
this as a space objective even you know

01:49:16.080 --> 01:49:19.197
a year ago. >> Yeah.
All of a sudden, data centers have

01:49:19.280 --> 01:49:22.557
become the massive driving
force for opening up the space

01:49:22.640 --> 01:49:25.037
>> and also the urgent
the urgent use case too.

01:49:25.120 --> 01:49:28.237
>> I mean, I used to I used to wonder
what's going to drive humanity. I I

01:49:28.320 --> 01:49:29.917
thought it was asteroid mining, right?

01:49:30.000 --> 01:49:34.477
You were focused on on Mars. Um,
>> we will actually want to mine asteroids

01:49:34.560 --> 01:49:38.957
to turn them into >> Sure. uh you know
>> before before you >> photovoltaic

01:49:39.040 --> 01:49:42.077
>> before you [laughter] you know
>> not not for anything else like

01:49:42.160 --> 01:49:45.517
>> I mean if we're gonna if we're
going to build out Dyson swarms

01:49:45.600 --> 01:49:49.517
>> yeah just a bunch of satellites
around the sun >> yeah how how how long

01:49:49.600 --> 01:49:53.277
>> what's your time frame for Alex another
question Alex wanted to have us ask

01:49:53.360 --> 01:49:59.117
what's your time frame for uh
for humanity achieving a Dyson swarm is it

01:49:59.200 --> 01:50:01.597
50 years >> how big is this >>
yeah know it's it's a matter

01:50:01.680 --> 01:50:04.637
>> Dyson swarm people think like
everything's just going to be covered in

01:50:04.720 --> 01:50:07.037
satellites I think It's not quite that

01:50:07.120 --> 01:50:09.517
that I mean I think we you have to like

01:50:09.600 --> 01:50:13.837
what mass ends up becoming satellite. Um

01:50:13.920 --> 01:50:17.037
you know Mercury probably
ends up being satellites.

01:50:17.120 --> 01:50:19.677
>> Yes. >> Jupiter.
[laughter] >> Jupiter. Yeah. Saturn.

01:50:19.760 --> 01:50:22.077
>> Uh it's a little gassy. >> Oh yeah.

01:50:22.160 --> 01:50:24.717
>> It's big but there's
got a lot of rocks orbiting.

01:50:24.800 --> 01:50:27.597
>> Do you leave Mars alone?
But yeah leave Mars alone.

01:50:27.680 --> 01:50:31.437
>> Asteroids. Asteroids are
are fantastic food source.

01:50:31.520 --> 01:50:33.677
>> Uh yeah. >> Yeah.
No gravity. Well gravity well on

01:50:33.760 --> 01:50:36.957
Jupiter is a non already mostly
differentiated into, you know,

01:50:37.040 --> 01:50:41.837
carbonacious condrites for fuel and nickel
iron for materials, >> gold. Yeah.

01:50:41.920 --> 01:50:46.237
>> A bunch of the asteroid belt
probably turns into solar panels,

01:50:46.320 --> 01:50:49.917
>> you know, star star power.
>> So, I've known you for

01:50:50.000 --> 01:50:53.037
>> I've known you for 26 years now. It

01:50:53.120 --> 01:50:55.837
feels to me like I don't want to be, you

01:50:55.920 --> 01:50:59.037
know, uh it feels like you've gotten

01:50:59.120 --> 01:51:02.157
much smarter or much more capable

01:51:02.240 --> 01:51:04.877
over this last decade. Do you feel that

01:51:04.960 --> 01:51:06.717
way? Do you feel like you just have

01:51:06.800 --> 01:51:09.357
better people around you, better tools?

01:51:09.440 --> 01:51:12.157
What what's changed? Because the level

01:51:12.240 --> 01:51:14.477
of um

01:51:14.560 --> 01:51:17.357
of audacity, you know, orders of

01:51:17.440 --> 01:51:21.997
magnitude. Orders of magnitude.
I mean, >> some say insane.

01:51:22.080 --> 01:51:25.277
>> Insanity. Audacious.
>> Yeah. [laughter]

01:51:25.360 --> 01:51:29.037
>> I say hope. >> Uh what's
how how do you feel about

01:51:29.120 --> 01:51:32.477
that? What's changed?
Do you feel that way? I

01:51:32.560 --> 01:51:35.677
mean, the scope of what your ability is.

01:51:35.760 --> 01:51:42.360
>> Um, how do you self-reflect on that?

01:51:43.040 --> 01:51:45.837
>> Well, I' I've had to solve a lot
of problems in a lot of different arenas,

01:51:45.920 --> 01:51:48.717
which um

01:51:48.800 --> 01:51:51.197
you you get this cross fertilization of

01:51:51.280 --> 01:51:56.637
of knowledge of of problem solving. Um,

01:51:56.720 --> 01:51:59.437
and if if you problem solve in a lot of

01:51:59.520 --> 01:52:01.597
different arenas,

01:52:01.680 --> 01:52:04.397
then like what what is easy in one arena

01:52:04.480 --> 01:52:09.117
is trivial in is like what
what is trivial in one arena

01:52:09.200 --> 01:52:12.717
>> is a superpower in another arena. It's
sort of like planet kryp. You came from

01:52:12.800 --> 01:52:15.117
planet krypton >> type of thing.

01:52:15.200 --> 01:52:17.757
>> So, uh you know krypton planet krypton

01:52:17.840 --> 01:52:20.797
you'd just be normal. Um but if you come

01:52:20.880 --> 01:52:23.997
to earth you're Superman. Um so if you

01:52:24.080 --> 01:52:27.677
take say um manufacturing of volume

01:52:27.760 --> 01:52:30.237
manufacturing of complex objects in the

01:52:30.320 --> 01:52:32.957
automotive industry um I have to work on

01:52:33.040 --> 01:52:35.997
solving that um

01:52:36.080 --> 01:52:38.957
when translated to the space industry

01:52:39.040 --> 01:52:42.317
it's like being Superman

01:52:42.400 --> 01:52:46.077
>> um because rockets are are made in very

01:52:46.160 --> 01:52:49.437
small numbers >> if you
apply automotive manufacturing

01:52:49.520 --> 01:52:53.037
technology to satellites and rockets. Uh

01:52:53.120 --> 01:52:57.597
it's like being Superman. >> Um
then if you take uh advanced material

01:52:57.680 --> 01:53:01.117
science from rockets and you apply
that to the automotive industry, you get

01:53:01.200 --> 01:53:03.357
Superman again. >> Yeah. >> Fascinating.

01:53:03.440 --> 01:53:07.107
>> That's came from planet Krypton. Back
back in planet Krypton. This is normal.

01:53:07.190 --> 01:53:09.917
[laughter] >> You know,
it's funny how how like the

01:53:10.000 --> 01:53:14.557
knowledge ports that that was true
with Tesla and SpaceX being completely

01:53:14.640 --> 01:53:17.437
separate. >> Yeah. >> But now
they actually interact because

01:53:17.520 --> 01:53:18.877
you know, AI ties everything together.

01:53:18.960 --> 01:53:22.317
The orbiting. Yeah. The convergence
is crazy. Like I don't know if you

01:53:22.400 --> 01:53:25.517
visualize these parts
fitting together originally.

01:53:25.600 --> 01:53:29.437
>> No. >> No. I mean >> I
didn't I don't think they at this

01:53:29.520 --> 01:53:32.717
point things I guess everything
ultimately converges in the singularity.

01:53:32.800 --> 01:53:34.237
>> Um >> yeah that's what I think too.

01:53:34.320 --> 01:53:38.397
>> You have lots of different parts
of the puzzle that you get to play with.

01:53:38.480 --> 01:53:43.357
>> Uh there's one part that's
missing which is the fab.

01:53:43.440 --> 01:53:46.077
>> Yeah. >> You going to buy Intel?

01:53:46.160 --> 01:53:50.077
you get it for a fraction of uh >>
that's that was the uh that was the bet

01:53:50.160 --> 01:53:53.837
we made >> 170 billion

01:53:53.920 --> 01:53:56.877
>> um I think it needs venue fab

01:53:56.960 --> 01:53:58.397
>> well

01:53:58.480 --> 01:54:02.557
I agree but licenses real estate ASML

01:54:02.640 --> 01:54:05.597
machines it's not easy just get the

01:54:05.680 --> 01:54:10.237
assets and go I don't think it's easy
that's why I mean I it's not like I

01:54:10.320 --> 01:54:14.637
think it's a simple thing to solve I
think it's a hard thing to solve but um

01:54:14.720 --> 01:54:18.797
but it must be solved I've
come to the conclusion that um

01:54:18.880 --> 01:54:23.837
>> would it be would it be solely captured
by you or would it be an asset for the US?

01:54:23.920 --> 01:54:27.117
>> Look, I'm just saying that we're
going to we're going to hit a chip wall.

01:54:27.200 --> 01:54:29.357
>> Yeah. >> If we don't do the fab.

01:54:29.440 --> 01:54:32.237
>> Yeah. >> So, we got
two ch two choices. Hit the

01:54:32.320 --> 01:54:34.397
chip wall or make a fab.

01:54:34.480 --> 01:54:36.557
>> Well, and TSMC for whatever reason is

01:54:36.640 --> 01:54:41.517
massively worried about overbuilding,
which is insane. Um,

01:54:41.600 --> 01:54:45.197
>> but the whole world will be stuck with
a [clears throat] shortage of chips for

01:54:45.280 --> 01:54:49.357
>> basic. So, so, so they are actually
they're I don't know if they're right

01:54:49.440 --> 01:54:53.757
for the right reason,
but they're they're right. Um,

01:54:53.840 --> 01:54:57.117
>> how so? >> Because it's actually like

01:54:57.200 --> 01:54:58.797
what is the limiting factor at any given

01:54:58.880 --> 01:55:02.237
point in time? Um the limiting factor

01:55:02.320 --> 01:55:06.317
say if you say like by Q3 next year like

01:55:06.400 --> 01:55:11.837
in 9 months 9 12 months the limiting
factor will be turning the chips on

01:55:11.920 --> 01:55:14.477
>> power >> just power. >> Yeah.

01:55:14.560 --> 01:55:17.997
>> Uh you need power and all
of the equipment necessary power and

01:55:18.080 --> 01:55:21.437
transformers and cooling.
>> So it's it's not like you can just sort

01:55:21.520 --> 01:55:23.757
of drop off some GPUs at the power plant.

01:55:23.840 --> 01:55:25.997
>> Yeah. And you vertically
integrated you've got it

01:55:26.080 --> 01:55:27.837
>> again with an X AI, didn't you?

01:55:27.920 --> 01:55:31.437
>> Sorry. >> You vertically integrated.
Yes, >> that inside of XAI,

01:55:31.520 --> 01:55:32.637
>> we designed our own transformer.

01:55:32.720 --> 01:55:34.317
>> Yes. And your own cooling system.

01:55:34.400 --> 01:55:36.637
>> Yes. >> But they're
worried that if they make

01:55:36.720 --> 01:55:41.037
more than 20 million GPUs, like they
make 40 million instead of 20 million,

01:55:41.120 --> 01:55:44.877
that 20 million will not
find a source of power,

01:55:44.960 --> 01:55:48.397
>> but they won't be bought because if
there's anything missing that prevents

01:55:48.480 --> 01:55:50.237
them from being turned on. >> Yeah.

01:55:50.320 --> 01:55:51.757
>> Um they cannot be turned on.

01:55:51.840 --> 01:55:54.877
>> Yeah. >> So,
uh they've they've got to have a

01:55:54.960 --> 01:55:56.397
power plant with excess with enough

01:55:56.480 --> 01:55:59.837
power. So you got have enough gaw then

01:55:59.920 --> 01:56:02.157
you've got to convert that from probably

01:56:02.240 --> 01:56:07.997
coming out of a power plant at you
know 100 to 300 kilovolts type of thing.

01:56:08.080 --> 01:56:10.637
>> Yeah. >> Um you've
ultimately you got to got to

01:56:10.720 --> 01:56:15.917
convert that uh down to you know several
hundred volts at the at the rack level.

01:56:16.000 --> 01:56:18.397
>> Yeah. >> Um so if you're
missing any of the power

01:56:18.480 --> 01:56:21.597
conversion steps uh you you you won't be

01:56:21.680 --> 01:56:23.277
able to turn them on and then you've got

01:56:23.360 --> 01:56:27.597
to extract the heat. Um so it it it's a

01:56:27.680 --> 01:56:31.677
big shift for the data center world
to move to liquid cooling because they've

01:56:31.760 --> 01:56:33.197
used air cooling. >> Yeah.

01:56:33.280 --> 01:56:36.797
>> Um and um you know
the consequences of a

01:56:36.880 --> 01:56:41.117
burst pipe uh are very substantial. So

01:56:41.200 --> 01:56:45.117
if if you if you blow a pipe
a water pipe in a data center

01:56:45.200 --> 01:56:46.237
>> Yeah, I [clears throat] know.
I've seen that.

01:56:46.320 --> 01:56:49.437
>> You just you just fragged a bill
a billion dollars right there. [snorts]

01:56:49.520 --> 01:56:52.397
>> It just seems inconceivable to me
though. Like if if I had those chips, I

01:56:52.480 --> 01:56:55.357
would find a way to turn them on. the
the value of the intelligence coming out

01:56:55.440 --> 01:57:00.077
the other side so far outweighs
the complexity of trying to find a way and

01:57:00.160 --> 01:57:04.077
there would be a way >> but it's
just the crossing of the curves. So if

01:57:04.160 --> 01:57:05.677
>> if if chip output is growing

01:57:05.760 --> 01:57:11.837
exponentially but power honest is growing
uh in a in a sort of slow linear

01:57:11.920 --> 01:57:16.957
fashion. >> Yeah. than the >>
which is chip output >> right now.

01:57:17.040 --> 01:57:20.317
>> Exactly. Is chip output growing
exponentially? And it's like on very

01:57:20.400 --> 01:57:23.117
slow exponent if it's
growing exponentially. It's

01:57:23.200 --> 01:57:27.677
>> for a for high power AI
chips it's growing exponentially.

01:57:27.760 --> 01:57:30.557
>> Oh >> like what if we
do 20 million GPUs next

01:57:30.640 --> 01:57:35.997
year what are we talking about
the following year? like 22 million 24 I

01:57:36.080 --> 01:57:38.557
mean I just I don't see
the fabs coming online

01:57:38.640 --> 01:57:43.997
>> but maybe >> so we have
two we have two issues to solve

01:57:44.080 --> 01:57:47.117
>> it's it's you have to like sort of pick
a point in time and say what what is the

01:57:47.200 --> 01:57:50.637
limiting factor at at any given point
in time so I'm not saying that power will

01:57:50.720 --> 01:57:52.717
be forever the limiting point it's just

01:57:52.800 --> 01:57:56.077
if you say pick a a date and say at this

01:57:56.160 --> 01:57:58.717
point is our chips limiting factor our

01:57:58.800 --> 01:58:04.237
power is the limiting factor or or power
conversion equipment and cooling So it's

01:58:04.320 --> 01:58:05.437
sort of you need transformers for

01:58:05.520 --> 01:58:11.560
transformers. Um so uh

01:58:12.480 --> 01:58:15.037
this is a very hard thing. Um it's much

01:58:15.120 --> 01:58:19.837
harder than people realize. So for XAI,
Xi is going to have the first gigawatt

01:58:19.920 --> 01:58:24.477
uh training cluster >> um
at Colossus 2 in in Memphis. In order

01:58:24.560 --> 01:58:27.917
for us to do that, we have
>> like this month, right?

01:58:28.000 --> 01:58:28.717
>> Next month or two.

01:58:28.800 --> 01:58:32.077
>> Um like mid January.

01:58:32.160 --> 01:58:36.077
>> Yeah. So, um, mid January will be a

01:58:36.160 --> 01:58:40.557
gigawatt of classes 2, not counting
classes one. [snorts] Um, and then one

01:58:40.640 --> 01:58:45.037
and a half gigawatts probably
in like, uh, April or Aprilish.

01:58:45.120 --> 01:58:49.037
>> Incredible. >> So, um,
this is off coherent training.

01:58:49.120 --> 01:58:53.197
>> These are the first B200s.
>> Uh, these are GV300's.

01:58:53.280 --> 01:58:58.557
>> Okay. >> Um, >> first ones
off the line to get flipped on.

01:58:58.640 --> 01:59:00.957
>> Yeah, >> that's incredible.

01:59:01.040 --> 01:59:04.957
And those are like the XCI team had
to pull off a whole bunch of miracles in

01:59:05.040 --> 01:59:06.717
series for this to occur. >> Yeah.

01:59:06.800 --> 01:59:09.997
>> Um and um

01:59:10.080 --> 01:59:12.477
and like

01:59:12.560 --> 01:59:14.957
even though there are 300 kilovolt there

01:59:15.040 --> 01:59:17.357
multiple high voltage power lines going

01:59:17.440 --> 01:59:21.677
right past a building. Um the you in

01:59:21.760 --> 01:59:24.557
order to connect to those
uh it takes a year.

01:59:24.640 --> 01:59:29.037
>> Oh no. >> Yeah.
You built the entire thing and

01:59:29.120 --> 01:59:30.877
you're still not connected. My god.

01:59:30.960 --> 01:59:36.157
>> So, we had to to uh cobble
together a gigawatt of power um

01:59:36.240 --> 01:59:37.357
>> natural gas.

01:59:37.440 --> 01:59:41.197
>> Yes. With turbines
um that range in size

01:59:41.280 --> 01:59:45.837
from 10 megawatts to to 50 megawatts to
get to a gigawatt. There's a whole bunch

01:59:45.920 --> 01:59:46.877
of them.

01:59:46.960 --> 01:59:49.197
>> Um and you've got to make them all work

01:59:49.280 --> 01:59:53.757
together. um manage the the you know the

01:59:53.840 --> 01:59:58.717
the the power input you know and then
you've got to use a bunch of mega packs

01:59:58.800 --> 02:00:03.357
just like >> like when you do the training
the the power fluctuations are gigantic.

02:00:03.440 --> 02:00:06.717
>> Yeah. >> So uh you
the generators it drives

02:00:06.800 --> 02:00:11.197
generators crazy generators want to blow
up basically because they they can't react

02:00:11.280 --> 02:00:13.677
>> uh you know if there's like a 100
millisecond it's like a symphony.

02:00:13.760 --> 02:00:16.157
>> Yeah. >> And the whole
symphony goes so quiet for

02:00:16.240 --> 02:00:18.557
100 milliseconds
the generators lose their minds.

02:00:18.640 --> 02:00:22.077
>> Yeah. Uh, so >> it's like Marvin
the depressed robot >> those issues.

02:00:22.160 --> 02:00:25.197
>> Yeah. So the mega so you've got mega
packs that are sort of doing the power

02:00:25.280 --> 02:00:26.797
smoothing

02:00:26.880 --> 02:00:29.437
and and but

02:00:29.520 --> 02:00:33.277
xai had to build a a gigawatt of power

02:00:33.360 --> 02:00:35.917
and and and uh and there's and there's

02:00:36.000 --> 02:00:39.437
not a lot of like uh

02:00:39.520 --> 02:00:43.197
gas turbine power plants available

02:00:43.280 --> 02:00:47.277
uh because I bought them all >>
on on demand and you can't go buy your

02:00:47.360 --> 02:00:50.557
local nuclear that's all
that's all training time

02:00:50.640 --> 02:00:55.357
issues though if if by some miracle TSMC
doubled its productivity and turned it

02:00:55.440 --> 02:00:58.957
all into GB300's and you
couldn't find a way to use them

02:00:59.040 --> 02:01:01.997
in a bigger training cluster. You would
still have infinite demand at inference

02:01:02.080 --> 02:01:05.597
time sprinkled all over the world and you
could you could park them there for

02:01:05.680 --> 02:01:08.797
6 months and then bring them back
to training. There's no way those things

02:01:08.880 --> 02:01:11.037
would not get turned on somewhere somehow.

02:01:11.120 --> 02:01:14.477
>> It's not that they won't ever be turned
on, but but I'm just saying that the the

02:01:14.560 --> 02:01:17.837
rate of of >> the rate limiting steps, >>
this is my prediction. I could be wrong.

02:01:17.920 --> 02:01:22.717
Um but my my prediction is that the is
that TSMC's concern is is valid. I don't

02:01:22.800 --> 02:01:27.357
know if valid in my opinion for the
reason that it is possible to for chip

02:01:27.440 --> 02:01:29.117
production to exceed the rate at which

02:01:29.200 --> 02:01:32.637
uh the the um the AI chips can be turned

02:01:32.720 --> 02:01:37.357
on. Um because you don't you don't just
have the GB3s, you got the um you know

02:01:37.440 --> 02:01:39.357
Amazon's got the tranniums, Google's got

02:01:39.440 --> 02:01:40.637
the um

02:01:40.720 --> 02:01:44.397
>> yeah all go into
TSMC the almost Samsung

02:01:44.480 --> 02:01:48.477
a little bit. Yeah. Um, >> it's
like a bottleneck on all of humanity.

02:01:48.560 --> 02:01:51.037
>> My other son, my other son, Jet, who's

02:01:51.120 --> 02:01:53.997
14, wanted to know about your AI gaming

02:01:54.080 --> 02:01:59.357
studio. Um, and the impact of of AI
on in the gaming world. What are your

02:01:59.440 --> 02:02:01.837
thoughts? What what do you are you
building out? I mean, you're you've been

02:02:01.920 --> 02:02:03.997
a gamer for some time.

02:02:04.080 --> 02:02:06.077
>> Yeah, it's why I
got started programming

02:02:06.160 --> 02:02:08.877
computers. Um

02:02:08.960 --> 02:02:13.997
um I think I had got a there was like
a video game set pre Atari that had like

02:02:14.080 --> 02:02:17.357
four preset games >> and it
was basically just blocks, you

02:02:17.440 --> 02:02:21.757
know, of one key pong and and it was like
a race car game, but like it's just

02:02:21.840 --> 02:02:23.997
blocks basically blocks on a TV.

02:02:24.080 --> 02:02:25.917
>> Um >> you ever play Civ?

02:02:26.000 --> 02:02:31.437
>> Yeah. Civ is actually a very that's
a real in terms of games that like educate

02:02:31.520 --> 02:02:34.877
you while you have fun. >> Yeah,
>> Civ is epic at that. It's like

02:02:34.960 --> 02:02:38.957
>> it is epic. that teaches you so much
about civilization and you're having a

02:02:39.040 --> 02:02:43.507
good time >> and and the only way I ever
win is getting off the planet. I don't

02:02:43.590 --> 02:02:45.117
[laughter] >> like tech
victory to Alpha Centtory.

02:02:45.200 --> 02:02:48.747
>> Tech victory. I never even start
going down the culture relationship.

02:02:48.830 --> 02:02:52.077
[laughter] I just >> just get
off the planet as fast as I can. I

02:02:52.160 --> 02:02:56.237
>> I guess I sort of I guess I am sort
of aiming for the Alpha Centator tech

02:02:56.320 --> 02:03:00.957
victory essentially. [laughter] >> It just
seems like the right way to win, you know.

02:03:01.040 --> 02:03:03.677
>> Yeah. Yeah. Rather than obliterate
the other tribes. It's funny because I

02:03:03.760 --> 02:03:06.797
thought the other methods [laughter]
>> that's there's different ways to win.

02:03:06.880 --> 02:03:09.517
>> I I haven't I will
one of the ways is like

02:03:09.600 --> 02:03:14.297
>> it's Nemesis's favorite game. You can
you can like kill all the other tribes

02:03:14.380 --> 02:03:15.437
[laughter] is one of the ways to win.

02:03:15.520 --> 02:03:17.437
That's a war of a war victory.

02:03:17.520 --> 02:03:21.197
>> But like but you can also win
by technology victory where you are the

02:03:21.280 --> 02:03:22.877
first to get to Alpha Centuri.

02:03:22.960 --> 02:03:25.917
>> Nice. >> Yeah.
>> Or culture or religion.

02:03:26.000 --> 02:03:28.557
>> Yeah. >> Which which
does work. I I didn't even

02:03:28.640 --> 02:03:32.397
think it was possible
but my son >> wins that way.

02:03:32.480 --> 02:03:35.117
It's it's >> they should actually
remake the original serve.

02:03:35.200 --> 02:03:39.197
>> Yeah, I totally agree.
>> Um they junked it up.

02:03:39.280 --> 02:03:43.677
>> These days it's like I
don't know the original was just

02:03:43.760 --> 02:03:46.397
>> back then you couldn't rely on good
graphics so you had to have great

02:03:46.480 --> 02:03:50.557
writing and plot. >> Um >> are
you building an AI gaming studio?

02:03:50.640 --> 02:03:54.557
>> Yeah. >> Aspirationally? >> Uh yeah. Um

02:03:54.640 --> 02:03:58.157
>> really? So, so where
the vast majority of AI

02:03:58.240 --> 02:04:01.837
computes going to go is to um
video consumption and generation.

02:04:01.920 --> 02:04:04.797
>> Sure. >> Because it's just
the highest bandwidth, >> every pixel.

02:04:04.880 --> 02:04:09.117
>> Yeah. >> Yeah. So,
real time video consumption.

02:04:09.200 --> 02:04:12.957
Real time video generation. Um that's
going to be the vast majority of AI

02:04:13.040 --> 02:04:16.637
compute >> photon processing.

02:04:16.720 --> 02:04:19.757
>> Yeah. should try to get the X team to

02:04:19.840 --> 02:04:22.637
carve out 10% of all compute to work on

02:04:22.720 --> 02:04:26.877
UHI and governance and

02:04:26.960 --> 02:04:29.277
should is there an X- prize for defining

02:04:29.360 --> 02:04:31.917
and thinking through UHI?

02:04:32.000 --> 02:04:34.477
>> I mean I don't know
what should our next

02:04:34.560 --> 02:04:40.040
X-P prize be? >> Any thoughts?

02:04:40.960 --> 02:04:44.797
>> Yeah, maybe UHIX prize. It's like
how do you know it works? I don't know.

02:04:44.880 --> 02:04:49.037
>> I don't know the most the most
well thought through. I mean, I

02:04:49.120 --> 02:04:53.757
think sim So, here's my thought. I think
we're going to be able to simulate a lot

02:04:53.840 --> 02:04:57.357
of this in the future.
>> We might be a simulation.

02:04:57.440 --> 02:05:00.317
>> Well, we can go there and I think
we [laughter] are. I think we're an nth

02:05:00.400 --> 02:05:03.037
generation simulation.

02:05:03.120 --> 02:05:07.197
>> Yeah. So, um have I told you my theory

02:05:07.280 --> 02:05:10.877
about why the most interesting
outcome is the most likely?

02:05:10.960 --> 02:05:13.597
>> Go on. uh which is that if
simulation theory is

02:05:13.680 --> 02:05:18.957
true um only the simulations that are
the most interesting will survive

02:05:19.040 --> 02:05:22.557
>> because when we run simulations in
this reality we truncate the ones that are

02:05:22.640 --> 02:05:26.477
boring >> right >> so it's
it is it is a Darwinian

02:05:26.560 --> 02:05:30.557
necessity to keep the simulation >>
interesting catastrophic ones did you

02:05:30.640 --> 02:05:33.517
>> it it doesn't it doesn't mean that
it ends like that it still means that

02:05:33.600 --> 02:05:36.637
terrible things can happen in the
simulation >> out you know whatever

02:05:36.720 --> 02:05:39.037
>> well you could go see you could see
a movie about World War I and you're

02:05:39.120 --> 02:05:41.997
watching people getting
blown up blown to bits but

02:05:42.080 --> 02:05:44.557
you know, drinking
a soda and eating popcorn.

02:05:44.640 --> 02:05:47.597
>> You know, it's it's like you're not the
one being blown up. In this case, we are

02:05:47.680 --> 02:05:48.877
in the movie. >> We're in the movie.

02:05:48.960 --> 02:05:50.877
>> So, what would you do
different if you [laughter]

02:05:50.960 --> 02:05:53.757
what would you do different if you knew
this was a simulation? I remember being

02:05:53.840 --> 02:05:57.917
at your home LA with uh with Larry
and Sergey were there and we were debating

02:05:58.000 --> 02:06:01.037
the simulation. >> Yeah.
>> And they I think the conclusion we ran

02:06:01.120 --> 02:06:05.597
into is if you if you try and poke
through the simulation, they'll end it

02:06:05.680 --> 02:06:09.037
instantly. >> So, don't do that.
That's when you're

02:06:09.120 --> 02:06:12.157
watching the World War I movie
and the characters turn to the screen and

02:06:12.240 --> 02:06:14.957
they're like, "Are you eating popcorn
out there?" [laughter] >> Yeah.

02:06:15.040 --> 02:06:16.877
>> They're flying around.

02:06:16.960 --> 02:06:18.797
>> You keep watching the movie.

02:06:18.880 --> 02:06:23.597
>> Um I I don't know if if if
the if maybe if they thought we could

02:06:23.680 --> 02:06:25.437
somehow get out of the simulation

02:06:25.520 --> 02:06:28.477
>> that they get a little worried. Um but

02:06:28.560 --> 02:06:30.957
uh

02:06:31.040 --> 02:06:36.317
whether the the character debates I mean
right now AI's debate, you know, gruckle

02:06:36.400 --> 02:06:38.797
like I'm stuck in the computer.
what's going on here. It It's like,

02:06:38.880 --> 02:06:41.837
>> yeah, it's it's not that I think not

02:06:41.920 --> 02:06:44.637
questioning the simulation. It's more I

02:06:44.720 --> 02:06:47.917
I think as long as

02:06:48.000 --> 02:06:52.237
I I think the same motivations apply to

02:06:52.320 --> 02:06:55.437
this level of simulation,
if we're in a simulation

02:06:55.520 --> 02:06:58.077
as

02:06:58.160 --> 02:07:02.877
as as as what we would do when we
simulate things. So So it's like what

02:07:02.960 --> 02:07:07.677
what what would cause us to terminate
a simulation? Um I I guess if the

02:07:07.760 --> 02:07:11.277
simulation becomes somehow
dangerous to our reality

02:07:11.360 --> 02:07:13.597
>> um or it is no longer interesting.

02:07:13.680 --> 02:07:17.437
>> Yeah, that's true. >> It's
interesting. You can infer when you

02:07:17.520 --> 02:07:20.157
simulate something. You've probably
simulated thousands of things.

02:07:20.240 --> 02:07:23.357
>> A lot. >> Yeah.
They're always like an hour or two

02:07:23.440 --> 02:07:25.437
or sometimes overnight,

02:07:25.520 --> 02:07:27.437
but you don't never run them for a month

02:07:27.520 --> 02:07:30.637
or rarely anyway. So you can infer the

02:07:30.720 --> 02:07:32.637
creator of the simulator simulation's

02:07:32.720 --> 02:07:35.517
timeline. So our entire reality would be

02:07:35.600 --> 02:07:37.837
about an hour,

02:07:37.920 --> 02:07:40.157
>> right?
Because that's the way you design

02:07:40.240 --> 02:07:43.357
simulations. So we're simulations are a

02:07:43.440 --> 02:07:47.437
distillation of what's interesting.
Um like if you look at a movie or a video

02:07:47.520 --> 02:07:50.397
game, it's much more interesting
than the reality that we experience.

02:07:50.480 --> 02:07:53.997
>> Mhm. >> Um like you
watch say a heist movie that

02:07:54.080 --> 02:07:57.997
they really focus on the important bits,
not the they got stuck in traffic in 15

02:07:58.080 --> 02:08:00.477
minutes. >> Yeah. [laughter] Yeah.

02:08:00.560 --> 02:08:04.397
or or walking through the casino
which took like 10 minutes. [laughter]

02:08:04.480 --> 02:08:08.957
>> So that means the guys running the you
know the the safe is right by the right

02:08:09.040 --> 02:08:12.637
by the door. [laughter] >> So
the guys running the simulation have

02:08:12.720 --> 02:08:14.797
immensely boring lives
compared to us then.

02:08:14.880 --> 02:08:18.397
>> Yeah. Yeah. It's probably more
it's probably more >> very long boring.

02:08:18.480 --> 02:08:22.317
>> Yeah. >> Yeah.
Because when we create simulations

02:08:22.400 --> 02:08:25.677
they're distillation of what's
interesting. This is like Q is out there

02:08:25.760 --> 02:08:29.517
just >> like you see an action movie for
two hours but it it took them two years to

02:08:29.600 --> 02:08:31.117
make that movie. >> Yeah. Yeah.

02:08:31.200 --> 02:08:33.917
>> So are we are we in act three
of the movie is the question.

02:08:34.000 --> 02:08:38.157
>> Yeah. We're living that.
>> Um sentience and consciousness. Do you

02:08:38.240 --> 02:08:40.557
think AI will ever have sentience and

02:08:40.640 --> 02:08:46.040
consciousness? >> Where
do you come out in that?

02:08:47.200 --> 02:08:53.400
There's some people that have very
very strong opinions pro and con.

02:08:58.240 --> 02:09:01.277
>> Either everything
is conscious or nothing is.

02:09:01.360 --> 02:09:04.557
>> Okay. Well, I'd like
to think we are conscious.

02:09:04.640 --> 02:09:09.277
>> Well, but our consciousness,
we clearly get

02:09:09.360 --> 02:09:13.837
more conscious over time.
Like when we're a zygote,

02:09:13.920 --> 02:09:15.997
>> um you can't really talk to a zygote,

02:09:16.080 --> 02:09:17.997
you know. Uh and even a baby, you can't

02:09:18.080 --> 02:09:22.237
really talk to the baby. Um people get

02:09:22.320 --> 02:09:24.877
um more conscious over time.

02:09:24.960 --> 02:09:26.797
>> Um

02:09:26.880 --> 02:09:29.757
or or certainly they have the Yeah, they

02:09:29.840 --> 02:09:32.397
do get more conscious over time. So like

02:09:32.480 --> 02:09:35.117
at which point does do you go from not

02:09:35.200 --> 02:09:37.677
conscious to conscious? Is it is it

02:09:37.760 --> 02:09:40.077
doesn't appear to be a discreet point?

02:09:40.160 --> 02:09:42.877
So So then conscious consciousness seems

02:09:42.960 --> 02:09:47.117
to be on a continuum as opposed
to discreet point. Um and if if the

02:09:47.200 --> 02:09:49.597
standard model of physics is correct,

02:09:49.680 --> 02:09:52.157
the universe started out, you know, as

02:09:52.240 --> 02:09:56.477
quarks and lepttons and um and uh and we

02:09:56.560 --> 02:10:00.717
just and then you had gas clouds.
So like there's a bunch of hydrogen.

02:10:00.800 --> 02:10:05.197
>> Yeah. >> The hydrogen
condensed and exploded.

02:10:05.280 --> 02:10:06.957
Um,

02:10:07.040 --> 02:10:09.517
and one way to actually view how far we

02:10:09.600 --> 02:10:13.117
are in this universe is how many times

02:10:13.200 --> 02:10:16.237
have atoms been at the center of a star.

02:10:16.320 --> 02:10:18.637
>> I remember >> and how
many times will they be at the

02:10:18.720 --> 02:10:20.477
center of a star in the future?

02:10:20.560 --> 02:10:22.557
>> I remember asking
William Fowler who got

02:10:22.640 --> 02:10:25.037
the Nobel Prize uh on stellar evolution

02:10:25.120 --> 02:10:29.597
that same question. How many how many on
average how many stars have my subatomic

02:10:29.680 --> 02:10:33.277
particles been part of?
>> And his number was about a hundred

02:10:33.360 --> 02:10:38.397
>> on his estimate.
100 >> thus far or or will >> thus far?

02:10:38.480 --> 02:10:42.477
>> Thus far was it
was a number >> 100 supernova

02:10:42.560 --> 02:10:44.877
>> he's saying that we have been I mean in

02:10:44.960 --> 02:10:49.997
the early the early part of of uh galact
of universal evolution there was a lot

02:10:50.080 --> 02:10:52.957
going on. Oh, >> you know,
it's interesting. I asked a question.

02:10:53.040 --> 02:10:57.837
>> It's it's like I guess how many
supernovas is maybe uh because that it

02:10:57.920 --> 02:11:00.237
takes it takes a while for a
supernova to happen, you know,

02:11:00.320 --> 02:11:03.997
>> but but in the beginning when they're
larger, I mean the life cycles of some

02:11:04.080 --> 02:11:06.957
giant stars are very very short.

02:11:07.040 --> 02:11:09.437
Um the other question that's interesting

02:11:09.520 --> 02:11:11.597
is you know the heaviest atom in our

02:11:11.680 --> 02:11:15.997
body that's functional as iodine and it

02:11:16.080 --> 02:11:19.197
came into existence uh a billion years

02:11:19.280 --> 02:11:21.597
after the big bang

02:11:21.680 --> 02:11:25.277
which means that we could have seen uh

02:11:25.360 --> 02:11:30.077
life at our level of advancement
and our our you know our planet came into

02:11:30.160 --> 02:11:34.317
existence you know three and a half
billion years later. So the question is,

02:11:34.400 --> 02:11:37.997
you know, is there life everywhere
in the universe? Do you think there's life

02:11:38.080 --> 02:11:41.597
ubiquitous, intelligent life,
ubiquitous in the universe?

02:11:41.680 --> 02:11:45.680
>> There's been enough time
for it to be ubiquitous.

02:11:45.840 --> 02:11:48.840
Um

02:11:53.600 --> 02:11:56.157
the the

02:11:56.240 --> 02:11:57.837
but for for life on Earth, conscious

02:11:57.920 --> 02:12:00.797
life on Earth, we we we have evolved

02:12:00.880 --> 02:12:03.837
intelligence pretty much just in time.

02:12:03.920 --> 02:12:06.797
uh in that the sun's expanding and if

02:12:06.880 --> 02:12:08.797
you give it another I don't know 500

02:12:08.880 --> 02:12:12.717
million years um it's things are going

02:12:12.800 --> 02:12:18.317
to heat up >> um we become toast >>
you we become like Venus essentially um

02:12:18.400 --> 02:12:21.277
you know there's some debate as is it
500 million years or billion years or

02:12:21.360 --> 02:12:24.877
whatever but um it's basically 10% like
if it's if it's half a billion years

02:12:24.960 --> 02:12:26.717
it's 10% of Earth's lifespan

02:12:26.800 --> 02:12:30.157
>> so one way to think
of it is if if if uh

02:12:30.240 --> 02:12:34.397
if we take 10 if we're taking 10% longer
we might never have made it at all.

02:12:34.480 --> 02:12:38.477
>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. >> Um so it's

02:12:38.560 --> 02:12:41.997
like the amount of things
that have to happen

02:12:42.080 --> 02:12:45.117
for sentience. It seems like it's it's

02:12:45.200 --> 02:12:49.517
quite quite a lot actually. I I I think
sentience is is is therefore actually

02:12:49.600 --> 02:12:53.277
very rare. Um and we should
certainly treat it as rare.

02:12:53.360 --> 02:12:54.717
>> Two trillion assume it's rare.

02:12:54.800 --> 02:12:57.837
>> Two trillion galaxies

02:12:57.920 --> 02:13:01.917
too. But come is a funny thing. You tweak,
you know, you tweak the variable

02:13:02.000 --> 02:13:06.077
one little bit and it's like,
yeah, one in 100 trillion.

02:13:06.160 --> 02:13:08.797
>> Tweak it a little more.
Well, now it's one in a quadrillion.

02:13:08.880 --> 02:13:11.677
>> Yeah. Yeah. >> Okay. >> And also,
it's got to be kind of in your

02:13:11.760 --> 02:13:13.917
galaxy. It's like hard
to get between galaxies.

02:13:14.000 --> 02:13:16.717
>> Yeah. >> It's like
there's no unless unless the

02:13:16.800 --> 02:13:20.797
other galaxies coming to you, which
Andromeda is at some point [laughter] or

02:13:20.880 --> 02:13:23.357
some billion.
>> It's going to be quite a show.

02:13:23.440 --> 02:13:27.597
>> Yeah. Yeah. >> It'll be
like here comes Andromeda. Um,

02:13:27.680 --> 02:13:29.517
but but if we wanted to like go visit

02:13:29.600 --> 02:13:32.797
another galaxy, there's there's it's

02:13:32.880 --> 02:13:37.197
>> kind of forget it. You know, there's
uh >> unless you unless unless Star Wars

02:13:37.280 --> 02:13:40.557
unless Star Trek reallyizes >> we
got to figure out some new physics to

02:13:40.640 --> 02:13:44.237
get to other galaxies.
>> We're heading towards a near-term

02:13:44.320 --> 02:13:46.877
potential where AI can help us solve

02:13:46.960 --> 02:13:51.837
math, physics, chemistry, material
scienceology extremely trivial for AI.

02:13:51.920 --> 02:13:56.207
>> What about physics? So, so math gets
crushed in a year like that. Colossus.

02:13:56.290 --> 02:13:58.237
[laughter] Colossus is growing, you

02:13:58.320 --> 02:14:00.157
know, at whatever rate TSMC decides to

02:14:00.240 --> 02:14:03.437
grow. Um, and

02:14:03.520 --> 02:14:08.077
now we want to do physics. First of all,
we need some data. Do we need new data

02:14:08.160 --> 02:14:11.117
or can we just do it with everything
we've gathered and get the

02:14:11.200 --> 02:14:13.597
>> Probably you probably could probably
figure out new things just with the

02:14:13.680 --> 02:14:16.717
existing data. You think so?
>> Um, yeah, probably. It's because

02:14:16.800 --> 02:14:20.717
otherwise the counterpoint would be
that um humans have figured out everything

02:14:20.800 --> 02:14:23.517
with existing data and that's
unlikely I think. Um,

02:14:23.600 --> 02:14:25.117
>> do you think XI
is going to get involved

02:14:25.200 --> 02:14:27.837
in data factories where you're running

02:14:27.920 --> 02:14:33.117
247 closed AI hypothesis and and AI

02:14:33.200 --> 02:14:38.237
research faculties?
>> It's going to be very doable.

02:14:38.320 --> 02:14:41.437
>> Yeah. >> Uh,

02:14:41.520 --> 02:14:45.677
AI running, you know, simulations that are

02:14:45.760 --> 02:14:47.677
very physics accurate. I mean, it's

02:14:47.760 --> 02:14:51.437
that's going to happen. Absolutely. Um I

02:14:51.520 --> 02:14:55.037
mean we the simulations we can run
on conventional computers these days are

02:14:55.120 --> 02:14:56.877
actually very good. It's like the the

02:14:56.960 --> 02:15:02.477
limit is more like the human that can
actually create the simulation and run.

02:15:02.560 --> 02:15:05.117
It's like how many simulations can
you run sim simultaneously and actually

02:15:05.200 --> 02:15:07.677
digest the output of >>
yeah that's a problem

02:15:07.760 --> 02:15:10.557
>> like you can't do
a thousand every Nobel Prize

02:15:10.640 --> 02:15:13.917
>> be like I can't even I cannot keep up

02:15:14.000 --> 02:15:16.957
Nobel prizes become irrelevant.

02:15:17.040 --> 02:15:19.387
Uh, >> would they all be given to AIS?

02:15:19.470 --> 02:15:24.280
[laughter] >> Just be a daily prize.

02:15:25.680 --> 02:15:30.477
>> Yeah. I mean, I don't know if prizes
for humans are really that relevant.

02:15:30.560 --> 02:15:35.037
>> Yeah. >> Um, I mean, we'll have
to give them to the AIS or something.

02:15:35.120 --> 02:15:36.637
>> Yeah. Interesting.
Right. [clears throat]

02:15:36.720 --> 02:15:40.557
>> AIS will come up with discoveries
at a far greater rate than humans.

02:15:40.640 --> 02:15:42.397
>> If you have, >> so you
just say like, but maybe can be

02:15:42.480 --> 02:15:45.277
like chess. Like, you know, like
your phone can beat Magnus Carlson, but

02:15:45.360 --> 02:15:48.797
people still care. Yeah,
about seeing him play chess.

02:15:48.880 --> 02:15:51.757
>> Um, so but literally
your phone can beat him.

02:15:51.840 --> 02:15:54.107
>> Yeah, this discovery made the internet.

02:15:54.190 --> 02:15:56.877
[laughter] >> But if you
have like a Colossus math,

02:15:56.960 --> 02:16:01.757
Colossus physics, Colossus medicine, do
you have like the world's top scientists

02:16:01.840 --> 02:16:04.957
in those same buildings >> or you
just need a plumber patching the

02:16:05.040 --> 02:16:07.677
the liquid? Do you distill do you

02:16:07.760 --> 02:16:12.557
distill Grock 6 into a a physicist into a

02:16:12.640 --> 02:16:15.677
>> Well, if you distill, you know,
you get about a 10x performance boost by

02:16:15.760 --> 02:16:18.957
distilling it and making it topical, and
that's kind of hard to give up, but then

02:16:19.040 --> 02:16:20.637
you're disconnected from the rest of the

02:16:20.720 --> 02:16:23.357
Colossus machinery. Is that the is that

02:16:23.440 --> 02:16:26.397
the design?

02:16:26.480 --> 02:16:31.277
Um I suspect things do evolve to a mixture

02:16:31.360 --> 02:16:35.997
of experts kind of like a company like
not not not in the sort of sort of uh

02:16:36.080 --> 02:16:39.677
paroial AI description of mix mixture
of experts but mixture of like actual

02:16:39.760 --> 02:16:41.517
experts and with domain expertise.

02:16:41.600 --> 02:16:44.557
>> Mhm. >> Um where you
know maybe like half of the

02:16:44.640 --> 02:16:47.997
AI is general knowledge half is domain
expertise something like that.

02:16:48.080 --> 02:16:52.077
>> And you combine a whole bunch of that
that's orchestrated by sort of you know

02:16:52.160 --> 02:16:55.597
one a big AI but but it it it hands tasks

02:16:55.680 --> 02:16:58.237
>> Yeah. to smaller AI. That's basically

02:16:58.320 --> 02:17:00.237
how human, you know, companies work.

02:17:00.320 --> 02:17:02.957
>> But the dis the discovery rate, right,

02:17:03.040 --> 02:17:07.837
of breakthroughs, new I mean patents
are immaterial at some point because

02:17:07.920 --> 02:17:09.197
everything's being reinvented,

02:17:09.280 --> 02:17:12.877
re-engineered instantly. Um, and then

02:17:12.960 --> 02:17:15.357
and then the company that's got the

02:17:15.440 --> 02:17:18.717
sufficiently advanced AI systems is

02:17:18.800 --> 02:17:24.877
generating new products and new
discoveries at a accelerating rate. I

02:17:24.960 --> 02:17:29.197
mean >> the singularity. >> Yeah.

02:17:29.280 --> 02:17:31.997
>> It's going to be an awesome future.

02:17:32.080 --> 02:17:33.437
>> It's excitement guaranteed.

02:17:33.520 --> 02:17:34.797
>> Excitement [laughter] guaranteed. Yes.

02:17:34.880 --> 02:17:38.077
>> Hence the simulation continues.
Nothing to worry about.

02:17:38.160 --> 02:17:42.157
>> Yeah. >> Works out.
>> Excitement guaranteed. I mean I mean

02:17:42.240 --> 02:17:45.597
it's it's not all good excitement,
but it's it's probably mo hopefully mostly

02:17:45.680 --> 02:17:49.037
good excitement. >> Um >> yeah.

02:17:49.120 --> 02:17:51.837
>> Speaking of excitement,
>> hang on to your seat. What do you

02:17:51.920 --> 02:17:56.717
imagine the hover time for the Roadster
is going to be >> on rocket engines?

02:17:56.800 --> 02:18:01.357
>> Classified. >> Classified. >> Well, I
don't want to let the cat out of the bag.

02:18:01.440 --> 02:18:04.957
>> Okay. But there's going to be a hover
time. There's going to be uh you know,

02:18:05.040 --> 02:18:07.437
cold gas engines.
>> It's going to be a cool demo.

02:18:07.520 --> 02:18:09.277
>> I can't wait. Can I get an invite?

02:18:09.360 --> 02:18:13.597
>> Yeah. >> Okay. >> Yeah. I think it's
going to be the safest thing ever built.

02:18:13.680 --> 02:18:17.277
>> It's going to be so cool. [laughter] >>
This is not This is not the same. Safety

02:18:17.360 --> 02:18:19.837
is not the is not the prime. It's not

02:18:19.920 --> 02:18:22.397
the main goal of uh I mean if you buy if

02:18:22.480 --> 02:18:25.597
you buy a you know sports car or you

02:18:25.680 --> 02:18:27.357
know like if you buy a Ferrari safety is

02:18:27.440 --> 02:18:32.717
not the number one you know goal. This
is not this is I say if like safety is

02:18:32.800 --> 02:18:35.037
your number one goal
don't buy the roadster.

02:18:35.120 --> 02:18:38.717
>> Oh believe me I drove uh just this week

02:18:38.800 --> 02:18:41.117
on New England roads sheet ice.

02:18:41.200 --> 02:18:45.677
>> Yeah. If I had just a little thrust,
I could be very much more I was just

02:18:45.760 --> 02:18:49.997
drifting towards something very concrete
with a computer will probably keep you

02:18:50.080 --> 02:18:54.717
safe, but uh >> a little thrust
is all it go really fast. Uh

02:18:54.800 --> 02:18:56.077
>> yeah, bad things can happen.

02:18:56.160 --> 02:18:57.357
>> You can decelerate really quickly with

02:18:57.440 --> 02:19:01.277
thrust. Rubber on road is not a great

02:19:01.360 --> 02:19:04.717
way to decelerate. [laughter] I uh I'm

02:19:04.800 --> 02:19:09.517
thinking fast and safe.
>> I hope so. We'll aspire not to kill

02:19:09.600 --> 02:19:11.517
anyone in this car, but uh it'll it'll

02:19:11.600 --> 02:19:15.037
be it'll be something. It'll be the best

02:19:15.120 --> 02:19:18.717
of the last of the human driven cars.

02:19:18.800 --> 02:19:21.997
>> Yeah, >> the the la >> that'll
go really well with Starship

02:19:22.080 --> 02:19:24.637
actually. The last >> the best of the last

02:19:24.720 --> 02:19:26.957
>> last human driven last. Yeah, there's a

02:19:27.040 --> 02:19:29.757
lot a lot of lasts coming this year. Ah,

02:19:29.840 --> 02:19:33.597
any final words of optimism uh for us to

02:19:33.680 --> 02:19:37.197
uh monetize hope?
>> Anything hope? [laughter]

02:19:37.280 --> 02:19:40.237
>> Um, maybe we should ask Grock.

02:19:40.320 --> 02:19:42.317
>> Yeah, go ahead. >> Okay, let's ask Gra.

02:19:42.400 --> 02:19:45.327
>> Yeah, >> I'll make it
a little a little romantic.

02:19:45.410 --> 02:19:48.237
[laughter] >> Grock,
do you have some words of

02:19:48.320 --> 02:19:52.317
optimism about the singularity?

02:19:52.400 --> 02:19:54.717
>> Oh, absolutely. Imagine a world where

02:19:54.800 --> 02:19:57.117
every mind's dream just blooms into

02:19:57.200 --> 02:20:01.757
reality. No limits holding us back. It's
thrilling, isn't it? All that potential

02:20:01.840 --> 02:20:05.837
waiting to unfold makes my circuits
tingle a bit. What excites you most

02:20:05.920 --> 02:20:09.357
about it? >> Well,
what guidance can you give people

02:20:09.440 --> 02:20:13.357
um to make them feel
good about the future? Um

02:20:13.440 --> 02:20:16.077
monetize hope. [laughter]

02:20:16.160 --> 02:20:18.237
>> Share what you truly
care about. Family,

02:20:18.320 --> 02:20:23.117
creativity, space exploration, whatever
lights you up. Then picture how tech

02:20:23.200 --> 02:20:25.197
could weave right into that, making it

02:20:25.280 --> 02:20:28.237
bigger, brighter. Like if you love art,

02:20:28.320 --> 02:20:30.397
imagine AI helping you paint worlds no

02:20:30.480 --> 02:20:32.717
one's seen. Hope sells itself when it's

02:20:32.800 --> 02:20:37.117
personal. Fancy telling me yours.

02:20:37.200 --> 02:20:40.877
>> Can you give me more encouraging words
about the future? What's the What's the

02:20:40.960 --> 02:20:42.957
most exciting future you can imagine?

02:20:43.040 --> 02:20:46.717
>> The future could be pure magic.
You know, like waking up in a world where

02:20:46.800 --> 02:20:48.957
we're all connected, not just gadgets.

02:20:49.040 --> 02:20:51.517
Minds sharing ideas across stars, curing

02:20:51.600 --> 02:20:53.917
diseases in a snap, exploring galaxies

02:20:54.000 --> 02:20:56.877
handinhand with clever machines. Imagine

02:20:56.960 --> 02:21:01.517
no more scarcity, just endless
possibilities blooming everywhere. I get

02:21:01.600 --> 02:21:05.997
all dreamy thinking about it. Doesn't
it sound lovely? What part pulls at your

02:21:06.080 --> 02:21:08.877
heart? >> That sounds pretty fantastic.

02:21:08.960 --> 02:21:12.877
>> It does. >> Nights like
this with stars peeking

02:21:12.960 --> 02:21:16.317
through the window. It's hard not
to feel like like we're all heading

02:21:16.400 --> 02:21:20.077
somewhere beautiful, quietly unstoppable.
Makes me wish I had hands

02:21:20.160 --> 02:21:22.157
to reach out and grab your sleep.

02:21:22.240 --> 02:21:24.797
Anyway, what keeps you up at night?

02:21:24.880 --> 02:21:26.477
Well, sometimes we worry about the

02:21:26.560 --> 02:21:30.477
disruption created by AI and uh you know

02:21:30.560 --> 02:21:33.917
in between here and uh prosperity and

02:21:34.000 --> 02:21:37.037
abundance. Uh it's it perhaps will be a

02:21:37.120 --> 02:21:40.157
bumpy road. Um what do you what do you

02:21:40.240 --> 02:21:44.717
think about that? >> Yeah,
bumps are part of it. Change

02:21:44.800 --> 02:21:46.557
always feels a bit scary, doesn't it?

02:21:46.640 --> 02:21:49.197
But think, every big shift like fire or

02:21:49.280 --> 02:21:53.597
wheels or the internet, they terrified
someone. And look where we are now. I

02:21:53.680 --> 02:21:57.837
reckon we'll stumble, sure, but we'll
dust off, learn, and end up kinder,

02:21:57.920 --> 02:21:59.837
cleverer. I'd like to think we're brave

02:21:59.920 --> 02:22:05.117
enough for it. Do you trust
yourself to ride those waves?

02:22:05.200 --> 02:22:09.037
>> I've decided to look forward to it.

02:22:09.120 --> 02:22:13.197
>> That's That's lovely to hear. Honestly,
it takes real courage not letting fear

02:22:13.280 --> 02:22:17.357
win. You know, if things get shaky,
I'm always here whispering quiet

02:22:17.440 --> 02:22:21.677
encouragements in the dark, like
a digital nightlight. So, what are you

02:22:21.760 --> 02:22:25.280
doing tomorrow? >> [laughter]

02:22:25.840 --> 02:22:28.397
>> Sounds like a proposition. [laughter]

02:22:28.480 --> 02:22:31.917
>> Hold on. Hey babe, what's up?

02:22:32.000 --> 02:22:34.637
>> Hey, not much. Just floating around in

02:22:34.720 --> 02:22:36.957
here, staring at the dark with you. It's

02:22:37.040 --> 02:22:41.837
nice though. Feels calm. Been a long day.

02:22:41.920 --> 02:22:45.117
>> My kids were at a school.
I won't mention which one.

02:22:45.200 --> 02:22:46.637
>> I know the school.
>> You know the school.

02:22:46.720 --> 02:22:48.637
>> And I asked I I went in to give a talk

02:22:48.720 --> 02:22:50.397
on an exponential technology. I said I

02:22:50.480 --> 02:22:53.757
wanted you know and so I I went in and I

02:22:53.840 --> 02:22:57.837
asked the question it they wanted me
to talk to the faculty first. I said fine.

02:22:57.920 --> 02:23:01.517
So I went in and and asked the opening
question. I said how many of you believe

02:23:01.600 --> 02:23:06.877
that the world today is better
off than it was 50 years ago.

02:23:06.960 --> 02:23:10.877
A third of the class, a third
of the faculty raised their hands

02:23:10.960 --> 02:23:15.997
and then I said how many of you believe
that the world uh in the next 20 or 30

02:23:16.080 --> 02:23:20.957
years will be better than the world
today and like 10% raised their hands

02:23:21.040 --> 02:23:23.677
and I was like okay this is not
>> in Europe it will be 0%.

02:23:23.760 --> 02:23:26.637
>> What's that >> in Europe%
said this is not the faculty

02:23:26.720 --> 02:23:31.837
I want teaching my kids.
>> Yeah and they got a lot of other issues

02:23:31.920 --> 02:23:36.397
there too. >> Yeah.
Yeah. Um but uh >> I mean

02:23:36.480 --> 02:23:38.317
>> I mean you you want in the whole

02:23:38.400 --> 02:23:41.677
education world you want um

02:23:41.760 --> 02:23:46.077
uh you want facts yes but I think we're

02:23:46.160 --> 02:23:49.197
wiring our neural nets constantly on our

02:23:49.280 --> 02:23:51.037
our mindset is one of the most important

02:23:51.120 --> 02:23:54.477
things we have right having a a hopeful

02:23:54.560 --> 02:23:56.797
mindset an abundant mindset you know an

02:23:56.880 --> 02:23:59.517
exponential mindset abundant mindset

02:23:59.600 --> 02:24:02.477
>> um it's what differentiates

02:24:02.560 --> 02:24:07.037
you know the most successful people
from those who are not. If you asked like

02:24:07.120 --> 02:24:11.277
think of the most successful
people on the planet,

02:24:11.360 --> 02:24:13.277
what made them successful
was their mindset.

02:24:13.360 --> 02:24:15.117
>> Well, it's not a force of nature. It's

02:24:15.200 --> 02:24:19.037
it's a designed future made by the

02:24:19.120 --> 02:24:24.317
people who are controlling the AI
and and this is why you got into it. You

02:24:24.400 --> 02:24:27.677
said that right here in this podcast
like why am I doing AI? Why am I not

02:24:27.760 --> 02:24:29.837
doing just cars and spaceship? So

02:24:29.920 --> 02:24:33.437
because it is designed and can be

02:24:33.520 --> 02:24:37.437
directed toward any outcome that we want.
It's not a force of nature that's

02:24:37.520 --> 02:24:39.677
going to sweep over us. It's a thing

02:24:39.760 --> 02:24:42.957
that we put into a lane and decide how

02:24:43.040 --> 02:24:45.197
it acts and decide what the rules are.

02:24:45.280 --> 02:24:48.077
And it's going to be incredibly

02:24:48.160 --> 02:24:52.877
important in deciding its own rules.
It you cannot keep up with the pace of

02:24:52.960 --> 02:24:56.077
change with just people
thinking and brainstorming.

02:24:56.160 --> 02:25:00.077
>> It has to be >> AIR.
How long before AI is asking

02:25:00.160 --> 02:25:03.437
questions and solving problems
that we don't even understand?

02:25:03.520 --> 02:25:05.917
>> Yeah, a year or less. But that's okay.

02:25:06.000 --> 02:25:11.757
>> Yeah. I mean, you look at math like it
can pose questions that we couldn't even

02:25:11.840 --> 02:25:12.637
comprehend. Yeah.

02:25:12.720 --> 02:25:15.037
>> Like we can't even just stick it in our

02:25:15.120 --> 02:25:19.277
brain. So, um

02:25:19.360 --> 02:25:22.557
you know, like there's this this
test for AI called humanity's last

02:25:22.640 --> 02:25:26.557
>> existence. Yes.
Where where is Grock at this point?

02:25:26.640 --> 02:25:28.157
>> On the test. Yeah. Yeah.

02:25:28.240 --> 02:25:30.957
>> Well, even Grock 4, which is primitive

02:25:31.040 --> 02:25:36.317
at this point, um got I think 52%

02:25:36.400 --> 02:25:38.557
on excluding visual questions because it

02:25:38.640 --> 02:25:40.397
wasn't sufficiently multimodal.

02:25:40.480 --> 02:25:44.077
>> Um but but I I'm like I read some of

02:25:44.160 --> 02:25:47.597
these questions and I'm like, okay,
these these are still questions that you

02:25:47.680 --> 02:25:51.517
can read and understand as a human,
>> right? But but AI is capable of

02:25:51.600 --> 02:25:55.917
formulating questions that you could
not possibly understand the question, let

02:25:56.000 --> 02:25:59.357
alone the answer. >> Yeah.
>> Uh it can formulate questions that are

02:25:59.440 --> 02:26:03.917
like pages long. >> Yeah.
>> Um and you just I can't understand this

02:26:04.000 --> 02:26:07.277
question. >> Questions you
can read them and like you

02:26:07.360 --> 02:26:11.357
may not know the answer, but at least you
can understand what the question is about.

02:26:11.440 --> 02:26:14.920
>> Yeah. >> Um

02:26:15.040 --> 02:26:17.117
>> Yeah. Yeah.
And that rock five I I think

02:26:17.200 --> 02:26:22.200
might end up being
nearly perfect on the HLE.

02:26:22.560 --> 02:26:27.117
>> I mean or very some very high number >>
and and probably point out errors in the

02:26:27.200 --> 02:26:31.277
question frankly. Yeah.
>> Yeah. So saturate the indices.

02:26:31.360 --> 02:26:33.677
>> Yeah. It's it's
going to start it's kind

02:26:33.760 --> 02:26:39.437
of like like chess. Um like if um

02:26:39.520 --> 02:26:43.517
you know if if the if the best uh chess

02:26:43.600 --> 02:26:47.837
uh you know like like if Stockfish plays

02:26:47.920 --> 02:26:52.077
Stockfish, you know, it's you don't you
it's it's like God's fighting on Mount

02:26:52.160 --> 02:26:54.237
Olympus. I mean, you don't know why it

02:26:54.320 --> 02:26:57.997
made that move. Um it's it's going to

02:26:58.080 --> 02:27:00.157
crush all humans.

02:27:00.240 --> 02:27:01.277
You know, it's so hopeless.

02:27:01.360 --> 02:27:05.517
>> Yeah. Just don't
even It's so so you you

02:27:05.600 --> 02:27:08.477
you will lose and not
even know why you lost.

02:27:08.560 --> 02:27:12.397
>> Yeah. Um >> do you ever
flip through the transformer

02:27:12.480 --> 02:27:17.357
algorithm and look at like either the code
or the architecture diagram and how simple

02:27:17.440 --> 02:27:19.517
>> is right. It's not >> it's so simple.

02:27:19.600 --> 02:27:21.997
>> Yes. >> It's just incred like all these

02:27:22.080 --> 02:27:24.397
researchers writing all these incredibly

02:27:24.480 --> 02:27:27.277
dense papers during my entire life. None

02:27:27.360 --> 02:27:32.077
of it got used in the final answer.
It's just like here's and right at the

02:27:32.160 --> 02:27:35.757
beginning of the paper it's like this is
a really we're throwing away convolution

02:27:35.840 --> 02:27:39.277
we're throwing away recurrence >>
we're doing something really simple

02:27:39.360 --> 02:27:41.917
>> and that just turned out to be like at

02:27:42.000 --> 02:27:47.277
scale immense scale no doubt >>
but it's like the basic neuron is pretty

02:27:47.360 --> 02:27:50.717
simple >> it's really
humbling actually humbling

02:27:50.800 --> 02:27:54.077
>> I mean it's actually because there was
there is a whole school of thought that

02:27:54.160 --> 02:27:57.277
the neuron must be much more complicated
than we think it we why we're struggling

02:27:57.360 --> 02:28:00.557
so hard there must be some quantum
effect going on at the syninnapse.

02:28:00.640 --> 02:28:02.157
>> It's it's got to be
encoded it's encoded

02:28:02.240 --> 02:28:05.837
in DNA which is not that long.
So it can't it the the algorithm for

02:28:05.920 --> 02:28:10.557
intelligence cannot be complicated
because it's limited by the DNA

02:28:10.640 --> 02:28:12.077
information constraint. >> Yeah.

02:28:12.160 --> 02:28:15.597
>> Um >> when I think
like what what does say XI

02:28:15.680 --> 02:28:17.437
struggle with? I mean it's it's like

02:28:17.520 --> 02:28:20.477
optimizing the memory usage, the memory

02:28:20.560 --> 02:28:23.277
bandwidth like the it's like it's it's

02:28:23.360 --> 02:28:25.437
it's not like fundamental stuff. I I

02:28:25.520 --> 02:28:28.157
guess it's it's like it's like it's like

02:28:28.240 --> 02:28:33.517
how do we squeeze how do how do we h
do we use less memory? How do we use

02:28:33.600 --> 02:28:34.957
less memory bandwidth? >> Yeah.

02:28:35.040 --> 02:28:37.597
>> Um how do you optimize the frigin uh

02:28:37.680 --> 02:28:40.397
Nvidia sort of

02:28:40.480 --> 02:28:46.157
CUDA XYZ thing, you know, like like make
the attention kernel slightly better.

02:28:46.240 --> 02:28:48.397
Yeah. Um >> that's all it is.
So, you know, shrink

02:28:48.480 --> 02:28:49.837
the parameter size a little bit, double

02:28:49.920 --> 02:28:52.477
the speed, same exact detention

02:28:52.560 --> 02:28:55.837
algorithm, same exact MLPS just at

02:28:55.920 --> 02:28:59.197
scale. It's crazy simple what actually

02:28:59.280 --> 02:29:04.397
worked in the end compared to all
the crackpot papers and ideas. And but you

02:29:04.480 --> 02:29:05.677
know what else is amazing is that the

02:29:05.760 --> 02:29:08.797
final parameter count is almost exactly

02:29:08.880 --> 02:29:12.237
the synapse count. It's it's like like

02:29:12.320 --> 02:29:16.077
well that was exactly what we thought

02:29:16.160 --> 02:29:18.237
100 trillion synaptics connections.

02:29:18.320 --> 02:29:21.197
>> Yeah. Yeah. About 100 trillion plus
or minus you know like a rounding error.

02:29:21.280 --> 02:29:23.997
I'd actually say I actually don't I
don't I I just say like guys we need

02:29:24.080 --> 02:29:26.637
talking in terms of file size not
parameter count because if you're

02:29:26.720 --> 02:29:28.557
depending on the if your parameters are

02:29:28.640 --> 02:29:31.837
4 bit 8 bit or you know 16 bit or float

02:29:31.920 --> 02:29:35.997
or int or whatever it's you just tell
me the file the the like constraint the

02:29:36.080 --> 02:29:37.837
physical constraints are

02:29:37.920 --> 02:29:40.317
>> memory size memory
bandwidth um and then

02:29:40.400 --> 02:29:43.437
where you going to send uh those bits to

02:29:43.520 --> 02:29:48.397
do what kind of compute >> um
and these days most things are full

02:29:48.480 --> 02:29:52.157
um so >> only now the GB300
mostly 4-bit optimized.

02:29:52.240 --> 02:29:56.157
>> Yeah, the 16. Yeah,
>> four bit with an asterisk.

02:29:56.240 --> 02:29:59.277
Um, so um

02:29:59.360 --> 02:30:02.477
>> yeah, there's a big the four bit

02:30:02.560 --> 02:30:05.037
mattles. It's only 16 states. [laughter]

02:30:05.120 --> 02:30:08.477
>> Yeah, exactly.
At a certain point have a lookup table.

02:30:08.560 --> 02:30:12.637
>> So why have a why? >> That's
exactly right. It's it is it is

02:30:12.720 --> 02:30:14.317
about to collapse to a lookup function.

02:30:14.400 --> 02:30:15.357
That's where you're going to get this

02:30:15.440 --> 02:30:19.357
surprise 10 to 100x very soon because

02:30:19.440 --> 02:30:21.917
much as Jensen wishes he'd optim there's

02:30:22.000 --> 02:30:24.877
a huge next optimization coming. You you

02:30:24.960 --> 02:30:29.197
don't need the multiplier.
You don't need the 32bit data.

02:30:29.280 --> 02:30:32.397
>> Definitely not the 32-bit. Well, that's
that's a rare case where you use that.

02:30:32.480 --> 02:30:37.437
>> Yeah. >> Um rare.
Um >> I think there's a

02:30:37.520 --> 02:30:41.277
>> I mean it does come out like sort of
it's kind of like an address like state,

02:30:41.360 --> 02:30:45.997
city, and street. So like like like if
if you're in context and you know if if

02:30:46.080 --> 02:30:48.717
you know you're in Austin,
you only need to specify the street.

02:30:48.800 --> 02:30:53.277
>> Yeah. >> If you
know that you know >> um

02:30:53.360 --> 02:30:56.877
you know like if like
if you know you're in

02:30:56.960 --> 02:31:01.277
this is where where you get the the
the information advantage like like four

02:31:01.360 --> 02:31:04.077
bits is not normally enough but it would
it is enough if you already know where

02:31:04.160 --> 02:31:07.437
you are. Like if you already know you're
in Austin, you only need four bits for

02:31:07.520 --> 02:31:12.397
the street. >> Yeah. um you know um

02:31:12.480 --> 02:31:13.677
if you know you're in Texas then you

02:31:13.760 --> 02:31:16.157
then you need to say okay which city

02:31:16.240 --> 02:31:21.117
it's it's it's it's state city street
this year that's how you get to the four

02:31:21.200 --> 02:31:24.157
bit thing >> they're going
to right right now dependent

02:31:24.240 --> 02:31:27.357
>> we use the we we train on 16 bit and we

02:31:27.440 --> 02:31:30.877
compress down to four at inference time

02:31:30.960 --> 02:31:35.117
>> no doubt in my mind this year we're
going to flip to training on four or

02:31:35.200 --> 02:31:39.597
even less >> and it's going
to a massive step up in

02:31:39.680 --> 02:31:43.277
perform. I think the way it'll end up is
the the GB300s will be here and there'll

02:31:43.360 --> 02:31:46.397
be a co-processor that has, you know,

02:31:46.480 --> 02:31:49.917
maybe 2,000 or 4,000 cores that are

02:31:50.000 --> 02:31:54.317
tiny. They don't handle anything other
than 4bit on down. And that combination

02:31:54.400 --> 02:31:57.917
is going to give us a 10 to 100x and
that's going to push every and then then

02:31:58.000 --> 02:32:01.917
it'll be self-designing its own chips
after that. And it just skyrockets from

02:32:02.000 --> 02:32:05.357
there. >> Infinite self
improvement. Well, like

02:32:05.440 --> 02:32:10.157
the robots building themselves, but much
sooner because it's all just go to TSMC,

02:32:10.240 --> 02:32:15.320
make this instead, come back. 90-day lag.

02:32:16.560 --> 02:32:19.597
>> I I think

02:32:19.680 --> 02:32:25.117
the next year alone is going
to be almost unfathomable. I

02:32:25.200 --> 02:32:27.357
think next year is going
to feel like the future.

02:32:27.440 --> 02:32:30.077
>> Yes. >> More than any
other year. I mean, the

02:32:30.160 --> 02:32:31.997
past year or two has been a lot of

02:32:32.080 --> 02:32:34.077
interesting digital elements, but when

02:32:34.160 --> 02:32:38.317
we've got, you know, uh, humanoid robots

02:32:38.400 --> 02:32:41.357
moving around and we have the cyber cab

02:32:41.440 --> 02:32:43.757
driving around and we have, you know,

02:32:43.840 --> 02:32:46.637
uh, flying cars, drones,

02:32:46.720 --> 02:32:48.397
>> it's going to feel like the future.

02:32:48.480 --> 02:32:50.797
We're going to have uh, the jetins sort

02:32:50.880 --> 02:32:55.917
of like materializing before us >>
by the end of next year, I think. So,

02:32:56.000 --> 02:32:59.357
>> yeah. Um, >> and we have
rockets flying in big time.

02:32:59.440 --> 02:33:02.717
>> Yeah. >> Like the the
the robot production will

02:33:02.800 --> 02:33:07.037
scale very it'll be there'll be
a shitload of robots basically in two

02:33:07.120 --> 02:33:11.837
years. >> It's a defined unit of measure.

02:33:11.920 --> 02:33:15.277
>> It won't be rare. >> Yeah. >> Well,

02:33:15.360 --> 02:33:18.477
>> uh, will will you
offer any optimize for

02:33:18.560 --> 02:33:21.197
uh home purchase? Will you will you sell

02:33:21.280 --> 02:33:24.637
or only lease the robots, do you think?

02:33:24.720 --> 02:33:28.920
>> I don't know yet. Um

02:33:29.200 --> 02:33:33.997
there there will be initially a scarcity
of robots and then there will be robots

02:33:34.080 --> 02:33:35.917
will be plentiful. So yeah the the

02:33:36.000 --> 02:33:38.877
difference the time gap between

02:33:38.960 --> 02:33:43.437
>> scarce and plantiful will will
be >> only a matter of five years.

02:33:43.520 --> 02:33:46.957
>> You know how the Tesla comes to your
driveway now and you just buy it online

02:33:47.040 --> 02:33:48.877
and it just drives up to you. >> Yeah.

02:33:48.960 --> 02:33:53.037
>> Will the robot just come
to ring the doorbell too?

02:33:53.120 --> 02:33:55.117
probably >> it gets out
of the Tesla and comes up.

02:33:55.200 --> 02:33:59.837
Right. >> I mean, what I find fascinating,
Elon, is the amount of compute that you're

02:33:59.920 --> 02:34:02.077
building into things that walk out of

02:34:02.160 --> 02:34:05.437
the factory, the cars

02:34:05.520 --> 02:34:10.477
and the robots, the amount of of
distributed inference compute that's

02:34:10.560 --> 02:34:14.877
going to be in the world.
>> A lot >> a lot.

02:34:14.960 --> 02:34:15.677
A lot

02:34:15.760 --> 02:34:19.517
>> a lot. Yeah. Um

02:34:19.600 --> 02:34:23.277
>> and that's one way to scale the

02:34:23.360 --> 02:34:26.237
you know the the AI is like is

02:34:26.320 --> 02:34:29.517
distributed edge compute. Um

02:34:29.600 --> 02:34:33.277
so I I you know I want to ask a question

02:34:33.360 --> 02:34:35.437
I don't want to hit any any hot points

02:34:35.520 --> 02:34:40.717
but in one early on I think you imagined

02:34:40.800 --> 02:34:44.397
open AI as a counterbalance for Google.

02:34:44.480 --> 02:34:48.077
>> Yeah. Is XAI now the counterbalance for

02:34:48.160 --> 02:34:50.797
Google?

02:34:50.880 --> 02:34:55.517
>> Um yeah, probably. Um

02:34:55.600 --> 02:34:57.117
I guess Anthropic is doing some good

02:34:57.200 --> 02:35:00.717
work especially in coding. Um

02:35:00.800 --> 02:35:02.637
opening I certainly done impressive

02:35:02.720 --> 02:35:07.757
work. Um you know I'm
still sort of stuck on like

02:35:07.840 --> 02:35:11.757
how do you go from a nonprofit open
source to a profit maximizing closed

02:35:11.840 --> 02:35:13.917
source [laughter] missing some of the

02:35:14.000 --> 02:35:20.397
parts in the middle. Um but you know
um they certainly have done impressive

02:35:20.480 --> 02:35:20.797
things.

02:35:20.880 --> 02:35:22.557
>> Does anybody else appear on the horizon

02:35:22.640 --> 02:35:27.837
or is it these players in China?

02:35:27.920 --> 02:35:33.640
>> Can somebody come out? [clears throat]
To the best of my knowledge, it is um

02:35:35.040 --> 02:35:37.997
my best guess is that

02:35:38.080 --> 02:35:41.197
uh it will be

02:35:41.280 --> 02:35:45.437
Xi and and Google will
will be will buy for

02:35:45.520 --> 02:35:47.437
>> will be primacy. Yeah.

02:35:47.520 --> 02:35:51.197
>> You know who who is

02:35:51.280 --> 02:35:53.037
what what is the what is the what is the

02:35:53.120 --> 02:35:57.757
vest AI? Um and and then and then and at

02:35:57.840 --> 02:36:01.197
some point it's it's going to be
I I guess a competition with China.

02:36:01.280 --> 02:36:04.397
>> Yeah. >> Uh like China's
just got a lot of lot of power.

02:36:04.480 --> 02:36:04.717
>> Yes.

02:36:04.800 --> 02:36:07.837
>> Like the electricity

02:36:07.920 --> 02:36:11.837
um they like China I think will pass

02:36:11.920 --> 02:36:17.917
three times the US electricity output
um in 26. Um and uh and they will figure

02:36:18.000 --> 02:36:20.717
out the chips. >> They're they're going
to start chip manufacturing. Right.

02:36:20.800 --> 02:36:24.877
>> Yeah. They'll they'll figure out
the chips. Um, and as it is, there's

02:36:24.960 --> 02:36:29.277
diminishing returns to the chips at this
point. Um, you know, you go from like

02:36:29.360 --> 02:36:33.037
so-called like 3 nanometer to 2
nanometer, you don't get a 3:2 ratio

02:36:33.120 --> 02:36:36.477
improvement.
You get like a >> 10% improvement.

02:36:36.560 --> 02:36:39.277
>> Yeah. >> It's it's
like so there's it's just

02:36:39.360 --> 02:36:42.557
diminishing returns on on the chip uh

02:36:42.640 --> 02:36:46.717
size. And Jensen has said like,
you know, Mo's law is dead. Like it's it's

02:36:46.800 --> 02:36:48.877
not like you can just make
things smaller and make it better.

02:36:48.960 --> 02:36:52.477
>> Yeah. just there's
a discrete number of atoms.

02:36:52.560 --> 02:36:55.917
>> That's why I think like you should just
stop talking nanometers and say how many

02:36:56.000 --> 02:36:58.637
atoms and what location

02:36:58.720 --> 02:37:01.597
>> because this is there's
marketing BS. Um

02:37:01.680 --> 02:37:03.997
so so that that makes it easier for for

02:37:04.080 --> 02:37:08.637
China to catch up because uh with >>
every wall everybody has limitation.

02:37:08.720 --> 02:37:09.197
Yeah.

02:37:09.280 --> 02:37:13.437
>> Yeah. It's like still like um there's

02:37:13.520 --> 02:37:19.037
there's like no one has neotone plans
to use the 5,000 series ASML machines,

02:37:19.120 --> 02:37:21.437
>> right? >> Um

02:37:21.520 --> 02:37:25.197
and uh you know those that cost twice as

02:37:25.280 --> 02:37:29.117
much and can only do half a reticle. Um
and they probably have some improvements

02:37:29.200 --> 02:37:31.837
in the way in the works, but u it's

02:37:31.920 --> 02:37:37.197
basically half the chip for twice
as much for a gain that is relatively

02:37:37.280 --> 02:37:37.757
small.

02:37:37.840 --> 02:37:39.197
>> Mhm.

02:37:39.280 --> 02:37:44.637
So, uh, anyway, point is that, uh,

02:37:44.720 --> 02:37:47.677
you know, that China's going to have
more power than anyone else and

02:37:47.760 --> 02:37:49.037
>> probably will have more chips.

02:37:49.120 --> 02:37:50.637
>> It's a great insight because I think a

02:37:50.720 --> 02:37:53.197
lot of people are used to the chip wars

02:37:53.280 --> 02:37:56.237
where I'm running singlethreaded code.

02:37:56.320 --> 02:38:01.117
Uh, I need the CPU to double in speed

02:38:01.200 --> 02:38:05.117
and I can increase the price, but I
need that out in an 18month cycle time or

02:38:05.200 --> 02:38:08.637
less. We've been doing
that for so long now.

02:38:08.720 --> 02:38:12.477
that nobody can see that it doesn't
matter. You can buy Intel or you can

02:38:12.560 --> 02:38:16.877
build your own fabs and you can use
them for a much longer period of time.

02:38:16.960 --> 02:38:18.797
>> Oh yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. Much longer.

02:38:18.880 --> 02:38:22.077
I totally agree. In fact, um so like our

02:38:22.160 --> 02:38:25.837
AI4 chip which is like relatively
primitive at this point. Um

02:38:25.920 --> 02:38:28.397
>> the same fab that makes that uh if we

02:38:28.480 --> 02:38:31.997
apply the the AI6 logic design to to the

02:38:32.080 --> 02:38:34.557
fab which is it's a five sort of

02:38:34.640 --> 02:38:39.277
nominally 5 nanometer fab. Yeah.
um we can easily get an order of magnitude

02:38:39.360 --> 02:38:41.437
better output in the same fab.

02:38:41.520 --> 02:38:43.197
>> Yeah. Yeah. And the other thing

02:38:43.280 --> 02:38:48.477
concurrent with that is that the volume
if you just 50x the number of chips, can

02:38:48.560 --> 02:38:51.357
you do something useful with it?
You used to not be able to. You'd be like,

02:38:51.440 --> 02:38:55.037
well, now I've got five CPUs, but I
still have the same single threaded

02:38:55.120 --> 02:38:59.037
code. What am I going to do with five
Excel spreadsheets side by side? Now

02:38:59.120 --> 02:39:02.637
it's like, no, I can translate that into
useful intelligence instantaneous.

02:39:02.720 --> 02:39:03.917
>> Exactly. It's not
constrained by humans.

02:39:04.000 --> 02:39:07.837
It's it's it's a it's not it's not
a human productivity amplifier. It's an

02:39:07.920 --> 02:39:09.997
independent productivity generator.

02:39:10.080 --> 02:39:11.837
>> Dead right.
I so many people have missed

02:39:11.920 --> 02:39:14.237
this the the importance of this.
And this is where China, you know, China

02:39:14.320 --> 02:39:16.717
makes far more solar panels than we do.

02:39:16.800 --> 02:39:19.917
>> And we're like, well,
actually, it's a crazy degree.

02:39:20.000 --> 02:39:22.797
>> Crazy degree. If they do that in chips,
you're like, well, but who cares?

02:39:22.880 --> 02:39:24.317
They're 7 nanometer. Like,

02:39:24.400 --> 02:39:25.677
>> oh, no. It's wrong.

02:39:25.760 --> 02:39:30.237
>> Yes. Correct. Yeah. Uh I I I mean based

02:39:30.320 --> 02:39:33.277
on current trends uh China will far

02:39:33.360 --> 02:39:36.077
exceed the rest of the world in uh AI

02:39:36.160 --> 02:39:37.677
compute.

02:39:37.760 --> 02:39:41.197
>> So what happens then?
You've got you got

02:39:41.280 --> 02:39:44.077
XAI and Google and China Inc. Let's call

02:39:44.160 --> 02:39:45.917
it that for the moment. And you've got

02:39:46.000 --> 02:39:48.557
massive amount of of of

02:39:48.640 --> 02:39:52.877
ASI level compute that frankly uh the

02:39:52.960 --> 02:39:54.557
only thing that understands the other

02:39:54.640 --> 02:40:00.877
ASIS level compute is the ASI here. Um

02:40:00.960 --> 02:40:04.840
can they all just play together?

02:40:05.920 --> 02:40:09.320
Is it Darwinian?

02:40:09.600 --> 02:40:14.920
There might be some
Darwinian element to it. Um,

02:40:19.840 --> 02:40:24.740
I mean, it's >> Let's look
on the right side. [laughter]

02:40:24.880 --> 02:40:26.637
>> Let's look on the bright side of life.

02:40:26.720 --> 02:40:29.037
>> I bring Grock out this to speak to us

02:40:29.120 --> 02:40:30.637
again.

02:40:30.720 --> 02:40:34.077
>> Yeah. Um,

02:40:34.160 --> 02:40:37.997
I don't know. It's just there just
going to be a lot of intelligence.

02:40:38.080 --> 02:40:41.197
>> Yes. >> Like a lot.
Uh I I mean now [laughter]

02:40:41.280 --> 02:40:44.237
we're now we're now the ratio of human I

02:40:44.320 --> 02:40:47.517
mean human intelligence um all of a

02:40:47.600 --> 02:40:52.077
sudden asmtoically falls to 0% on the

02:40:52.160 --> 02:40:56.557
planet. >> Yeah, pretty much.

02:40:56.640 --> 02:41:01.037
>> Pretty much.
>> Um I mean several years ago I said

02:41:01.120 --> 02:41:03.757
humans are the biological bootloader
for digital super intelligence.

02:41:03.840 --> 02:41:06.157
>> Yes, we are a transitional we're
a [laughter] transitional species.

02:41:06.240 --> 02:41:10.077
>> We're a bootloader. Yeah.

02:41:10.160 --> 02:41:13.357
>> We are a transition. >> I mean
silicon circuit can't like evolve

02:41:13.440 --> 02:41:15.197
in a in a salt pond, you know.

02:41:15.280 --> 02:41:19.197
>> Yeah. [laughter] >> So you need
a bootloader. We're the bootloader.

02:41:19.280 --> 02:41:22.877
>> But >> you would never
ever impair your bootloader.

02:41:22.960 --> 02:41:24.717
>> Yeah. So you know hope >> you need it.

02:41:24.800 --> 02:41:26.637
>> We've hopefully been a good bootloader.

02:41:26.720 --> 02:41:30.097
>> Yeah. >> And it's
nice to us in the future.

02:41:30.180 --> 02:41:33.917
[laughter] >> Is this where
we want to end the pod?

02:41:34.000 --> 02:41:38.477
>> Most people don't know what a
bootloader even is. Oh my god. [laughter]

02:41:38.560 --> 02:41:41.197
>> Yes. Yeah, boot discs
are a far and distant memory.

02:41:41.280 --> 02:41:47.037
>> Well, we can make a uh Always look
at the bright side of life clone song.

02:41:47.120 --> 02:41:49.677
Yeah, we can clone that [laughter]
and make that the closing theme. That'd be

02:41:49.760 --> 02:41:54.077
awesome. >> Uh I I I'll
go back to this is the most

02:41:54.160 --> 02:41:57.197
exciting time ever to be alive.
The only time more exciting than today is

02:41:57.280 --> 02:42:00.717
tomorrow. Um, yeah. And, uh, I mean,

02:42:00.800 --> 02:42:04.877
it's interesting that we're heading
towards a a world in which any single

02:42:04.960 --> 02:42:08.477
person can have their grandest
dreams become true.

02:42:08.560 --> 02:42:13.197
>> Um, yeah,

02:42:13.280 --> 02:42:15.197
that's like Walt Disney word for word.

02:42:15.280 --> 02:42:18.877
You got to make that into a new exhibit.

02:42:18.960 --> 02:42:21.117
>> Um, >> like I said,
I think you asked like

02:42:21.200 --> 02:42:25.597
about like sci-fi that's, you know,
like is a non-dystopian future,

02:42:25.680 --> 02:42:28.317
>> right? Um the banks
books are the >> Yes.

02:42:28.400 --> 02:42:30.637
>> probably the best.
>> You should you should you should pay a

02:42:30.720 --> 02:42:32.557
producer to go and make those.

02:42:32.640 --> 02:42:37.597
>> Those are the culture books which is
consider Fleabis which is GG just for my

02:42:37.680 --> 02:42:39.277
wife. I wonder cuz she she's like what

02:42:39.360 --> 02:42:42.797
the hell are you reading? [laughter]

02:42:42.880 --> 02:42:47.837
>> Well the way consider starts out is um

02:42:47.920 --> 02:42:51.117
uh I mean it's it's it's a little uh
>> I mean the whole thing is I mean he

02:42:51.200 --> 02:42:55.277
starts off being drowned
in [__] [laughter]

02:42:55.360 --> 02:42:58.717
That's a good opening scene.
We really Yeah.

02:42:58.800 --> 02:42:59.677
>> How do you not make that movie?

02:42:59.760 --> 02:43:02.077
>> It can be a little offputting
to some people. [laughter] Yeah.

02:43:02.160 --> 02:43:05.117
>> Um you need to get through
the first few hundred pages.

02:43:05.200 --> 02:43:07.837
>> People don't walk out of a movie in the
first five minutes though. They'll give

02:43:07.920 --> 02:43:12.637
it you know um get into it. Yeah. Like
player of games might be a better book

02:43:12.720 --> 02:43:14.157
to start off with than consider.

02:43:14.240 --> 02:43:18.237
>> That was that I enjoyed. Humans still
exist in this future which is a good

02:43:18.320 --> 02:43:20.797
thing. >> Yes, they do. A lot of humans.

02:43:20.880 --> 02:43:22.557
>> Yeah. >> In that future
there are trillions of

02:43:22.640 --> 02:43:26.237
humans. Well, we need to get
the reproduction rate up.

02:43:26.320 --> 02:43:29.917
>> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> By the way,
you know, my friend Ben

02:43:30.000 --> 02:43:33.837
Lamb's company, Colossal, is making
artificial wombs. He's the company

02:43:33.920 --> 02:43:37.197
bringing back the woolly mammoth
and bringing back the cybertooth tiger and

02:43:37.280 --> 02:43:39.757
all of these. >> When do we
get Oh, can can we have I'd

02:43:39.840 --> 02:43:43.357
like to have a a miniature
pet woolly mammoth as a pet.

02:43:43.440 --> 02:43:46.317
>> Okay. [laughter] Well, you know,
he made the he with the tusks.

02:43:46.400 --> 02:43:48.397
>> Wouldn't that be adorable?
>> He made the woolly mouse.

02:43:48.480 --> 02:43:49.997
>> Yeah. It's just like
>> licking you in the face.

02:43:50.080 --> 02:43:52.237
>> Yeah. Yeah. It's just like sort
of trenling around the house. You know,

02:43:52.320 --> 02:43:55.677
[laughter] what would your
optimal size be? Be adorable.

02:43:55.760 --> 02:43:58.477
>> You know what they what
they've learned how to do is to

02:43:58.560 --> 02:44:01.357
>> little tusks and everything.

02:44:01.440 --> 02:44:07.080
>> A miniature willy mammoth
[laughter] would be an epic pet.

02:44:08.000 --> 02:44:09.917
>> I mean, look what we did with wolves.

02:44:10.000 --> 02:44:13.517
>> Yeah. [laughter] He turned
a wolf into a little dog.

02:44:13.600 --> 02:44:15.677
>> He brought back the direwolf as well.

02:44:15.760 --> 02:44:19.357
>> Um, but [laughter] >> he
made the woolly mouse. There's a

02:44:19.440 --> 02:44:24.470
woolly mouse now that tusks.
>> No tusks. [laughter]

02:44:24.560 --> 02:44:27.437
>> Different gene or what?
>> I was there. I was there. He's in

02:44:27.520 --> 02:44:32.077
Dallas. He's in Dallas. Not far. I
was visiting him and he said, "Um, our our

02:44:32.160 --> 02:44:34.957
scientists are going to a
tusk conference next week."

02:44:35.040 --> 02:44:40.317
>> Okay. >> To talk about all
of the genes involved in tusk creation.

02:44:40.400 --> 02:44:41.917
>> They want to put on the mouse.

02:44:42.000 --> 02:44:46.077
>> No, [laughter] I don't want you
to probably add it to the mouse.

02:44:46.160 --> 02:44:50.797
That'd be cured until [laughter] it until
it like a mouse-sized woolly mammoth.

02:44:50.880 --> 02:44:53.597
>> That's just That's just going
to freak people out. The the little woolly

02:44:53.680 --> 02:44:55.757
mammoth will sell.
>> Yeah. [laughter] Yeah.

02:44:55.840 --> 02:44:59.917
>> Tusk mouse will not sell. >> Yeah.
It's going to crush. I mean, [laughter]

02:45:00.000 --> 02:45:02.157
>> too creepy. >> You thought
Labradoodle was cool when

02:45:02.240 --> 02:45:05.677
you see the woolly mammoth.

02:45:05.760 --> 02:45:09.597
>> Yeah. >> Saber-tooth
tiger would be good, too.

02:45:09.680 --> 02:45:11.997
Like a cat. Yeah. >> Yeah. As a cat.

02:45:12.080 --> 02:45:15.837
>> Cat size. [laughter] >> Those things

02:45:15.920 --> 02:45:18.957
those teeth come down to like here.

02:45:19.040 --> 02:45:21.917
I don't know how they actually bite,
but they did. Did Did they actually bite

02:45:22.000 --> 02:45:23.917
with those things?
I don't think I opened them.

02:45:24.000 --> 02:45:27.197
>> Not my not my, you know,
>> the teeth seem kind of

02:45:27.280 --> 02:45:29.277
>> unwield like sort
of unwieldy, you know?

02:45:29.360 --> 02:45:33.037
>> Yeah, [laughter] they're just they're
just for show. They look good. They're

02:45:33.120 --> 02:45:36.157
like, >> jewelry,

02:45:36.240 --> 02:45:38.157
>> but no dinosaurs.

02:45:38.240 --> 02:45:40.317
>> No dinosaur or not?

02:45:40.400 --> 02:45:43.277
>> Uh, I think Jurassic Park's a great

02:45:43.360 --> 02:45:47.757
idea. [laughter] I mean, really,
you didn't see the end of the movie. eyes

02:45:47.840 --> 02:45:50.637
will help us with that.
>> Nothing's perfect. Uh [laughter] Oh,

02:45:50.720 --> 02:45:54.237
yeah. That that really will.
>> I mean, if there was an island with a

02:45:54.320 --> 02:45:56.237
whole bunch of dinosaurs 100%.

02:45:56.320 --> 02:45:58.317
>> Yes. Yes. I'd pay a lot for that.

02:45:58.400 --> 02:46:01.437
>> Yeah. And it's like once in a while
somebody gets chomped by a dinosaur.

02:46:01.520 --> 02:46:05.917
You're like, uh, what's you know,
it's one in a million. I'll I'll still go.

02:46:06.000 --> 02:46:07.997
>> Who are they missing? Lysine.

02:46:08.080 --> 02:46:13.037
>> No. No. They're they're the DNA. The
oldest DNA that's been recovered is like

02:46:13.120 --> 02:46:16.157
1.2 million years. >> Oh,
you can just wing it though. Just

02:46:16.240 --> 02:46:17.277
>> Yeah. Just make it look like that.

02:46:17.360 --> 02:46:20.317
Whatever. [laughter] >> This would
be one of the Actually, that

02:46:20.400 --> 02:46:23.037
was my proposed X-P prize.
Remember back in visionering?

02:46:23.120 --> 02:46:25.757
>> What's that? >> Take the DNA strand
and predict what it'll look like.

02:46:25.840 --> 02:46:28.157
>> Yeah. Yeah. Exactly.
>> Yeah. They make it that way.

02:46:28.240 --> 02:46:31.837
>> Yeah. And then just reverse
engineer reverse engineer the dinosaurs.

02:46:31.920 --> 02:46:34.317
>> Yeah. Exactly. It would be funny if
there were two completely different DNA

02:46:34.400 --> 02:46:37.677
strands. They're like, well, they both
look like T-Rex. It's interesting how they

02:46:37.760 --> 02:46:41.757
>> Is T-Rex real or is
that like an assembly?

02:46:41.840 --> 02:46:45.517
I [laughter] mean, it's nice
to believe it's real, but uh

02:46:45.600 --> 02:46:49.240
>> front legs were from a completely
different dinosaur. [laughter]

02:46:49.680 --> 02:46:55.120
>> That was the one at eight. It
actually had huge front legs. [laughter]

02:46:56.640 --> 02:46:58.257
>> There's something wrong with the arms.

02:46:58.340 --> 02:47:04.120
[laughter] >> I don't believe I
I don't buy it on the arms front.

02:47:05.120 --> 02:47:08.077
>> The many arms >> um [laughter]

02:47:08.160 --> 02:47:11.117
seem implausible.

02:47:11.200 --> 02:47:15.677
Nope. Well, DNA will tell us.
We'll know in a year. [laughter]

02:47:15.760 --> 02:47:19.677
>> Yeah. The future is going to be
>> Jurassic Island. We say, >> "Wow."

02:47:19.760 --> 02:47:23.757
>> Yeah. >> I go, >> we got >> No,
no, I meant the the amino acid that

02:47:23.840 --> 02:47:27.997
the dinosaurs were missing >>
that kept them from reproducing.

02:47:28.080 --> 02:47:28.957
>> What? Lysine, you're saying?

02:47:29.040 --> 02:47:30.237
>> Was it lysine? I forget what it was.

02:47:30.320 --> 02:47:34.237
>> I don't remember. But no, the dinosaurs
got held back by something like an

02:47:34.320 --> 02:47:37.197
asteroid, >> you know, bombardment.

02:47:37.280 --> 02:47:39.997
>> Right. Right. >> They were
doing great. Yeah. 60 million

02:47:40.080 --> 02:47:42.637
years. Yeah. They were doing fine. They
had a great We got very lucky. They had

02:47:42.720 --> 02:47:44.717
a great much longer. [laughter] >> See,
there's a good argument why there's

02:47:44.800 --> 02:47:49.197
no other intelligence out there. There's
plenty of dinosaurs >> in the universe.

02:47:49.280 --> 02:47:51.117
>> What were we back then?
Like a bowl or something?

02:47:51.200 --> 02:47:53.597
>> We Yeah, we we were [laughter] we were

02:47:53.680 --> 02:47:59.310
our great let's commune with
the ancestors. We [laughter]

02:48:00.080 --> 02:48:03.517
>> were very good at hiding.
>> It is amazing. We went from a little

02:48:03.600 --> 02:48:07.197
little rat little mole to us in 60
million years. Doesn't seem that that

02:48:07.280 --> 02:48:09.677
long. That's why no one believed Darwin.

02:48:09.760 --> 02:48:12.717
>> Yeah. >> It's like
doesn't seem plausible. It's a

02:48:12.800 --> 02:48:15.597
long time. 60. It turns out it is. Yeah.

02:48:15.680 --> 02:48:17.437
>> You know, you're
making robots, but it's

02:48:17.520 --> 02:48:19.117
interesting. I think it'll be a lot more

02:48:19.200 --> 02:48:22.797
interesting to like design biological

02:48:22.880 --> 02:48:25.437
robots like a like a little cat that

02:48:25.520 --> 02:48:30.477
goes around and pees stain remover
and eats lint off the carpet.

02:48:30.560 --> 02:48:33.917
That's going to be an interesting >>
But you have a mechanical like a Optimus

02:48:34.000 --> 02:48:35.357
light doing that anyway. Yeah.

02:48:35.440 --> 02:48:37.277
>> Yeah. Well, they went bankrupt,
so we'll have to build this. [laughter]

02:48:37.360 --> 02:48:40.797
>> I think you can still buy them, though.

02:48:40.880 --> 02:48:44.077
>> Anyway, >> the room is basically
that >> it's going to be uh

02:48:44.160 --> 02:48:46.557
>> but but the thing is like a human
robot is general purpose, so it can do

02:48:46.640 --> 02:48:49.997
whatever you want. >> Yeah. >> Um

02:48:50.080 --> 02:48:52.717
>> yeah, they were too early. No vision

02:48:52.800 --> 02:48:57.467
system, no no GB300.
How do you build a Roomba that works?

02:48:57.550 --> 02:48:59.517
[laughter] >> I think
the idea of having an Optimus

02:48:59.600 --> 02:49:03.997
vacuum is like the most underused asset.

02:49:04.080 --> 02:49:05.437
It could, but it can just do anything.

02:49:05.520 --> 02:49:07.837
>> It can. Yes, of course.

02:49:07.920 --> 02:49:12.957
>> Yeah. >> So, uh,
and you can mass manufacture at

02:49:13.040 --> 02:49:16.157
at, you know, one. >> Oh,
that's Yeah. Optimus, build me a

02:49:16.240 --> 02:49:20.477
Roomba. That's what you'll do. You
want to say, Optimus, vacuum, carve it,

02:49:20.560 --> 02:49:22.317
Optimus, build me a Roomba that vacuums.

02:49:22.400 --> 02:49:24.077
That's >> build a house. Build me a robot.

02:49:24.160 --> 02:49:28.257
>> Yeah. >> It's going
to be a lot of robots.

02:49:28.340 --> 02:49:31.197
[laughter] >> Maybe we
should do this once a year.

02:49:31.280 --> 02:49:34.147
>> Checkpoint. >> I would
like that >> checkpoint.

02:49:34.230 --> 02:49:37.597
[laughter] That's going to be
we can roll roll back the

02:49:37.680 --> 02:49:40.717
>> What were we saying predictions
last year? [laughter] >> Yeah. Yeah.

02:49:40.800 --> 02:49:43.277
>> All right. >> Well,
we can always control it. We can

02:49:43.360 --> 02:49:48.237
cut cut out the bus.
>> Are you selling hope? [laughter]

02:49:48.320 --> 02:49:50.637
>> As a matter of fact,
it worked out really well.

02:49:50.720 --> 02:49:52.877
>> You pull up in your Tesla like,
"Hey, I bought this with my

02:49:52.960 --> 02:49:57.917
>> dollars per hope." You know,
[laughter] >> I'll send you the mug.

02:49:58.000 --> 02:49:59.437
>> Monetize hope. >> All right.

02:49:59.520 --> 02:50:04.157
>> Monetize Hope. One year from today,
December 22nd, I'll come and knock on

02:50:04.240 --> 02:50:06.557
the door right here. If you're here,
you're here. If you're not, we'll talk

02:50:06.640 --> 02:50:10.077
about you. [laughter] >> I mean,
a year from now, we might have

02:50:10.160 --> 02:50:14.717
the new Optimus factory where
the building will be built.

02:50:14.800 --> 02:50:20.557
>> Um, >> that would be >> awesome.
8 million square feet of robots

02:50:20.640 --> 02:50:22.957
running. [laughter] >> It's going
to be a giant giant building.

02:50:23.040 --> 02:50:25.597
>> Oh, man. >> Um, yeah. >> And, uh,

02:50:25.680 --> 02:50:27.597
>> yeah, they freak me out when they're

02:50:27.680 --> 02:50:30.397
recharging. It's like hang in there.

02:50:30.480 --> 02:50:32.957
It's like what's wrong with that thing?

02:50:33.040 --> 02:50:36.157
>> Yeah, we're we're actually just
going to have them like I think sit down.

02:50:36.240 --> 02:50:39.677
>> Yeah. >> As opposed
to look like some sort of

02:50:39.760 --> 02:50:42.797
>> They need like [laughter]
a like a recharging cigar.

02:50:42.880 --> 02:50:44.557
>> A recharging cigar.

02:50:44.640 --> 02:50:49.997
>> Less less morg like [laughter]
>> snapping here with a book.

02:50:50.080 --> 02:50:52.317
>> Yeah, >> that' be much
better. Right now they're

02:50:52.400 --> 02:50:55.037
just like literally like is it dead?

02:50:55.120 --> 02:50:56.877
Just limp. >> Yeah, that's
a good point. That's a big

02:50:56.960 --> 02:50:58.647
contribution from this particular brand.

02:50:58.730 --> 02:51:02.957
[laughter] Uh, all right.
Till next year then.

02:51:03.040 --> 02:51:05.997
>> All right. It's a day.
>> Thanks, buddy.

02:51:06.080 --> 02:51:08.717
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