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Yeah, it turns out that humans are
terrible drivers and if we're going to

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allow 16 year olds to drive tanks down
the highways at 100 miles an hour, maybe

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letting the smart computers do it is a
better idea. All right, uh Lon, the next

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thing I want to grab is speaking
of preference and kind of getting things

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right. Um the the two of them discussed

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the importance of helping humans do
higher value work. Now, when we talked

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today about AI agents, increasing model
intelligence, we're always thinking

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about what's this going to replace
in the human labor pool. Is it blue collar

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work, white collar work? But often we're

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seeing AI today turn up in very high

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economic value areas, coding, legal
work, that sort of thing. And so when

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Alexander Wang discusses where he
sees the AI market going, it's really

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interesting. Take a listen. there are

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there like helping people focus
on higher and higher value work uh is is

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really I mean that's sort of like the core
of human progress in some sense but

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um >> but it's uh that
that very much so is I

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I I strongly believe will be the actual
story of AI and machine learning and

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it'll have to happen more and more
and more for us to be comfortable with it

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but um a great example is like truck
driving so there's there's a lot all

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these automated truck uh truck driving

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companies right work with a a lot of

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them embark uh Ike etc. Um and uh and

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there's sort of the the the naive view
is that hey they're just they're going

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to automate truck drivers and like if
you look at the map of the states like

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uh truck driving is a top profession
in a lot of states and so seems really bad

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but actually if you look if you kind
of like think at the system as a whole

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there's a shortage there's a national
shortage >> of truck drivers

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>> in truck drivers in the United States
>> and the median age is like 50 or

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something crazy. >> Yeah.
Exactly. So there's sort of this

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like there's this like >> millennials and
gen Z's are not becoming truck drivers.

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>> So there's this there's this kind
of like instability in the market because

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of all this stuff, right?
And and uh and the the the

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>> the automated truck driving systems.

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Actually what they would do is automate

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the the longhaul middles of these truck

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driving which are the boring parts that

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displace people from wherever their
homes are, etc. and allow the current

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truck drivers to focus on these like
higher value trips that are sort of like

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uh warehouse to a a meeting point or what

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>> dreage to like
the dreage to the factory

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or even the last mile. I mean,
who knows? Like maybe these trucks will

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change their form factor and be half
the size be automated and when the truck

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gets off the road, the same truck
instead of using 18 wheelers, we might

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just use smaller midsize trucks that'll
be electric and solar powered so you

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have more of them. when they get off
they become the delivery truck. Yeah.

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>> And they just
automatically start delivering.

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>> Yeah. >> Could be a much better model.

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>> Yeah. So, so the um these uh these sort

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of like the introduction of machine
learning to uh to improve the efficiency

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of the economy, it'll it'll it'll be

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slow because of how the how in general

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free market economics work. It'll it'll
take effect in areas where there's an

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acute problem today, >> right?
It'll happen in those places

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first. and uh and it'll allow the the

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current jobs that exist to become higher

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value, more impactful, um etc.

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>> Yeah, I feel like his truck driving

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example here is really good and and it's

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it's a very smart illustration of the
larger point that I think makes it easy

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to sort of visualize because what he's
arguing is, you know, they're not going

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to fire all the truck drivers overnight.

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It's not like AI's here, AI could drive
the trucks. We don't need you anymore.

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It's like there are different kinds of
truck driving. There's the kind of truck

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driving where you're in a straight line
down the highway for like three days in

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a row. And then there's the more
intricate you're going through a

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neighborhood, you're going around some
sharp turns, you're you're the last mile

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of where the truck needs to go
to actually make the delivery or what have

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you. And so he's saying, you know,
like well AI would take part of that, the

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like long haul boring part that's sort
of uneventful. You don't really need a

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human for it. And that's the part that
makes a human drive three days away from

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their house and then be away from their
family for the whole week to get that

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haul done. And so he's like, well, you
could have the AI do that part and then

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local truck drivers take care of the
more intricate parts where it helps to

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have a human and they get to stay
in the same place. So it's like AI makes

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everything better and takes care of the
stuff that we don't want humans to have

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to do. And it's like I don't I don't
know if that's actually how all of this

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stuff is going to play out,
but that strikes me as like the best case

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