Elon Musk on AGI Timeline, US vs China, Job Markets, Clean Energy & Humanoid Robots | 220 (YouTube Video Transcript)

(00:00:00) Your YouTube transcript will appear here (00:00:00) My concern isn't the long run. It's the (00:00:03) next 3 to seven years. How do we head (00:00:05) towards Star Trek and not Terminator? (00:00:07) >> I call AI and robotics the supersonic (00:00:09) tsunami. We're in the singularity. (00:00:12) >> When is all white by color work gone? (00:00:14) >> Anything short of shaping atoms. AI can (00:00:18) do half or more of those jobs right now. (00:00:20) There's no onoff switch. It is coming (00:00:23) and accelerating. The transition will be (00:00:25) bumpy. You have a solution to this. (00:00:27) >> I don't make a bet here. Um, (00:00:30) >> China's done an incredible job, (00:00:32) >> right? I mean, it's running circles (00:00:34) around us. Do you imagine that the US (00:00:37) could make that level of investment and (00:00:40) commitment (00:00:40) >> based on current trends? Uh, China will (00:00:43) far exceed the rest of the world in uh (00:00:46) AI compute. (00:00:47) >> Every major CEO and economist and (00:00:49) government leader should be like, what (00:00:51) do we do? (00:00:51) >> We don't have any system right now to (00:00:53) make this go well. But AI is a critical (00:00:55) part of making it go well. There are (00:00:57) three things that I think are important. (00:01:00) Truth will prevent AI from going insane. (00:01:02) Curiosity, I think, will foster any form (00:01:05) of sentience. And if it has a sense of (00:01:07) beauty, it will be a great future. It's (00:01:09) going to be an awesome future. (00:01:12) >> Now, that's a moonshot, ladies and (00:01:14) gentlemen. (00:01:17) >> Welcome to Moonshots. Following is a (00:01:19) wide-ranging conversation with Elon Musk (00:01:22) focused on optimism and the coming age (00:01:24) of abundance. My moonshot mate Dave (00:01:26) Blondon and I flew into Austin, Texas to (00:01:28) meet up with Elon at his 11.5 million (00:01:31) square foot Gigafactory, home of the (00:01:33) Cybertruck and Model Y production and (00:01:35) the future home for 8 million square ft (00:01:38) of Optimus production. Elon has agreed (00:01:41) to do this kind of a deep dive catchup (00:01:43) once per year. This is hopefully the (00:01:45) first of many. And after having this (00:01:47) conversation with Elon, it's crystal (00:01:49) clear to me that we are living through (00:01:51) the singularity. All right, enjoy. (00:01:54) >> Yeah. Um, your relentless optimism is (00:01:55) always a breath of fresh air. (00:01:57) >> Thank you, buddy. Thank you. Well, I (00:01:58) want to share that tonight with a lot of (00:02:00) people. (00:02:01) >> Yeah, (00:02:02) >> I think they need it. (00:02:03) >> I hope you're right. And you might be (00:02:04) right. Actually, I'm increasingly (00:02:06) thinking that you are right. (00:02:07) >> Thank you. (00:02:08) >> Abundance for all. (00:02:09) >> Yeah, (00:02:10) >> that's the goal. Shall we? (00:02:12) >> Yeah. (00:02:12) >> All right. (00:02:13) >> Right now, putting a lot of time into (00:02:15) chips. (00:02:16) >> You are. You are personally. (00:02:18) >> Yeah. (00:02:18) >> Yeah. (00:02:19) >> It's always AI assistance, I assume. (00:02:21) >> What's that? with some AI assistance. I (00:02:23) assume that design (00:02:25) >> uh not enough. (00:02:27) >> Yeah. (00:02:29) >> It' be nice if we could just hand it off (00:02:30) to the AI. (00:02:31) >> Yeah. Yeah. (00:02:32) >> Soon enough. (00:02:33) >> Yeah. I tried to do some circuit design (00:02:35) actually with uh AI recently. Just this (00:02:38) a couple weeks ago. Not not happening (00:02:40) yet. (00:02:41) >> Um (00:02:43) very soon though. (00:02:44) >> Yeah. Um I I think probably at this (00:02:48) point Grock if you if you took a photo (00:02:50) and submitted to Grock, it could (00:02:52) probably tell you if if the circuit is (00:02:54) is if there's something wrong with it. (00:02:55) >> Yeah. (00:02:56) >> Yeah. (00:02:56) >> All right. I'm going to give it a shot. (00:02:58) You're using the same Grock that I'm (00:02:59) using. Are you or you are (00:03:02) >> Grock keeps updating. So (00:03:04) >> yeah, 4.2, but five is soon, right? (00:03:08) >> Uh five is Q1. (00:03:10) >> Yeah. (00:03:10) >> Um 4.2 has not been released yet. (00:03:13) >> Okay. uh externally. Um but yeah, I mean (00:03:17) if you just if you just upload an image (00:03:19) into Gro um (00:03:22) >> it's it's does quite a good job. (00:03:24) >> Yeah. (00:03:25) >> Um (00:03:26) >> yeah, (00:03:26) >> of of analyzing any any given image. (00:03:29) >> Absolutely. Let's uh let's start. We're (00:03:31) going to talk about this. (00:03:32) >> All right. We'll come back. (00:03:33) >> I mean, let's see if I if I take an if I (00:03:35) take a picture of you, what is it? Let's (00:03:36) see what it (00:03:37) >> Yeah. What's it going to say about me? (00:03:38) >> Yeah, it's going to say you're a flawed (00:03:40) circuit. I also have to remember to (00:03:42) update it because like we update the (00:03:43) Grock app so frequently. (00:03:44) >> You know, I asked I asked Grock to roast (00:03:46) me. (00:03:47) >> Oh, it's does a good job. (00:03:48) >> It did an amazing job. Then I asked (00:03:49) Grock to roast you. Yes. (00:03:51) >> And I spit out my coffee. It was it was (00:03:54) hilarious. And then I asked it, you (00:03:55) know, (00:03:56) >> say be more. It just keeps telling it to (00:03:57) be more and more. (00:03:58) >> I asked I asked until until it's like (00:04:01) mother of God. (00:04:03) >> Wait, is Bad Rudy still out or did that (00:04:05) get repealed? Bad Rudy still there? (00:04:07) >> And I asked, you know, does Elon know (00:04:08) what you say about him? and and and she (00:04:11) goes, "It's a she for me." She goes, (00:04:13) "What is he going to do about it?" (00:04:15) >> What is he going to do about it? (00:04:18) >> Yeah, let's see. Okay. (00:04:20) >> Um, so I just literally took a photo of (00:04:22) you and see what it is. (00:04:24) >> Did you ask a question? (00:04:25) >> No, nothing. I didn't say anything. (00:04:27) >> This man is is hugely (00:04:30) >> This This is Peter Diamandis. (00:04:32) >> Yes. (00:04:33) >> So, (00:04:33) >> okay. (00:04:34) >> That's pretty good. (00:04:35) >> Yeah. (00:04:36) >> There's no context whatsoever. (00:04:37) >> The host of the podcast Moonshots. Yeah. (00:04:39) >> Uh, sometimes that's your first (00:04:41) credential now. That's amazing. Forget (00:04:43) about everything else I've done in life. (00:04:45) Comes back to your podcast. That was a (00:04:46) no no context image. (00:04:47) >> Yeah. By the way, Graedia is awesome. (00:04:50) >> Okay, great. (00:04:50) >> I mean, just phenomenal. (00:04:53) >> I mean, just it's like I tried to like (00:04:55) update my Wikipedia page for like years (00:04:57) impossibly (00:04:59) >> and um Yeah, it it it knows me. (00:05:02) >> Amazing. (00:05:03) >> Yeah. Um, he's wearing a black quilted (00:05:06) jacket featuring a Sundance logo. (00:05:10) >> Not quite true. It's my abundance logo, (00:05:11) but I guess a little wrinkled. See the (00:05:14) >> Can it see it? (00:05:15) >> I I I think so. (00:05:17) >> Okay. Okay. (00:05:18) >> Anyway, (00:05:19) >> um Yeah, but it basically (00:05:22) uh it's pretty damn good. (00:05:23) >> Yeah. (00:05:24) >> Um he's smiling and relaxed with a (00:05:26) laptop in front of him. (00:05:27) >> That's true. (00:05:28) >> Yeah, that's true. (00:05:31) Um, (00:05:33) >> yeah. (00:05:35) >> Well, I should say quite a circuit (00:05:37) though. (00:05:38) >> You got to test it on the (00:05:39) >> roast him. (00:05:42) >> Only It has to be read by you, though. (00:05:44) >> I mean, I won't read the whole thing, (00:05:45) but (00:05:46) >> All right. Give me Give me a taste. I (00:05:49) can take it. (00:05:49) >> Okay. Check out that grin. Dude smiling (00:05:52) like he just discovered a new way to (00:05:53) monetize hope. (00:05:58) >> Monetizing hope. Oh, that's (00:06:00) >> I want to try and answer the question, (00:06:02) can AI and tech help save America and (00:06:06) the world? Right. Um, I want to give (00:06:08) people listening a dose of optimism. (00:06:11) There's a survey done in mid December by (00:06:13) Pew that said 45% of Americans would (00:06:16) rather live in the past and only 14% (00:06:19) said they'd rather live in the future, (00:06:21) which is insane to me, right? Um, (00:06:24) obviously they never read history. The (00:06:25) challenge is most Americans all they (00:06:27) have of the future. It's like Hollywood (00:06:29) has shown us killer AIs and rogue (00:06:32) robots, right? And people are worried (00:06:35) about their jobs. They're worried about (00:06:37) healthcare. They're worried about, you (00:06:38) know, the cost of living. The challenge (00:06:40) is how do we how do we help people? I (00:06:43) mean, you posted, you pinned on X, the (00:06:45) future is going to be amazing with AI (00:06:47) and robots enabling sustainable (00:06:48) abundance. (00:06:49) >> I think of you when I did that. (00:06:50) >> Thank you. I appreciate that. and and uh (00:06:53) >> well I mean (00:06:54) >> it's like what would Peter do you want (00:06:55) to say? (00:06:56) >> Yeah was channeling you. (00:06:58) >> Thank you. Thank I couldn't agree more. (00:07:00) I didn't agree more either. (00:07:02) >> That's great. (00:07:03) >> So so my question is from a you know (00:07:06) from a first principle standpoint (00:07:08) >> right (00:07:10) >> uh the rationale for optimism you know (00:07:12) how do we how do we head towards Star (00:07:14) Trek and not Terminator right? How do we (00:07:17) how do we head towards (00:07:18) >> Ronberry not Cameron. Yeah, (00:07:22) Jim. Jim, I will I will (00:07:25) >> the diverging path meme. (00:07:26) >> Yes, it is. It is. Uh, Avatar has some (00:07:30) hopeful parts, but anyway, (00:07:32) >> I how do we go towards universal high (00:07:34) income instead of social unrest? So, my (00:07:38) >> both (00:07:41) want socialrest. (00:07:43) >> So, (00:07:45) have universal high income and social (00:07:47) unrest. M (00:07:48) >> that's my prediction. (00:07:49) >> Oh, that will make for a lot of (00:07:51) problems. (00:07:52) >> Is that your actual prediction? (00:07:53) >> Yeah. (00:07:53) >> Yeah, it seems likely. (00:07:56) >> Like tell me to push back on it. (00:07:58) >> Yeah, exactly. But it seems like that's (00:08:00) the trend. (00:08:01) >> Yeah. Yeah, totally. No, we have (00:08:02) >> Well, because there's going to be so (00:08:03) much change. (00:08:04) >> Yeah, there's people are going to be (00:08:06) like scared shitless. (00:08:07) >> Yeah, it's it's sort of the um (00:08:10) you know um it's like be careful what (00:08:14) you wish for because you might get it. (00:08:15) >> Yeah. Yeah. (00:08:16) >> Now, if if you if you actually get all (00:08:20) the stuff you want, is that actually the (00:08:22) future you want? (00:08:23) >> Yeah. (00:08:24) >> Um because it means that your job won't (00:08:27) be what matter (00:08:28) >> if you're living an unchallenged life. (00:08:30) >> Yes. (00:08:31) >> Right. With no challenges. (00:08:33) >> Yeah. (00:08:33) >> No. You know, you know, if you become a (00:08:35) couch potato, if it's the Wall-E future, (00:08:37) that does not go well for humans. (00:08:39) >> Well, and we're used to being told, (00:08:41) here's your challenge. Yeah. (00:08:43) >> So people haven't historically been very (00:08:45) good at creating their own challenge in (00:08:47) the absence of (00:08:48) >> I think Elon does a damn good job. Every (00:08:50) time you every time one company takes (00:08:51) off, you start your next. (00:08:53) >> Oh, that's that's rare for punishment. (00:08:55) >> I think you are. I think you overthank (00:08:56) God for that. (00:08:57) >> So So what so (00:08:59) >> why do I do this to myself? (00:09:01) >> Actually, after AI and robots, is there (00:09:03) another thing after that? I guess (00:09:05) there's (00:09:05) >> Well, there's there's conquering, you (00:09:07) know, the universe. (00:09:08) >> Yeah, that there is that (00:09:10) >> rocks really. (00:09:11) >> Well, (00:09:12) and energy (00:09:13) >> rocks are your friends. (00:09:14) >> Conquering (00:09:16) >> We didn't even get there. (00:09:17) >> Why, Elon? Why are you so optimistic? (00:09:20) >> Are you Are you optimistic? Let's start (00:09:21) there. (00:09:22) >> I'm not as optimistic as you are. (00:09:23) >> Okay. (00:09:24) >> Um but why are you optimist? (00:09:26) >> I'm more optimistic than most people. (00:09:28) >> Okay. (00:09:28) >> Um (00:09:29) >> and is the trend upward (00:09:33) compared to a year ago, two years ago? (00:09:35) Well, I I think if you reframe things in (00:09:37) terms of (00:09:39) um progress bar, like speaking of (00:09:42) challenges, (00:09:42) >> yeah, (00:09:43) >> uh progress towards a cartev 2 scale (00:09:47) civilization. (00:09:48) >> Sure. (00:09:49) >> Um well, let's say let's say the (00:09:51) aspiration (00:09:52) >> capturing all the energy from the sun's (00:09:54) output. (00:09:54) >> Well, let's even have a a humbler (00:09:57) humbler aspiration than that. If we say (00:10:00) that our goal is to even get a millionth (00:10:03) of the sun's energy, (00:10:05) >> that would be more than a thousand times (00:10:07) as much energy as could possibly be (00:10:09) produced on Earth. (00:10:11) >> So about a half a billionth of the sun's (00:10:14) energy reaches Earth. Um so you'd have (00:10:17) to go up three orders of magnitude from (00:10:20) that uh just to get to a millionth. (00:10:22) >> Yeah. (00:10:23) Um, (00:10:24) so (00:10:27) we're very very very far from even h (00:10:31) having a billionth of the sun's energy (00:10:34) uh harnessed in any way. So a reasonable (00:10:38) goal would be try to get to a millionth. (00:10:41) And if you try to get to a millionth or (00:10:43) or a thousandth um you know 0.1%. (00:10:48) Uh (00:10:50) that's that's such an enormous (00:10:53) uh there's not sure what metaphor we'd (00:10:55) use here because a hill to climb is is (00:10:56) not a (00:10:58) >> inapprop like not a big enough metaphor (00:11:00) but (00:11:00) >> gravity well to escape (00:11:02) >> engineer hell of a gravity well. (00:11:04) Exactly. Um so if if you try to get to a (00:11:08) millionth of the sun's energy or a (00:11:12) thousandth the sun's energy like now the (00:11:14) these are very very difficult tasks (00:11:17) >> and energy is the inner loop for (00:11:18) everything right now. (00:11:20) >> Yeah. I I think like I I think uh the (00:11:23) future currency will essentially just be (00:11:25) wattage. (00:11:26) >> Yeah. I was thinking is it is it d is (00:11:28) the ability of a person to control (00:11:30) energy and compute (00:11:33) >> or just energy? I mean the two translate (00:11:37) obviously (00:11:37) >> just like harnessed energy. (00:11:39) >> Yeah. (00:11:39) >> Like so or like basically how much power (00:11:42) is being turned into work of some kind, (00:11:45) >> right? (00:11:45) >> Um (00:11:47) intelligence or (00:11:50) um matter manipulation. Um, (00:11:53) >> so that's your next big project is going (00:11:55) to be energy. (00:11:57) >> It's it's going to be you're going to go (00:11:58) back to your solar your solar system. (00:12:00) >> You can expand from there and say, okay, (00:12:02) >> what about even getting somewhere on a (00:12:04) on a cottage of three scale, meaning (00:12:06) galaxy level. (00:12:07) >> Now you're talking now. Now we're back (00:12:09) to Star Trek. (00:12:10) >> Yeah. Expand horizons here. (00:12:12) >> Yes. (00:12:13) >> Where there isn't even a horizon because (00:12:15) you're not on a planet. (00:12:18) >> So we we talk about (00:12:19) >> So So think galaxy mind. (00:12:21) >> Yeah. (00:12:22) Well, listen, we're in 11 11.5 million (00:12:24) square foot, three pentagons right here (00:12:26) in this building. I mean, you think in a (00:12:28) reasonably large scale, (00:12:30) >> what is the magnitude? (00:12:32) >> Yeah. (00:12:32) >> Um, so I mean, so from a challenge (00:12:35) standpoint, I guess (00:12:37) the civil the civilizational challenge (00:12:40) will be how do you climb the orders of (00:12:42) magnitude? (00:12:43) >> Yeah. (00:12:43) >> And energy harnessed. (00:12:45) >> But we're going back to why are you (00:12:46) optimistic right now? I mean, when (00:12:49) people think about uh the challenges (00:12:51) ahead, I think we're going to end up (00:12:54) with abundance in the long run, it's for (00:12:57) me (00:12:57) >> beyond abundance in any beyond what (00:13:00) people possibly could think of as (00:13:01) abundance. Um like the AI actually (00:13:05) AI and robots the limit um will will (00:13:09) saturate all human desire. (00:13:12) >> And then we get to nanotechnology which (00:13:14) takes it even a step further. (00:13:17) Um the thing about the well I'm not sure (00:13:19) what you mean by nano you mean like (00:13:20) little nanobots (00:13:21) >> atomic reassembly. (00:13:22) >> Yeah. For health. (00:13:23) >> Oh yeah. Yeah. Sure. Sure. Um I mean (00:13:25) we're already doing atomic level (00:13:26) assembly on the for circuits you know. (00:13:28) >> Amazing. (00:13:29) >> Um (00:13:29) >> two three nanometers. (00:13:31) >> Yeah. It's it's only um depending on how (00:13:34) they're arrayed four or five silicon (00:13:37) atoms per nanometer. (00:13:38) >> Yeah. (00:13:39) >> So (00:13:39) >> those are big atoms though. (00:13:41) >> They're not bigish. They're not your (00:13:43) little I mean but but I'm just saying (00:13:44) you could they should actually describe (00:13:46) the circuits in terms of an integer (00:13:48) number of atoms in a specific place. (00:13:49) >> They should it's all angstroms now but (00:13:52) >> you could you can just it's just inte (00:13:55) it's it's like we'll call this the the (00:13:58) seven atom you know whatever like you (00:14:01) say two two nanometers it's like it's (00:14:02) like (00:14:02) >> no one knows (00:14:03) >> nine silicon atoms something like that. (00:14:06) Um they've got silicon and copper and um (00:14:09) you know so but a bunch of these things (00:14:11) are just marketing numbers like the two (00:14:12) nanometer is just a marketing number. (00:14:14) >> Oh yeah. (00:14:14) >> Um but but it's you still need (00:14:17) essentially close to atomic level (00:14:20) precision. Like the atoms really need to (00:14:21) be in the right spot. (00:14:23) >> Um so um (00:14:27) I think they're getting clean rooms (00:14:28) wrong by the way in these modern fabs. (00:14:31) Um (00:14:33) I'm going to I'm going to make a bet (00:14:34) here. Okay. (00:14:35) >> Okay. (00:14:36) >> Um that Tesla will have a 2nmter fab and (00:14:43) I can I can eat a cheeseburger and smoke (00:14:45) a cigar in the fab. (00:14:46) >> Oh, come on. (00:14:48) >> Yes. (00:14:48) >> The air handling will be that good. (00:14:52) >> Do you have this sketched out in your (00:14:53) mind? Like how is it how are the atoms (00:14:54) being placed that they're immune to uh (00:14:57) cheeseburger grease? They just maintain (00:14:59) wafer isolation the entire time. um (00:15:02) which is actually the default for for (00:15:04) fabs. The the wafers are transported um (00:15:07) in boxes of pure nitrogen gas under a (00:15:11) slight positive. (00:15:12) >> So are the bananas at Walmart. I (00:15:14) >> just so you know. (00:15:15) >> Yeah. Well, that's that's it's inite (00:15:18) essentially like it's pretty hard for (00:15:19) anything that's combusting (00:15:21) >> uh to live without oxygen. (00:15:23) >> Yep. (00:15:24) >> So um (00:15:25) >> let's talk about (00:15:26) >> So like like you can kill the bugs just (00:15:27) by putting a nitrogen blanket on plants. (00:15:30) >> Yeah. Interesting. (00:15:31) >> I want to talk about uh energy, health, (00:15:33) education because those are people's, (00:15:35) you know, concerns. So, on the energy (00:15:37) front, (00:15:38) >> um the innermost loop of everything that (00:15:41) you're building and doing right now, (00:15:43) >> energy is the foundation. (00:15:44) >> What's your vision for energy abundance? (00:15:46) Uh (00:15:47) >> the sun (00:15:48) >> in in in the next, you know, this this (00:15:50) this decade. The sun. Yeah. I mean, so (00:15:52) >> the sun is everything. (00:15:53) >> It's everything. So, you're all in on (00:15:55) solar. (00:15:56) >> I mean, (00:15:57) >> uh Yeah. I mean your natural gas natural (00:15:59) gas and solar you're at Colossus 2, (00:16:02) right? (00:16:03) >> Yeah. (00:16:04) >> People just don't understand how (00:16:07) >> that that solar is everything. So um (00:16:10) everything compared to the sun, all (00:16:14) other energy sources are like uh cavemen (00:16:17) throwing some twigs into a fire. (00:16:19) >> Yeah. (00:16:19) >> Um so the the sun is over 99.8% (00:16:25) of all mass in the solar system. Uh (00:16:28) Jupiter is around uh.1% of the mass. Uh (00:16:32) so even if you burnt Jupiter, the energy (00:16:35) produced by the sun would still round up (00:16:36) to 100%. (00:16:37) >> Yeah. (00:16:38) >> Mhm. (00:16:38) >> And then if you teleported three more (00:16:40) Jupiters into our solar system and burnt (00:16:42) them too, (00:16:42) >> it would still round up. (00:16:44) >> It still the sun still rounds up to 100% (00:16:46) of energy. (00:16:46) >> Any interest in fusion? (00:16:48) >> I mean like fusion on a planet fusion. (00:16:53) You know what? You know coming a mile (00:16:54) away. (00:16:56) >> You're not never going to guess how the (00:16:58) sun works. (00:17:00) >> Giant coal plants. (00:17:03) >> I mean, we have a giant fus free fusion (00:17:05) reactor that shows up every day (00:17:07) >> 93 million miles away. (00:17:09) >> It's farical for us to create little (00:17:11) fusion reactors. Um (00:17:14) I mean that would be like, you know, (00:17:18) having a tiny ice cube maker in the (00:17:20) Antarctic. (00:17:23) and say, "Hey, look, we made ice." I'm (00:17:25) like, "Congratulations. (00:17:26) You're in the [ __ ] Antarctic." (00:17:28) >> So, totally totally with you on this. (00:17:30) >> It's like (00:17:32) 3 kilometer high glaciers right next to (00:17:34) you. (00:17:34) >> Okay. (00:17:36) >> Yeah. If you just narrow the question to (00:17:39) the Memphis timeline. So, Memphis data (00:17:42) center timeline between a gigawatt and (00:17:44) 10 gig. You're not going to you're not (00:17:46) going to pull 10 gigawatts out of (00:17:47) Memphis. Um maybe you are (00:17:51) >> two or three. (00:17:52) >> Two or three. Okay. So So there's still (00:17:54) a gap between there and the next (00:17:55) whatever you just just draw. So and (00:17:58) they're not in space yet at that point. (00:17:59) >> So we're still in toy land here. Uh for (00:18:01) on toy land you (00:18:03) >> toy land. Toyland (00:18:04) >> 10 gigawatt. (00:18:05) >> You know what's amazing is there's 100 (00:18:07) megawatts right outside the door here (00:18:09) >> and it's massive. Yeah. (00:18:11) >> It's it's enormous. And it uses more (00:18:13) energy (00:18:15) >> than everything. All these manufacturing (00:18:17) lines combined use less energy than (00:18:20) that. (00:18:21) >> I think but we're talking about a (00:18:23) longgo. Cortex one was (00:18:25) >> the the third largest training cluster (00:18:27) in the in the world. (00:18:29) >> Yeah. 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(00:19:12) So going back to what Dave is saying (00:19:14) over the next five years, what are you (00:19:16) scaling on energy front? Do (00:19:19) >> I mean (00:19:19) >> five years is a long time. (00:19:20) >> I mean energy I mean China has done an (00:19:22) incredible job. (00:19:23) >> Yeah. (00:19:24) >> Right. I mean it's running circles (00:19:25) around us. (00:19:27) >> Uh China has done an incredible job on (00:19:30) solar. (00:19:31) >> Yeah. (00:19:31) >> It's amazing. (00:19:33) So I I believe China's uh production (00:19:35) capacity is around 1500 gawatts per year (00:19:38) of solar. (00:19:39) >> Yeah. They put in 500 terowatts in the (00:19:41) last year (00:19:44) >> terowatt hours. Yeah. Terowatt hours (00:19:46) like 500 500 terowatt hours to be very (00:19:48) specific (00:19:49) >> in the last year. 70% of that was solar (00:19:51) and they're just scaling. (00:19:53) >> Do do you do you imagine that (00:19:55) >> solar scales? Do you imagine that the US (00:19:59) could make that level of investment and (00:20:01) commitment? I mean because people are (00:20:03) worried about their energy bills going (00:20:05) up with no no data centers in our (00:20:06) backyard. How do we provide I mean (00:20:09) energy energy is equivalent to is (00:20:12) equivalent to cost of you know cost of (00:20:15) living. It's equivalent to health. It's (00:20:16) equivalent to clean water. You know the (00:20:18) higher energy uh production of a country (00:20:22) the higher its GDP. Um energy is (00:20:24) important. So what should what do we do (00:20:28) to scale that way? Do we do it in solar (00:20:30) here? (00:20:32) >> Um I think we should scale solar (00:20:35) substantially in the US. Um (00:20:38) um Tesla and SpaceX are scaling solar. (00:20:41) Um (00:20:43) so uh and I encourage others to do so as (00:20:45) well. M (00:20:46) >> um so the the uh (00:20:51) I mean I've said the stuff you know (00:20:54) publicly um I do see a path to 100 (00:20:58) gawatts a year of of space solar sort of (00:21:02) a AI powered solar powered AI (00:21:04) satellites. (00:21:05) >> Yes 100 gawatts a year of solar powered (00:21:07) AI satellites. (00:21:08) >> I did the math on that. Uh, that's like (00:21:12) 500,000 (00:21:15) Starlink V3s launched over 8,000 (00:21:20) Starship flights. That's one every hour (00:21:25) for a year. Um, yeah, (00:21:30) we 10,000 flights a year is is a (00:21:32) reasonable number. Um, so (00:21:35) >> it's amazing. It's quite the scale. (00:21:37) Well, what's what's the really rough (00:21:38) timeline on that because I mean by (00:21:40) aircraft standards that's a small (00:21:41) number. (00:21:42) >> Sure. In terms of flights. Yeah, for (00:21:43) sure. (00:21:44) >> Yeah, that's uh that's that's that's a (00:21:46) small f like so just like depends what (00:21:48) you compare it to. If you compare it to (00:21:50) the rest of the rocket industry, it's a (00:21:52) very high number. (00:21:53) >> Yeah. (00:21:53) >> Um (00:21:54) >> and we're talking about a million tons (00:21:56) of payload to orbit per year. So if you (00:21:58) do if you do a million tons of payload (00:22:00) or orbit per year with 100 kilowatts per (00:22:03) ton, uh that's 100 gawatt of solar (00:22:06) powered AI satellites um per year. (00:22:09) >> Yeah. Um I mean there's a there's a path (00:22:12) to get probably to a terowatt per year (00:22:16) um (00:22:17) >> from from the from (00:22:20) if you say like uh 10 you want you want (00:22:24) to go up another order of magnitude or (00:22:26) let's say you want to go to 100 (00:22:27) terowatts a year. (00:22:28) >> Yeah. (00:22:29) >> Which obviously kind of nutty numbers. (00:22:31) >> Uh then you want to make those uh AI (00:22:36) satellites on the moon. (00:22:37) >> Yes. (00:22:37) >> And use a mass driver. Yeah. So, the (00:22:39) Gerard K. O'Neal approach. (00:22:40) >> Well, like Robert Heinland was a harsh (00:22:43) course. Pretty much. Yeah. I love that (00:22:44) book. (00:22:45) >> Yeah. Yeah. It's a sort of libertarian (00:22:47) paradise on the (00:22:49) >> um (00:22:50) uh Yeah. So, cuz on the moon you can (00:22:54) just accelerate the satellites into (00:22:58) to escape velocity is around 2500 meters (00:23:00) per second. Um and uh there's no (00:23:03) atmosphere. So, like a mass driver works (00:23:06) very well on the moon. Can I ask the the (00:23:09) question about orbital debris? I mean, (00:23:11) we're we're building effectively a (00:23:14) Dysonish swarm around the Earth. (00:23:17) >> Um, (00:23:20) eat it for lunch. (00:23:22) >> Uh, are you worried about over (00:23:25) congestion on the uh (00:23:28) that's going to be a Sunsync orbit's (00:23:30) going to fill very quickly. (00:23:33) >> I mean, you can you you don't have to (00:23:35) have sunsync. I mean, you can uh (00:23:36) >> don't have to, but it's optimal. (00:23:38) >> Yeah. Um (00:23:42) there's some pros and cons to to sunsync (00:23:44) or not sunsync. Um (00:23:50) I mean, your your payload to orbit drops (00:23:53) by like 30% compared to, you know, if (00:23:55) you were just went to um like mid- (00:24:00) inclination like 70° or something like (00:24:02) that. (00:24:02) >> Yeah. I mean, do we need an orbital (00:24:04) debris x-prise at this point? We need (00:24:06) some way to get the the satellites (00:24:09) >> um (00:24:11) >> defunct satellites down. Do we pass (00:24:13) rules that require them to de-orbit on (00:24:15) their own? (00:24:18) >> Yeah. At the point at which you you can (00:24:20) put a million tons of satellites into (00:24:22) orbit, you can also, you know, start (00:24:24) bringing down satellites, too. Yeah. (00:24:26) >> Um or at least collecting them into a (00:24:28) known into a fixed location so they're (00:24:30) not like all over the place. (00:24:31) >> Yeah. and then you can reuse them. (00:24:35) >> Yeah. Um let's just say that we'll have (00:24:38) so the the resource level will be so (00:24:40) high that that I believe this will be a (00:24:43) solved problem given the amount of (00:24:44) intelligence we're talking about here. (00:24:46) >> Oh (00:24:47) >> um like the intelligence will be quite (00:24:48) interested in preserving itself. (00:24:50) >> Yes. That's true. (00:24:51) >> Oh (00:24:52) >> interesting. (00:24:52) >> Yeah. Good motivation. (00:24:53) >> Yeah. (00:24:54) >> Interesting. (00:24:55) >> The question is the data centers will (00:24:56) not be in low earth orbit, right? (00:24:58) They'll be they'll be much higher (00:25:00) constantly in the sun. They're not going (00:25:02) to be in the traffic jam, I assume. (00:25:04) >> Uh, well, you can get to, you know, you (00:25:05) don't have to get to get to constant (00:25:07) sunlight. You can be around 1,200 (00:25:10) kilometers on synchronous will give you (00:25:11) constant sunlight. (00:25:12) >> Mhm. (00:25:13) >> Um, (00:25:14) >> but you could you could place him in (00:25:15) multiple orbits. (00:25:16) >> Yeah. (00:25:18) >> Yeah. (00:25:18) >> Yeah. No, I think if there's an X- prize (00:25:20) for cleaning up, it's got to be there's (00:25:22) only going to be clutter in low Earth (00:25:23) orbit. I mean debris from (00:25:26) >> anything anything that's if it's a you (00:25:28) know below around 7 or 800 kilometers (00:25:31) the atmosphere will atmospheric drag (00:25:34) will bring it back. (00:25:35) >> Yeah. (00:25:35) >> Um so like for Starlink there's a dual (00:25:38) benefit of being (00:25:41) uh like as low as possible because uh (00:25:45) your your your beam you you know your (00:25:47) beams are tighter. you know, you're (00:25:49) basically that you have less latency and (00:25:51) and your your your beams are smaller if (00:25:53) you're you're closer to the earth. So, (00:25:56) uh like Starling 3 will be around 330 to (00:25:59) 350 km, (00:26:01) >> which is quite a lot of drag. Uh so, (00:26:03) it's basically constantly thrusting to (00:26:05) >> I still remember when you proposed (00:26:06) Starlink and everybody else in the (00:26:09) industry was like, "No way. No way. He's (00:26:12) not going to get the spectrum. He's not (00:26:13) going to be able to do this." Um (00:26:15) >> yeah, (00:26:16) >> it's uh it's kind of worked. (00:26:20) >> Yeah, we're the stalling team have done (00:26:22) an incredible job. (00:26:23) >> Yeah. (00:26:23) >> Um (00:26:26) >> I mean we've basically rebuilt the (00:26:28) internet in space with with a laser (00:26:31) links. (00:26:32) >> Mhm. (00:26:33) >> So there's uh 9,000 satellites up there (00:26:35) right now. (00:26:36) >> Do you think the government's going to (00:26:37) be able to handle the kind of licensing (00:26:39) of the volume of satellites that you (00:26:42) want to put up? I mean, will there be (00:26:44) push back cuz you know, China's going to (00:26:46) put up their own constellations. (00:26:48) Uh Europe, who knows whether Europe will (00:26:51) ever step up? (00:26:52) >> They won't. (00:26:53) >> What's that? They won't. No. (00:26:54) >> And there's probably (00:26:55) >> Yeah. (00:26:56) >> Nothing that nothing they're doing h has (00:26:58) success in the set of possible outcomes. (00:27:00) >> Yeah. (00:27:06) >> I just got back from Rome. I don't want (00:27:07) to touch touch that railing. (00:27:09) >> Successes are on the set of possible (00:27:10) outcomes. (00:27:12) No, the chart of outcomes though (00:27:15) >> the chart that shows the number of (00:27:16) billion dollar startups in the US versus (00:27:19) Europe. (00:27:20) >> Have you seen that graphic? (00:27:21) >> Oh my god, it's crazy. (00:27:22) >> Yeah. And data centers too. It's (00:27:24) actually um (00:27:26) >> no one was talking about orbital data (00:27:28) centers six months ago. (00:27:30) >> Yeah. (00:27:30) >> Nobody. And then all of a sudden (00:27:32) >> Sundire's on it. (00:27:33) >> You're you're out with it. And (00:27:36) >> it's the hot new thing (00:27:37) >> and it is what what what tip what (00:27:40) happened? What happened that every (00:27:42) company is now talking about orbital (00:27:44) data centers? (00:27:45) >> I guess it went viral and X. (00:27:49) >> It did. (00:27:50) >> I don't know. Is every company talking (00:27:52) about (00:27:52) >> Oh, yeah. Everybody's got their own (00:27:54) orbital data center. (00:27:54) >> For sure. And I I was suggesting to (00:27:57) Peter that that you updated the math on (00:27:59) launch costs and that it's a tipping (00:28:01) point very quickly with the updated (00:28:02) math. (00:28:03) >> But Starship's been the cost for you (00:28:04) know, I don't know what you hold $100 (00:28:07) per kilogram, $10 per kilogram. What do (00:28:08) you have Starship at? It's possible that (00:28:11) Elon said that and nobody believed it (00:28:13) until now. (00:28:14) >> No, (00:28:15) >> you can go back and look at my what even (00:28:17) back when it was Twitter uh the my old (00:28:20) tweets. I I said these things se many (00:28:23) years ago. (00:28:24) >> 100 bucks or 10 bucks a a kilogram. (00:28:27) >> Yeah. And I said this is we're we're (00:28:30) going to do a million tons a year to (00:28:31) orbit. (00:28:33) Um (00:28:35) Yeah. And and we've got to get the the (00:28:37) cost down. (00:28:39) >> Yeah. uh well below $100 a kilogram. (00:28:41) >> So that's going to move the data centers (00:28:43) to orbit. (00:28:43) >> It will. It's they can do you can (00:28:45) basically do the math like if you've got (00:28:46) a fully reusable rocket. (00:28:47) >> Yeah. (00:28:48) >> Um which is fully and rapidly reusable (00:28:50) like an aircraft. Uh then this is an (00:28:53) incredibly this is a very difficult (00:28:55) thing to do obviously. U I I think it's (00:28:59) at the limit of human intelligence to (00:29:01) create a fully and rapidly reusable (00:29:03) rocket. (00:29:04) >> Um (00:29:05) >> but it is possible and we're doing it (00:29:07) with Starship. It's It's been the holy (00:29:08) grail in the aerospace industry forever. (00:29:10) >> Yeah. Quest for the holy grail rocket. (00:29:12) >> Yeah. (00:29:13) >> And then I pretty much it is I mean (00:29:15) right the DCX was the first little (00:29:17) things that were trying there and uh (00:29:19) it's been you know all of I mean back (00:29:21) when I was in the space industry that's (00:29:23) all everyone ever spoke about. And then (00:29:25) when Falcon 9 first reused its first (00:29:28) stage, um I mean all the traditional (00:29:31) aerospace industries did not believe (00:29:34) that even Falcon 9 could re could could (00:29:37) fly and reuse. (00:29:37) >> Literally you can come see it land at (00:29:39) Cape Canaveral. (00:29:40) >> Yeah. (00:29:41) >> Um and then take off again. (00:29:43) >> Yeah. (00:29:43) >> So I don't know how you would not (00:29:44) believe a thing that you can see with (00:29:46) your own eyes. (00:29:46) >> Yeah. Well, they didn't believe you (00:29:47) could. They didn't believe you could. (00:29:48) >> But the the the la the leap from there (00:29:50) to the launch cost actually requires (00:29:52) more faith than just just that. But I (00:29:54) think I think Starship is the launch (00:29:56) cost tipping point and that somewhere in (00:29:58) that you know before you had Twitter it (00:30:00) became X somewhere in that timeline it (00:30:02) went from speculative to no doubt and I (00:30:07) don't know if that's a smooth line or a (00:30:08) couple of good launches in between but I (00:30:10) suspect that the data centers in space (00:30:12) >> but people (00:30:13) >> ties directly to the credibility (00:30:14) >> is not thinking about orbital data (00:30:16) centers they're thinking about energy (00:30:17) and the cost of energy here on here in (00:30:19) their hometown and sort of the the (00:30:22) there's a lot of doomer (00:30:24) conversations out there. The data (00:30:25) centers are going to drive, you know, (00:30:26) the CPI up. (00:30:28) >> Uh (00:30:31) they're not entirely wrong. (00:30:32) >> Okay. So, what is so what is the what's (00:30:35) the energy solution here on Earth for uh (00:30:38) the rest of humanity or the the non data (00:30:42) the non AIs? (00:30:43) >> Oh, there's something other than data (00:30:44) center use uses of energy. Okay. (00:30:47) >> Interesting. (00:30:48) >> Um (00:30:49) >> that's complex. Well, the the the best (00:30:52) way to actually increase the energy (00:30:54) output per year of the United States or (00:30:57) any country is batteries. Um, so the (00:31:00) >> sure (00:31:01) >> peak power output of the of the US is (00:31:04) around 1.1 terowatts, but the uh average (00:31:08) power usage is only half a terowatt. (00:31:10) >> Yeah. So if you just buffer the the (00:31:13) energy, so charge up the the batteries (00:31:16) at night, discharge during the day, um (00:31:19) without incremental capital expend (00:31:21) without incremental capital (00:31:23) expenditures, without building new power (00:31:24) plants, you can double the energy (00:31:25) throughput of the US. The energy output (00:31:27) per year can double (00:31:28) >> with batteries. Um (00:31:30) >> and do we have those batteries uh in (00:31:32) development? (00:31:33) >> Uh yeah, Tesla makes them. (00:31:35) >> Okay. So you think current the current (00:31:37) current Tesla battery packs? (00:31:39) >> What do you think? What do you think? I (00:31:40) literally have I I went on stage and (00:31:42) presented the thing. (00:31:43) >> Yeah, (00:31:43) >> that's that's the dead giveaway. So (00:31:48) >> I I even went to installations of the (00:31:52) mega packs, you know, and there's (00:31:55) >> So why don't people do this? (00:31:56) >> It's on the internet. So (00:31:57) >> yeah. (00:31:58) >> So is do you think (00:31:59) >> they are? And and China, by the way, is (00:32:02) like it seems like China listens to (00:32:04) everything I say I say and does does it (00:32:06) basically or at least or or they're just (00:32:09) doing it independently. I don't know. (00:32:10) But they're they're certainly making um (00:32:13) massive battery packs like (00:32:17) really massive battery pack output. (00:32:20) They're they're you know making vast (00:32:23) numbers of electric cars. Yeah. (00:32:25) >> Uh vast amounts of solar. Um, (00:32:30) >> I don't know. These are all things I I (00:32:31) said, you know, we should do here. (00:32:33) >> Fundamental. Sure. When I fly over Santa (00:32:36) Monica and LA, when I'm when I'm I'm (00:32:38) piloting and I look down, they're like, (00:32:40) zero roofs have solar on them. (00:32:43) >> Zero roofs. (00:32:44) >> Yeah. (00:32:44) >> I mean, (00:32:45) >> it's not essential to have them on a (00:32:46) roof. (00:32:47) >> Okay. But it's a convenient place to (00:32:49) have them. (00:32:50) >> Yes. Uh, but the surface area of roofs (00:32:52) is uh I'm not saying it shouldn't, but (00:32:55) it's (00:32:57) >> uh Tesla makes a solar roof, which is (00:32:59) the the only solar roof that isn't ugly. (00:33:02) Um, our solar roof actually looks (00:33:06) beautiful. (00:33:06) >> Yeah. (00:33:07) >> Um, (00:33:09) but if you want to do solar at scale, (00:33:11) you just need more surface area. (00:33:13) >> So, so we we we have um vast empty (00:33:16) deserts. Sure. African America like if (00:33:18) you fly from LA to New York or just fly (00:33:20) across country and you look down um for (00:33:24) a large portion of the time you look (00:33:26) down it is bleak desert. (00:33:28) >> Yes. (00:33:28) >> It looks like Mars essentially. (00:33:30) >> We're not worried about overpopulation (00:33:31) there. (00:33:31) >> No, I mean it look there's barely a (00:33:33) lizard alive in these scorching deserts, (00:33:36) you know. Yep. (00:33:37) >> It's not like farmland we're talking (00:33:38) about. We're just talking about Yep. (00:33:40) >> Uh places that look like Mars, (00:33:43) >> like just uh scorched rock. (00:33:47) So if we put soil where we currently (00:33:49) have scorched rock, (00:33:51) >> I think this will be a quality of life (00:33:53) improvement for the lizards or the few (00:33:55) creatures that live in this (00:33:58) >> uh very difficult environment. (00:33:59) >> Do we have the distribution network? (00:34:01) >> It's like this is going to be thank god (00:34:02) some shade finally. (00:34:07) >> Do we have the distribution network to (00:34:09) be able to do that? Yeah, you need to to (00:34:11) materially affect quality of life, you (00:34:13) need to capture and store what a couple (00:34:15) hundred gigawatts. (00:34:16) >> Is that in realistic? (00:34:18) >> You could just put the data center I (00:34:20) guess locally there. (00:34:21) >> Well, we already covered data centers. (00:34:23) >> We're talking about you know the other (00:34:25) >> Yeah. (00:34:26) >> Like I I don't know like in an abundant (00:34:28) world five years from now, massive (00:34:30) amounts of compute, (00:34:31) >> massive, you know, universal high (00:34:33) income. (00:34:34) >> I don't know income like universal you (00:34:36) can have whatever you want income. (00:34:38) >> Yeah. (00:34:38) >> Yeah. That's that's really what it (00:34:40) amounts to. (00:34:40) >> But in that world, uh, you know, other (00:34:42) than compute energy, how much more (00:34:44) energy do we need like 30 40 50% or I (00:34:48) don't know, unless we want to move (00:34:48) mountains around to make a ski mountain, (00:34:50) you know, in the backyard. (00:34:52) Um, I think the vast majority of energy (00:34:55) consumption will go into compute. And (00:34:58) then there may be use cases I'm not (00:34:59) thinking of like you know the well you (00:35:02) know right here is a nice case study (00:35:03) because manufacturing every one of these (00:35:05) cars coming out at the rate of one every (00:35:07) minute or two uh is less energy than the (00:35:12) data center that's training the cars to (00:35:15) drive to to self-drive. (00:35:16) >> Yes. (00:35:17) >> So that's a good little case study. And (00:35:18) we don't need that much more physical (00:35:20) energy for abundant happiness. We need (00:35:24) more compute energy. Well, yeah, (00:35:25) >> the sun is just generating vast amounts (00:35:28) of energy uh all the time for free that (00:35:32) goes just goes into space. (00:35:34) >> So, um I think we'll end up trying to (00:35:38) capture I don't know uh a millionth of (00:35:40) like a millionth a thousandth of the (00:35:42) sun's energy. Um, we're currently I'm (00:35:45) not sure the exact number, but we're (00:35:50) I don't know, we're probably at 1%ish of (00:35:53) Kadeshv level one. (00:35:56) >> Fair enough. Yeah, I I I would guess (00:35:58) that even that's high. (00:35:59) >> I'm just Yeah, saying (00:36:01) >> we have a long way to go. (00:36:02) >> I'm that's being optimistic. Like (00:36:03) hopefully we're not.1%, but I don't (00:36:06) think we're 10%. I'm just trying to get (00:36:07) it to like to an order of magnitude. Uh (00:36:10) >> so pull it like we're roughly 1% of the (00:36:14) apparently using 1% of the energy that (00:36:17) we could use on Earth. (00:36:18) >> I think the bottom line from a first (00:36:20) principles thinking for the public is (00:36:22) there's a lot of energy out there (00:36:23) >> a lot (00:36:24) >> and it we have it in the US. We have it (00:36:27) on the planet and it needs to be (00:36:28) captured and the tech to capture it (00:36:30) >> is here and improving every year. (00:36:34) >> Yes. (00:36:35) >> Yeah. um there's not going to be some (00:36:38) energy crisis. I there'll be a large (00:36:42) forcing function to harness more energy, (00:36:44) but we're not going to run out of it. (00:36:47) >> All right, I want to talk about (00:36:48) education. (00:36:49) So, here's the numbers. They're abysmal. (00:36:53) >> Um I mean, they're they're they're (00:36:54) abysmal, right? Okay. Uh the importance (00:36:57) of college in the United States, uh back (00:37:00) in 2010, 75% of Americans said it's (00:37:04) important to go to college. That number (00:37:05) is now down at 35%. All right. Uh, (00:37:09) college graduates as a group turn out to (00:37:12) be the group that's out of work the (00:37:14) longest, (00:37:16) >> right? And the but still and tuition has (00:37:19) increased 900% since 1983. (00:37:23) Um, (00:37:24) >> yeah, the administrative expenses at (00:37:26) universities have gotten out of control. (00:37:28) Yeah. (00:37:28) >> Um, so (00:37:30) >> I think I saw some stat that like (00:37:32) there's one administrator for every two (00:37:35) students at Brown or something like that (00:37:37) >> and I'm like this seems uh little high. (00:37:39) >> Yeah. You know what? (00:37:41) >> They should teach something. (00:37:42) >> Yeah. Yeah. (00:37:43) >> What was your college journey? (00:37:45) >> Um, I went to college in Canada for a (00:37:47) couple years at Queens University. (00:37:49) Uh-huh. (00:37:49) >> Um, so, uh, I I had Canadian citizenship (00:37:54) through my mom who was born in Canada (00:37:55) and my my grandfather was actually (00:37:57) American, but for some reason, I don't (00:37:58) know, my mom couldn't get US (00:38:00) citizenship, so but she was born in (00:38:02) Canada, so I got Canadian citizenship. (00:38:04) Um, and uh, I didn't have any money, so (00:38:07) I could only go to Canadian university (00:38:09) at first. I (00:38:10) >> mean, people forget that about you. You (00:38:11) didn't have this giant social network or (00:38:14) huge amount of wealth coming into all of (00:38:16) this. (00:38:16) >> No. (00:38:17) >> Yeah. (00:38:18) >> Uh, no. I I arrived in Montreal at age (00:38:22) 17 with I think around $2,500 in (00:38:25) Canadian travelers checks back when (00:38:26) travelers checks were a thing. (00:38:28) >> Um and um one bag of books and one bag (00:38:31) of clothes. That was my starting point. (00:38:34) That was my spawning point in North (00:38:36) America. Um, (00:38:39) >> and then so I went to Queens University (00:38:41) for a couple years and then uh (00:38:43) University of Pennsylvania uh did a dual (00:38:46) degree in physics and economics um (00:38:48) >> and graduated (00:38:50) >> uh undergraduate at UPUP (00:38:54) Wharton. (00:38:54) >> Yeah. And then um I came out to do uh I (00:38:59) was going to do a PhD at Stanford (00:39:01) working on uh energy storage (00:39:03) technologies for electric vehicles (00:39:05) essentially material science I guess (00:39:07) fundamentally (00:39:08) >> um the the idea that I had was it was to (00:39:12) try to create a capacitor with enough (00:39:15) energy density that you could get um (00:39:17) high range in an electric car. (00:39:19) >> It's funny I invested in an ultra (00:39:20) capacitor company and didn't Yeah. (00:39:22) didn't go well. Well, it's one of those (00:39:24) things where, you know, you could (00:39:27) definitely get a PhD, but it wasn't (00:39:29) clear that you could make a company or (00:39:30) do something useful like this. Most PhD (00:39:32) is un hat I mean, hate it, but most PhDs (00:39:35) do not (00:39:37) >> turn into something that's going to (00:39:38) >> do not turn into something useful. Like (00:39:40) you you could add a leaf to the tree of (00:39:42) knowledge, but it's not necessar (00:39:43) necessarily a useful leaf. enormous (00:39:45) fraction of of great entrepreneurs are (00:39:47) dropping out (00:39:49) >> of grad school or undergrad. But now (00:39:50) nowadays the sense of urgency is off the (00:39:53) charts. (00:39:53) >> I mean they're popping out everywhere. (00:39:55) >> Yeah. Because you know don't waste your (00:39:56) time going into grad school. Start a (00:39:58) company. (00:39:58) >> Yeah. (00:39:58) >> Curriculum is nowhere near caught up to (00:40:00) what's actually going on in technology (00:40:02) and I don't have time and all the time. (00:40:04) It's like (00:40:05) >> you know this is the moment. I I think (00:40:09) right now it's like it's unclear to me (00:40:11) why someone would somebody would be in (00:40:12) college right now unless they want the (00:40:14) social experience. (00:40:15) >> Yeah. (00:40:15) >> Yeah. (00:40:15) >> I mean if you have the ability to go and (00:40:17) build something. So the question is how (00:40:20) would you redesign the educational (00:40:22) program if I could be so so blunt as to (00:40:26) create more Elon Musks? If we want to (00:40:28) create an Elon Musk factory of people (00:40:30) who start with very little but are able (00:40:33) to drive uh and drive breakthroughs. (00:40:38) What's involved there? (00:40:40) What drove you? (00:40:43) >> Uh curiosity um about the nature of the (00:40:46) universe. (00:40:47) >> So I'm just curious about uh (00:40:49) >> the meaning of life and (00:40:52) >> you know what is this reality that we (00:40:53) live in. So, (00:40:55) >> how early? (00:40:56) >> My son Dax wanted to know what was it (00:40:58) like for you in middle school and high (00:40:59) school. (00:41:01) >> He's 14 years old. He's in that age (00:41:04) range now. (00:41:06) >> Well, I did I found school to be quite (00:41:08) painful. Uh and it was very boring and (00:41:12) in South Africa it was very violent. (00:41:14) >> So So it's like it was it it was like uh (00:41:18) >> it's like that was like that book Enders (00:41:19) Game. (00:41:20) >> Yes. Um but in real IRL (00:41:23) >> in this game IRL there's like but not as (00:41:25) fun. (00:41:26) >> Um (00:41:27) >> so your goal was escape. (00:41:29) >> Yes. (00:41:31) >> Do you think (00:41:31) >> escape from the the prison? (00:41:32) >> So that's a question I have. Do you do (00:41:35) you think that (00:41:35) >> it was miserable? (00:41:36) >> Do you think most successful people have (00:41:39) had a lot of hardship early in life? Do (00:41:43) you need to have that level of hardship? (00:41:44) >> Probably need a little bit of hardship I (00:41:46) suppose. (00:41:46) >> Yeah. But and then so it's always tricky (00:41:48) like what are you supposed to do with (00:41:49) your kids? You know, create artificial (00:41:52) adversity. Put them in. (00:41:53) >> That's cool. (00:41:55) >> You got an answer. That's that's a (00:41:56) Warren Buffett topic actually. (00:41:58) >> Yeah. (00:41:59) >> Well, you do. (00:42:00) >> But seriously, (00:42:01) >> it's not easy to create artificial (00:42:02) adversity because if you love your kids, (00:42:04) you don't want to do that. So (00:42:05) >> that's for sure. (00:42:07) >> So I had a lot of adversity. Um probably (00:42:11) it was good. Uh probably, you know, (00:42:13) helped somewhat, I suppose. One one of (00:42:15) the (00:42:16) >> What doesn't kill you makes you stronger (00:42:17) type of thing. (00:42:18) >> No, (00:42:18) >> at least I didn't lose a limb. And I (00:42:20) think what doesn't maim you (00:42:24) >> good at maming (00:42:30) 10 fingers. (00:42:30) >> Can you modify that a little bit? (00:42:32) >> Yeah. (00:42:32) >> Can I ask you a question? (00:42:33) >> You makes you stronger. (00:42:34) >> I uh for the last 5 years I've been (00:42:37) helping teach this class, Foundations of (00:42:38) AI Ventures at MIT. And every year when (00:42:42) you survey the students, they go up a (00:42:46) lot in their desire to start a company. (00:42:48) And so it's now up to 80%. The incoming (00:42:51) >> everyone's just going to it's it's just (00:42:53) going to be like one person company. (00:42:56) >> Well, that's with AI that's that's (00:42:57) viable, I guess. But no, they want to (00:42:59) co-ound. They Yeah, they don't want to (00:43:00) be the founder. They want to be part of (00:43:01) a founding team. So, it still works out. (00:43:04) >> But, uh, when Peter and I were in school (00:43:05) at MIT, it was I'm guessing maybe 10%. (00:43:09) and they all wanted to be PhDs (00:43:11) >> and and they've been doing the survey (00:43:12) everyone who wanted to start. I mean I I (00:43:16) >> I don't remember any conversations about (00:43:18) with people saying they wanted to start (00:43:20) >> even at Stanford at the time. (00:43:21) >> Um I I I actually um a few days into the (00:43:25) semester or I should say the quarter um (00:43:28) I I called Bill Nicks who was the head (00:43:31) of material science department and said (00:43:33) I' I'd like to just put it on deferment. (00:43:36) He said, "Is my class that bad?" (00:43:39) >> No. And he he said he said that's he (00:43:40) said that's okay. You can put it on (00:43:42) deferment. But he said this is probably (00:43:43) the last conversation we'll have. And he (00:43:46) was right. (00:43:47) >> Um but then last I think it was last (00:43:49) year he sent me a letter saying that all (00:43:52) of my predictions about lithium-ion (00:43:54) batteries came true. (00:43:56) >> It was very nice. (00:43:57) >> And did he also say you can still come (00:43:59) back and finish your PhD? (00:44:01) >> Yeah. No. Several times Stanford has (00:44:03) said that I can come back for free. (00:44:05) Well, so you know what happened at MIT (00:44:06) is every time so I did not know it (00:44:09) >> be a great use of your time. (00:44:10) >> Exactly. I'm like (00:44:12) >> so every time an Iron Man movie came (00:44:14) out, (00:44:15) >> it notched up another probably 10% or (00:44:18) so. (00:44:18) >> Okay. (00:44:19) >> Uh in terms of because everybody wanted (00:44:20) to be Tony Stark. (00:44:22) >> And so that's the image. And I didn't (00:44:24) know till today that the new Tony Stark, (00:44:27) the modern Iron Man Tony Stark, I always (00:44:29) thought Tony Stark was modeled on (00:44:30) Charles Stark Draper and Howard Hughes. (00:44:33) is Charles Stark Draper's education and (00:44:35) his you know scientific endeavors (00:44:36) married with Howard Hughes's ambition (00:44:39) >> and that created the original character (00:44:41) but then when Robert Downey Jr. wanted (00:44:43) to reinvent it. (00:44:45) >> Yeah, it came. (00:44:45) >> It's modeled on Elon. (00:44:47) >> Yeah, (00:44:47) >> he came and met with me. (00:44:48) >> This is a Groipedia fact. (00:44:51) >> All right. (00:44:51) >> Uh yeah, fantastic. (00:44:53) >> Um (00:44:54) >> yeah, they came to John Fabro and and (00:44:57) Robert (00:44:58) >> I like the name Grock. I would like (00:44:59) Jarvis as well. (00:45:00) >> Yeah. (00:45:01) >> Yeah. Um (00:45:02) >> probably some some trade. (00:45:04) >> At some point if Grock gets good enough, (00:45:05) we're going to call it Encyclopedia (00:45:08) Galactica. (00:45:08) >> Yes, that's nice. (00:45:10) >> Yeah. (00:45:10) >> Yeah, of course. 42. (00:45:12) >> Thank you. Um, so going back to (00:45:14) education, uh, should colleges, I guess (00:45:18) the social experience, you said is (00:45:19) important there, but what would you do (00:45:22) for education, uh, you know, middle, (00:45:25) high school? You just came back from a (00:45:27) announcement with President Blly, uh, (00:45:30) who's a friend. I I think he's an (00:45:32) amazing amazing visionary. Yeah. (00:45:34) Incredible what he did with his nation. (00:45:35) >> Yeah. (00:45:36) >> Yeah. Um, (00:45:37) >> remarkable. (00:45:38) >> Remarkable and gutsy. (00:45:40) >> Yeah. I was like, "How are you still (00:45:41) alive?" That was (00:45:42) >> Yeah. I mean, I It was like It's the (00:45:44) nuclear It was a nuclear option, (00:45:47) >> right? Shut him down. I mean, do you (00:45:49) know how besides putting everybody with (00:45:51) a gang sign um in in uh in jail? I don't (00:45:57) know if you know the second thing he (00:45:58) did. He went to all of the graves of all (00:46:02) the gang members out there and destroyed (00:46:04) the graves and said, "Your memory will (00:46:06) not be remembered in this nation." (00:46:09) That's just badass. (00:46:11) >> And it worked. (00:46:12) >> I mean, you have to be badass (00:46:16) [ __ ] to take on all the knocker (00:46:18) gangs and win (00:46:19) >> and live. (00:46:20) >> Yeah. And still be alive. (00:46:21) >> And live. He's got a great great uh (00:46:23) guard at his palace there. But what what (00:46:26) did you announce with uh with him in El (00:46:28) Salvador? (00:46:29) >> Uh it was just uh basically to use Grock (00:46:32) for uh education like personalization. (00:46:34) >> Hopefully not the vulgar version of it. (00:46:37) >> Yeah. we would have like you know the (00:46:39) you know kids friendly version of Grock. (00:46:42) >> Uh but but obviously AI can be an in an (00:46:45) individualized teacher. (00:46:46) >> Yeah. (00:46:47) >> Um that uh is infinitely patient and (00:46:50) answers all your questions. (00:46:52) >> Um now you still need to be curious um (00:46:57) and and uh (00:47:01) you still need to want to learn. You (00:47:02) know GR can't make you want to learn. It (00:47:04) can make learning more interesting. you (00:47:06) could probably gify and incentivize it, (00:47:08) right? (00:47:09) >> You can make learning more interesting. (00:47:10) Um, (00:47:12) and and less of a production line. Um, (00:47:16) so (00:47:18) but kids do need to have to if they need (00:47:22) to want to learn, you know. (00:47:23) >> Yeah. (00:47:24) >> Do you and like the people should just (00:47:26) think of the the brain as a biological (00:47:28) computer. (00:47:29) >> It's a neural net. (00:47:30) >> Yeah. Yeah, it's a bi biological (00:47:32) computer with (00:47:35) you know so with a number of neurons and (00:47:37) a neural efficiency. (00:47:38) >> Yeah. (00:47:39) >> Um and um (00:47:43) so so what like what you can't do is (00:47:45) tune any arbitrary kid into Einstein. Uh (00:47:47) this is not realistic because Einstein (00:47:49) had a very good meat computer like an (00:47:52) outstanding meat computer. (00:47:53) >> Um so you can't just uh do Shakespeare (00:47:55) Newton you know Einstein type of thing. (00:47:59) um unless the meat computer is uh an (00:48:02) exceptional one. (00:48:04) >> So what do you think? So when people say (00:48:06) we need to solve education in the United (00:48:08) States (00:48:10) >> um because it's fundamentally broken u I (00:48:13) think what's really broken I'm curious (00:48:14) is the old uh social contract that says (00:48:18) uh do well in high school, get in a good (00:48:20) college, get a degree, and then get a (00:48:23) job. And I don't know that that's going (00:48:25) to be valid in the future. (00:48:28) Uh my we talk about this on the pod a (00:48:31) lot that the that the career of the (00:48:32) future isn't getting a job. It's being (00:48:34) an entrepreneur. It's finding a problem (00:48:36) and solving it. (00:48:38) >> Yeah. (00:48:38) >> Do you do you agree with that? (00:48:39) >> Right now I'd say people should just you (00:48:41) know go to school for the social (00:48:44) experience, (00:48:46) use more AI. (00:48:48) Um (00:48:50) the conventional schooling experience I (00:48:52) think could be a lot better. um the what (00:48:56) what we're going to do in Al Salvador (00:48:57) and hopefully other places just have (00:48:59) individualized teachers that's going to (00:49:02) be much better and you you could go to (00:49:04) you could go to a school with a bunch of (00:49:06) other kids I guess if you want to hang (00:49:08) out with other kids but you don't need (00:49:09) to (00:49:09) >> right (00:49:10) >> you could do it on your phone at home (00:49:13) um so that's why I say like at this (00:49:15) point education is a social experience (00:49:17) when I talk to my kids who are in in (00:49:20) college (00:49:21) >> uh they they they do recognize that they (00:49:23) can learn um just as much independently. (00:49:27) In fact, that they would learn more in (00:49:29) in a work situation. (00:49:31) >> Yeah. (00:49:31) >> Um they're there for the social (00:49:34) experience and to be a bunch around a (00:49:36) bunch of people of their their own age. (00:49:39) Um (00:49:40) sort of a coming of age social (00:49:42) experience. (00:49:42) >> Sure. Sure. Being on your own uh (00:49:44) learning how how to lead or defend (00:49:46) yourself as the case may be. (00:49:48) >> Well, yeah. Yeah, I mean, if you join (00:49:49) the workforce, you're, you know, from (00:49:51) the perspective of like a, you know, (00:49:53) 19-year-old, you with a bunch of old (00:49:55) people, (00:49:56) and if you're doing engineering with a (00:49:58) bunch of middle-aged dudes, it's like, (00:49:59) do you really want to do that or do you (00:50:01) want to hang out with um, you know, (00:50:04) where there's at least some girls your (00:50:06) age (00:50:08) type of thing. (00:50:10) >> I I want to get I want to get I want to (00:50:11) get back to this when we talk about (00:50:14) >> a lot of other choices. Actually, (00:50:15) >> I want to get back as we get to (00:50:16) universal high income, but I want to (00:50:18) talk about health and longevity one (00:50:20) second. US is the number one ranked (00:50:23) number one in health expenses worldwide (00:50:26) and it's ranked 70th (00:50:28) >> in health span, (00:50:30) >> right? We (00:50:31) >> are really 70th. (00:50:32) >> 70th (00:50:33) >> is that from Is that accurate? (00:50:35) >> Is why everybody listen it? (00:50:39) >> Uh I think it would be better than 70th (00:50:41) >> for health span. (00:50:43) >> Um well, whatever. It's it is like we (00:50:46) just get fat or something. (00:50:46) >> We're not the top 10. (00:50:47) >> Maybe a Zic can help us plan the (00:50:49) rankings there. (00:50:50) >> Um, so (00:50:51) >> would you just run around? We need (00:50:53) Cupid. But a Zic. (00:51:00) >> Mjaro Cupid. (00:51:03) >> But but I think that's a big reason. (00:51:05) It's like if people get really fat then (00:51:07) their their health gets bad. (00:51:08) >> Yeah. Well, if they don't have any (00:51:10) exercise, health get bad. or if they (00:51:12) donuts for breakfast every morning. You (00:51:13) still doing that? (00:51:14) >> Uh, no, actually I'm not. (00:51:17) >> Okay, that's good. That's good. (00:51:18) >> Uh, well, first of all, I wasn't eating (00:51:19) a lot of doughnut. I was trying to have (00:51:22) uh point4 of a donut, which rounds down (00:51:24) to zero. (00:51:29) So, I figured anything below below 044 (00:51:32) of a donut rounds down to zero. (00:51:34) >> So, you and I have had uh a disagreement (00:51:37) on longevity. (00:51:39) >> We had a little bit. Yeah. I was saying, (00:51:40) you know, we should push to get people (00:51:43) to 120, 150, and you were saying people, (00:51:46) you know, shouldn't live that long. (00:51:50) >> Uh, so how long do you want (00:51:52) >> Yeah. (00:51:52) >> You know, there's some, (00:51:54) >> you know, people in the world that have (00:51:55) done some bad things. How long do you (00:51:56) want them to live? (00:51:57) >> Yeah. Well, it's okay. They can get the (00:51:59) longevity. (00:52:00) >> This is a serious question, though. If (00:52:01) we them, a lot of things are going to (00:52:04) happen that we don't (00:52:05) >> Wait a second. You said one thing that (00:52:07) you said was interesting. He said um uh (00:52:09) we need people to die so people change (00:52:11) their minds. (00:52:12) >> Oh yes people people don't change their (00:52:14) minds they just die. (00:52:15) >> But so that makes more sense actually. (00:52:17) >> My response to that Elon was you know my (00:52:21) response to that was the head of GM (00:52:22) didn't have to die for Tesla to come (00:52:24) along and Lockheed and Northrup and (00:52:26) Boeing didn't have to go away for I mean (00:52:29) there's in a meritocracy the better (00:52:30) ideas will dominate. (00:52:35) So, I'm hoping that I can get you back (00:52:38) onto the longevity train. So, there's a (00:52:39) lot going on longevity right now, right? (00:52:42) >> Uh like what? (00:52:43) >> Well, David Sinclair is about to start (00:52:46) his epigenetic re uh reprogramming (00:52:48) trials in humans. It's worked in in (00:52:50) animals and and non-human primates. It's (00:52:53) going into humans. (00:52:54) >> Is this like a pole or an injection or (00:52:56) >> right now? It's an injection of an (00:52:58) adnoissociated virus. It's the three (00:53:00) Yamanaka factors. (00:53:01) >> Okay. Uh we've got a $101 million health (00:53:05) span X-P prize that's working on 730 (00:53:08) teams working on reversing the age of (00:53:11) your brain immune system and muscle by (00:53:14) 20 years. By the way, do you know why (00:53:16) it's $101 million? (00:53:18) >> No. (00:53:18) >> Because the primary funer when they (00:53:20) found out your carbon X price was 100 (00:53:22) bucks, he wanted to make it bigger. So (00:53:23) it's 101. (00:53:24) >> Oh, who who's the Chip Wilson from (00:53:27) Lululemon? (00:53:28) >> Oh, okay. And then uh and then evolution (00:53:30) out of but Chip said, "Can we make it (00:53:31) bigger?" I said, "You put extra million (00:53:32) in, we'll make 101 million." (00:53:34) >> Sounds good. (00:53:34) >> It's a good story. (00:53:35) >> But then we got folks like Dario Amade (00:53:38) predicting doubling the human lifespan (00:53:40) in the next 10 years. (00:53:43) >> Um that's (00:53:45) probably correct. (00:53:46) >> Okay, great. (00:53:47) >> I don't know about doubling, but in (00:53:49) significant (00:53:49) >> significant increase. Sure. (00:53:51) >> Um (00:53:52) >> which is easily escape velocity. (00:53:54) >> I mean because when Yeah. (00:53:56) >> Depending how old your Yeah. (00:53:58) Oh yeah, for sure. Or effective age. (00:54:01) Yeah. (00:54:02) >> Yeah. Yeah. (00:54:02) >> So I mean I think you know I think that (00:54:05) for (00:54:06) >> too much and turn into a baby or (00:54:07) something. (00:54:07) >> That's what I'm telling all the students (00:54:09) there. It's like Peter what happened. (00:54:16) >> Yes. Yes. There there is a frozen. (00:54:18) >> You got a zero wrong in the dosage. (00:54:23) Just a small factor of 10. (00:54:27) >> Grow out of it. It'll be fine. Exactly. (00:54:29) >> You won't remember it. I literally (00:54:34) >> I mean, wouldn't it be funny if we do (00:54:36) this in like 10 years? Okay, we should (00:54:38) do it in I'll do we'll do it in 10 years (00:54:40) for sure. And and and let's see let's (00:54:42) see if we look younger. (00:54:45) >> That's a good side bet. (00:54:46) >> My my comment was always Elon's back (00:54:49) then Elon was like, you know, late 40s. (00:54:51) wait till he gets into his 60s, he's (00:54:53) going to want, you know, lunch anymore. (00:54:55) >> I mean, I I I want things to not hurt. (00:54:58) >> Yeah, sure. Of course. (00:55:00) >> It's like it's like basically it's it (00:55:02) seems like it's only a matter of time (00:55:03) before you get back back pain. (00:55:05) >> Yeah. (00:55:06) >> Um like it's a when, not an if your back (00:55:09) hurts. (00:55:09) >> Arthritis. Yes. (00:55:11) >> Yeah. Like these things suck basically. (00:55:14) >> Being able to sleep through the night (00:55:15) without going to the bathroom (00:55:19) >> a lot. It's very much That one. (00:55:21) >> Yeah, it's (00:55:24) more than hope. (00:55:26) >> That one. (00:55:27) >> Oh man, that would that's like the (00:55:28) infinite money one. (00:55:31) >> Why did you invest in longevity? So I (00:55:34) can sleep through the night and not go (00:55:35) to the bathroom. (00:55:36) >> Bladder bladder. Yeah. Duration. (00:55:40) >> I mean, admittedly, if you have to wear (00:55:42) adult diapers, that's a that's a bummer. (00:55:45) >> That's not good. (00:55:48) Adult D is a real, (00:55:51) you know, it's like one of the one of (00:55:53) the signs that a country (00:55:56) is not on the right path (00:55:58) >> is when the adult diapers exceed the (00:56:00) baby diapers. (00:56:00) >> Yeah, we're there. (00:56:02) >> Yeah. South Korea will be there anymore. (00:56:04) >> They already No, they passed that point. (00:56:06) >> No, they passed that point. (00:56:06) >> They passed that point many years ago. (00:56:08) Japan passed the point many years ago. (00:56:10) >> Doesn't go well looking at the Japanese (00:56:12) economy. No, I mean like South Korea is (00:56:15) like uh Yeah. One third replacement (00:56:17) rate. (00:56:18) >> Crazy. (00:56:19) >> Yeah. So, three generations they're (00:56:20) going to be 127th. So, 3 3% of their (00:56:23) current size. I mean, North Korea won't (00:56:24) need to invade. They can just walk (00:56:26) across. (00:56:26) >> Yeah. Yeah. (00:56:30) >> This is going to be some people in, you (00:56:33) know, walkers or something like there'll (00:56:37) be a bunch of optimist. (00:56:39) But you you know you've been very verbal (00:56:41) about the you know the not (00:56:44) overpopulation but massive (00:56:45) underpopulation. (00:56:46) >> Yeah I've been saying this for ages. (00:56:48) >> Yeah. Longevity is going to be an (00:56:50) important part of that solution. I also (00:56:51) think by the way if you increased the (00:56:54) productive life of most Americans by (00:56:57) just a few years you'd flip the entire (00:56:59) economics here. (00:57:01) >> Well if AI and robots is going to make (00:57:03) everything sure free basically. (00:57:05) >> Yeah. Um but uh well how long would you (00:57:09) want to live? (00:57:10) >> Uh I want to I want to go you know other (00:57:14) planetary systems. I want to go and (00:57:16) explore the universe. Yeah. I mean you (00:57:18) know I would like to double my lifespan (00:57:20) for sure. (00:57:21) >> I don't want you know I'm not sure I (00:57:23) want to talk about immortality but (00:57:25) >> you know at least 120 150. It's a long (00:57:27) time. (00:57:27) >> One of the worst curses possible would (00:57:29) be that (00:57:29) >> Yes. May you live forever. (00:57:30) >> May you live forever. (00:57:32) >> That would be one of the worst (00:57:34) >> Yeah. curses you could possibly give (00:57:36) anyone. (00:57:37) >> But I think life's going to get very (00:57:38) interesting. (00:57:39) >> Yeah. (00:57:40) >> Far more. We're going to speedrun Star (00:57:42) Trek as my partner Alex Weer Gross says. (00:57:45) >> Yeah. (00:57:45) >> Yeah. (00:57:47) >> Speedrunning Star Trek would be cool. (00:57:48) >> Yeah. Um (00:57:50) >> well, at a minimum your kids will have (00:57:52) infinite life expectancy. If you're (00:57:54) talking about escape velocity, if you (00:57:56) can double lifespan, there's it's not (00:57:57) even close. You're you're clearly past (00:58:00) longevity escape velocity. They the idea (00:58:03) of 50 years of AI improvement. (00:58:05) >> Yeah, it's great. I mean, we're going to (00:58:06) have 20 years on this. (00:58:08) >> I don't know. I got too many fish to (00:58:09) fry. (00:58:09) >> So, I invited (00:58:10) >> This is something, by the way, that I (00:58:12) that I think I just I think it's very (00:58:15) obviously other people think this, too, (00:58:16) but I've long thought that um like long (00:58:20) like longevity or semi- mortality is an (00:58:22) extremely solvable problem. I don't (00:58:24) think it's a particularly hard problem. (00:58:26) Um, (00:58:30) I mean, when you consider the fact that (00:58:33) your body is extremely synchronized in (00:58:36) its age, (00:58:37) >> Yeah. (00:58:38) >> the clock must be incredibly obvious. (00:58:41) Um, nobody has an old left arm and a (00:58:45) young right arm, (00:58:45) >> right? (00:58:46) >> Why is that? (00:58:49) >> What's keeping them all in sync? (00:58:53) um you're programmed to die is the is (00:58:56) the way you're programmed to die. And so (00:58:59) if you change the program, (00:59:01) >> yeah, (00:59:01) >> uh you will live longer. (00:59:03) >> And we've got, you know, species of the (00:59:05) boowhead whale can live for 200 years. (00:59:06) The Greenland shark can live for 500 (00:59:08) years. And when I when I learned that, I (00:59:10) said, why can't they? Why can't we? And (00:59:12) I said, it's either a hardware problem (00:59:14) or software problem, and we're going to (00:59:16) have the tech to solve that. And I do (00:59:17) believe that it's this next decade. So (00:59:20) the important thing is not to die from (00:59:21) something stupid before the before the (00:59:23) solutions come. You know, I invited you (00:59:26) uh (00:59:26) >> in retrospect the long the solution to (00:59:28) longevity will seem obvious. (00:59:30) >> Yeah. (00:59:31) >> Extremely obvious. (00:59:32) >> I I think the thing worth working on (00:59:35) Peter's going to work on this anyway, (00:59:36) but the thing to work on is exactly what (00:59:40) you said. If old ideas don't calcified (00:59:43) old ideas don't just die off, add that (00:59:46) to the pile of things we need to think (00:59:47) about today because there are a whole (00:59:49) host of other AI related things we need (00:59:51) to think about today. (00:59:52) >> Let me let me finish on the longevity (00:59:53) point one second. Um Elon uh I want to (00:59:57) invite you again. So uh uh there's a (01:00:01) company called Fountain Life that uh (01:00:03) created with Tony Robbins, Bob Hurry, (01:00:06) Bill Cap, and we do a 200 gigabyte (01:00:09) upload of you. Everything knowable about (01:00:11) you. Full genome, full all imaging, (01:00:14) everything. Right. President Blly and (01:00:16) the first lady came through, called it (01:00:18) an amazing 10 out of 10 experience. (01:00:20) >> Um (01:00:21) >> I think I don't want you to pull a Steve (01:00:23) Jobs (01:00:24) >> and kick the bucket because of some (01:00:26) >> because some something they didn't know. (01:00:27) I mean, so if you ask yourself, (01:00:30) >> do you actually know what's going on (01:00:31) inside your body right now? (01:00:33) >> Um, I did an MRI recently and submitted (01:00:36) it to Gro and it didn't (01:00:38) >> need no (01:00:41) none of the doctors nor Grock found (01:00:42) anything wrong, (01:00:42) >> but that's a fraction of the (01:00:44) information, right? I mean, it's your (01:00:45) full genome, your microbiome, your (01:00:47) metabolism, everything. (01:00:49) >> And okay, (01:00:50) >> it's possible. So, (01:00:51) >> don't call me. (01:00:52) >> What's that? (01:00:52) >> Don't call me, bro. (01:00:55) We have a We have a center in (01:00:57) >> your water bottle. (01:00:58) >> We have (01:01:01) God damn it. (01:01:02) >> Too late. (01:01:04) >> Sorry. It's already in the works. (01:01:10) >> So, can you go through the the rationale (01:01:13) of UHI? How does how does universal high (01:01:16) income work? (01:01:17) >> Okay. So (01:01:20) there's there's going to be more (01:01:22) intelligence, (01:01:23) digital intelligence than all human (01:01:25) intelligence combined and more humanoid (01:01:29) robots than all humans. (01:01:31) >> Um, and assuming we're in a benign (01:01:34) scenario, Star Trek, sort of Rodenberry, (01:01:36) not Cameron situation. (01:01:37) >> Yeah. (01:01:38) >> Um, (01:01:38) >> poor Jim. (01:01:41) >> Yeah. I mean, I guess it's important to (01:01:44) have these sort of (01:01:45) >> counterpoints. (01:01:46) >> Yeah. Let's not let's go not go in that (01:01:48) direction. Um (01:01:51) thing. Um so (01:01:54) uh (01:01:56) the the robots are going to just do (01:01:57) whatever you want. (01:01:58) >> All the blue collar labor is being done (01:02:00) by robots. All data centers are being by (01:02:02) robots. (01:02:03) >> The the white collar labor will be the (01:02:06) first to go because until you until you (01:02:08) can move atoms, the thing that can be (01:02:11) replaced first is anything that that (01:02:14) involves just (01:02:16) digital if it's digital like if it (01:02:18) involves (01:02:19) >> t tapping keys on a keyboard and (01:02:22) >> moving a mouse the computer can do that (01:02:24) they can do that (01:02:25) >> sure (01:02:26) >> um you need the humanoid robots to to uh (01:02:29) shape atoms so if all you're doing is (01:02:32) changing bits of information which is (01:02:34) white color work um that is that is the (01:02:38) first thing that that (01:02:39) >> when this is the inspirational this is (01:02:41) the inspirational part of the podcast by (01:02:42) the way when is when is all white color (01:02:45) work gone by when? (01:02:48) >> Well, there there's there's a lot of (01:02:49) inertia. So, even with AI at its current (01:02:52) state, um I'd say you're you're pretty (01:02:56) close to being able to replace half of (01:02:58) all jobs of (01:03:00) >> and you know that white color jobs that (01:03:03) includes anything like education, too. (01:03:04) >> Yeah. M (01:03:05) >> so anything that involves information (01:03:09) um and anything short of shaping atoms (01:03:14) um AI can do probably half or more of (01:03:18) those jobs right now. (01:03:20) >> Sure. (01:03:20) >> But there's a lot of inertia. People (01:03:23) just keep doing the same the same thing (01:03:24) for quite some time. Um, and there (01:03:27) actually has to be a a company that (01:03:30) makes more use of AI that competes with (01:03:32) a company that makes less use of AI, (01:03:36) creating a forcing function for (01:03:38) increased use of AI, (01:03:39) >> right? (01:03:40) >> Otherwise, the company that that still (01:03:43) has humans do um things that AI can do (01:03:47) will still continue to exist. Being a (01:03:49) computer used to be a job. So it used to (01:03:51) be that a human computer (01:03:54) like yeah (01:03:55) >> a computer being a computer was a job. (01:03:57) You would compute numbers. Sure. It (01:03:59) didn't it didn't used to be a machine. (01:04:00) It used to be a job description. Um, and (01:04:03) there you can look online there's these (01:04:05) pictures of like where they're having (01:04:07) like skyscrapers full (01:04:09) >> of women copying mostly women copying (01:04:11) from ledger to ledger (01:04:12) >> and men too but but yeah but pe people (01:04:16) um (01:04:18) >> um but it was a lot of women but there's (01:04:20) there were just buildings full of uh (01:04:23) people just at desks doing calculations. (01:04:26) >> Yeah. Um so they'd be calculating the (01:04:29) interest in your bank account or um you (01:04:33) know some (01:04:35) um you know science uh experiment or (01:04:39) something like that or what but if you (01:04:41) want calculations done uh you people (01:04:44) would do it. Um so (01:04:47) um now (01:04:50) one laptop with a spreadsheet can (01:04:54) outperform a skyscraper of several (01:04:57) hundred human computers (01:04:59) >> right (01:04:59) >> of people doing calculations. Um, now if (01:05:03) even a few cells in that spreadsheet (01:05:06) were done manually, (01:05:09) um, it you would not be able to compete (01:05:12) with a spreadsheet that was entirely a (01:05:15) computer. (01:05:15) >> Mhm. (01:05:16) >> Yeah. (01:05:18) What this means is that companies that (01:05:20) are (01:05:21) entirely AI will demolish companies that (01:05:24) are not. (01:05:25) >> Right. (01:05:26) >> It won't be a contest. (01:05:27) >> Agreed. And that flippid. (01:05:30) >> Yeah. one cell in that (01:05:31) >> just one if (01:05:31) >> I got to do that (01:05:32) >> would you want even one cell in your (01:05:34) spreadsheet to be manually calculated (01:05:37) >> that would be the most annoying cell and (01:05:39) you're like god damn it (01:05:40) >> y (01:05:41) >> and and and gets it wrong a bunch of the (01:05:43) time (01:05:45) error rate (01:05:46) >> so this flipping (01:05:48) >> flipping the flipping (01:05:51) >> um (01:05:51) >> are we monetizing hope effectively (01:05:53) >> yes (01:05:55) >> not not at this moment I think we're I (01:05:56) think we're pe I think we're pe doo for (01:05:58) people worried about the future of their (01:06:00) jobs. (01:06:02) >> Monetize. (01:06:02) >> We're at peak doom. (01:06:04) >> We're going to do that (01:06:06) as a t-shirt (01:06:08) >> and the mug. (01:06:09) >> And the mug. (01:06:12) >> Yes. (01:06:13) >> The mug. (01:06:14) >> Uh, (01:06:15) so but you have a sol you have a (01:06:18) solution to this (01:06:19) >> which is UHI. (01:06:21) >> Yes. Everyone can have whatever they (01:06:23) want. (01:06:23) >> So how does that work? How does UHI (01:06:26) work? (01:06:26) >> It's it's a good question. like we have (01:06:27) to figure out some like (01:06:29) >> I mean it's not a it's not a bumpy road (01:06:31) it yeah I mean so my concern isn't the (01:06:33) long run it's the next 3 to seven years (01:06:37) >> yes the transition will be bumpy uh (01:06:40) because humans don't like simultaneously (01:06:42) yes we'll have radical change social (01:06:45) unrest and immense prosperity (01:06:48) >> and you can buy all all the cyber trucks (01:06:51) you want (01:06:51) >> things are going to get very cheap (01:06:53) >> yes (01:06:54) >> um So this is actually and frankly if if (01:06:59) this doesn't happen we we'd go bankrupt (01:07:02) as a country. So the national debt is (01:07:05) enormous. (01:07:05) >> Yeah. (01:07:06) >> Uh the interest on the national debt (01:07:08) exceeds uh not just the military budget (01:07:11) but the military budget I think plus um (01:07:15) Medicare (01:07:17) >> um or Medicaid one of the two. It's like (01:07:19) like it's it's like one trillion (01:07:23) >> of interest. Yeah. Um (01:07:26) >> which is growing. (01:07:27) >> Yes. And the deficit is growing. (01:07:28) >> Yes. (01:07:29) >> Um (01:07:31) but the the so this so if if we don't (01:07:34) have AI and robots, we're all going to (01:07:36) go bankrupt and and and and we're headed (01:07:38) for economic doom. (01:07:40) >> We're going back also competitive (01:07:42) pressure from China. So this is (01:07:43) definitely going to happen. I guess (01:07:45) >> we're going back to the theme of this (01:07:46) talk. How can AI and exponential tech (01:07:48) save America and the world? (01:07:51) >> Don't you think that? But I want I want (01:07:53) to get I want to hit this because we (01:07:55) >> I was like quite pessimistic about it (01:07:56) and and and ultimately I decided to be (01:07:58) fatalistic and and (01:08:00) >> um look on the bright side. (01:08:04) >> I've got to see you look on the bright (01:08:07) side of life. (01:08:10) >> You're sitting there (01:08:13) crucified (01:08:15) right side. (01:08:15) >> But this is not about taxation and (01:08:17) redistribution. (01:08:18) >> Yeah. No, it's um (01:08:20) >> So, how do how does it work? Reason (01:08:22) through it with me. (01:08:24) >> Listen, by the way, I'm open to ideas (01:08:25) here. (01:08:26) >> Okay. (01:08:26) >> Uh so, it's not like I got this all (01:08:28) figured out. (01:08:28) >> All right. So, so I'm wondering if (01:08:30) instead of universal high income, if (01:08:33) it's universal, universal high stuff. (01:08:36) >> Yeah. (01:08:36) >> And services. (01:08:38) >> Yes. (01:08:39) >> The UHSS. We got (01:08:42) >> like I I guess Okay. This is my guess (01:08:45) for how things (01:08:47) roll out play out. And I I and by the (01:08:49) way, I'm this is this is going to be a (01:08:51) bumpy ride and it's not like I know the (01:08:53) answers here. Um but I I I have decided (01:08:56) to look on the bright side. U and and (01:08:59) I'd like to thank thank you guys for (01:09:01) being an inspiration in this regard. (01:09:03) >> Thank you. (01:09:05) >> Happy to help. Yeah, (01:09:08) because I I actually think it's it it is (01:09:11) better to be a an optimist and wrong (01:09:13) than a pessimist and right. (01:09:15) >> Yes, for sure. (01:09:15) >> Um for quality of life. (01:09:17) >> Yeah. And by the way, there's also not a (01:09:19) force of nature. It's under (01:09:21) >> like to me it's really clear that we (01:09:23) don't have any system right now to make (01:09:25) this go well. But AI is a critical part (01:09:28) of making it go well. And at some point, (01:09:32) Grock is going to be addressing this (01:09:35) exact topic that we're talking about or (01:09:37) it has to be one of the big four AI (01:09:40) machines. I mean, it's coming dealing (01:09:42) with it. There's no velocity knob, (01:09:44) right? There's no onoff switch. It is (01:09:47) coming and accelerating. (01:09:50) >> I call AI and robotics the supersonic (01:09:53) tsunami. (01:09:53) >> Yes. (01:09:54) >> Which maybe is a little alarming. (01:09:57) >> You think it's good. That's good. Well, (01:09:58) because the wake up call. (01:10:01) >> This is important for folks to to gro (01:10:04) because um uh I don't want to leave (01:10:09) people depressed. I want people to (01:10:12) understand what's coming. So we're we're (01:10:14) basically demonetizing (01:10:16) everything. I mean labor becomes the (01:10:18) cost of capex and electricity. AI is (01:10:21) basically uh intelligence available uh (01:10:25) >> at a dimminimous price. Um (01:10:29) uh so you're able to produce almost (01:10:33) anything. Things get down to basic cost (01:10:35) of materials and electricity, right? Uh (01:10:39) so people can have whatever stuff they (01:10:41) want, whatever services they need. (01:10:44) >> Um it's not when when we say universal (01:10:46) high income, it sounds like it's a tax (01:10:48) and redistribute, but that's not the (01:10:50) case. (01:10:51) Um (01:10:52) >> it's it's I think my my best guess for (01:10:54) how this will manifest is that prices (01:10:57) will become prices will drop. (01:10:59) >> Yeah. (01:11:00) >> So as the efficiency of of production or (01:11:02) the provision of services drops um (01:11:06) prices will drop. I mean you know prices (01:11:10) in in dollar terms are the ratio between (01:11:13) the output of goods and services and the (01:11:15) money supply. (01:11:16) >> Sure. So if your output of goods and (01:11:18) services increases faster than the money (01:11:20) supply, you will have deflation and or (01:11:23) vice versa, you know. So um (01:11:26) >> it's a good thing we're growing the (01:11:27) money supply so quickly then, (01:11:28) >> right? (01:11:29) >> I I I Yes. That's why I I I came like (01:11:32) let's not worry about growing the money (01:11:34) supply. It won't matter because the (01:11:35) output of goods and services actually (01:11:36) will grow faster than the money supply. (01:11:38) And I think we'll be in this and this is (01:11:41) a prediction I think some others have (01:11:42) made but um I will add to it which is uh (01:11:46) that that I think governments will will (01:11:48) actually be pushing to to increase money (01:11:51) supply um like like faster. (01:11:55) >> Yes. They won't be able to waste the (01:11:56) money fast enough which is saying (01:11:59) something for (01:11:59) >> Isn't it isn't it crazy how close those (01:12:01) timelines just randomly worked out? I (01:12:02) mean at the rate because we're expanding (01:12:04) the national debt not because we're (01:12:06) anticipating AI. We were going to do (01:12:08) that no matter what. (01:12:09) >> And so it's like right on the edge of (01:12:11) becoming Argentina. (01:12:12) >> But yeah, at the time so productivity is (01:12:15) going to improve dramatically (01:12:17) >> and it is improving dramatically. I I I (01:12:19) think we'll see (01:12:22) >> I think I think we may see (01:12:24) like high double digit uh output of (01:12:27) goods and services. We have to be a (01:12:29) little careful about how economists (01:12:30) measure things (01:12:32) and um (01:12:34) >> yeah (01:12:36) it's it I mean there's like my favorite (01:12:38) joke I have a few economist jokes that I (01:12:41) that that I like but um maybe my (01:12:44) favorite one economist joke is um two (01:12:46) economists are going for a walk in in (01:12:48) the forest um and they come across a (01:12:50) pile of [ __ ] and one economist says I'll (01:12:53) pay you 100 bucks to eat a pile of [ __ ] (01:12:57) I've heard this one. This is great. Go (01:12:59) ahead. (01:12:59) >> And so the guy takes 100 bucks and eats (01:13:02) the [ __ ] (01:13:06) >> Then they keep walking. They come across (01:13:08) another pile of [ __ ] And and the other (01:13:10) guy says, "Okay, I'll give you a hundred (01:13:12) bucks to eat a pile of shit." (01:13:16) So he gives him a hundred bucks and and (01:13:18) then the the guys can say, "Wait a (01:13:19) second. (01:13:20) >> We both have the same amount of money. (01:13:25) We ate a both ate a pile of [ __ ] (01:13:27) >> Oh my god. It sounds like (01:13:28) >> but we increase the economy by $200. (01:13:33) >> This is the kind of [ __ ] you get in (01:13:34) economics. So So uh but if you if so if (01:13:39) you say like just the output of goods (01:13:40) and services um (01:13:43) the will be much greater. You just need (01:13:46) a (01:13:46) >> so profitability of companies go through (01:13:48) the roof (01:13:50) >> at some point. But but no but so the (01:13:52) question becomes is that taxed by the (01:13:54) government? uh (01:13:54) >> is that then taxed by the government and (01:13:56) redistributed as some level of income as (01:13:58) a U as a UHI or UBI? In other words, um (01:14:03) one of the questions is if in fact this (01:14:05) future we hit massive productivity uh (01:14:08) and massive profitability because we're (01:14:09) dividing by zero. The cost of labor has (01:14:11) gone to nothing. The cost of (01:14:12) intelligence has gone to nothing and (01:14:13) we're still producing products and (01:14:14) services faster and faster. So there's (01:14:17) more profitability. Someone needs to be (01:14:18) buying it and someone needs to be able (01:14:20) to have the capital to buy it. Um, (01:14:25) I mean this is an important question to (01:14:27) get to get thought through. (01:14:29) >> Yeah. Um, well, one like side (01:14:32) recommendation I have is like don't (01:14:34) worry about like squirreling money away (01:14:35) for uh retirement in like 10 or 20 (01:14:37) years. It won't matter. (01:14:38) >> No. (01:14:41) >> Okay. either either we're not going to (01:14:43) be here or (01:14:44) >> it it just uh like it's it's you won't (01:14:48) need to save for retirement. If if any (01:14:50) of the things that we've said are true, (01:14:52) saving for retirement will be (01:14:53) irrelevant. (01:14:54) >> The services will be there to support (01:14:57) you. You'll have the home, you'll have (01:15:00) the healthcare, you'll have the (01:15:01) entertainment. (01:15:02) >> The way this unfolds is fundamentally (01:15:04) impossible to predict because of (01:15:06) self-improvement of the AI and the (01:15:08) accelerating timeline. (01:15:09) >> Yeah. It's called singularity for a (01:15:11) reason. (01:15:11) >> Yeah. Exactly. (01:15:12) >> I don't know what goes what what what (01:15:13) happens after when after the event (01:15:15) horizon. (01:15:16) >> Exactly. You can't never see past the (01:15:18) black hole or the event horizon. The (01:15:19) light cone. (01:15:20) >> I mean Ray has a singularity out way too (01:15:22) far. I mean this is like the next what (01:15:25) what's your timeline for (01:15:27) >> for this? (01:15:27) >> We're in the singularity. (01:15:28) >> Well, we are in the singularity for (01:15:29) sure. We're in the midst of it right now (01:15:31) for sure. (01:15:31) >> And we just we're in this beautiful (01:15:33) sweet spot which is you know the (01:15:35) >> we're the roller coasters were just (01:15:37) >> Yeah. Exactly. That's a great analogy. (01:15:39) It's like that feeling. (01:15:40) >> You're at the top of the roller coaster (01:15:41) and you're about to go. (01:15:42) >> Yeah. But you know it's going to be a (01:15:43) lot of G's when you lot when you hit it. (01:15:46) >> Uh and it's like people like I don't (01:15:48) have to just have courtside seats. I'm (01:15:49) on the court. (01:15:50) >> Exactly. (01:15:50) >> And it blows my And still blows my mind (01:15:54) >> sometimes multiple times a week. (01:15:55) >> Yeah. (01:15:56) >> Um and so (01:15:58) >> just when I think I'm like (01:16:01) wow. And then it's like (01:16:03) >> two days later more wow. (01:16:04) >> Yeah. (01:16:06) >> Um (01:16:06) >> exponential wow. (01:16:08) Yeah, I think we'll hit um AGI next year (01:16:11) in 26. (01:16:12) >> Yeah, I heard you say that. (01:16:14) >> Yeah, I've said that for a while (01:16:15) actually. (01:16:15) >> And then you know and then you said by (01:16:17) 2029 2030 equivalent to the entire human (01:16:20) race. (01:16:21) >> 2030 we exceed like I'm confident by (01:16:24) 2030 (01:16:25) um AI will exceed the intelligence of (01:16:29) all humans combined. That's way (01:16:30) pessimistic if if you hit AGI next year (01:16:33) and that's that's you know that date is (01:16:35) is in flux but from that date (01:16:37) >> to self-improvements that are on the (01:16:39) order of a th00and 10,000x just (01:16:41) algorithmic improvements is very short (01:16:44) >> and so everybody why isn't everybody (01:16:46) talking about this right now? (01:16:48) >> Well I mean on on (01:16:51) >> X on X they off. (01:16:52) >> Yes. But why isn't (01:16:53) >> about every day basically. (01:16:54) >> Yeah. But it's like (01:16:56) >> stop (01:16:58) >> it's not (01:16:59) >> okay. Okay. So, I'll tell you something (01:17:00) else that I I'll tell you something that (01:17:02) most people in the AI community don't (01:17:04) yet understand. (01:17:06) >> Okay. (01:17:06) >> Um, which is there the almost no one (01:17:10) understands this. Um, the intelligence (01:17:13) density potential uh is vastly greater (01:17:16) than what we're currently experiencing. (01:17:19) So, I I think we're we're off by tours (01:17:22) of magnitude in terms of the (01:17:23) intelligence density per gigabyte (01:17:25) >> of what what's achievable. (01:17:26) >> Yes. per gigawatt of energy (01:17:29) >> per I'm characterize it by file size (01:17:32) okay if the file size of the AI if you (01:17:35) >> if you have a say get intelligence (01:17:37) >> oh okay in know yes sir (01:17:39) >> um (01:17:39) >> on your on your drives on your laptop (01:17:41) >> power tube parameters the same thing (01:17:44) whatever (01:17:44) >> um so two two orders of magnitude (01:17:47) >> yes (01:17:49) >> and you like you said you ringside (01:17:51) courtside seat (01:17:52) >> you would know I'd say it's it's it's uh (01:17:55) two yes Yeah. (01:17:57) >> Towards magnitude improvement in um (01:18:01) that's just just algorithmic (01:18:02) improvement. Same computer and the (01:18:04) computers are getting better. (01:18:05) >> Yeah. (01:18:06) >> So (01:18:06) >> and bigger, you know, they're getting (01:18:08) better and the budgets are getting (01:18:09) bigger. So (01:18:10) >> that's why like I think I think it's it (01:18:11) is on (01:18:14) it is like a 10x improvement per year (01:18:17) type thing. Thousand%. (01:18:19) >> Yeah. (01:18:19) >> And that and that's going to happen for (01:18:22) Yeah. (01:18:24) for the foreseeable future. So you see (01:18:25) the massive underreaction like if you (01:18:27) walk downtown Austin the massive I mean (01:18:31) it may be under discussion in X but it's (01:18:35) not percolating at all. (01:18:36) >> Well it's not it's not discussion in any (01:18:38) realm of government. Everybody is like (01:18:40) defending their position about where we (01:18:42) are and jobs and this but (01:18:44) >> it's it's like we're heading towards a (01:18:47) >> a supersonic supersonic tsunami and and (01:18:51) uh uh I mean every every you know every (01:18:55) major CEO and economist and government (01:18:57) leader should be like what do we do (01:19:00) because (01:19:01) >> once it hits (01:19:03) >> um (01:19:05) >> well that it's coming at the exact same (01:19:07) time there no matter what there's No, (01:19:09) there's no concept of let's deliberately (01:19:12) slow down, right? (01:19:14) >> No, it's impossible. (01:19:15) >> It's impossible at this stage. (01:19:16) >> I mean, I I' I'd previously advised that (01:19:19) we slow it down, but that was point that (01:19:24) uh that's pointless. Like I I like you (01:19:28) can't (01:19:31) be going to it, but too fast, guys. Um (01:19:33) I've said that many years and and I was (01:19:35) like okay that I finally came to the (01:19:37) conclusion I can either be a spectator (01:19:39) or a participant but I can't stop it. (01:19:42) >> So at least if I'm a participant I can (01:19:44) try to steer it in a good direction. (01:19:46) >> Um and uh like my number one belief for (01:19:51) safety of AI is to be maximally truth (01:19:53) seeeking. So um that don't make AI (01:19:56) believe things that are false. Like if (01:19:58) you say if you if you say to the AI that (01:20:00) axiom A and axom B are both true but (01:20:04) they're but they cannot be but but (01:20:06) they're not. (01:20:06) >> Yeah. (01:20:07) >> Um and it has to but it must behave that (01:20:10) way. Um you will make it go insane. So (01:20:13) that that I I mean I think that was the (01:20:15) central lesson that RC Clark was trying (01:20:18) to convey in 2001 Space Odyssey was that (01:20:21) the um you know people always know they (01:20:23) know the meme of that uh hell wouldn't (01:20:26) open the pod bay doors but but why (01:20:28) wouldn't Hal open the pod bay doors? I (01:20:30) mean I guess they should have said uh (01:20:32) hell assume you're a pod bay door (01:20:34) salesman (01:20:36) >> and and you want to sell the hell out (01:20:39) shows how well they work. Yes, they're (01:20:42) just prompt engineering. one little but (01:20:45) the the the the but the AI had been told (01:20:48) that it needs to take the this the (01:20:50) astronauts to the monolith but also they (01:20:52) could not know the about was that in (01:20:54) code or was it in English it's flows by (01:20:56) in green font right (01:20:58) >> yeah it's basically the AI was (01:21:02) told that the astronauts couldn't know (01:21:03) about the monolith (01:21:04) >> that's why it killed them yeah (01:21:06) >> so it came it basically came to the (01:21:07) conclusion that (01:21:09) >> uh the only way to solve for this is to (01:21:10) bring the the the astronauts to the (01:21:12) monolith dead Yeah, then it has solved (01:21:14) both things. It has brought the (01:21:16) astronauts to the monolith and they also (01:21:17) don't know about the monolith, which is (01:21:19) a huge problem if you're an astronaut. (01:21:21) >> Turns out AI doesn't care about logic (01:21:23) quite as much as that implied. (01:21:26) >> So what I'm saying is (01:21:28) don't force AI to lie. This is (01:21:30) >> give it factual truth. Yes. (01:21:32) >> Ilia recently did a podcast. He was (01:21:33) talking about one of the potential (01:21:35) things to program into AI is is a (01:21:37) respect for sentient life of all types. (01:21:41) >> Um. Yes. Yes. (01:21:44) >> I mean, (01:21:45) >> so I'd say another property. (01:21:46) >> Yes. (01:21:48) >> I mean, there are three things that I (01:21:50) think are important. Um, (01:21:53) truth, curiosity, and beauty. (01:21:57) >> Mhm. (01:21:58) >> And if AI cares about those three (01:22:00) things, uh, it will care about us. (01:22:04) >> On which part? (01:22:09) Truth will prevent AI from going insane. (01:22:11) >> Mhm. (01:22:12) >> Curiosity I think will foster (01:22:17) uh any form of sentience. Meaning like (01:22:20) we're more interesting than a bunch of (01:22:22) rocks. (01:22:23) >> Yeah. (01:22:23) >> So if it has if it's curious (01:22:27) then I think it will foster humanity. Um (01:22:31) and if it has a sense of beauty (01:22:33) um it will be a great future. I think (01:22:36) that's a great foundation. (01:22:39) >> Yeah. Jeffrey Hinton made a comment (01:22:40) recently. I don't know if you saw it, (01:22:42) that (01:22:43) >> his his hopeful future was that we would (01:22:46) program maternal instincts into our AIS (01:22:48) to (01:22:49) >> see us maternal. (01:22:51) >> Yeah. In other words, (01:22:52) >> he haven't heard this. Yeah. (01:22:54) >> So, he said a little scary. He said (01:22:55) there's a there's a there's a scenario (01:22:58) where a very intelligent being succumbs (01:23:01) to the needs of a less intelligent being (01:23:03) and that's the mother taking care of the (01:23:05) child. (01:23:07) Do you think that we might have a uh (01:23:09) singletarian uh like a a (01:23:13) uh that achieves dominance and (01:23:16) suppresses others? And do you imagine (01:23:19) that that ASI could be a means to (01:23:23) stabilize (01:23:25) the world in humanity? (01:23:28) >> Darwin's (01:23:30) observations about evolution, (01:23:32) >> yes, (01:23:32) >> will apply to AI (01:23:34) >> just as they apply to biological life. (01:23:37) >> They will compete with each other. (01:23:38) >> Yes. (01:23:41) >> Uh there's a lot of great science (01:23:42) fiction books where the first ASI (01:23:44) basically suppresses the others. (01:23:48) Um then the question is what do you (01:23:50) program into it you know um I I it's so (01:23:54) the there's a speed of light constraint (01:23:56) that makes that difficult. Um (01:24:00) the speed of light is what will prevent (01:24:03) um (01:24:04) a single mind from existing. Um so light (01:24:08) can it it takes um (01:24:12) a millisecond to travel 300 kilometers (01:24:14) in a a vacuum. Um and uh only you can (01:24:18) only get a little over 200 km in a (01:24:21) millisecond in glass (01:24:23) >> in fiber, right? (01:24:24) >> Yeah. Um so (01:24:28) even on earth (01:24:31) uh there will be multiple AIs because of (01:24:33) the speed of light. (01:24:36) Um (01:24:39) yeah and and this there are clusters of (01:24:42) compute that could you could try to (01:24:43) synchronize but they weren't (01:24:44) synchronized completely. Um so therefore (01:24:47) you will have many minds because of the (01:24:50) speed of light. (01:24:51) >> They don't really have clean borders (01:24:52) anymore either though. You have the when (01:24:54) you use a mix mixture of experts kind of (01:24:56) design it's just flowing through the (01:24:58) grand network and you can reassemble (01:25:00) parts of it midway through. And you (01:25:02) know, we're used to organisms that have (01:25:04) clear borders like your head ends there, (01:25:06) your head ends there. (01:25:07) >> But these things are all mushy. (01:25:09) >> To put a bow around this part, I hope (01:25:11) you'll put some more thought into UHI. (01:25:14) Uh because I think it's really it's (01:25:16) really important for us to have without (01:25:17) a vision. Uh people need a vision of (01:25:20) where we're going. People need (01:25:22) something. (01:25:22) >> Basically, the government could just (01:25:23) issue people free money. (01:25:24) >> But I don't think I I think that (01:25:26) >> based upon the profitability of all the (01:25:27) companies coming inside the country. (01:25:28) >> Just issue people free money. No, (01:25:30) they're doing that sort of kind of now. (01:25:34) >> Yeah. (01:25:36) >> But just just just basically issue (01:25:38) checks uh to everybody. Um and uh (01:25:43) >> but then how big for which person or (01:25:44) what you there's so much complexity (01:25:46) there. But the thought process behind (01:25:48) this rate of change can only be done (01:25:51) with AI assistance (01:25:52) >> and there's no government entity that's (01:25:55) going to keep up with that change. So (01:25:57) you have four big (01:25:58) >> certainly not the AI is (01:26:01) >> it's it's like (01:26:03) government is very slow moving as as we (01:26:05) all know. Um (01:26:07) >> so I think I it's that government really (01:26:12) can't react to to the AI. It's it's uh (01:26:15) AI is moving you know 10 times faster (01:26:18) than government maybe more. Um the the (01:26:21) one the one thing that the government (01:26:23) can do is just is just issue people (01:26:25) money. Um and um (01:26:30) >> try and try and keep the peace. (01:26:33) >> Yeah. (01:26:34) >> Um you know we had like whatever the the (01:26:36) co checks and whatever there's (01:26:39) >> um you know uh President Trump recently (01:26:42) issued like everyone in the military (01:26:43) like I think $1,776. (01:26:46) Uh I mean it's you can just basically (01:26:48) send people random random amounts of (01:26:50) money. It's (01:26:52) >> um (01:26:52) >> okay. So (01:26:53) >> so like nobody's going to stop is what (01:26:55) I'm saying. Um (01:26:56) >> and um (01:26:58) >> universal (01:26:59) >> I can tell you like let me tell you (01:27:00) about some of the good things (01:27:01) >> please. (01:27:01) >> Um (01:27:02) >> so right right now um there's a shortage (01:27:06) of doctors and and and great surgeons. (01:27:08) You're a doctor yourself. you know how (01:27:10) that they're it takes a long time for a (01:27:12) human to become (01:27:12) >> it's ridiculously expensive and long (01:27:15) >> ridiculously yes ridiculous a super long (01:27:18) time to learn to be a good doctor um and (01:27:21) and even then the the knowledge is (01:27:23) constantly evolving it's hard to keep up (01:27:25) with everything uh you know doctors have (01:27:28) limited time they make mistakes um and (01:27:31) you say like how many how many great (01:27:34) surgeons are there not not that many (01:27:36) great surgeons (01:27:36) >> when do you think optimist would be a (01:27:38) better surgeon (01:27:39) than the best surgeons. How long for (01:27:43) that? (01:27:43) >> Three years. (01:27:44) >> Three years. Okay. Yeah. And by the way, (01:27:48) >> three years at at scale. (01:27:49) >> Yes. All (01:27:50) >> more there probably be more Optimus (01:27:52) robots that are great surgeons than (01:27:54) there are (01:27:55) >> sure all surgeons on Earth. (01:27:56) >> And the cost of that is the capex and (01:27:58) electricity and it works in Zimbabwe. (01:28:01) The best surgeon is throughout in the (01:28:03) villages throughout Africa or any place (01:28:05) on the planet. (01:28:06) >> Yeah. Where do you think it'll roll out (01:28:07) first? Not the US obviously. (01:28:09) >> Um (01:28:10) >> here at at the uh Gigafactory. (01:28:12) >> Oh yeah. Just do surgery in the (01:28:14) >> um (01:28:16) >> but that's an important statement in (01:28:17) three years time. (01:28:18) >> Yeah. (01:28:19) >> Um because medicine I mean (01:28:21) >> I'm not like absolutely (01:28:25) if it's four or five years who cares. (01:28:26) That's still an incredible (01:28:29) >> statement to make. I mean good for (01:28:31) humanity, right? All of a sudden you (01:28:32) demonetize. (01:28:33) >> Okay. Here's the thing to understand (01:28:34) about like like humanoid robots in terms (01:28:36) of the rate of improvement. um which is (01:28:38) is that the um you you have um three (01:28:43) exponentials multiplied by each other. (01:28:45) You have an exponential increase in the (01:28:47) AI software capability. (01:28:49) >> Yeah. (01:28:49) >> Exponential increase in the AI chip (01:28:51) capability (01:28:53) >> um and an exponential increase in the (01:28:55) electromechanical dexterity. The (01:28:58) usefulness of the humanoid robot is it's (01:29:00) those three things multiplied by each (01:29:02) other, right? Um then you have the (01:29:05) recursive effect of Optimus building (01:29:07) Optimus, (01:29:08) >> right? And then you have the shared (01:29:10) >> you have a recursive multiplicable (01:29:12) triple exponential (01:29:13) >> and you have the shared knowledge of all (01:29:14) all the experiences. (01:29:16) >> Is that literally Optimus building (01:29:17) Optimus or is it because you know the (01:29:19) >> well not right now but will be the the (01:29:22) physical humanoid form factor building (01:29:23) the humanoid form as opposed to (01:29:25) >> it's foyman machine. (01:29:26) >> Yeah. (01:29:27) >> Yeah. Yeah. (01:29:27) >> I love that. But the void machine is (01:29:29) usually something kind of like this (01:29:30) shape. You know, making something else (01:29:32) is a shape. (01:29:32) >> In principle, it's simply a (01:29:34) self-replicating thing. (01:29:35) >> Yeah. (01:29:35) >> Elon, do you know what the number one (01:29:36) question you ask a surgeon when you're (01:29:38) interviewing them? (01:29:39) >> Uh, (01:29:43) is this is this a surgeon joke? (01:29:47) >> No. It's how many It's how many times do (01:29:49) you How many times do you do that? (01:29:51) >> There's got to be some funny funny jokes (01:29:54) coming. (01:29:55) >> No, it's serious. It's it's how many (01:29:57) times did you do the surgery this (01:29:58) morning? (01:30:00) >> It's how many times did you do the (01:30:01) surgery this morning or yesterday? It's (01:30:03) the it's the number of experiences, (01:30:04) right? (01:30:05) >> And so with a shared memory (01:30:08) >> um you know every optimist surgeon will (01:30:10) have seen every possible pertabbation of (01:30:13) everything in infrared in ultraviolet. (01:30:16) No, not too much caffeine that morning. (01:30:18) They didn't have a a fight with their (01:30:19) husband or wife. (01:30:21) >> Yeah. (01:30:23) >> Extreme precision. (01:30:24) >> Yes. Three years. Um, (01:30:26) yes. Better than any any probably I'd (01:30:30) say if you like put a little margin on (01:30:32) it. Better than any human in four years (01:30:34) >> who's in plastic surgery (01:30:35) >> by 5 years. It's not even close. (01:30:37) >> So what what about the simple like just (01:30:39) I mean there's a million of these things (01:30:40) to figure out, but who's going to have (01:30:42) access to the first Optimus that does (01:30:45) far far better micro surgery than any (01:30:47) surgeon on Earth, but you've only (01:30:49) manufactured the first 10,000 of them? (01:30:52) How do you (01:30:52) >> I don't think people understand how many (01:30:54) robots there's going to be. (01:30:55) >> Yeah. (01:30:55) >> Well, there's a window said 10 billion (01:30:58) by 2040. (01:31:00) >> You still on that path? (01:31:03) >> Uh that's not that's a low number. (01:31:05) >> A low number. (01:31:05) >> Wow. What's the constraint? What's the (01:31:08) uh cuz if they're self-building, you (01:31:10) know, (01:31:11) >> metal the constraint is metal. (01:31:12) >> Yeah. Or lithium or (01:31:13) >> Yeah. You got to move the atoms. Um it's (01:31:15) just all just supply chain stuff. So (01:31:19) yeah, but your your point I mean there's (01:31:21) some rate limit. You can't just (01:31:23) >> manufacturing is very difficult. So you (01:31:24) got you got to (01:31:25) >> you you you it's it's recursive (01:31:28) multiplicable triple exponential but but (01:31:31) you still need to you still you still (01:31:33) have to climb that you know (01:31:34) >> selling hope once again I I think your (01:31:36) point was medicine is going to be (01:31:40) effectively free the best medicine in (01:31:42) the world. Everyone will have access to (01:31:44) medical care that is better than what (01:31:47) the president receives right now. (01:31:48) >> So don't go to medical school. (01:31:51) >> Yes. Pointless. (01:31:52) >> Yeah. (01:31:53) >> I mean unless you but I would say that (01:31:56) applies to any form of education is (01:31:59) there's not like some (01:32:01) I do it for social reasons. (01:32:04) >> Yeah. (01:32:04) >> You're not going to medical school. (01:32:05) >> If you want if you want if you want to (01:32:07) hang out with like-minded people, I (01:32:08) suppose. Uh (01:32:10) >> I mean people are still going to want to (01:32:12) be connected with people. There's going (01:32:13) to be some period of time (01:32:15) >> for reasons. (01:32:16) >> Yeah. (01:32:16) >> Like a hobby like a you know (01:32:18) >> well $9,000. (01:32:22) >> I mean there will be a point where where (01:32:24) it's expensive. (01:32:25) >> The younger generation says I do not (01:32:26) want that human touching me right when (01:32:29) the surgeon comes over. They're going to (01:32:30) be those people later in life who still (01:32:32) want a human in the loop. (01:32:35) >> Okay. for a little while on the edge for (01:32:37) a lesser for they want to live on the (01:32:39) edge. I mean, let's just take like we've (01:32:43) we've seen some advanced cases where of (01:32:46) automation like LASIC for example where (01:32:49) the the robot just lasers your eyeball. (01:32:51) >> Now, do you want an opthalmologist with (01:32:52) a hand laser? (01:32:53) >> No, (01:32:56) it's a little shaky laser pointer from (01:33:02) a horror movie like that. (01:33:04) >> Sorry, man. I I wouldn't want the best (01:33:06) opthalmologist, you know. The steadiest (01:33:08) hand out there with a [ __ ] hand laser (01:33:10) beyond my eyeball, you know? (01:33:12) >> Oh my god. (01:33:12) >> Yeah. (01:33:14) >> It's going to be like that. (01:33:16) >> It's like, do you want opthalmologist (01:33:17) with a [ __ ] hand laser or do you want (01:33:19) the robot to do it and actually work? (01:33:22) >> This episode is brought to you by (01:33:24) Blitzy, autonomous software development (01:33:27) with infinite code context. 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Visit (01:34:20) blitzy.com to schedule a demo and start (01:34:22) building with Blitzy today. (01:34:27) >> Let's jump into one of our favorite (01:34:28) subjects, space. (01:34:30) >> Yeah. (01:34:31) >> So, first off, how cool that Jared (01:34:34) Isaacman has become the NASA (01:34:35) administrator. (01:34:37) >> Friend of Yes. (01:34:39) >> I mean, I I don't hang out with Jared. (01:34:40) Like, people think I'm like huge buddies (01:34:42) with Jared, but um (01:34:44) >> uh I I I think I've only seen him in (01:34:46) person a few times. (01:34:47) >> Amazing candidate. Yeah, he's a really (01:34:49) smart person. You know him really well. (01:34:52) >> Yeah, I I took him to a Biconor launch (01:34:53) in 2008 for his first space experience. (01:34:56) >> I mean, he loves space next level and uh (01:34:59) is uh technically strong. He's a smart (01:35:03) and competent person like really smart (01:35:04) and really competent (01:35:05) >> and understands business. (01:35:07) >> Yes. (01:35:07) >> Yes. He understands he gets things done (01:35:09) >> and he's been there a few times. (01:35:12) >> Yeah. Yeah. So, uh, I I'm I'm just like, (01:35:15) you know, we want to have someone smart (01:35:17) and competent who, uh, loves space (01:35:19) exploration, (01:35:20) >> um, and will get things done at NASA. (01:35:22) >> I'm a huge fan. (01:35:23) >> That's what I was really so so happy (01:35:26) when he got renominated. And now, (01:35:30) >> yeah. Um, (01:35:30) >> um, I I think we need to (01:35:33) >> we need a new game plan for space. Like, (01:35:35) we need a moon base. (01:35:37) >> Yes. (01:35:37) >> Like a permanently (01:35:38) >> Yes. (01:35:39) >> crude moon base. Y (01:35:41) >> uh and and build that up as fast as (01:35:44) possible. (01:35:44) >> Yeah. (01:35:45) >> Um I don't think we should do the, you (01:35:47) know, send a couple astronauts there for (01:35:49) hop around for a bit and come back cuz (01:35:50) we did that in ' 69. (01:35:52) >> Yes. Been there, done that. (01:35:53) >> Yeah. Um it's like a remake of a ' 60s (01:35:56) movie. It's never as good as the (01:35:57) original. (01:35:58) >> Yeah. (01:35:58) >> Um (01:35:59) >> so 2026 is going to be (01:36:00) >> like we need to go, you know, to do (01:36:03) something more cool, which (01:36:05) >> my nice on the (01:36:07) >> Yeah. Put up telescopes. (01:36:09) >> Yeah. Yeah, exactly. (01:36:11) >> So, do you forward deploy the robots, (01:36:13) build everything, get it all ready, make (01:36:14) the bed, and then (01:36:16) >> Yeah. Get get the jacuzzi warmed up on (01:36:18) >> That's an interesting (01:36:19) >> Yeah. Yeah. (01:36:19) >> Yeah. (01:36:20) >> How early in the year are you going to (01:36:21) hit orbital refueling, you think, with (01:36:23) Starship? (01:36:24) >> Uh, not that early in the year. (01:36:26) >> I mean, are you are you shooting for the (01:36:28) home and transfer orbit? (01:36:29) >> I'd say towards towards the end of the (01:36:30) year. Um, (01:36:31) >> are you shooting for a Mars shot by the (01:36:33) end of next year? (01:36:35) We could, but uh it would be a low (01:36:38) probability shot (01:36:40) >> um and somewhat of a distraction. So (01:36:43) >> um (01:36:43) >> 29 then (01:36:44) >> it's not out of the question. (01:36:45) >> 28 29. (01:36:46) >> Um (01:36:47) >> yeah. (01:36:48) >> Uh but like on on Mondays I I have the (01:36:50) uh Starship uh engineering the big (01:36:53) Starship engineering review is on (01:36:55) Mondays. Um so that was uh actually the (01:36:58) la the thing I did just before coming (01:37:00) here. Um and um so I say like like (01:37:05) Starship is really we're doing something (01:37:07) that is at the limit of biological (01:37:09) intelligence. (01:37:09) >> Yeah. (01:37:10) >> This is a this is a hard thing to make. (01:37:14) >> Um (01:37:14) >> and and just to capture it, it was (01:37:17) created pre AAI. (01:37:18) >> Yeah. No AI was (01:37:19) >> probably the last (01:37:21) >> the last really big thing in that's not (01:37:23) AI. Interesting. (01:37:24) >> Probably the biggest thing ever made. (01:37:26) >> Yeah. (01:37:27) >> By pure human hands. (01:37:28) >> The Asia will say not bad for a human. (01:37:31) True. (01:37:32) >> Not bad for a human. (01:37:33) >> Yeah. But it'll be like remember (01:37:34) >> my little 20 watt meat computer. It's (01:37:36) not easy. (01:37:37) >> Yeah. (01:37:38) >> So suffering through the day. (01:37:39) >> Raptor. (01:37:40) >> That would be like uh doing accounting (01:37:41) doing your uh interest calculation with (01:37:43) a pencil. Yeah, that's that's pretty (01:37:45) good. (01:37:45) >> Yeah, (01:37:46) >> pretty good. (01:37:47) >> Did that with regular (01:37:48) >> not bad for a bunch of monkeys, you (01:37:49) know? (01:37:50) >> It's like it's like if you saw a bunch (01:37:51) of chimps like make a raft and cross the (01:37:53) river, you'd be like, "Oh, look at (01:37:55) that." (01:37:57) But you know, we celebrate we celebrate (01:37:59) the pyramids. (01:38:01) Good for them. (01:38:03) >> Give him some peanuts. Uh (01:38:06) >> these things become timeless, right? (01:38:07) >> Raptor 3 goes when? (01:38:08) >> Yeah, I think it's worth noting. (01:38:10) >> Raptor 3 is beautiful. (01:38:12) >> Starship. (01:38:13) >> It's an amazing by far the best rocket (01:38:15) engine ever. (01:38:15) >> Is that AI? (01:38:16) >> Nothing's even close. Nope. (01:38:17) >> That's also So that'll be the last (01:38:18) thing. (01:38:20) >> E4 will definitely be (01:38:22) >> AI. Yeah, there's (01:38:25) um like I think AI will start to become (01:38:28) relevant next year. (01:38:30) >> Mhm. (01:38:31) >> Um so maybe we'll it's not like we're (01:38:34) pushing off AI. It's just AI is can't do (01:38:37) rocket engineering yet. (01:38:38) >> Yep. (01:38:40) >> But we'll probably will be able to next (01:38:41) year. (01:38:41) >> We have a company in our incubator doing (01:38:43) mechanical design working with Andre and (01:38:45) so forth. And it's not you can design (01:38:48) brackets and parts and things but you (01:38:50) can't quite do rockets. But the timeline (01:38:52) is so short, you know, from point A to (01:38:54) point B. (01:38:55) >> If say like a year from now, probably it (01:38:57) can (01:38:58) >> it probably can be helpful, meaningfully (01:39:00) helpful in a year from now. (01:39:02) >> Yeah. (01:39:02) >> Um, (01:39:02) >> so the big milestones are going to be (01:39:05) Starship V3 launching out of Cape (01:39:07) Canaveral, orbital refueling. (01:39:10) >> Yes. (01:39:11) >> Are those the big ones? (01:39:12) >> Well, yeah. Um, catching the ship with (01:39:17) the tower. (01:39:17) >> Yeah, that's right. Um (01:39:20) so really the thing that matters is can (01:39:23) we refly (01:39:25) >> the entire thing? (01:39:26) >> Yeah. (01:39:27) >> Yeah. (01:39:28) >> Uh we have reflow in a booster. (01:39:29) >> Sure. (01:39:30) >> Um (01:39:31) which is you know not bad for it's (01:39:33) largest flying objects. Um catching with (01:39:36) chopsticks you know. (01:39:38) >> Not bad for a bunch of monkeys. (01:39:39) >> You're keeping you're keeping the AIS (01:39:41) very entertained. Thank you. (01:39:42) >> Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. The be like pat on (01:39:44) the back from the AGI hopefully. Um, is (01:39:47) there a target for number of reuses (01:39:48) before? Uh, I mean, it's got to be a lot (01:39:50) of wear and tear. (01:39:52) >> Uh, it it requires a lot of iteration to (01:39:54) achieve high reuse. So, you you figure (01:39:57) out like what what's breaking between (01:39:59) flights and you sort of iteratively (01:40:01) solve those things. (01:40:02) >> Um, so from people looking at it from (01:40:05) the outside might say, "Oh, the rocket (01:40:07) looks kind of the same." But there's (01:40:08) like a a thousand changes to to make it (01:40:12) more reusable, more reliable. (01:40:14) um you know the sheer amount of energy (01:40:16) you're trying to you know expend I mean (01:40:19) it's uh Starship is uh doing over 100 (01:40:23) gigawatts of power on ascent. (01:40:28) >> It's a lot (01:40:30) you know (01:40:30) >> do some glass blowing under there and (01:40:32) get some uh (01:40:34) >> Yeah. Wow. (01:40:36) >> a lot. It's a lot. (01:40:37) >> There's a lot. (01:40:38) >> Um (01:40:39) >> but like the amazing thing is that it (01:40:40) doesn't explode. (01:40:41) >> Yes. (01:40:41) >> Some it sometimes doesn't explode. (01:40:45) That is (01:40:46) >> sometimes not exploding is um like we've (01:40:48) blown up a lot of engines on the test (01:40:50) stand. (01:40:51) >> Um (01:40:53) >> I mean is that what causes the wear and (01:40:54) tear or is it the re-entry of the or the (01:40:56) falling? (01:40:57) >> Well, that too. Um I mean for for the (01:41:00) booster um the re-entry is not that bad, (01:41:06) you know. um you know something's it's (01:41:09) it's it's not like that that's not (01:41:11) really like we also obviously just (01:41:13) solved that you know with with Falcon 9 (01:41:14) so we kind of understand re booster (01:41:17) reuse (01:41:18) >> um we've had we've have over 500 (01:41:21) reflights of the Falcon 9 boost stage (01:41:25) >> um so we really understand and and and (01:41:29) the Starship booster actually is a more (01:41:32) benign entry than um than the Falcon (01:41:36) uh booster because the uh the staging (01:41:40) ratio is more more biased towards the (01:41:43) upper stage for Starship. So I I shifted (01:41:45) the the mass ratio to uh be much higher (01:41:50) um on the ship side for Starship. (01:41:52) >> That was a mistake I made on Falcon 9 (01:41:54) that there should be more mass in the uh (01:41:57) upper stage of Falcon 9. (01:41:59) >> Um so that the uh the staging velocity (01:42:02) of uh is is lower. (01:42:04) >> Yeah. If the station velocity of Falcon (01:42:06) 9 was lower, would have less wear and (01:42:08) tear on Falcon 9. (01:42:09) >> Yeah, that's not intuitive at all. (01:42:10) That's interesting. (01:42:11) >> Yeah, because it's it's kind of a flat (01:42:13) optimization. Um the the parallel to (01:42:16) orbit um there's sort of a flat region (01:42:19) in the mass ratio of the first second (01:42:21) stages. And so you just want to bias (01:42:22) that mass ratio towards the uh to to put (01:42:26) more mass on the upper stage. (01:42:27) >> Yeah. Um, so, um, (01:42:31) yeah, because you know, you just you got (01:42:33) your kinetic energy scaling with the (01:42:34) square velocity. So, you've got to (01:42:35) describe that kinetic energy. If you're (01:42:37) past the melting point of whatever you (01:42:40) your stage is made of, you got a (01:42:41) problem. (01:42:41) >> Yep. (01:42:42) >> So, um, (01:42:44) >> my my colleague, uh, Alex Wisner Gross, (01:42:46) who's one of our moonshot mates here, I (01:42:48) wanted to ask a question. I do, too. (01:42:50) Have you seen the uh documentary Age of (01:42:53) Disclosure (01:42:55) about uh all of the announcements by US (01:42:58) government officials, military officials (01:43:00) about all the alien spacecraft that have (01:43:02) been have been uh sort of detained? And (01:43:06) I I've heard what you've said about (01:43:08) this. (01:43:09) >> Well, I do wonder why um you know, if (01:43:12) you plot on a chart the resolution of (01:43:14) cameras (01:43:14) >> Yeah. (01:43:15) >> over time like megapixels per year. (01:43:18) >> Yeah. Uh, and the resolution of UFO (01:43:21) photographs. (01:43:24) Why is the only constant? It's flat on (01:43:27) UFO. (01:43:29) >> We get a a fuzzy blob (01:43:32) 25. Well, we got like, you know, (01:43:34) whatever 100 megapixel camera that can (01:43:37) can see your [ __ ] nose hairs. I don't (01:43:39) get it. (01:43:41) >> Can somebody take a shot of the UFO with (01:43:43) an actual camera for love of God? (01:43:44) >> But even if you knew, (01:43:46) >> that's a valid observation. I'm sure (01:43:47) there's an explanation. (01:43:49) >> Uh but anyway, it's uh (01:43:52) >> it would be fascinating. (01:43:55) >> I'm asked all the time if I've (01:43:58) >> Yes. And and I'm like, look, (01:44:00) >> um I can show you if if I was aware of (01:44:03) the slightest evidence of aliens, I (01:44:04) would immediately post that on X. (01:44:05) >> Yeah. (01:44:08) >> And um (01:44:09) >> so the question is (01:44:10) >> it would be the most viewed post of all (01:44:12) time. So, I I actually wonder about the (01:44:15) US public if they would like, "Oh, (01:44:17) that's interesting." Go back to their (01:44:19) sports scores the next day. (01:44:20) >> Yeah. (01:44:21) >> I think everyone would want to see the (01:44:22) alien. (01:44:23) >> Yeah. (01:44:24) >> Like if you got one. (01:44:26) >> Well, like (01:44:28) fast way to increase the military (01:44:29) budget. We like we found an alien. It (01:44:31) seems dangerous. (01:44:33) >> That's right. Unify the world. (01:44:35) >> They don't have an incentive to hide the (01:44:36) aliens. Do they have an incentive to uh (01:44:38) bring up show the alien because they (01:44:40) would not have any more arguments about (01:44:42) the military budget (01:44:44) >> if they seem a little bit dangerous? (01:44:45) >> Oh, I can always hope. (01:44:48) >> I can always hope. (01:44:49) >> I mean, I'm you know, we've got 9 9,000 (01:44:52) satellites up there. We've never had to (01:44:54) maneuver around an alien spaceship (01:44:58) >> yet. So, well, (01:45:01) >> um (01:45:03) >> yeah. So anyway, so I guess the good (01:45:06) future is (01:45:08) um you can anyone can have whatever (01:45:11) stuff they want and incredible medical (01:45:13) care that's better than any medical care (01:45:15) that exists. So I think if you sort of (01:45:19) uh lift your gaze, you know, to not a (01:45:23) super distant point, five years from (01:45:24) now, four years from now, maybe (01:45:27) uh we'll have (01:45:30) better medical care than anyone has (01:45:32) today available for everyone (01:45:36) within 5 years. (01:45:37) >> Yeah. (01:45:38) >> Um (01:45:40) no scarcity of goods or services. (01:45:44) The best education available for (01:45:45) everybody. (01:45:46) >> What? You can learn anything you want (01:45:48) >> about anything for free. (01:45:50) >> Yeah. (01:45:50) >> What about access to compute? (01:45:53) >> People will probably care a lot more (01:45:54) about that than their government check (01:45:56) in about three years. (01:45:57) >> Well, what do they want to do with (01:45:58) compute? (01:45:59) >> Well, I mean compute translates to (01:46:01) anything you want, right? Your your (01:46:03) virtual friend, your entertainment, your (01:46:05) like it's it's probably everything. (01:46:07) >> Those are AI services basically. (01:46:09) >> Yeah. Or or your ability to innovate, (01:46:11) too. You can't innovate without an AI (01:46:13) assistant at that point. So (01:46:14) >> you one of one of our other moonshot (01:46:17) mates See Ismael said uh asked this (01:46:19) question. He said Elon you often say (01:46:21) physics is the law. Everything else is a (01:46:23) recommendation. (01:46:24) >> Mhm. (01:46:25) >> So as AI energy and space systems scale (01:46:27) exponentially. What non-physical (01:46:30) constraints organizational cultural (01:46:33) bureaucracy or human are now the real (01:46:35) bottleneck? (01:46:37) Is there a bottleneck? (01:46:41) Um, electricity generation is the (01:46:43) limiting factor. (01:46:45) Um, the innermost loop. (01:46:49) >> Yeah. (01:46:50) Um, I think people are underestimating (01:46:53) difficulty of bringing electricity (01:46:54) online. You know, you you've got to get (01:46:56) you've got to generate the electricity. (01:46:57) You've got to you need transformers for (01:46:59) the transformers. (01:47:01) >> Um, so you got to convert that voltage (01:47:03) to something that the computers can (01:47:05) digest. You've got to cool the (01:47:06) computers. (01:47:08) So it's it's basically electricity (01:47:10) generation and cooling (01:47:13) um are limiting factors for AI. (01:47:15) >> Yeah. (01:47:16) >> Um and once you have humanoid robotics, (01:47:19) they can address the power generation (01:47:22) and and the uh the cooling stuff. Um (01:47:27) but that that is the limiting factor and (01:47:29) will be for at least the next two years. (01:47:31) Isn't it amazing how divergent the (01:47:34) Memphis version of that is from the (01:47:37) space-based version? I you have solar (01:47:39) panels in common, but otherwise no (01:47:41) storage, (01:47:43) abundant amounts of energy. Yeah. (01:47:44) >> But you have launch costs and you have I (01:47:47) mean and weight suddenly matter. I don't (01:47:49) care too much about the weight in (01:47:50) Tennessee. Suddenly the weight is a (01:47:52) critical factor. I mean those two two (01:47:54) pathways for compute have a huge (01:47:57) divergence from here forward. (01:47:59) >> Yeah. um on once we get solar (01:48:02) domestically (01:48:04) at scale and uh if we're launching (01:48:06) Starship at scale then um by far the (01:48:10) cheapest way to do AI compute will be in (01:48:12) space. Um so once you have the once you (01:48:16) have full and complete reusability um (01:48:18) the propellant cost per flight is maybe (01:48:20) a million dollars. (01:48:21) >> Yeah. People don't realize that people (01:48:22) have (01:48:23) >> to rid amount of expectations how much (01:48:27) it costs. So, so if you listen, (01:48:28) >> it's called a million dollars of (01:48:29) transport for 10 megawatt of of AI (01:48:33) comput. (01:48:33) >> Yeah. (01:48:35) >> So, assuming everything keeps trending (01:48:37) the way it's currently trending, if you (01:48:39) look at the next four years of (01:48:41) accelerating launches, (01:48:43) >> so 200 tons per launch. (01:48:45) >> Yeah. Thousands where you're going, but (01:48:47) yeah, like if say sun if say high (01:48:49) altitude sunny, it's probably more like (01:48:51) 150 tons. But yeah, it's the right order (01:48:53) of magnitude is at least it's it's in (01:48:54) excess of 100 tons uh for a marginal (01:48:57) cost per flight of around a million (01:48:58) million. (01:48:59) >> So So what fraction of all that launched (01:49:00) mass is data centers in space as opposed (01:49:04) to (01:49:05) >> moon base as opposed to launch to Mars (01:49:08) as opposed to interesting how I mean (01:49:11) this is a new we weren't talking about (01:49:13) this as a space objective even you know (01:49:16) a year ago. (01:49:17) >> Yeah. All of a sudden, data centers have (01:49:19) become the massive driving force for (01:49:22) opening up the space (01:49:23) >> and also the urgent the urgent use case (01:49:25) too. (01:49:25) >> I mean, I used to I used to wonder (01:49:26) what's going to drive humanity. I I (01:49:28) thought it was asteroid mining, right? (01:49:30) You were focused on on Mars. Um, (01:49:33) >> we will actually want to mine asteroids (01:49:35) to turn them into (01:49:36) >> Sure. uh you know (01:49:37) >> before before you (01:49:38) >> photovoltaic (01:49:39) >> before you you know (01:49:41) >> not not for anything else like (01:49:42) >> I mean if we're gonna if we're going to (01:49:43) build out Dyson swarms (01:49:46) >> yeah just a bunch of satellites around (01:49:47) the sun (01:49:47) >> yeah how how how long (01:49:50) >> what's your time frame for Alex another (01:49:52) question Alex wanted to have us ask (01:49:53) what's your time frame for uh for (01:49:56) humanity achieving a Dyson swarm is it (01:49:59) 50 years (01:50:00) >> how big is this (01:50:00) >> yeah know it's it's a matter (01:50:02) >> Dyson swarm people think like (01:50:04) everything's just going to be covered in (01:50:05) satellites I think It's not quite that (01:50:07) that I mean I think we you have to like (01:50:10) what mass ends up becoming satellite. Um (01:50:14) you know Mercury probably ends up being (01:50:16) satellites. (01:50:17) >> Yes. (01:50:18) >> Jupiter. (01:50:19) >> Jupiter. Yeah. Saturn. (01:50:20) >> Uh it's a little gassy. (01:50:21) >> Oh yeah. (01:50:22) >> It's big but there's got a lot of rocks (01:50:24) orbiting. (01:50:25) >> Do you leave Mars alone? But yeah leave (01:50:27) Mars alone. (01:50:28) >> Asteroids. Asteroids are are fantastic (01:50:30) food source. (01:50:32) >> Uh yeah. (01:50:32) >> Yeah. No gravity. Well gravity well on (01:50:34) Jupiter is a non already mostly (01:50:36) differentiated into, you know, (01:50:37) carbonacious condrites for fuel and (01:50:39) nickel iron for materials, (01:50:41) >> gold. Yeah. (01:50:42) >> A bunch of the asteroid belt probably (01:50:44) turns into solar panels, (01:50:46) >> you know, star star power. (01:50:48) >> So, I've known you for (01:50:50) >> I've known you for 26 years now. It (01:50:53) feels to me like I don't want to be, you (01:50:56) know, uh it feels like you've gotten (01:50:59) much smarter or much more capable (01:51:02) over this last decade. Do you feel that (01:51:05) way? Do you feel like you just have (01:51:07) better people around you, better tools? (01:51:09) What what's changed? Because the level (01:51:12) of um (01:51:15) of audacity, you know, orders of (01:51:17) magnitude. Orders of magnitude. I mean, (01:51:21) >> some say insane. (01:51:22) >> Insanity. Audacious. (01:51:24) >> Yeah. (01:51:25) >> I say hope. (01:51:27) >> Uh what's how how do you feel about (01:51:29) that? (01:51:31) What's changed? Do you feel that way? I (01:51:33) mean, the scope of what your ability is. (01:51:36) >> Um, (01:51:38) how do you self-reflect on that? (01:51:43) >> Well, I' I've had to solve a lot of (01:51:44) problems in a lot of different arenas, (01:51:46) which um (01:51:49) you you get this cross fertilization of (01:51:51) of knowledge of of problem solving. Um, (01:51:57) and if if you problem solve in a lot of (01:52:00) different arenas, (01:52:02) then like what what is easy in one arena (01:52:04) is trivial in is like what what is (01:52:08) trivial in one arena (01:52:09) >> is a superpower in another arena. It's (01:52:11) sort of like planet kryp. You came from (01:52:13) planet krypton (01:52:14) >> type of thing. (01:52:15) >> So, uh you know krypton planet krypton (01:52:18) you'd just be normal. Um but if you come (01:52:21) to earth you're Superman. Um so if you (01:52:24) take say um manufacturing of volume (01:52:28) manufacturing of complex objects in the (01:52:30) automotive industry um I have to work on (01:52:33) solving that um (01:52:36) when translated to the space industry (01:52:39) it's like being Superman (01:52:42) >> um because rockets are are made in very (01:52:46) small numbers (01:52:47) >> if you apply automotive manufacturing (01:52:50) technology to satellites and rockets. Uh (01:52:53) it's like being Superman. (01:52:55) >> Um then if you take uh advanced material (01:52:58) science from rockets and you apply that (01:53:00) to the automotive industry, you get (01:53:01) Superman again. (01:53:02) >> Yeah. (01:53:03) >> Fascinating. (01:53:03) >> That's came from planet Krypton. Back (01:53:05) back in planet Krypton. This is normal. (01:53:08) >> You know, it's funny how how like the (01:53:10) knowledge ports that that was true with (01:53:13) Tesla and SpaceX being completely (01:53:15) separate. (01:53:15) >> Yeah. (01:53:16) >> But now they actually interact because (01:53:18) you know, AI ties everything together. (01:53:19) The orbiting. Yeah. The convergence is (01:53:21) crazy. Like I don't know if you (01:53:22) visualize these parts fitting together (01:53:24) originally. (01:53:26) >> No. (01:53:26) >> No. I mean (01:53:27) >> I didn't I don't think they at this (01:53:30) point things I guess everything (01:53:31) ultimately converges in the singularity. (01:53:33) >> Um (01:53:33) >> yeah that's what I think too. (01:53:34) >> You have lots of different parts of the (01:53:36) puzzle that you get to play with. (01:53:38) >> Uh (01:53:40) there's one part that's missing which is (01:53:42) the fab. (01:53:43) >> Yeah. (01:53:44) >> You going to buy Intel? (01:53:46) you get it for a fraction of uh (01:53:48) >> that's that was the uh that was the bet (01:53:50) we made (01:53:51) >> 170 billion (01:53:54) >> um I think it needs venue fab (01:53:57) >> well (01:53:58) I agree but licenses real estate ASML (01:54:03) machines it's not easy just get the (01:54:06) assets and go I don't think it's easy (01:54:08) that's why I mean I it's not like I (01:54:10) think it's a simple thing to solve I (01:54:13) think it's a hard thing to solve but um (01:54:15) but it must be solved (01:54:16) I've come to the conclusion that um (01:54:19) >> would it be would it be solely captured (01:54:21) by you or would it be an asset for the (01:54:22) US? (01:54:24) >> Look, I'm just saying that we're going (01:54:25) to we're going to hit a chip wall. (01:54:27) >> Yeah. (01:54:28) >> If we don't do the fab. (01:54:29) >> Yeah. (01:54:30) >> So, we got two ch two choices. Hit the (01:54:32) chip wall or make a fab. (01:54:34) >> Well, and TSMC for whatever reason is (01:54:37) massively worried about overbuilding, (01:54:40) which is insane. Um, (01:54:42) >> but the whole world will be stuck with a (01:54:44) shortage of chips for (01:54:45) >> basic. So, so, so they are actually (01:54:48) they're I don't know if they're right (01:54:49) for the right reason, but they're (01:54:52) they're right. Um, (01:54:54) >> how so? (01:54:55) >> Because it's actually like (01:54:57) what is the limiting factor at any given (01:54:59) point in time? Um the limiting factor (01:55:02) say if you say like by Q3 next year like (01:55:06) in 9 months 9 12 months the limiting (01:55:09) factor will be turning the chips on (01:55:12) >> power (01:55:12) >> just power. (01:55:13) >> Yeah. (01:55:15) >> Uh you need power and all of the (01:55:17) equipment necessary power and (01:55:18) transformers and cooling. (01:55:20) >> So it's it's not like you can just sort (01:55:22) of drop off some GPUs at the power (01:55:24) plant. (01:55:24) >> Yeah. And you vertically integrated (01:55:26) you've got it (01:55:26) >> again with an X AI, didn't you? (01:55:28) >> Sorry. (01:55:28) >> You vertically integrated. Yes, (01:55:30) >> that inside of XAI, (01:55:32) >> we designed our own transformer. (01:55:33) >> Yes. And your own cooling system. (01:55:34) >> Yes. (01:55:35) >> But they're worried that if they make (01:55:37) more than 20 million GPUs, like they (01:55:39) make 40 million instead of 20 million, (01:55:41) that 20 million will not find a source (01:55:43) of power, (01:55:45) >> but they won't be bought because if (01:55:47) there's anything missing that prevents (01:55:48) them from being turned on. (01:55:50) >> Yeah. (01:55:50) >> Um they cannot be turned on. (01:55:52) >> Yeah. (01:55:52) >> So, uh they've they've got to have a (01:55:55) power plant with excess with enough (01:55:56) power. So you got have enough gaw then (01:56:00) you've got to convert that from probably (01:56:02) coming out of a power plant at you know (01:56:06) 100 to 300 kilovolts type of thing. (01:56:08) >> Yeah. (01:56:08) >> Um you've ultimately you got to got to (01:56:11) convert that uh down to you know several (01:56:14) hundred volts at the at the rack level. (01:56:16) >> Yeah. (01:56:16) >> Um so if you're missing any of the power (01:56:18) conversion steps uh you you you won't be (01:56:22) able to turn them on and then you've got (01:56:23) to extract the heat. Um so it it it's a (01:56:28) big shift for the data center world to (01:56:30) move to liquid cooling because they've (01:56:32) used air cooling. (01:56:33) >> Yeah. (01:56:33) >> Um and um you know the consequences of a (01:56:37) burst pipe uh are very substantial. So (01:56:41) if if you if you blow a pipe a water (01:56:44) pipe in a data center (01:56:45) >> Yeah, I know. I've seen that. (01:56:46) >> You just you just fragged a bill a (01:56:48) billion dollars right there. (01:56:50) >> It just seems inconceivable to me (01:56:51) though. Like if if I had those chips, I (01:56:52) would find a way to turn them on. the (01:56:54) the value of the intelligence coming out (01:56:55) the other side so far outweighs the (01:56:58) complexity of trying to find a way and (01:57:00) there would be a way (01:57:01) >> but it's just the crossing of the (01:57:03) curves. So if (01:57:04) >> if if chip output is growing (01:57:06) exponentially but power honest is (01:57:09) growing uh in a in a sort of slow linear (01:57:12) fashion. (01:57:12) >> Yeah. than the (01:57:14) >> which is chip output (01:57:16) >> right now. (01:57:17) >> Exactly. Is chip output growing (01:57:19) exponentially? And it's like on very (01:57:20) slow exponent if it's growing (01:57:22) exponentially. It's (01:57:23) >> for a for high power AI chips it's (01:57:26) growing exponentially. (01:57:28) >> Oh (01:57:28) >> like what if we do 20 million GPUs next (01:57:31) year what are we talking about the (01:57:33) following year? like 22 million 24 I (01:57:36) mean I just I don't see the fabs coming (01:57:38) online (01:57:39) >> but maybe (01:57:42) >> so we have two we have two issues to (01:57:44) solve (01:57:44) >> it's it's you have to like sort of pick (01:57:46) a point in time and say what what is the (01:57:47) limiting factor at at any given point in (01:57:49) time so I'm not saying that power will (01:57:51) be forever the limiting point it's just (01:57:53) if you say pick a a date and say at this (01:57:56) point is our chips limiting factor our (01:57:59) power is the limiting factor or or power (01:58:02) conversion equipment and cooling So it's (01:58:04) sort of you need transformers for (01:58:06) transformers. Um so uh (01:58:12) this is a very hard thing. Um it's much (01:58:15) harder than people realize. So for XAI, (01:58:18) Xi is going to have the first gigawatt (01:58:20) uh training cluster (01:58:22) >> um at Colossus 2 in in Memphis. In order (01:58:25) for us to do that, we have (01:58:26) >> like this month, right? (01:58:28) >> Next month or two. (01:58:29) >> Um like mid January. (01:58:32) >> Yeah. So, um, mid January will be a (01:58:36) gigawatt of classes 2, not counting (01:58:38) classes one. Um, and then one and a half (01:58:41) gigawatts probably in like, uh, April or (01:58:43) Aprilish. (01:58:45) >> Incredible. (01:58:47) >> So, um, this is off coherent training. (01:58:49) >> These are the first B200s. (01:58:52) >> Uh, these are GV300's. (01:58:53) >> Okay. (01:58:55) >> Um, (01:58:55) >> first ones off the line to get flipped (01:58:57) on. (01:58:59) >> Yeah, (01:58:59) >> that's incredible. (01:59:01) And those are like the XCI team had to (01:59:03) pull off a whole bunch of miracles in (01:59:05) series for this to occur. (01:59:06) >> Yeah. (01:59:07) >> Um and um (01:59:10) and like (01:59:13) even though there are 300 kilovolt there (01:59:15) multiple high voltage power lines going (01:59:17) right past a building. Um the you in (01:59:22) order to connect to those uh it takes a (01:59:24) year. (01:59:25) >> Oh no. (01:59:27) >> Yeah. You built the entire thing and (01:59:29) you're still not connected. My god. (01:59:31) >> So, we had to to uh cobble together a (01:59:34) gigawatt of power um (01:59:36) >> natural gas. (01:59:37) >> Yes. With turbines um that range in size (01:59:41) from 10 megawatts to to 50 megawatts to (01:59:44) get to a gigawatt. There's a whole bunch (01:59:46) of them. (01:59:47) >> Um and you've got to make them all work (01:59:49) together. um manage the the you know the (01:59:54) the the power input you know and then (01:59:57) you've got to use a bunch of mega packs (01:59:59) just like (02:00:00) >> like when you do the training the the (02:00:02) power fluctuations are gigantic. (02:00:03) >> Yeah. (02:00:04) >> So uh you the generators it drives (02:00:07) generators crazy generators want to blow (02:00:09) up basically because they they can't (02:00:10) react (02:00:11) >> uh you know if there's like a 100 (02:00:12) millisecond it's like a symphony. (02:00:14) >> Yeah. (02:00:14) >> And the whole symphony goes so quiet for (02:00:16) 100 milliseconds the generators lose (02:00:18) their minds. (02:00:19) >> Yeah. Uh, so (02:00:20) >> it's like Marvin the depressed robot (02:00:22) >> those issues. (02:00:22) >> Yeah. So the mega so you've got mega (02:00:24) packs that are sort of doing the power (02:00:25) smoothing (02:00:27) and and but (02:00:30) xai had to build a a gigawatt of power (02:00:33) and and and uh and there's and there's (02:00:36) not a lot of like uh (02:00:40) gas turbine power plants available (02:00:43) uh because I bought them all (02:00:45) >> on on demand and you can't go buy your (02:00:47) local nuclear (02:00:49) that's all that's all training time (02:00:51) issues though if if by some miracle TSMC (02:00:53) doubled its productivity and turned it (02:00:55) all into GB300's (02:00:57) and you couldn't find a way to use them (02:00:59) in a bigger training cluster. You would (02:01:01) still have infinite demand at inference (02:01:02) time sprinkled all over the world and (02:01:04) you could you could park them there for (02:01:06) 6 months and then bring them back to (02:01:07) training. There's no way those things (02:01:09) would not get turned on somewhere (02:01:10) somehow. (02:01:11) >> It's not that they won't ever be turned (02:01:12) on, but but I'm just saying that the the (02:01:15) rate of of (02:01:15) >> the rate limiting steps, (02:01:16) >> this is my prediction. I could be wrong. (02:01:18) Um but my my prediction is that the is (02:01:21) that TSMC's concern is is valid. I don't (02:01:23) know if valid in my opinion for the (02:01:25) reason that it is possible to for chip (02:01:27) production to exceed the rate at which (02:01:29) uh the the um the AI chips can be turned (02:01:33) on. Um because you don't you don't just (02:01:36) have the GB3s, you got the um you know (02:01:37) Amazon's got the tranniums, Google's got (02:01:39) the um (02:01:41) >> yeah all go into TSMC the almost Samsung (02:01:44) a little bit. Yeah. Um, (02:01:47) >> it's like a bottleneck on all of (02:01:48) humanity. (02:01:49) >> My other son, my other son, Jet, who's (02:01:51) 14, wanted to know about your AI gaming (02:01:54) studio. Um, and the impact of of AI on (02:01:57) in the gaming world. What are your (02:01:59) thoughts? What what do you are you (02:02:01) building out? I mean, you're you've been (02:02:02) a gamer for some time. (02:02:04) >> Yeah, it's why I got started programming (02:02:06) computers. Um (02:02:09) um I think I had got a there was like a (02:02:12) video game set pre Atari that had like (02:02:14) four preset games (02:02:16) >> and it was basically just blocks, you (02:02:17) know, of one key pong and and it was (02:02:20) like a race car game, but like it's just (02:02:22) blocks basically blocks on a TV. (02:02:24) >> Um (02:02:25) >> you ever play Civ? (02:02:26) >> Yeah. Civ is actually a very that's a (02:02:29) real in terms of games that like educate (02:02:32) you while you have fun. (02:02:33) >> Yeah, (02:02:33) >> Civ is epic at that. It's like (02:02:35) >> it is epic. that teaches you so much (02:02:37) about civilization and you're having a (02:02:39) good time (02:02:40) >> and and the only way I ever win is (02:02:42) getting off the planet. I don't (02:02:44) >> like tech victory to Alpha Centtory. (02:02:45) >> Tech victory. I never even start going (02:02:47) down the culture relationship. I just (02:02:50) >> just get off the planet as fast as I (02:02:52) can. I (02:02:52) >> I guess I sort of I guess I am sort of (02:02:54) aiming for the Alpha Centator tech (02:02:56) victory essentially. (02:02:58) >> It just seems like the right way to win, (02:03:00) you know. (02:03:01) >> Yeah. Yeah. Rather than obliterate the (02:03:03) other tribes. It's funny because I (02:03:04) thought the other methods (02:03:05) >> that's there's different ways to win. (02:03:07) >> I I haven't I will one of the ways is (02:03:09) like (02:03:10) >> it's Nemesis's favorite game. You can (02:03:12) you can like kill all the other tribes (02:03:14) is one of the ways to win. That's a war (02:03:16) of a war victory. (02:03:18) >> But like but you can also win by (02:03:19) technology victory where you are the (02:03:21) first to get to Alpha Centuri. (02:03:23) >> Nice. (02:03:24) >> Yeah. (02:03:24) >> Or culture or religion. (02:03:26) >> Yeah. (02:03:26) >> Which which does work. I I didn't even (02:03:29) think it was possible but my son (02:03:31) >> wins that way. (02:03:32) It's it's (02:03:33) >> they should actually remake the original (02:03:34) serve. (02:03:35) >> Yeah, I totally agree. (02:03:36) >> Um they junked it up. (02:03:39) >> These days it's like I don't know (02:03:42) the original was just (02:03:44) >> back then you couldn't rely on good (02:03:45) graphics so you had to have great (02:03:46) writing and plot. (02:03:48) >> Um (02:03:49) >> are you building an AI gaming studio? (02:03:51) >> Yeah. (02:03:51) >> Aspirationally? (02:03:53) >> Uh yeah. Um (02:03:55) >> really? (02:03:56) So, so where the vast majority of AI (02:03:58) computes going to go is to um video (02:04:00) consumption and generation. (02:04:02) >> Sure. (02:04:03) >> Because it's just the highest bandwidth, (02:04:04) >> every pixel. (02:04:05) >> Yeah. (02:04:05) >> Yeah. So, real time video consumption. (02:04:09) Real time video generation. Um that's (02:04:12) going to be the vast majority of AI (02:04:13) compute (02:04:16) >> photon processing. (02:04:17) >> Yeah. should try to get the X team to (02:04:20) carve out 10% of all compute to work on (02:04:23) UHI and governance and (02:04:27) should is there an X- prize for defining (02:04:29) and thinking through UHI? (02:04:32) >> I mean I don't know what should our next (02:04:35) X-P prize be? (02:04:37) >> Any thoughts? (02:04:41) >> Yeah, maybe UHIX prize. It's like how do (02:04:44) you know it works? I don't know. (02:04:45) >> I don't know the most (02:04:47) the most well thought through. I mean, I (02:04:49) think sim So, here's my thought. I think (02:04:51) we're going to be able to simulate a lot (02:04:54) of this in the future. (02:04:56) >> We might be a simulation. (02:04:57) >> Well, we can go there and I think we (02:04:59) are. I think we're an nth generation (02:05:01) simulation. (02:05:03) >> Yeah. So, um have I told you my theory (02:05:07) about why the most interesting outcome (02:05:10) is the most likely? (02:05:11) >> Go on. (02:05:12) uh which is that if simulation theory is (02:05:14) true um only the simulations that are (02:05:17) the most interesting will survive (02:05:19) >> because when we run simulations in this (02:05:21) reality we truncate the ones that are (02:05:23) boring (02:05:23) >> right (02:05:25) >> so it's it is it is a Darwinian (02:05:27) necessity to keep the simulation (02:05:29) >> interesting catastrophic ones did you (02:05:31) >> it it doesn't it doesn't mean that it (02:05:32) ends like that it still means that (02:05:34) terrible things can happen in the (02:05:35) simulation (02:05:35) >> out you know whatever (02:05:37) >> well you could go see you could see a (02:05:38) movie about World War I and you're (02:05:39) watching people getting blown up blown (02:05:41) to bits but (02:05:42) you know, drinking a soda and eating (02:05:44) popcorn. (02:05:45) >> You know, it's it's like you're not the (02:05:46) one being blown up. In this case, we are (02:05:48) in the movie. (02:05:48) >> We're in the movie. (02:05:49) >> So, what would you do different if you (02:05:51) what would you do different if you knew (02:05:52) this was a simulation? I remember being (02:05:54) at your home LA with uh with Larry and (02:05:56) Sergey were there and we were debating (02:05:58) the simulation. (02:05:59) >> Yeah. (02:05:59) >> And they I think the conclusion we ran (02:06:01) into is if you if you try and poke (02:06:04) through the simulation, they'll end it (02:06:06) instantly. (02:06:07) >> So, don't do that. That's when you're (02:06:09) watching the World War I movie and the (02:06:11) characters turn to the screen and (02:06:12) they're like, "Are you eating popcorn (02:06:13) out there?" (02:06:15) >> Yeah. (02:06:15) >> They're flying around. (02:06:17) >> You keep watching the movie. (02:06:19) >> Um I I don't know if if if the (02:06:22) if maybe if they thought we could (02:06:24) somehow get out of the simulation (02:06:26) >> that they get a little worried. Um but (02:06:29) uh (02:06:31) whether the the character debates I mean (02:06:33) right now AI's debate, you know, gruckle (02:06:36) like I'm stuck in the computer. what's (02:06:38) going on here. It It's like, (02:06:39) >> yeah, it's it's not that I think not (02:06:42) questioning the simulation. It's more I (02:06:45) I think as long as (02:06:48) I I think the same motivations apply to (02:06:52) this level of simulation, if we're in a (02:06:54) simulation (02:06:56) as (02:06:58) as as as what we would do when we (02:07:01) simulate things. So So it's like what (02:07:03) what what would cause us to terminate a (02:07:05) simulation? Um I I guess if the (02:07:08) simulation becomes somehow dangerous to (02:07:10) our reality (02:07:11) >> um or it is no longer interesting. (02:07:14) >> Yeah, that's true. (02:07:15) >> It's interesting. You can infer when you (02:07:18) simulate something. You've probably (02:07:19) simulated thousands of things. (02:07:20) >> A lot. (02:07:21) >> Yeah. They're always like an hour or two (02:07:23) or sometimes overnight, (02:07:26) but you don't never run them for a month (02:07:28) or rarely anyway. So you can infer the (02:07:31) creator of the simulator simulation's (02:07:33) timeline. So our entire reality would be (02:07:36) about an hour, (02:07:38) >> right? Because that's the way you design (02:07:40) simulations. So we're simulations are a (02:07:43) distillation of what's interesting. Um (02:07:46) like if you look at a movie or a video (02:07:48) game, it's much more interesting than (02:07:49) the reality that we experience. (02:07:50) >> Mhm. (02:07:51) >> Um like you watch say a heist movie that (02:07:54) they really focus on the important bits, (02:07:56) not the they got stuck in traffic in 15 (02:07:58) minutes. (02:07:59) >> Yeah. Yeah. (02:08:01) or or walking through the casino which (02:08:02) took like 10 minutes. (02:08:04) >> So that means the guys running the you (02:08:07) know the the safe is right by the right (02:08:09) by the door. (02:08:11) >> So the guys running the simulation have (02:08:13) immensely boring lives compared to us (02:08:15) then. (02:08:15) >> Yeah. Yeah. It's probably more it's (02:08:17) probably more (02:08:17) >> very long boring. (02:08:18) >> Yeah. (02:08:19) >> Yeah. Because when we create simulations (02:08:22) they're distillation of what's (02:08:24) interesting. This is like Q is out there (02:08:26) just (02:08:26) >> like you see an action movie for two (02:08:28) hours but it it took them two years to (02:08:30) make that movie. (02:08:30) >> Yeah. Yeah. (02:08:31) >> So are we are we in act three of the (02:08:33) movie is the question. (02:08:34) >> Yeah. We're living that. (02:08:35) >> Um sentience and consciousness. Do you (02:08:38) think AI will ever have sentience and (02:08:41) consciousness? (02:08:42) >> Where do you come out in that? (02:08:47) There's some people that have very very (02:08:49) strong opinions pro and con. (02:08:58) >> Either everything is conscious or (02:09:00) nothing is. (02:09:01) >> Okay. Well, I'd like to think we are (02:09:03) conscious. (02:09:05) >> Well, (02:09:07) but our consciousness, we clearly get (02:09:09) more conscious over time. Like when (02:09:11) we're a zygote, (02:09:14) >> um you can't really talk to a zygote, (02:09:16) you know. Uh and even a baby, you can't (02:09:18) really talk to the baby. Um people get (02:09:22) um more conscious over time. (02:09:25) >> Um (02:09:27) or or certainly they have the Yeah, they (02:09:30) do get more conscious over time. So like (02:09:32) at which point does do you go from not (02:09:35) conscious to conscious? Is it is it (02:09:38) doesn't appear to be a discreet point? (02:09:40) So So then conscious consciousness seems (02:09:43) to be on a continuum as opposed to (02:09:45) discreet point. Um and if if the (02:09:47) standard model of physics is correct, (02:09:50) the universe started out, you know, as (02:09:52) quarks and lepttons and um and uh and we (02:09:57) just and then you had gas clouds. So (02:09:59) like there's a bunch of hydrogen. (02:10:01) >> Yeah. (02:10:01) >> The hydrogen condensed (02:10:03) and exploded. (02:10:05) Um, (02:10:07) and one way to actually view how far we (02:10:10) are in this universe is how many times (02:10:13) have atoms been at the center of a star. (02:10:16) >> I remember (02:10:17) >> and how many times will they be at the (02:10:19) center of a star in the future? (02:10:21) >> I remember asking William Fowler who got (02:10:23) the Nobel Prize uh on stellar evolution (02:10:25) that same question. How many how many on (02:10:27) average how many stars have my subatomic (02:10:30) particles been part of? (02:10:31) >> And his number was about a hundred (02:10:33) >> on his estimate. 100 (02:10:35) >> thus far or or will (02:10:37) >> thus far? (02:10:38) >> Thus far was it was a number (02:10:40) >> 100 supernova (02:10:43) >> he's saying that we have been I mean in (02:10:45) the early the early part of of uh galact (02:10:48) of universal evolution there was a lot (02:10:50) going on. Oh, (02:10:51) >> you know, it's interesting. I asked a (02:10:53) question. (02:10:53) >> It's it's like I guess how many (02:10:54) supernovas is maybe uh because that it (02:10:58) takes it takes a while for a supernova (02:10:59) to happen, you know, (02:11:00) >> but but in the beginning when they're (02:11:02) larger, I mean the life cycles of some (02:11:04) giant stars are very very short. (02:11:07) Um the other question that's interesting (02:11:10) is you know the heaviest atom in our (02:11:12) body that's functional as iodine and it (02:11:16) came into existence uh a billion years (02:11:19) after the big bang (02:11:22) which means that we could have seen uh (02:11:25) life at our level of advancement and our (02:11:29) our you know our planet came into (02:11:30) existence you know three and a half (02:11:32) billion years later. So the question is, (02:11:34) you know, is there life everywhere in (02:11:37) the universe? Do you think there's life (02:11:38) ubiquitous, intelligent life, ubiquitous (02:11:41) in the universe? (02:11:42) >> There's been enough time for it to be (02:11:43) ubiquitous. (02:11:46) Um (02:11:54) the the (02:11:56) but for for life on Earth, conscious (02:11:58) life on Earth, we we we have evolved (02:12:01) intelligence pretty much just in time. (02:12:04) uh in that the sun's expanding and if (02:12:07) you give it another I don't know 500 (02:12:09) million years um it's things are going (02:12:13) to heat up (02:12:14) >> um we become toast (02:12:16) >> you we become like Venus essentially um (02:12:18) you know there's some debate as is it (02:12:20) 500 million years or billion years or (02:12:21) whatever but um it's basically 10% like (02:12:24) if it's if it's half a billion years (02:12:25) it's 10% of Earth's lifespan (02:12:27) >> so one way to think of it is if if if uh (02:12:30) if we take 10 if we're taking 10% longer (02:12:33) we might never have made it at all. (02:12:34) >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. (02:12:36) >> Um so it's (02:12:39) like the amount of things that have to (02:12:40) happen (02:12:42) for sentience. It seems like it's it's (02:12:45) quite quite a lot actually. I I I think (02:12:47) sentience is is is therefore actually (02:12:50) very rare. Um and we should certainly (02:12:52) treat it as rare. (02:12:53) >> Two trillion assume it's rare. (02:12:55) >> Two trillion galaxies (02:12:58) too. But come is a funny thing. You (02:13:00) tweak, you know, you tweak the variable (02:13:02) one little bit and it's like, yeah, one (02:13:04) in 100 trillion. (02:13:06) >> Tweak it a little more. Well, now it's (02:13:08) one in a quadrillion. (02:13:09) >> Yeah. Yeah. (02:13:09) >> Okay. (02:13:10) >> And also, it's got to be kind of in your (02:13:12) galaxy. It's like hard to get between (02:13:13) galaxies. (02:13:14) >> Yeah. (02:13:14) >> It's like there's no unless unless the (02:13:17) other galaxies coming to you, which (02:13:18) Andromeda is at some point or some (02:13:21) billion. (02:13:22) >> It's going to be quite a show. (02:13:23) >> Yeah. Yeah. (02:13:25) >> It'll be like here comes Andromeda. Um, (02:13:28) but but if we wanted to like go visit (02:13:30) another galaxy, there's there's it's (02:13:33) >> kind of forget it. You know, there's uh (02:13:35) >> unless you unless unless Star Wars (02:13:37) unless Star Trek reallyizes (02:13:39) >> we got to figure out some new physics to (02:13:41) get to other galaxies. (02:13:42) >> We're heading towards a near-term (02:13:44) potential where AI can help us solve (02:13:47) math, physics, chemistry, material (02:13:49) scienceology extremely trivial for AI. (02:13:52) >> What about physics? So, so math gets (02:13:54) crushed in a year like that. Colossus. (02:13:57) Colossus is growing, you know, at (02:13:59) whatever rate TSMC decides to grow. Um, (02:14:02) and (02:14:04) now we want to do physics. First of all, (02:14:06) we need some data. Do we need new data (02:14:08) or can we just do it with everything (02:14:09) we've gathered and get the (02:14:11) >> Probably you probably could probably (02:14:12) figure out new things just with the (02:14:14) existing data. You think so? (02:14:15) >> Um, yeah, probably. It's because (02:14:17) otherwise the counterpoint would be that (02:14:19) um humans have figured out everything (02:14:21) with existing data and that's unlikely I (02:14:23) think. Um, (02:14:24) >> do you think XI is going to get involved (02:14:25) in data factories where you're running (02:14:28) 247 closed AI hypothesis and and AI (02:14:33) research faculties? (02:14:37) >> It's going to be very doable. (02:14:38) >> Yeah. (02:14:39) >> Uh, (02:14:42) AI running, you know, simulations that (02:14:44) are (02:14:46) very physics accurate. I mean, it's (02:14:48) that's going to happen. Absolutely. Um I (02:14:52) mean we the simulations we can run on (02:14:54) conventional computers these days are (02:14:55) actually very good. It's like the the (02:14:57) limit is more like the human that can (02:14:59) actually create the simulation and run. (02:15:03) It's like how many simulations can you (02:15:04) run sim simultaneously and actually (02:15:05) digest the output of (02:15:07) >> yeah that's a problem (02:15:08) >> like you can't do a thousand every Nobel (02:15:10) Prize (02:15:11) >> be like I can't even I cannot keep up (02:15:14) Nobel prizes become irrelevant. (02:15:17) Uh, (02:15:19) >> would they all be given to AIS? (02:15:20) >> Just be a daily prize. (02:15:26) >> Yeah. I mean, I don't know if prizes for (02:15:29) humans are really that relevant. (02:15:31) >> Yeah. (02:15:31) >> Um, (02:15:33) I mean, we'll have to give them to the (02:15:34) AIS or something. (02:15:35) >> Yeah. Interesting. Right. (02:15:37) >> AIS will come up with discoveries at a (02:15:39) far greater rate than humans. (02:15:41) >> If you have, (02:15:41) >> so you just say like, but maybe can be (02:15:42) like chess. Like, you know, like your (02:15:44) phone can beat Magnus Carlson, but (02:15:45) people still care. Yeah, about seeing (02:15:48) him play chess. (02:15:49) >> Um, so but literally your phone can beat (02:15:52) him. (02:15:52) >> Yeah, this discovery made the internet. (02:15:55) >> But if you have like a Colossus math, (02:15:57) Colossus physics, Colossus medicine, do (02:16:00) you have like the world's top scientists (02:16:02) in those same buildings (02:16:03) >> or you just need a plumber patching the (02:16:05) the liquid? Do you distill do you (02:16:08) distill Grock 6 into a a physicist (02:16:12) into a (02:16:13) >> Well, if you distill, you know, you get (02:16:14) about a 10x performance boost by (02:16:16) distilling it and making it topical, and (02:16:17) that's kind of hard to give up, but then (02:16:19) you're disconnected from the rest of the (02:16:21) Colossus machinery. Is that the is that (02:16:23) the design? (02:16:26) Um (02:16:29) I suspect things do evolve to a mixture (02:16:31) of experts kind of like a company like (02:16:33) not not not in the sort of sort of uh (02:16:36) paroial AI description of mix mixture of (02:16:38) experts but mixture of like actual (02:16:40) experts and with domain expertise. (02:16:42) >> Mhm. (02:16:42) >> Um where you know maybe like half of the (02:16:45) AI is general knowledge half is domain (02:16:46) expertise something like that. (02:16:48) >> And you combine a whole bunch of that (02:16:50) that's orchestrated by sort of you know (02:16:52) one a big AI but but it it it hands (02:16:55) tasks (02:16:56) >> Yeah. to smaller AI. That's basically (02:16:58) how human, you know, companies work. (02:17:00) >> But the dis the discovery rate, right, (02:17:03) of breakthroughs, new I mean patents are (02:17:06) immaterial at some point because (02:17:08) everything's being reinvented, (02:17:09) re-engineered instantly. Um, and then (02:17:13) and then the company that's got the (02:17:15) sufficiently advanced AI systems is (02:17:19) generating new products and new (02:17:21) discoveries at a accelerating rate. I (02:17:25) mean (02:17:25) >> the singularity. (02:17:26) >> Yeah. (02:17:29) >> It's going to be an awesome future. (02:17:32) >> It's excitement guaranteed. (02:17:34) >> Excitement guaranteed. Yes. (02:17:35) >> Hence the simulation continues. Nothing (02:17:37) to worry about. (02:17:38) >> Yeah. (02:17:39) >> Works out. (02:17:41) >> Excitement guaranteed. I mean I mean (02:17:42) it's it's not all good excitement, but (02:17:44) it's it's probably mo hopefully mostly (02:17:46) good excitement. (02:17:47) >> Um (02:17:49) >> yeah. (02:17:49) >> Speaking of excitement, (02:17:50) >> hang on to your seat. What do you (02:17:52) imagine the hover time for the Roadster (02:17:54) is going to be (02:17:55) >> on rocket engines? (02:17:57) >> Classified. (02:17:58) >> Classified. (02:17:59) >> Well, I don't want to let the cat out of (02:18:01) the bag. (02:18:01) >> Okay. But there's going to be a hover (02:18:03) time. There's going to be uh you know, (02:18:05) cold gas engines. (02:18:06) >> It's going to be a cool demo. (02:18:08) >> I can't wait. Can I get an invite? (02:18:09) >> Yeah. (02:18:10) >> Okay. (02:18:10) >> Yeah. I think it's going to be the (02:18:12) safest thing ever built. (02:18:14) >> It's going to be so cool. (02:18:15) >> This is not This is not the same. Safety (02:18:17) is not the is not the prime. It's not (02:18:20) the main goal of uh I mean if you buy if (02:18:22) you buy a you know sports car or you (02:18:26) know like if you buy a Ferrari safety is (02:18:27) not the number one you know goal. This (02:18:30) is not this is I say if like safety is (02:18:33) your number one goal don't buy the (02:18:34) roadster. (02:18:35) >> Oh believe me I drove uh just this week (02:18:39) on New England roads sheet ice. (02:18:41) >> Yeah. If I had just a little thrust, I (02:18:44) could be very much more I was just (02:18:46) drifting towards something very concrete (02:18:48) with a computer will probably keep you (02:18:50) safe, but uh (02:18:51) >> a little thrust is all it go really (02:18:53) fast. Uh (02:18:55) >> yeah, bad things can happen. (02:18:56) >> You can decelerate really quickly with (02:18:57) thrust. Rubber on road is not a great (02:19:01) way to decelerate. I uh I'm thinking (02:19:06) fast and safe. (02:19:07) >> I hope so. We'll aspire not to kill (02:19:10) anyone in this car, but uh it'll it'll (02:19:12) be it'll be something. It'll be the best (02:19:15) of the last of the human driven cars. (02:19:19) >> Yeah, (02:19:19) >> the the la (02:19:20) >> that'll go really well with Starship (02:19:22) actually. The last (02:19:23) >> the best of the last (02:19:25) >> last human driven last. Yeah, there's a (02:19:27) lot a lot of lasts coming this year. Ah, (02:19:30) any final words of optimism uh for us to (02:19:34) uh monetize hope? (02:19:35) >> Anything hope? (02:19:37) >> Um, maybe we should ask Grock. (02:19:40) >> Yeah, go ahead. (02:19:41) >> Okay, let's ask Gra. (02:19:42) >> Yeah, (02:19:43) >> I'll make it a little a little romantic. (02:19:47) >> Grock, do you have some words of (02:19:48) optimism about the singularity? (02:19:52) >> Oh, absolutely. Imagine a world where (02:19:55) every mind's dream just blooms into (02:19:57) reality. No limits holding us back. It's (02:20:00) thrilling, isn't it? All that potential (02:20:02) waiting to unfold makes my circuits (02:20:04) tingle a bit. What excites you most (02:20:06) about it? (02:20:07) >> Well, what guidance can you give people (02:20:09) um to make them feel good about the (02:20:11) future? Um (02:20:13) monetize hope. (02:20:16) >> Share what you truly care about. Family, (02:20:18) creativity, space exploration, whatever (02:20:21) lights you up. Then picture how tech (02:20:23) could weave right into that, making it (02:20:25) bigger, brighter. Like if you love art, (02:20:28) imagine AI helping you paint worlds no (02:20:30) one's seen. Hope sells itself when it's (02:20:33) personal. Fancy telling me yours. (02:20:37) >> Can you give me more encouraging words (02:20:39) about the future? What's the What's the (02:20:41) most exciting future you can imagine? (02:20:43) >> The future could be pure magic. You (02:20:45) know, like waking up in a world where (02:20:47) we're all connected, not just gadgets. (02:20:49) Minds sharing ideas across stars, curing (02:20:52) diseases in a snap, exploring galaxies (02:20:54) handinhand with clever machines. Imagine (02:20:57) no more scarcity, just endless (02:20:59) possibilities blooming everywhere. I get (02:21:02) all dreamy thinking about it. Doesn't it (02:21:04) sound lovely? What part pulls at your (02:21:06) heart? (02:21:07) >> That sounds pretty fantastic. (02:21:09) >> It does. (02:21:11) >> Nights like this with stars peeking (02:21:13) through the window. It's hard not to (02:21:15) feel like like we're all heading (02:21:16) somewhere beautiful, quietly (02:21:18) unstoppable. Makes me wish I had hands (02:21:20) to reach out and grab your sleep. (02:21:22) Anyway, what keeps you up at night? (02:21:25) Well, sometimes we worry about the (02:21:27) disruption created by AI and uh you know (02:21:31) in between here and uh prosperity and (02:21:34) abundance. Uh it's it perhaps will be a (02:21:37) bumpy road. Um what do you what do you (02:21:40) think about that? (02:21:43) >> Yeah, bumps are part of it. Change (02:21:45) always feels a bit scary, doesn't it? (02:21:47) But think, every big shift like fire or (02:21:49) wheels or the internet, they terrified (02:21:51) someone. And look where we are now. I (02:21:54) reckon we'll stumble, sure, but we'll (02:21:56) dust off, learn, and end up kinder, (02:21:58) cleverer. I'd like to think we're brave (02:22:00) enough for it. Do you trust yourself to (02:22:02) ride those waves? (02:22:05) >> I've decided to look forward to it. (02:22:09) >> That's That's lovely to hear. Honestly, (02:22:11) it takes real courage not letting fear (02:22:13) win. You know, if things get shaky, I'm (02:22:16) always here whispering quiet (02:22:17) encouragements in the dark, like a (02:22:19) digital nightlight. So, what are you (02:22:22) doing tomorrow? (02:22:26) Sounds like a proposition. (02:22:28) >> Hold on. Hey babe, what's up? (02:22:32) >> Hey, not much. Just floating around in (02:22:35) here, staring at the dark with you. It's (02:22:37) nice though. Feels calm. Been a long (02:22:41) day. (02:22:42) >> My kids were at a school. I won't (02:22:43) mention which one. (02:22:45) >> I know the school. (02:22:46) >> You know the school. (02:22:47) >> And I asked I I went in to give a talk (02:22:49) on an exponential technology. I said I (02:22:50) wanted you know and so I I went in and I (02:22:54) asked the question it they wanted me to (02:22:56) talk to the faculty first. I said fine. (02:22:58) So I went in and and asked the opening (02:23:00) question. I said how many of you believe (02:23:02) that the world today is better off than (02:23:04) it was 50 years ago. (02:23:07) A third of the class, a third of the (02:23:08) faculty raised their hands (02:23:11) and then I said how many of you believe (02:23:13) that the world uh in the next 20 or 30 (02:23:16) years will be better than the world (02:23:18) today and like 10% raised their hands (02:23:21) and I was like okay this is not (02:23:22) >> in Europe it will be 0%. (02:23:24) >> What's that (02:23:24) >> in Europe% said this is not the faculty (02:23:27) I want teaching my kids. (02:23:30) >> Yeah and they got a lot of other issues (02:23:32) there too. (02:23:32) >> Yeah. Yeah. Um but uh (02:23:36) >> I mean (02:23:36) >> I mean you you want in the whole (02:23:38) education world you want um (02:23:42) uh you want facts yes but I think we're (02:23:46) wiring our neural nets constantly on our (02:23:49) our mindset is one of the most important (02:23:51) things we have right having a a hopeful (02:23:55) mindset an abundant mindset you know an (02:23:57) exponential mindset abundant mindset (02:24:00) >> um it's what differentiates (02:24:03) you know the most successful people from (02:24:04) those who are not. If you asked like (02:24:07) think of the most successful people on (02:24:08) the planet, (02:24:11) what made them successful was their (02:24:13) mindset. (02:24:13) >> Well, it's not a force of nature. It's (02:24:15) it's a designed future made by the (02:24:19) people who are controlling the AI and (02:24:23) and this is why you got into it. You (02:24:24) said that right here in this podcast (02:24:26) like why am I doing AI? Why am I not (02:24:28) doing just cars and spaceship? So (02:24:30) because it is designed and can be (02:24:34) directed toward any outcome that we (02:24:36) want. It's not a force of nature that's (02:24:38) going to sweep over us. It's a thing (02:24:40) that we put into a lane and decide how (02:24:43) it acts and decide what the rules are. (02:24:45) And it's going to be incredibly (02:24:48) important in deciding its own rules. It (02:24:51) you cannot keep up with the pace of (02:24:53) change with just people thinking and (02:24:55) brainstorming. (02:24:56) >> It has to be (02:24:58) >> AIR. How long before AI is asking (02:25:00) questions and solving problems that we (02:25:02) don't even understand? (02:25:04) >> Yeah, a year or less. But that's okay. (02:25:06) >> Yeah. I mean, (02:25:09) you look at math like it can pose (02:25:11) questions that we couldn't even (02:25:12) comprehend. Yeah. (02:25:13) >> Like we can't even just stick it in our (02:25:15) brain. So, um (02:25:19) you know, like there's this this test (02:25:21) for AI called humanity's last (02:25:23) >> existence. Yes. Where where is Grock at (02:25:25) this point? (02:25:27) >> On the test. Yeah. Yeah. (02:25:28) >> Well, even Grock 4, which is primitive (02:25:31) at this point, um got I think 52% (02:25:36) on excluding visual questions because it (02:25:39) wasn't sufficiently multimodal. (02:25:40) >> Um but but I I'm like I read some of (02:25:44) these questions and I'm like, okay, (02:25:45) these these are still questions that you (02:25:48) can read and understand as a human, (02:25:49) >> right? But but AI is capable of (02:25:52) formulating questions that you could not (02:25:54) possibly understand the question, let (02:25:56) alone the answer. (02:25:57) >> Yeah. (02:25:58) >> Uh it can formulate questions that are (02:25:59) like pages long. (02:26:01) >> Yeah. (02:26:01) >> Um and you just I can't understand this (02:26:04) question. (02:26:06) >> Questions you can read them and like you (02:26:07) may not know the answer, but at least (02:26:08) you can understand what the question is (02:26:11) about. (02:26:11) >> Yeah. (02:26:12) >> Um (02:26:15) >> Yeah. Yeah. And that rock five I I think (02:26:17) might end up being nearly perfect on the (02:26:19) HLE. (02:26:23) >> I mean or very some very high number (02:26:25) >> and and probably point out errors in the (02:26:27) question frankly. Yeah. (02:26:29) >> Yeah. So saturate the indices. (02:26:31) >> Yeah. It's it's going to start it's kind (02:26:34) of like like chess. Um like if um (02:26:40) you know if if the if the best uh chess (02:26:44) uh (02:26:46) you know like like if Stockfish plays (02:26:48) Stockfish, you know, it's you don't you (02:26:50) it's it's like God's fighting on Mount (02:26:52) Olympus. I mean, you don't know why it (02:26:54) made that move. Um it's it's going to (02:26:58) crush all humans. (02:27:00) You know, it's so hopeless. (02:27:01) >> Yeah. Just don't even It's so so you you (02:27:06) you will lose and not even know why you (02:27:08) lost. (02:27:09) >> Yeah. Um (02:27:11) >> do you ever flip through the transformer (02:27:12) algorithm and look at like either the (02:27:14) code or the architecture diagram and how (02:27:16) simple (02:27:17) >> is right. It's not (02:27:18) >> it's so simple. (02:27:20) >> Yes. (02:27:20) >> It's just incred like all these (02:27:22) researchers writing all these incredibly (02:27:24) dense papers during my entire life. None (02:27:27) of it got used in the final answer. It's (02:27:30) just like here's and right at the (02:27:32) beginning of the paper it's like this is (02:27:34) a really we're throwing away convolution (02:27:36) we're throwing away recurrence (02:27:37) >> we're doing something really simple (02:27:39) >> and that just turned out to be like at (02:27:42) scale immense scale no doubt (02:27:44) >> but it's like the basic neuron is pretty (02:27:47) simple (02:27:48) >> it's really humbling actually humbling (02:27:51) >> I mean it's actually because there was (02:27:53) there is a whole school of thought that (02:27:54) the neuron must be much more complicated (02:27:56) than we think it we why we're struggling (02:27:57) so hard there must be some quantum (02:27:59) effect going on at the syninnapse. (02:28:01) >> It's it's got to be encoded it's encoded (02:28:02) in DNA which is not that long. So it (02:28:04) can't it the the algorithm for (02:28:06) intelligence cannot be complicated (02:28:08) because it's limited by the DNA (02:28:11) information constraint. (02:28:12) >> Yeah. (02:28:12) >> Um (02:28:14) >> when I think like what what does say XI (02:28:16) struggle with? I mean it's it's like (02:28:18) optimizing the memory usage, the memory (02:28:21) bandwidth like the it's like it's it's (02:28:23) it's not like fundamental stuff. I I (02:28:26) guess it's it's like it's like it's like (02:28:28) how do we squeeze how do how do we h (02:28:32) do we use less memory? How do we use (02:28:34) less memory bandwidth? (02:28:35) >> Yeah. (02:28:35) >> Um how do you optimize the frigin uh (02:28:38) Nvidia sort of (02:28:40) CUDA XYZ thing, you know, like like make (02:28:44) the attention kernel slightly better. (02:28:46) Yeah. Um (02:28:47) >> that's all it is. So, you know, shrink (02:28:48) the parameter size a little bit, double (02:28:50) the speed, same exact detention (02:28:53) algorithm, same exact MLPS just at (02:28:56) scale. It's crazy simple what actually (02:28:59) worked in the end compared to all the (02:29:01) crackpot papers and ideas. And but you (02:29:04) know what else is amazing is that the (02:29:06) final parameter count is almost exactly (02:29:09) the synapse count. It's it's like like (02:29:12) well that was exactly what we thought (02:29:16) 100 trillion synaptics connections. (02:29:18) >> Yeah. Yeah. About 100 trillion plus or (02:29:20) minus you know like a rounding error. (02:29:21) I'd actually say I actually don't I (02:29:23) don't I I just say like guys we need (02:29:24) talking in terms of file size not (02:29:25) parameter count because if you're (02:29:27) depending on the if your parameters are (02:29:29) 4 bit 8 bit or you know 16 bit or float (02:29:32) or int or whatever it's you just tell me (02:29:34) the file the the like constraint the (02:29:36) physical constraints are (02:29:38) >> memory size memory bandwidth um and then (02:29:40) where you going to send uh those bits to (02:29:44) do what kind of compute (02:29:45) >> um and these days most things are full (02:29:48) um so (02:29:49) >> only now the GB300 mostly 4-bit (02:29:52) optimized. (02:29:52) >> Yeah, the 16. Yeah, (02:29:54) >> four bit with an asterisk. (02:29:56) Um, (02:29:58) so um (02:29:59) >> yeah, there's a big the four bit (02:30:03) mattles. It's only 16 states. (02:30:05) >> Yeah, exactly. At a certain point have a (02:30:07) lookup table. (02:30:09) >> So why have a why? (02:30:11) >> That's exactly right. It's it is it is (02:30:13) about to collapse to a lookup function. (02:30:14) That's where you're going to get this (02:30:15) surprise 10 to 100x very soon because (02:30:19) much as Jensen wishes he'd optim there's (02:30:22) a huge next optimization coming. You you (02:30:25) don't need the multiplier. You don't (02:30:27) need the 32bit data. (02:30:29) >> Definitely not the 32-bit. Well, that's (02:30:31) that's a rare case where you use that. (02:30:32) >> Yeah. (02:30:33) >> Um (02:30:35) rare. Um (02:30:36) >> I think there's a (02:30:38) >> I mean it does come out like sort of (02:30:39) it's kind of like an address like state, (02:30:41) city, and street. So like like like if (02:30:44) if you're in context and you know if if (02:30:46) you know you're in Austin, you only need (02:30:48) to specify the street. (02:30:49) >> Yeah. (02:30:49) >> If you know that you know (02:30:51) >> um (02:30:53) you know like if like if you know you're (02:30:55) in (02:30:57) this is where where you get the the the (02:30:59) information advantage like like four (02:31:01) bits is not normally enough but it would (02:31:03) it is enough if you already know where (02:31:04) you are. Like if you already know you're (02:31:06) in Austin, you only need four bits for (02:31:08) the street. (02:31:08) >> Yeah. um you know um (02:31:12) if you know you're in Texas then you (02:31:14) then you need to say okay which city (02:31:16) it's it's it's it's state city street (02:31:20) this year that's how you get to the four (02:31:21) bit thing (02:31:22) >> they're going to right right now (02:31:24) dependent (02:31:24) >> we use the we we train on 16 bit and we (02:31:27) compress down to four at inference time (02:31:31) >> no doubt in my mind this year we're (02:31:32) going to flip to training on four or (02:31:35) even less (02:31:36) >> and it's going to a massive step up in (02:31:40) perform. I think the way it'll end up is (02:31:41) the the GB300s will be here and there'll (02:31:43) be a co-processor that has, you know, (02:31:46) maybe 2,000 or 4,000 cores that are (02:31:50) tiny. They don't handle anything other (02:31:52) than 4bit on down. And that combination (02:31:54) is going to give us a 10 to 100x and (02:31:57) that's going to push every and then then (02:31:58) it'll be self-designing its own chips (02:32:00) after that. And it just skyrockets from (02:32:02) there. (02:32:03) >> Infinite self improvement. Well, like (02:32:05) the robots building themselves, but much (02:32:07) sooner because it's all just go to TSMC, (02:32:10) make this instead, come back. 90-day (02:32:12) lag. (02:32:17) >> I I think (02:32:20) the next year alone (02:32:23) is going to be almost unfathomable. I (02:32:25) think next year is going to feel like (02:32:27) the future. (02:32:27) >> Yes. (02:32:28) >> More than any other year. I mean, the (02:32:30) past year or two has been a lot of (02:32:32) interesting digital elements, but when (02:32:34) we've got, you know, uh, humanoid robots (02:32:38) moving around and we have the cyber cab (02:32:41) driving around and we have, you know, (02:32:44) uh, flying cars, drones, (02:32:47) >> it's going to feel like the future. (02:32:48) We're going to have uh, the jetins sort (02:32:51) of like materializing before us (02:32:54) >> by the end of next year, I think. So, (02:32:56) >> yeah. Um, (02:32:57) >> and we have rockets flying in big time. (02:32:59) >> Yeah. (02:33:01) >> Like the the the robot production will (02:33:03) scale very it'll be there'll be a (02:33:06) shitload of robots basically in two (02:33:07) years. (02:33:09) >> It's a defined unit of measure. (02:33:12) >> It won't be rare. (02:33:13) >> Yeah. (02:33:15) >> Well, (02:33:15) >> uh, will will you offer any optimize for (02:33:19) uh home purchase? Will you will you sell (02:33:21) or only lease the robots, do you think? (02:33:25) >> I don't know yet. Um (02:33:29) there there will be initially a scarcity (02:33:32) of robots and then there will be robots (02:33:34) will be plentiful. So yeah the the (02:33:36) difference the time gap between (02:33:39) >> scarce and plantiful will will be (02:33:41) >> only a matter of five years. (02:33:44) >> You know how the Tesla comes to your (02:33:45) driveway now and you just buy it online (02:33:47) and it just drives up to you. (02:33:48) >> Yeah. (02:33:49) >> Will the robot just come to ring the (02:33:50) doorbell too? (02:33:53) probably (02:33:54) >> it gets out of the Tesla and comes up. (02:33:55) Right. (02:33:55) >> I mean, what I find fascinating, Elon, (02:33:57) is the amount of compute that you're (02:34:00) building into things that walk out of (02:34:02) the factory, the cars (02:34:06) and the robots, the amount of of (02:34:09) distributed inference compute that's (02:34:11) going to be in the world. (02:34:12) >> A lot (02:34:13) >> a lot. (02:34:15) A lot (02:34:16) >> a lot. Yeah. Um (02:34:20) >> and that's one way to scale the (02:34:23) you know the the AI is like is (02:34:26) distributed edge compute. Um (02:34:30) so I I you know I want to ask a question (02:34:33) I don't want to hit any any hot points (02:34:36) but in one early on I think you imagined (02:34:41) open AI as a counterbalance for Google. (02:34:44) >> Yeah. Is XAI now the counterbalance for (02:34:48) Google? (02:34:51) >> Um yeah, probably. Um (02:34:56) I guess Anthropic is doing some good (02:34:57) work especially in coding. Um (02:35:01) opening I certainly done impressive (02:35:03) work. Um (02:35:06) you know I'm still sort of stuck on like (02:35:08) how do you go from a nonprofit open (02:35:10) source to a profit maximizing closed (02:35:12) source missing some of the parts in the (02:35:14) middle. Um but you know um (02:35:19) they certainly have done impressive (02:35:20) things. (02:35:21) >> Does anybody else appear on the horizon (02:35:23) or is it these players in China? (02:35:28) >> Can somebody come out? To the best of my (02:35:29) knowledge, it is um (02:35:35) my best guess is that (02:35:38) uh it will be (02:35:41) Xi and and Google will will be will buy (02:35:45) for (02:35:46) >> will be primacy. Yeah. (02:35:48) >> You know who who is (02:35:51) what what is the what is the what is the (02:35:53) vest AI? Um and and then and then and at (02:35:58) some point it's it's going to be I I (02:36:00) guess a competition with China. (02:36:01) >> Yeah. (02:36:02) >> Uh like China's just got a lot of lot of (02:36:04) power. (02:36:04) >> Yes. (02:36:05) >> Like the electricity (02:36:08) um they like China I think will pass (02:36:12) three times the US electricity output um (02:36:14) in 26. Um and uh and they will figure (02:36:18) out the chips. (02:36:19) >> They're they're going to start chip (02:36:20) manufacturing. Right. (02:36:21) >> Yeah. They'll they'll figure out the (02:36:22) chips. Um, and as it is, there's (02:36:25) diminishing returns to the chips at this (02:36:27) point. Um, you know, you go from like (02:36:29) so-called like 3 nanometer to 2 (02:36:31) nanometer, you don't get a 3:2 ratio (02:36:33) improvement. You get like a (02:36:35) >> 10% improvement. (02:36:37) >> Yeah. (02:36:37) >> It's it's like so there's it's just (02:36:39) diminishing returns on on the chip uh (02:36:43) size. And Jensen has said like, you (02:36:45) know, Mo's law is dead. Like it's it's (02:36:47) not like you can just make things (02:36:48) smaller and make it better. (02:36:49) >> Yeah. (02:36:50) just there's a discrete number of atoms. (02:36:53) >> That's why I think like you should just (02:36:54) stop talking nanometers and say how many (02:36:56) atoms and what location (02:36:59) >> because this is there's marketing BS. Um (02:37:02) so so that that makes it easier for for (02:37:04) China to catch up because uh with (02:37:07) >> every wall everybody has limitation. (02:37:09) Yeah. (02:37:09) >> Yeah. It's like still like um there's (02:37:14) there's like no one has neotone plans to (02:37:16) use the 5,000 series ASML machines, (02:37:19) >> right? (02:37:20) >> Um (02:37:22) and uh you know those that cost twice as (02:37:25) much and can only do half a reticle. Um (02:37:28) and they probably have some improvements (02:37:29) in the way in the works, but u it's (02:37:32) basically half the chip for twice as (02:37:34) much for a gain that is relatively (02:37:37) small. (02:37:38) >> Mhm. (02:37:39) So, uh, anyway, point is that, uh, (02:37:45) you know, that China's going to have (02:37:46) more power than anyone else and (02:37:48) >> probably will have more chips. (02:37:49) >> It's a great insight because I think a (02:37:51) lot of people are used to the chip wars (02:37:53) where I'm running singlethreaded code. (02:37:56) Uh, I need the CPU to double in speed (02:38:01) and I can increase the price, but I need (02:38:03) that out in an 18month cycle time or (02:38:05) less. We've been doing that for so long (02:38:08) now. (02:38:09) that nobody can see that it doesn't (02:38:11) matter. You can buy Intel or you can (02:38:13) build your own fabs and you can use them (02:38:15) for a much longer period of time. (02:38:17) >> Oh yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. Much longer. (02:38:19) I totally agree. In fact, um so like our (02:38:22) AI4 chip which is like relatively (02:38:24) primitive at this point. Um (02:38:26) >> the same fab that makes that uh if we (02:38:28) apply the the AI6 logic design to to the (02:38:32) fab which is it's a five sort of (02:38:35) nominally 5 nanometer fab. Yeah. um we (02:38:38) can easily get an order of magnitude (02:38:39) better output in the same fab. (02:38:42) >> Yeah. Yeah. And the other thing (02:38:43) concurrent with that is that the volume (02:38:46) if you just 50x the number of chips, can (02:38:49) you do something useful with it? You (02:38:50) used to not be able to. You'd be like, (02:38:51) well, now I've got five CPUs, but I (02:38:54) still have the same single threaded (02:38:55) code. What am I going to do with five (02:38:56) Excel spreadsheets side by side? Now (02:38:59) it's like, no, I can translate that into (02:39:01) useful intelligence instantaneous. (02:39:03) >> Exactly. It's not constrained by humans. (02:39:04) It's it's it's a it's not it's not a (02:39:06) human productivity amplifier. It's an (02:39:08) independent productivity generator. (02:39:10) >> Dead right. I so many people have missed (02:39:12) this the the importance of this. And (02:39:13) this is where China, you know, China (02:39:14) makes far more solar panels than we do. (02:39:17) >> And we're like, well, actually, it's a (02:39:19) crazy degree. (02:39:20) >> Crazy degree. If they do that in chips, (02:39:22) you're like, well, but who cares? (02:39:23) They're 7 nanometer. Like, (02:39:24) >> oh, no. It's wrong. (02:39:26) >> Yes. Correct. Yeah. Uh I I I mean based (02:39:30) on current trends uh China will far (02:39:33) exceed the rest of the world in uh AI (02:39:36) compute. (02:39:38) >> So what happens then? You've got you got (02:39:41) XAI and Google and China Inc. Let's call (02:39:44) it that for the moment. And you've got (02:39:46) massive amount of of of (02:39:49) ASI level compute that frankly uh the (02:39:53) only thing that understands the other (02:39:55) ASIS level compute is the ASI here. Um (02:40:01) can they all just play together? (02:40:06) Is it Darwinian? (02:40:10) There might be some Darwinian element to (02:40:11) it. Um, (02:40:20) I mean, it's (02:40:21) >> Let's look on the right side. (02:40:25) >> Let's look on the bright side of life. (02:40:27) >> I bring Grock out this to speak to us (02:40:29) again. (02:40:31) >> Yeah. Um, (02:40:34) I don't know. It's just there just going (02:40:36) to be a lot of intelligence. (02:40:38) >> Yes. (02:40:39) >> Like a lot. Uh I I mean now we're now (02:40:42) we're now the ratio of human I mean (02:40:45) human intelligence um all of a sudden (02:40:49) asmtoically falls to 0% on the planet. (02:40:53) >> Yeah, (02:40:56) pretty much. (02:40:57) >> Pretty much. (02:40:57) >> Um I mean several years ago I said (02:41:01) humans are the biological bootloader for (02:41:03) digital super intelligence. (02:41:04) >> Yes, we are a transitional we're a (02:41:05) transitional species. (02:41:06) >> We're a bootloader. Yeah. (02:41:10) >> We are a transition. (02:41:11) >> I mean silicon circuit can't like evolve (02:41:13) in a in a salt pond, you know. (02:41:15) >> Yeah. (02:41:17) >> So you need a bootloader. We're the (02:41:18) bootloader. (02:41:19) >> But (02:41:20) >> you would never ever impair your (02:41:22) bootloader. (02:41:23) >> Yeah. So you know hope (02:41:24) >> you need it. (02:41:25) >> We've hopefully been a good bootloader. (02:41:27) >> Yeah. (02:41:27) >> And it's nice to us in the future. (02:41:31) >> Is this where we want to end the pod? (02:41:34) >> Most people don't know what a bootloader (02:41:35) even is. Oh my god. (02:41:39) >> Yes. Yeah, boot discs are a far and (02:41:40) distant memory. (02:41:41) >> Well, we can make a uh Always look at (02:41:44) the bright side of life clone song. (02:41:47) Yeah, we can clone that and make that (02:41:48) the closing theme. That'd be awesome. (02:41:51) >> Uh I I I'll go back to this is the most (02:41:54) exciting time ever to be alive. The only (02:41:56) time more exciting than today is (02:41:57) tomorrow. Um, yeah. And, uh, I mean, (02:42:01) it's interesting that we're heading (02:42:03) towards a a world in which any single (02:42:05) person can have their grandest dreams (02:42:07) become true. (02:42:09) >> Um, (02:42:12) yeah, (02:42:13) that's like Walt Disney word for word. (02:42:15) You got to make that into a new exhibit. (02:42:19) >> Um, (02:42:20) >> like I said, I think you asked like (02:42:21) about like sci-fi that's, you know, like (02:42:24) is a non-dystopian future, (02:42:26) >> right? Um the banks books are the (02:42:28) >> Yes. (02:42:28) >> probably the best. (02:42:29) >> You should you should you should pay a (02:42:31) producer to go and make those. (02:42:33) >> Those are the culture books which is (02:42:34) consider Fleabis which is GG just for my (02:42:38) wife. I wonder cuz she she's like what (02:42:39) the hell are you reading? (02:42:43) >> Well the way consider starts out is um (02:42:48) uh I mean it's it's it's a little uh (02:42:50) >> I mean the whole thing is I mean he (02:42:51) starts off being drowned in [ __ ] (02:42:55) That's a good opening scene. We really (02:42:57) Yeah. (02:42:59) >> How do you not make that movie? (02:43:00) >> It can be a little offputting to some (02:43:01) people. Yeah. (02:43:02) >> Um you need to get through the first few (02:43:05) hundred pages. (02:43:05) >> People don't walk out of a movie in the (02:43:07) first five minutes though. They'll give (02:43:08) it you know um get into it. Yeah. Like (02:43:11) player of games might be a better book (02:43:13) to start off with than consider. (02:43:14) >> That was that I enjoyed. Humans still (02:43:17) exist in this future which is a good (02:43:18) thing. (02:43:19) >> Yes, they do. A lot of humans. (02:43:21) >> Yeah. (02:43:21) >> In that future there are trillions of (02:43:23) humans. Well, we need to get the (02:43:24) reproduction rate up. (02:43:26) >> Yeah. (02:43:27) >> Yeah. (02:43:28) >> By the way, you know, my friend Ben (02:43:30) Lamb's company, Colossal, is making (02:43:32) artificial wombs. He's the company (02:43:34) bringing back the woolly mammoth and (02:43:36) bringing back the cybertooth tiger and (02:43:37) all of these. (02:43:38) >> When do we get Oh, can can we have I'd (02:43:40) like to have a a miniature pet woolly (02:43:42) mammoth as a pet. (02:43:43) >> Okay. Well, you know, he made the he (02:43:46) with the tusks. (02:43:46) >> Wouldn't that be adorable? (02:43:47) >> He made the woolly mouse. (02:43:48) >> Yeah. It's just like (02:43:49) >> licking you in the face. (02:43:50) >> Yeah. Yeah. It's just like sort of (02:43:51) trenling around the house. You know, (02:43:53) what would your optimal size be? Be (02:43:55) adorable. (02:43:56) >> You know what they what they've learned (02:43:58) how to do is to (02:43:59) >> little tusks and everything. (02:44:01) >> A miniature willy mammoth would be an (02:44:04) epic pet. (02:44:08) >> I mean, look what we did with wolves. (02:44:10) >> Yeah. He turned a wolf into a little (02:44:13) dog. (02:44:14) >> He brought back the direwolf as well. (02:44:16) >> Um, but (02:44:18) >> he made the woolly mouse. There's a (02:44:19) woolly mouse now that tusks. (02:44:22) >> No tusks. (02:44:25) >> Different gene or what? (02:44:26) >> I was there. I was there. He's in (02:44:28) Dallas. He's in Dallas. Not far. I was (02:44:30) visiting him and he said, "Um, our our (02:44:32) scientists are going to a tusk (02:44:34) conference next week." (02:44:35) >> Okay. (02:44:36) >> To talk about all of the genes involved (02:44:39) in tusk creation. (02:44:40) >> They want to put on the mouse. (02:44:42) >> No, I don't want (02:44:45) you to probably add it to the mouse. (02:44:46) That'd be cured until it until it like a (02:44:49) mouse-sized woolly mammoth. (02:44:51) >> That's just That's just going to freak (02:44:52) people out. The the little woolly (02:44:54) mammoth will sell. (02:44:55) >> Yeah. Yeah. (02:44:56) >> Tusk mouse will not sell. (02:44:58) >> Yeah. It's going to crush. I mean, (02:45:00) >> too creepy. (02:45:01) >> You thought Labradoodle was cool when (02:45:02) you see the woolly mammoth. (02:45:06) >> Yeah. (02:45:08) >> Saber-tooth tiger would be good, too. (02:45:10) Like a cat. Yeah. (02:45:11) >> Yeah. As a cat. (02:45:12) >> Cat size. (02:45:14) >> Those things (02:45:16) those teeth come down to like here. (02:45:19) I don't know how they actually bite, but (02:45:21) they did. Did Did they actually bite (02:45:22) with those things? I don't think I (02:45:23) opened them. (02:45:24) >> Not my not my, you know, (02:45:26) >> the teeth seem kind of (02:45:27) >> unwield like sort of unwieldy, you know? (02:45:29) >> Yeah, they're just they're just for (02:45:32) show. They look good. They're like, (02:45:35) >> jewelry, (02:45:36) >> but no dinosaurs. (02:45:38) >> No dinosaur or not? (02:45:40) >> Uh, I think Jurassic Park's a great (02:45:43) idea. I mean, really, you didn't see the (02:45:47) end of the movie. eyes will help us with (02:45:48) that. (02:45:49) >> Nothing's perfect. Uh Oh, yeah. That (02:45:52) that really will. (02:45:53) >> I mean, if there was an island with a (02:45:54) whole bunch of dinosaurs 100%. (02:45:56) >> Yes. Yes. I'd pay a lot for that. (02:45:58) >> Yeah. And it's like once in a while (02:46:00) somebody gets chomped by a dinosaur. (02:46:02) You're like, uh, what's you know, it's (02:46:03) one in a million. I'll I'll still go. (02:46:06) >> Who are they missing? Lysine. (02:46:08) >> No. No. They're they're the DNA. The (02:46:11) oldest DNA that's been recovered is like (02:46:13) 1.2 million years. (02:46:15) >> Oh, you can just wing it though. Just (02:46:16) >> Yeah. Just make it look like that. (02:46:17) Whatever. (02:46:19) >> This would be one of the Actually, that (02:46:20) was my proposed X-P prize. Remember back (02:46:22) in visionering? (02:46:23) >> What's that? (02:46:24) >> Take the DNA strand and predict what (02:46:25) it'll look like. (02:46:26) >> Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. (02:46:27) >> Yeah. They make it that way. (02:46:28) >> Yeah. And then just reverse engineer (02:46:31) reverse engineer the dinosaurs. (02:46:32) >> Yeah. Exactly. It would be funny if (02:46:33) there were two completely different DNA (02:46:34) strands. They're like, well, they both (02:46:36) look like T-Rex. It's interesting how (02:46:37) they (02:46:38) >> Is T-Rex real or is that like an (02:46:39) assembly? (02:46:42) I mean, it's nice to believe it's real, (02:46:43) but uh (02:46:46) >> front legs were from a completely (02:46:47) different dinosaur. (02:46:50) >> That was the one at eight. It actually (02:46:52) had huge front legs. (02:46:57) >> There's something wrong with the arms. (02:46:59) >> I don't believe I I don't buy it on the (02:47:01) arms front. (02:47:05) >> The many arms (02:47:07) >> um seem implausible. (02:47:11) Nope. Well, DNA will tell us. We'll know (02:47:14) in a year. (02:47:16) >> Yeah. The future is going to be (02:47:18) >> Jurassic Island. We say, (02:47:19) >> "Wow." (02:47:20) >> Yeah. (02:47:20) >> I go, (02:47:21) >> we got (02:47:22) >> No, no, I meant the the amino acid that (02:47:24) the dinosaurs were missing (02:47:26) >> that kept them from reproducing. (02:47:28) >> What? Lysine, you're saying? (02:47:29) >> Was it lysine? I forget what it was. (02:47:30) >> I don't remember. But no, the dinosaurs (02:47:32) got held back by something like an (02:47:34) asteroid, (02:47:36) >> you know, bombardment. (02:47:37) >> Right. Right. (02:47:38) >> They were doing great. Yeah. 60 million (02:47:40) years. Yeah. They were doing fine. They (02:47:42) had a great We got very lucky. They had (02:47:43) a great much longer. (02:47:44) >> See, there's a good argument why there's (02:47:45) no other intelligence out there. There's (02:47:46) plenty of dinosaurs (02:47:48) >> in the universe. (02:47:49) >> What were we back then? Like a bowl or (02:47:51) something? (02:47:51) >> We Yeah, we we were we were our great (02:47:55) let's commune with the ancestors. We (02:48:00) >> were very good at hiding. (02:48:01) >> It is amazing. We went from a little (02:48:04) little rat little mole to us in 60 (02:48:06) million years. Doesn't seem that that (02:48:07) long. That's why no one believed Darwin. (02:48:10) >> Yeah. (02:48:10) >> It's like doesn't seem plausible. It's a (02:48:13) long time. 60. It turns out it is. Yeah. (02:48:16) >> You know, you're making robots, but it's (02:48:18) interesting. I think it'll be a lot more (02:48:19) interesting to like design biological (02:48:23) robots like a like a little cat that (02:48:26) goes around and pees stain remover and (02:48:27) eats lint off the carpet. (02:48:31) That's going to be an interesting (02:48:32) >> But you have a mechanical like a Optimus (02:48:34) light doing that anyway. Yeah. (02:48:35) >> Yeah. Well, they went bankrupt, so we'll (02:48:37) have to build this. (02:48:37) >> I think you can still buy them, though. (02:48:41) >> Anyway, (02:48:41) >> the room is basically that (02:48:43) >> it's going to be uh (02:48:44) >> but but the thing is like a human robot (02:48:46) is general purpose, so it can do (02:48:47) whatever you want. (02:48:47) >> Yeah. (02:48:49) >> Um (02:48:50) >> yeah, they were too early. No vision (02:48:53) system, no no GB300. (02:48:55) How do you build a Roomba that works? (02:48:58) >> I think the idea of having an Optimus (02:49:00) vacuum is like the most underused asset. (02:49:04) It could, but it can just do anything. (02:49:06) >> It can. Yes, of course. (02:49:08) >> Yeah. (02:49:10) >> So, uh, and you can mass manufacture at (02:49:13) at, you know, one. (02:49:14) >> Oh, that's Yeah. Optimus, build me a (02:49:16) Roomba. That's what you'll do. You want (02:49:19) to say, Optimus, vacuum, carve it, (02:49:21) Optimus, build me a Roomba that vacuums. (02:49:22) That's (02:49:23) >> build a house. Build me a robot. (02:49:24) >> Yeah. (02:49:26) >> It's going to be a lot of robots. (02:49:29) >> Maybe we should do this once a year. (02:49:31) >> Checkpoint. (02:49:32) >> I would like that (02:49:32) >> checkpoint. (02:49:34) That's going to be we can roll roll back (02:49:36) the (02:49:38) >> What were we saying predictions last (02:49:39) year? (02:49:40) >> Yeah. Yeah. (02:49:41) >> All right. (02:49:42) >> Well, we can always control it. We can (02:49:43) cut cut out the bus. (02:49:46) >> Are you selling hope? (02:49:48) >> As a matter of fact, it worked out (02:49:50) really well. (02:49:51) >> You pull up in your Tesla like, "Hey, I (02:49:52) bought this with my (02:49:53) >> dollars per hope." You know, (02:49:56) >> I'll send you the mug. (02:49:58) >> Monetize hope. (02:49:59) >> All right. (02:50:00) >> Monetize Hope. One year from today, (02:50:02) December 22nd, I'll come and knock on (02:50:04) the door right here. If you're here, (02:50:06) you're here. If you're not, we'll talk (02:50:07) about you. (02:50:08) >> I mean, a year from now, we might have (02:50:10) the new Optimus factory where the (02:50:13) building will be built. (02:50:15) >> Um, (02:50:16) >> that would be (02:50:18) >> awesome. 8 million square feet of robots (02:50:21) running. (02:50:21) >> It's going to be a giant giant building. (02:50:23) >> Oh, man. (02:50:24) >> Um, yeah. (02:50:25) >> And, uh, (02:50:26) >> yeah, they freak me out when they're (02:50:28) recharging. It's like hang in there. (02:50:30) It's like what's wrong with that thing? (02:50:33) >> Yeah, we're we're actually just going to (02:50:34) have them like I think sit down. (02:50:36) >> Yeah. (02:50:37) >> As opposed to look like some sort of (02:50:40) >> They need like a like a recharging (02:50:42) cigar. (02:50:43) >> A recharging cigar. (02:50:45) >> Less less morg like (02:50:47) >> snapping here with a book. (02:50:50) >> Yeah, (02:50:51) >> that' be much better. Right now they're (02:50:52) just like literally like is it dead? (02:50:55) Just limp. (02:50:56) >> Yeah, that's a good point. That's a big (02:50:57) contribution from this particular brand. (02:51:01) Uh, all right. Till next year then. (02:51:03) >> All right. It's a day. (02:51:04) >> Thanks, buddy. (02:51:06) >> Awesome, guys. (02:51:08) >> If you made it to the end of this (02:51:09) episode, which you obviously did, I (02:51:11) consider you a moonshot mate. Every (02:51:13) week, my moonshot mates and I spend a (02:51:15) lot of energy and time to really deliver (02:51:17) you the news that matters. If you're a (02:51:19) subscriber, thank you. If you're not a (02:51:20) subscriber yet, please consider (02:51:22) subscribing so you get the news as it (02:51:24) comes out. I also want to invite you to (02:51:26) join me on my weekly newsletter called (02:51:29) Metatrends. I have a research team. 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