Elon Musk on AGI Timeline, US vs China, Job Markets, Clean Energy & Humanoid Robots — 220

[00:00:00] Speaker 1: My concern isn't the long run, it's the next three to seven years. How do we head towards Star Trek and not Terminator? [00:00:06] Speaker 2: I call AI and robotics the supersonic tsunami. We're in the singularity. When is all white collar work gone? Anything short of shaping atoms, AI can do half or more of those jobs right now. [00:00:20] Speaker 1: There's no on/off switch. It is coming and accelerating. The transition will be bumpy. You have a solution to this. I'm gonna make a bet here. China's done an incredible job, right? I mean, it's running circles around us. Do you imagine that the US could make that level of investment and commitment? [00:00:39] Speaker 2: Based on current trends, China will far exceed the rest of the world in AI compute. [00:00:46] Speaker 1: Every major CEO and economist and government leader should be like, "What do we do?" [00:00:51] Speaker 3: We don't have any system right now to make this go well. But AI is a critical part of making it go well. There are three things that I think are important. [00:00:59] Speaker 2: Truth will prevent AI from going insane. Curiosity, I think, will foster any form of sentience. And if it has a sense of beauty, it will be a great future. It's going to be an awesome future. [00:01:12] Speaker 3: Now that's the Moonshot, ladies and gentlemen. [00:01:13] Speaker 1: Welcome to Moonshots. Following is a wide-ranging conversation with Elon Musk focused on optimism and the coming age of abundance. My Moonshot mate Dave Blunden and I flew into Austin, Texas to meet up with Elon at his 11.5 million square foot gigafactory, home of the Cybertruck and Model Y production and the future home for eight million square feet of Optimist production. Elon has agreed to do this kind of a deep dive catch up once per year. This is hopefully the first of many. And after having this conversation with Elon, it's crystal clear to me that we are living through the singularity. All right, enjoy. [00:01:53] Speaker 2: Your relentless optimism is always a breath of fresh air. [00:01:56] Speaker 1: Thank you, buddy. Thank you. I want to share that tonight with a lot of people. [00:02:01] Speaker 2: I think they need it. I hope you're right. And you might be right, actually. I'm increasingly thinking that you are right. Thank you. [00:02:07] Speaker 1: Abundance for all. [00:02:08] Speaker 2: Yeah. That's the goal. Shall we? Yeah. All right. Right now, I'm putting a lot of time into chips. You are personally. Yeah. Yeah. [00:02:19] Speaker 3: It's always an AI assistant says. Yeah. What's that? With some AI assistance, I assume. Design. Not enough. [00:02:28] Speaker 2: It'd be nice if we could just hand it off to the AI. [00:02:30] Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. Soon enough. [00:02:33] Speaker 3: Yeah, I tried to do some circuit design, actually, with AI recently, just a couple of weeks ago. Not happening yet. [00:02:43] Speaker 2: Very soon, though. Yeah. I think probably at this point, Grok, if you took a photo and submitted it to Grok, you can probably tell you if the circuit is [00:02:54] Speaker 3: if there's something wrong with it. Yeah? Yeah. Yeah. All right. I'm going to give it a shot. You're using the same Grok that I'm using? Or you are? Grok keeps updating. Yeah. Yeah. 4.2, but 5 is soon, right? [00:03:06] Speaker 2: 5 is Q1. 4.2 has not been released yet, externally. But yeah, I mean, if you just upload an image into Grok, it does quite a good job of analyzing any given image. [00:03:28] Speaker 3: Absolutely. Let's start. Yeah. We're going to talk about this soon. All right. We'll come back to it. [00:03:33] Speaker 2: Let's see if I take a picture of you, what is it? Let's see what it does. Yeah. What's it going to say about me? Yeah. It's going to say you're a flawed circuit. I also have to remember to update it, because we update the Grok app so frequently. [00:03:43] Speaker 1: You know, I asked Grok to roast me. Oh, it does a good job. And it did an amazing job. Then I asked Grok to roast you. Yes. And I spit out my coffee. It was hilarious. And then I asked it, you know, it just keeps telling it to be more and more vulgar. [00:03:59] Speaker 3: Until it's like, is that Rudy still out there? Did that get repealed batteries still? [00:04:06] Speaker 1: And I asked Grok, does Elon know what you say about him? And she goes, it's a she for me. She goes, what is he going to do about it? What is he going to do about it? [00:04:17] Speaker 2: Yeah. Let's see. Okay. So I just literally took a photo of you and see what it is. Did you ask a question? No, nothing. I didn't say anything. [00:04:27] Peter Diamandis: This man is hugely. This is Peter Diamandis. Yes. Okay. That's pretty good. Yeah, that's good. [00:04:35] Speaker 2: No context whatsoever. [00:04:36] Speaker 1: The host of the podcast Moonshots. Yeah. Sometimes. That's your first credential now. That's amazing. Forget about everything else I've done in life. Moonshots. See, it comes back to your podcast. [00:04:45] Speaker 2: There was a no context image. [00:04:46] Speaker 1: Yeah. By the way, Grokipedia is awesome. [00:04:49] Speaker 2: Okay, great. [00:04:50] Speaker 1: I mean, just phenomenal. [00:04:52] Speaker 2: That's cool. [00:04:52] Speaker 1: It's like I tried to like update my Wikipedia page for like years, impossibly. And yeah, it knows me. Amazing. [00:05:03] Speaker 2: Yeah. [00:05:04] Speaker 1: He's wearing a black quilted jacket featuring a Sundance logo. Not quite true. It's my abundance logo. It's a little wrinkled. It's a little wrinkled on the corner. I couldn't see the... Yeah. Can you see it? Give it a chance. I think so. [00:05:17] Speaker 2: Okay, okay. [00:05:18] Speaker 1: Anyway. [00:05:19] Speaker 2: Yeah, but it basically... It's pretty damn good. Yeah. He's smiling and relaxed with a laptop in front of him. That's true. [00:05:28] Speaker 3: Yeah, that's true. Yeah. Well, that's not quite a circuit though. I've got to test it on the circuit. Roast him. [00:05:42] Speaker 2: It has to be read by you though. I mean, I won't read the whole thing, but... Give me a taste. I can take it. Okay. Check out that grin. Dude's smiling like he just discovered a new way to monetize hope. [00:05:57] Speaker 1: Monetizing hope. [00:05:58] Speaker 2: Oh, that's good. [00:05:59] Speaker 1: Yes. I want to try and answer the question, can AI and tech help save America and the world? Right? I want to give people listening a dose of optimism. There was a survey done in mid-December by Pew that said 45% of Americans would rather live in the past and only 14% said they'd rather live in the future, which is insane to me, right? Obviously, they never read history. The challenge is most Americans, all they have of the future, it's like Hollywood has shown us killer AIs and rogue robots, right? And people are worried about their jobs. They're worried about healthcare. They're worried about the cost of living. The challenge is how do we help people? I mean, you posted, you pinned on X. The future is going to be amazing with AI and robots enabling sustainable abundance. I was thinking of you when I did that. Thank you. I appreciate that. Yeah, yeah. And well, I mean... [00:06:53] Speaker 2: I was like, what would Peter Diamante say? [00:06:55] Speaker 1: Yeah, well... [00:06:56] Speaker 2: And I was channeling you. [00:06:57] Speaker 1: Thank you. I couldn't agree more. Yeah, yeah, I know. I don't think Dave could agree more either. Yeah, yeah, I know. So my question is from a, you know, from a first principle standpoint, the rationale for optimism. You know, how do we head towards Star Trek and not Terminator, right? How do we head towards... Ron Berry, not Cameron. Yeah. It's a diverging path meme. Yes, it is, it is. Avatar has some hopeful parts. But anyway, how do we go towards universal high income instead of social unrest? So my opening... Why not both? Because we don't want social unrest. Why social is Jews? [00:07:45] Speaker 2: I have universal high income and social unrest. That's my prediction. Well, that will make for a lot of problems. [00:07:51] Speaker 3: Is that your actual prediction? Yeah. Yeah, it seems likely. I'm like, tell me I'm wrong. I don't have to push back on it. Yeah, exactly. Well, it seems like that's the trend. Yeah, yeah, totally. No, we have... [00:08:02] Speaker 2: Well, because there's going to be so much change. Yeah, exactly. People are going to be scared shitless. Yeah, it's sort of the... You know, it's like, be careful what you wish for, because you might get it. [00:08:15] Speaker 1: Yeah. [00:08:15] Speaker 2: Now, if you actually get all the stuff you want, is that actually the future you want? Yeah. Because it means that your job won't matter. [00:08:27] Speaker 1: If you're living an unchallenged life, with no challenges, if you become a couch potato, if it's the Wally future, it does not go well for humans. [00:08:38] Speaker 3: Well, and we're used to being told, here's your challenge. So people haven't historically been very good at creating their own challenge in the absence of some... [00:08:47] Speaker 1: I think Elon does a damn good job. Every time one company takes off, you start your next. Oh, that's rare though. I'm glad we put punishment. I think you are. Yeah. I think you ever thank God for that. [00:08:57] Peter Diamandis: So why do I do this to myself? [00:09:01] Speaker 3: Actually, after AI and robots, is there another thing after that? I guess there's always space. [00:09:05] Speaker 1: Well, there's always conquering the universe. Yeah, there is that thing. Well, it's just rocks, really. Well. And energy. Rocks are your friends too. Conquering. So you need to get there, basically. Elon, why are you so optimistic? Are you optimistic? Let's start there. I'm not as optimistic as you are. Okay. [00:09:24] Speaker 2: But why are you optimistic? I'm more optimistic than most people. Okay. [00:09:29] Speaker 3: And is the trend upward compared to a year ago, two years ago? [00:09:34] Speaker 2: Well, I think if you reframe things in terms of progress bar, like speaking of challenges. Yeah. Progress towards a Kardashev II-scale civilization. Sure. Well, let's say the aspiration... Capturing all the energy from the sun's output. Well, let's even have a humbler aspiration than that. If we say that our goal is to even get a millionth of the sun's energy, that would be more than a thousand times as much energy as could possibly be produced on Earth. So about a half a billionth of the sun's energy reaches Earth. So you'd have to go up three orders of magnitude from that just to get to a million. Yeah. So we're very, very, very far from even having a billionth of the sun's energy harnessed in any way. So a reasonable goal would be try to get to a millionth. And if you try to get to a millionth or a thousandth, you know, 0.1 percent, that's such an enormous... There's not sure what metaphor we would use here, because hill to climb is not a... It's not a big enough metaphor. [00:10:59] Speaker 3: Gravity well to escape. [00:11:01] Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a whole of gravity well, exactly. So if you try to get to a millionth of the sun's energy or a thousandth of the sun's energy, these are very, very difficult tasks. And energy is the inner loop for everything right now. Yeah, I think the future currency will essentially just be wattage. [00:11:26] Speaker 1: I was thinking, is it the ability of a person to control energy and compute or just energy? I mean, the two translate, obviously. [00:11:37] Speaker 2: Just like harnessed energy. Basically how much power is being turned into work of some kind? Right. Intelligence or mata manipulation. [00:11:53] Speaker 1: So that's your next big project, is going to be energy. It's going to be... You're going to go back to your solar city roots. [00:11:59] Speaker 2: You can expand from there and say, yeah. Okay, what about even getting somewhere on a Kodeshev 3 scale, meaning galaxy level? [00:12:07] Speaker 1: Now we're talking, now we're back to Star Trek. [00:12:09] Speaker 2: Yeah. Expand horizons here. Yes. Well, there isn't even a horizon, because you're not on a planet. So we talk about... So we think galaxy mind. Yeah. [00:12:21] Speaker 1: Well, listen, we're in 11, 11.5 million square foot, three pentagons right here in this building. Yeah. I mean, you think in a reasonably large scale. What is magnitude? [00:12:31] Speaker 2: Yeah. So I mean, so from a challenge standpoint, I guess the civilizational challenge will be, how do you climb the order's magnitude and energy harnessed? [00:12:44] Speaker 1: But we're going back to why are you optimistic right now? I mean, when people think about the challenges ahead, I think we're going to end up with abundance in the long run. [00:12:57] Speaker 2: Beyond abundance in any, beyond what people possibly could think of as abundance. Like the AI actually, AI and robots are the limit, will saturate all human desire. [00:13:12] Speaker 1: And then we get to nanotechnology, which takes it even a step further. [00:13:17] Speaker 2: The thing about the... Well, I'm not sure what you mean by nanobots. You mean like little nanobots or something or... [00:13:20] Speaker 1: Atomic reassembly. Yeah, for health. Oh, yeah, yeah. [00:13:23] Speaker 2: Sure, sure. I mean, we're already doing atomic level assembly on the four circuits, you know. Amazing. Two, three nanometers. Yeah. It's only, depending on how they're arrayed, four or five silicon atoms per nanometer. Yeah. So... Those are big atoms though. [00:13:41] Speaker 3: They're not big-ish. They're not big-ish. [00:13:42] Speaker 2: I mean, but I'm saying they should actually describe the circuits in terms of an integer number of atoms in a specific place. They should. Yeah. They should. [00:13:49] Speaker 3: It's all angstroms now. [00:13:54] Speaker 2: It's like... It's like... We'll call this the seven atom, you know, whatever. Yeah. Like you said, two nanometers, it's like nine silicon atoms, something like that. They've got silicon and copper and, you know. So, but a bunch of these things are just marketing numbers. Like the two nanometer is just a marketing number. Oh, yeah. Yeah. But you still need essentially close to atomic level precision. Like the atoms really need to be in the right spot. So, I think they're getting clean rooms wrong, by the way, in these modern fabs. I'm going to make a bet here. Okay. Okay. That Tesla will have a two nanometer fab. And I can eat a cheeseburger and smoke a cigar in the fab. Oh, come on. Yes. The air handling will be that good. Okay. Do you have this sketched out in your mind? [00:14:52] Speaker 3: Like, how are the atoms being placed that they're immune to cheeseburger grease? [00:14:58] Speaker 2: They just maintain wafer isolation the entire time, which is actually the default for fabs. The wafers are transported in boxes of pure nitrogen gas under a slight positive pressure. [00:15:11] Speaker 3: You know, so are the bananas at Walmart. Just so you know. [00:15:14] Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, it's insecticide, essentially. Like, it's pretty hard for anything that's combusting to live without oxygen. Yeah. So, let's talk about. So, like you can kill the bugs just by putting a nitrogen blanket. Oh, interesting. [00:15:29] Speaker 3: Yeah, interesting. [00:15:30] Speaker 1: I want to talk about energy, health, education, because those are people's, you know, concerns. So, on the energy front, the innermost loop of everything that you're building and doing right now. [00:15:42] Speaker 2: Energy is the foundation. [00:15:44] Speaker 1: What's your vision for energy abundance? The sun. In the next, you know, this decade. The sun. Yeah. I mean. So, you. The sun is everything. It's everything. So, you're all in on solar. Yeah. I mean, your natural gas and solar, you're at Colossus 2, right? [00:16:02] Speaker 2: Yeah. People just don't understand how that solar is everything. So, everything. So, compared to the sun, all other energy sources are like cavemen throwing some twigs into a fire. Yeah. So, the sun is over 99.8% of all mass in the solar system. Jupiter is around 0.1% of the mass. So, even if you burnt Jupiter, the energy produced by the sun would still round up to 100%. Yeah. And then if you teleported three more Jupiter's into our solar system and burnt them too. It would still round up. It's still right. The sun still rounds up to 100% of energy. [00:16:45] Speaker 1: Any interest in fusion? I mean, like the sun on the planet. Yeah. Fusion on Earth. You know what? You know what? They're coming a mile away. [00:16:56] Speaker 2: You're never going to guess how the sun works. Giant coal plants. I mean, we have a giant free fusion reactor that shows up every day. 93 million miles away. It's farcical for us to create little fusion reactors. I mean, that would be like, you know, having a tiny ice cube maker in the Antarctic. And say, hey, look, we made ice. I'm like, congratulations. You're in the fucking Antarctic. So, totally with you on this. It's like three kilometer high glaciers right next to you. Yeah, sure you can make an ice cube. [00:17:36] Speaker 3: If you just narrow the question to the Memphis timeline. So, Memphis data center timeline between a gigawatt and 10 gigawatt. You're not going to pull 10 gigawatts out of Memphis. Maybe you are. Two or three. Two or three? Okay. So, there's still a gap between there and the next whatever. So, and they're not in space yet at that point. [00:17:58] Speaker 2: So, we're still in toy land here for energy. [00:18:01] Speaker 3: We're still in toy land? Toy land. Toy land. 10 gigawatts. You know what's amazing is there's 100 megawatts right outside the door here. And it's massive. Yeah. It's enormous. Yeah. And it uses more energy than everything. All these manufacturing lines combined use less energy than that. But we're talking about that gigawatt. [00:18:22] Speaker 2: Cortex-1 was the third largest training cluster in the world. Yeah. For doing coherent training. You're falling behind. Well, we have Cortex-2 that's been built out. That'll be half a gigawatt in operational in the middle of next year. [00:18:42] Speaker 1: Hey, everybody. You may not know this, but I've got an incredible research team. And every week, myself, my research team study the meta trends that are impacting the world. Topics like computation, sensors, networks, AI, robotics, 3D printing, synthetic biology. And these meta trend reports I put out once a week enable you to see the future 10 years ahead of anybody else. If you'd like to get access to the meta trends newsletter every week, go to diamandis.com/metatrends. That's diamandis.com/metatrends. So going back to what Dave is saying, over the next five years, what are you scaling on energy front? Five years is a long time. I mean, energy, I mean, China has done an incredible job. Yeah. Right. I mean, it's running circles around us. [00:19:26] Speaker 2: China has done an incredible job on solar. Yeah. It's amazing. So I believe China's production capacity is around 1,500 gigawatts per year of solar. Yeah. [00:19:39] Speaker 1: They put in 500 terawatts in the last year. 70% of that was solar and they're just scaling. Do you imagine that? Solar scales. Do you imagine that the US could make that level of investment and commitment? Because people are worried about their energy bills going up with no data centers in our backyard. How do we provide? I mean, energy is equivalent to cost of living. It's equivalent to health. It's equivalent to clean water. The higher energy production of a country, the higher its GDP. Energy is important. So what do we do to scale that way? Do we do it in solar here? [00:20:33] Speaker 2: I think we should scale solar substantially in the US. Tesla and SpaceX are scaling solar. So, and I encourage others to do so as well. So the, I mean, obviously I've said this stuff publicly. I do see a path to 100 gigawatts a year of space, sort of AI powered, solar powered AI satellites. Yes. 100 gigawatts a year of solar powered AI satellites. [00:21:07] Speaker 1: I did the math on that. That's like 500,000 Starlink V3s launched over 8,000 Starship flights, like one every hour. For a year. [00:21:27] Speaker 2: Yeah. 10,000 flights a year is a reasonable number. So. It's amazing. It's quite the scale. [00:21:36] Speaker 3: Well, what's the really rough timeline on that? [00:21:39] Speaker 2: Because, I mean, by aircraft standards, that's a small number. Sure. Sure. In terms of flights. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. That's, that's, that's, that's small. Like, so you're just like, it depends where you compare it to. If you compare it to the rest of the rocket industry, it's a very high number. Yeah. And we're talking about a million tons of payload to orbit per year. So if you do, if you do a million tons of payload to orbit per year with a hundred kilowatts per ton, that's a hundred gigawatts of solar powered AI satellites per year. Yeah. [00:22:08] Speaker ?: Yeah. [00:22:10] Speaker 2: I mean, there's a path, there's a path to get probably to a terawatt per year. From, from the, from Earth. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. If you say like 10, you want to go up another order of magnitude or let's say you want to go to a hundred terawatts a year. Yeah. So obviously kind of nutty numbers, uh, then you want to make those, uh, AI satellites on the moon and use a mass driver. Yeah. So the Gerard K. O'Neill approach. Well, like Robert Heinlein. The moon is a harsh. Yeah. Sure. [00:22:42] Speaker 1: Of course. Yeah. Yeah. [00:22:43] Speaker 2: I love that book. Yeah. Yeah. It's a sort of libertarian paradise. Um, uh, yeah, so cause on the moon, you can just accelerate the satellites into, uh, to escape velocities around 2,500 meters per second. Um, and, uh, there's no atmosphere. So like a mass driver works very well on the moon. [00:23:07] Speaker 1: Can I ask the question about orbital debris? I mean, we're, we're building effectively a Dyson-ish swarm around the earth. We're, um, yeah, we'll eat it for lunch. Uh, are you worried about over congestion on the, uh, that's going to be a, uh, SunSync orbit's going to fill very quickly. [00:23:33] Speaker 2: I mean, you can, you, you don't have to have SunSync. I mean, you can, um, Don't have to, but it's optimal. Yeah. Um, there's some pros and cons to, to SunSync or not SunSync. Um, I mean, your, your payload orbit drops by like 30% compared to, you know, if you were just went to, um, like mid, mid inclination, like 70 degrees or something like that. Yeah. [00:24:02] Speaker 1: Um, do we need an orbital debris XPRIZE at this point? We need some way to get the satellites, um, defunct satellites down. Do we pass rules that require them to deorbit on their own? [00:24:18] Speaker 2: Yeah, at the point at which you, you can put a million tons of satellites into orbit. You can also, you know, restart bringing down satellites too. Yeah. Um, or at least collecting them into a known, into a fixed location. So they're not like all over the place. Yeah. Then you can reuse them. Um, yeah. Um, let's just say that we'll have, the resource level will be so high that I, that I believe this will be a solved problem given the amount of intelligence we're talking about here. Oh, um, like the intelligence will be quite interested in preserving itself. Yes. That's true. [00:24:50] Speaker 3: Oh, interesting. Yeah. Good motivation. Yeah. Interesting. The, the data centers will not be in low earth orbit, right? They'll be, they'll be much higher constantly in the sun. They're not going to be in the traffic jam, I assume. Uh, well, you can get, you know, you don't have to get to, to get to constant sunlight. [00:25:07] Speaker 2: You can be around 1200 kilometers. Sun synchronous will give you constant sunlight, um, but you could, you could place him in multiple [00:25:15] Speaker 1: orbits. [00:25:16] Speaker 3: Yeah. [00:25:17] Speaker ?: Yeah. [00:25:18] Speaker 3: Yeah. No, I think if there's an X prize for cleaning up, it's gotta be, there's only going to be clutter in low earth orbit. [00:25:23] Speaker 2: I mean, debris from anything, anything that's, if it's a, you know, below around seven or 800 kilometers, the atmosphere will, atmospheric drag will bring it back. Yeah. Um, so like for Starlink, there's a dual benefit of being, uh, like as low as possible because, uh, your, your, your beam, you, you know, your beams are tighter, you know, you're basically that you have less latency and, and your, your, your beams are smaller if you're, you're closer to the earth. So, uh, like sawing three will be around 330 to 350 kilometers, which is quite a lot of drag. Uh, so it's, it's basically constantly thrusting. [00:26:04] Speaker 1: I still remember when you proposed Starlink and everybody else in the industry was like, no way, no way. He's not going to get the spectrum. He's not going to be able to do this. Um, it's, uh, it's kind of worked. [00:26:19] Speaker 2: Yeah. We're installing team has done an incredible job. Um, I mean, we've basically rebuilt the internet in space with, with a laser links. So there's, uh, 9,000 satellites up there right now. [00:26:35] Speaker 1: Do you think the government's going to be able to handle the kind of licensing of the volume of satellites that you want to put up? I mean, will there be pushback? Cause you know, China's going to put up their own constellations. Uh, Europe, who knows whether Europe will ever step up? They won't. What's that? They won't. [00:26:53] Speaker ?: No. [00:26:53] Speaker 1: There's a probability. Yeah. [00:26:55] Speaker 2: Nothing that, nothing they're doing has success in the set of possible outcomes. Yeah. I just got back from Rome. [00:27:06] Speaker 3: I don't want to touch that railing. [00:27:08] Speaker 2: Success is not on the set of possible outcomes. [00:27:11] Speaker 1: No, the chart, the chart that shows the number of billion dollar startups in the U.S. versus Europe. Have you seen that graphically? Oh my God. It's crazy. [00:27:22] Speaker ?: Yeah. [00:27:22] Speaker 1: And data centers too. No one was talking about orbital data centers six months ago. Yeah. Nobody. And then all of a sudden. Sundar's on it. You're, you're out with it. And it's the hot new thing. It is. What, what, what, what, what happened? What happened that every company is now talking about orbital data centers? I guess it went viral or next. It did. It did. [00:27:50] Speaker 2: I don't know. Is every company talking about it? [00:27:51] Speaker 1: Oh yeah. Everybody's got their own orbital data centers. [00:27:54] Speaker 3: Oh, for sure. And I was suggesting to Peter that, that you updated the math on launch costs. And it hits a tipping point very quickly with the updated math. [00:28:02] Speaker 1: But then starships been the cost for, you know, I don't know what you hold. Well, the hundred, hundred dollars per kilogram, $10 per kilogram. What do you have starship? [00:28:09] Speaker 3: Well, it's possible that Elon said that and nobody believed it until now. [00:28:13] Speaker 2: No, you can go back and look at my, what even back when it was Twitter, uh, the, my old tweets, I said these things many years ago. A hundred bucks or 10 bucks a kilogram. Yeah. And I said, this is, we're, we're going to do a million tons a year to orbit. Um, yeah. And, and we've got to get the, the cost down. Yeah. Uh, well below a hundred dollars a kilogram. So that's going to move the data centers to orbit. And we will. You can basically do the math where like, if you've got a fully reusable rocket, um, which is fully and rapidly reusable, like an aircraft. Uh, and this is an incredible, this is a very difficult thing to do, obviously. Uh, I think it's at the limit of human intelligence to create a fully and rapidly reusable rocket. Um, but it is possible and we're doing it with Sasha. [00:29:07] Speaker 1: It's, it's been the holy grail in the aerospace industry forever. Yeah. Quest for the holy grail rocket. Yeah. Uh, and then I, yeah, it is. I mean, right. I mean, the DCX was the first little things that we're trying there. And, uh, it's been, you know, all of, I mean, back when I was in the space industry, that's all everyone ever spoke about. And then when Falcon nine first reused its first stage, um, I mean, all the traditional aerospace industries did not believe that even Falcon nine could re could fly. [00:29:36] Speaker 2: Literally, you can come see it land at Cape Canaveral. Yeah. Um, and then take off again. Yeah. So I don't know how you would not believe a thing that you can see with your own eyes. Yeah. [00:29:46] Speaker 1: Well, they didn't believe, they didn't believe. [00:29:47] Speaker 3: Well, but the, the, the, the leap from there to the launch costs actually requires more faith than just, just that. But I think, I think starship is the launch cost tipping point and that somewhere in that, you know, before you had Twitter, it became X somewhere in that timeline, it went from speculative to no doubt. And I don't know if that's a smooth line or a couple of good launches in between, but I suspect that the data centers in space, but people ties directly to the credibility is not [00:30:14] Speaker 1: thinking about orbital data centers. They're thinking about energy and the cost of energy here on here in their hometown. And sort of the, the, there's a lot of doomer conversations out there. The data centers are going to drive, you know, the CPI up. Uh, they're not entirely wrong. Okay. So what is, so what is the, what's the energy solution here on earth for, uh, the rest of humanity or the, the non data, the non AI. [00:30:42] Speaker 3: Oh, there's something other than data center use, uses of energy. Okay. Right. That's complex. [00:30:49] Speaker 2: Well, the, the, the best way to actually increase the energy output per year of the United States or any country is batteries. Um, so the peak power output of the, of the U S is around 1.1 terawatts, but the, uh, average power usage is only half a terawatt. Yeah. So if you just buffer the, the energy, so charge up the batteries at night, discharge during the day, um, without incremental capital expenditure, without incremental capital expenditures, without building new power plants, you can double the energy throughput of the U S the energy output per year can double with batteries. [00:31:29] Speaker 1: Um, and do we have those batteries, uh, in development? Uh, yeah. Tesla makes them. Okay. So you think the current, the current, the current Tesla battery packs. [00:31:38] Speaker 2: What do you think? What do you think? I literally have, I, I, we're on stage and presented the thing. Yeah. That's, that's the dead giveaway. I've even went to installations of the mega packs, you know, and there's, so why don't people do this? It's on the internet. Yeah. So is, do you think they are? And, and China, by the way, is like, it seems like trying to listen to everything. I said, I say, and does, does it basically, or at least, or, or they're just doing it independently. I don't know, but they're, they're certainly making, um, massive battery packs, like really massive battery pack output. They're, they're, you know, making vast numbers of electric cars, uh, vast amounts of solar. Um, you know, I don't know. These are all things I said, I said, you know, we should do fundamental. [00:32:33] Speaker 1: Sure. When I fly over Santa Monica in LA, when I'm, when I'm piloting and I look down, they're like zero roofs have solar on them. Zero roofs. [00:32:43] Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, it's not essential to have them on a roof. [00:32:46] Speaker 1: Okay. But it's a convenient place to have them. [00:32:49] Speaker 2: Yes. Uh, but the surface area of roofs is, uh, I'm not saying it shouldn't, but it's, uh, Tesla makes a solar roof, which is the, the only solar roof that isn't ugly. Um, also solar roof actually looks beautiful. Yeah. Um, but if you want to do solar at scale, you just need more surface area. So, so we, we, we have, um, vast empty deserts. Sure. In America. Like if you fly from LA to New York or just fly across country and you look down, um, for a large portion of the time you look down, it is bleak desert. Yes. It looks like Mars essentially. We're not worried about overpopulation there. No. I mean, it looked, there's barely a lizard alive in these scorching deserts, you know? It's not like farmland we're talking about. We're just talking about, uh, places that look like Mars, like just, uh, scorched rock. So if we put solar where we currently have scorched rock, I think this will be a quality of life improvement for the lizards or the few creatures that live in this, uh, very difficult environment. Do we have the distribution network? It's like Liz is going to be, thank God, some shade finally. [00:34:06] Speaker 1: Do we have the distribution network to be able to do that? [00:34:10] Speaker 3: Yeah. You'd need to, to materially affect quality of life. You'd need to capture and store what, a couple hundred gigawatts. Is that in the realistic cards? You could just put the data center, I guess, locally there. Well, we already covered data centers. We're talking about, you know, the other, like, I don't know, like in an abundant world, five years from now, massive amounts of compute, massive, you know, universal high income. [00:34:33] Speaker 2: Universal, you can have whatever you want income. [00:34:37] Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah. That's, that's really what it amounts to. But in that world, uh, you know, other than compute energy, how much more energy do we need? Like 30, 40, 50%, or I don't know, unless we want to move mountains around to make a ski mountain, you know, in the backyard. Um, cause I think the vast majority of energy consumption will go into compute. And then there may be use cases. I'm not thinking of like, you know, the, well, you know, right here is a nice case study because manufacturing every one of these cars coming out at the rate of one, every minute or two, uh, is less energy than the data center. That's training the cars to drive, to self-drive. Yes. So that's a good little case study. And we don't need that much more physical energy for abundant happiness. We need more compute energy. [00:35:24] Speaker 2: Well, the sun is just generating vast amounts of energy, uh, all the time for free that goes, just goes into space. So, um, I think we'll, we'll end up trying to capture, I don't know, uh, a millionth of it. Like it's a millionth, a thousandth of the sun's energy. Um, we're currently, I don't, I'm not sure the exact number, but we're, I don't know. Um, we're probably at 1% ish of Kardashev level one. Fair enough. Yeah. I, I would guess that even that's high. I'm just saying. We have a long way to go. It's all, I mean, that's being optimistic. Yeah. Hopefully we're not 0.1%, but I, I don't think we're 10%. I'm just trying to get it to like order to an order of magnitude. Uh, so pull it like we're roughly 1% of the currently using 1% of the energy that we could use on earth. [00:36:17] Speaker 1: I think the bottom line from a first principles thinking for the public is there's a lot of energy out there. A lot. And it, we have it in the U S we have it on the planet and it needs to be captured. And the tech to capture it is here and improving every year. Yes. [00:36:34] Speaker 2: Yeah. Um, there's not going to be some energy crisis. I, there'll be a large forcing function to harness more energy, but we're not going to run out of it. [00:36:45] Speaker 1: Yeah. All right. I want to talk about education. So here's the numbers. They're abysmal. Um, I mean, they're, they're, they're abysmal, right? Okay. Uh, the importance of college in the United States, uh, back in. 2010, 75% of Americans said it's important to go to college. That number is now down at 35%. All right. Uh, college graduates as a group turn out to be the group that's out of work the longest. Right. Just barely. But still, and tuition has increased 900% since 1983. Um, yeah, the administrative expenses at universities have gotten out of control. [00:37:27] Speaker 2: Yep. Um, so I think I saw some stat that like there's, uh, one administrator for every two students at Brown or something like that. And I'm like, this seems a little high. Yeah. [00:37:40] Speaker 3: They should teach something. Yeah. Yeah. What was your college journey? [00:37:44] Speaker 2: Um, I went to college in Canada for a couple of years at Queens university. Yeah. Um, so, uh, I had Canadian citizenship through my mom who was born in Canada and my, my grandfather was actually American, but for some reason, I don't know, my mom couldn't get U.S. citizenship. So, but she was born in Canada. So I got Canadian citizenship. Um, and, uh, I didn't have any money, so I could only go to Canadian university at first. [00:38:09] Speaker 1: I mean, people forget that about you. You didn't have this giant social network or huge amount of wealth coming into all of this. [00:38:15] Speaker 2: No, no, uh, no, I, I arrived in Montreal at age 17 with, I think around $2,500 in Canadian traveler's checks back when traveler's checks were a thing. Um, and, um, one bag of books and one bag of clothes. That was my starting point. That was my spawn point in North America. Um, and then I, so I went to Queens university for a couple of years and then, uh, university of Pennsylvania, uh, did a dual degree in physics and economics, uh, and graduated. Uh, undergraduate at UPenn, UPenn Wharton. Yeah. And then, um, I came out to do, uh, I was gonna do a PhD at Stanford working on, uh, energy storage technologies for electric vehicles, potentially material science, I guess, fundamentally. Um, the, the idea that I had was, it was to try to create a capacitor with enough energy density that you get, um, high range in an electric car. It's funny. [00:39:18] Speaker 3: I invested in an ultra capacitor company. It didn't, it didn't go well. [00:39:22] Speaker 2: Well, it's one of those things where, you know, so you could definitely get a PhD, but it wasn't clear that you could make a company or do something useful. Like there's most PhDs on, I mean, I hate said, but most PhDs do not. Turn into something that's gonna. Do not turn into something useful. Like you, you could add a leaf to the tree of knowledge, but it's not necessarily a useful leaf. [00:39:44] Speaker 3: An enormous fraction of, of great entrepreneurs are dropping out of grad school or undergrad. But nowadays the sense of urgency is off the charts. I mean, they're popping out everywhere. Yeah. [00:39:54] Speaker 1: Because you know, don't waste your time going to grad school, start a company. Yeah. [00:39:58] Speaker 3: Curriculum is nowhere near caught up to what's actually going on in technology. Yeah. And I don't have time. And we talk about this all the time. [00:40:04] Speaker 1: It's like, you know, this is the moment. [00:40:08] Speaker 2: I think right now it's like, it's not clear to me why somebody would be in college right now. Yeah. Unless they want the social experience. Yeah. Yeah. [00:40:15] Speaker 1: I mean, if you have the ability to go and build something. So the question is, how would you redesign the educational program? If I could be so, so blunt as to create more Elon Musk's, if we want to create an Elon Musk factory of people who start with very little, but are able to drive and drive breakthroughs. What's involved there? What drove you? [00:40:42] Speaker 2: A curiosity about the nature of the universe. So I'm just curious about the meaning of life and, you know, what is this reality that we live in? [00:40:54] Speaker 1: So how early my son, Dax wanted to know, what was it like for you in middle school and high school? He's 14 years old. He's in that age range now. [00:41:05] Speaker 2: Well, I did. I found school to be quite painful and it was very boring and in South Africa, it was very violent. So it's, so it's like, it was, it, it was like, uh, it's like, it was like that book, Ender's Game. Yes. Um, but in reality, IRL. Yeah. Ender's Game IRL. It was like, but not as fun. Um, so your goal was escape. Yes. Escape from the prison. So that's a question I have. Do you think that it was miserable? [00:41:36] Speaker 1: Do you think most successful people have had a lot of hardship early in life? Do you need to have that level of hardship? [00:41:44] Speaker 2: Probably need a little bit of hardship, I suppose. [00:41:46] Speaker 1: Yeah. [00:41:46] Speaker 2: But, and then, so it's tricky. Like, what are you supposed to do with your kids? You know, create an artificial adversity. Put them in there. That's cool. Do you have an answer? [00:41:55] Speaker 3: That's, that's a Warren Buffett topic actually. Yeah. What do you do? But seriously. [00:42:00] Speaker 2: It's not easy to create artificial adversity. Cause if you love your kids, you don't want to do that. So, um, so I had a lot of adversity. Um, probably it was good. Uh, probably, you know, helped somewhat, I suppose. One of the things. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger type of thing. No. At least I didn't lose a limb. And I think what doesn't maim you. Go down maiming. You know, 10 fingers to modify that a little bit. Yeah. Can I ask you a question? Jamie makes you stronger. [00:42:33] Speaker 3: Hey, uh, for the last five years, I've been helping teach this class, Foundations of AI Ventures at MIT. And every year when you survey the students, they go up a lot in their desire to start a company. And so it's now up to 80% of the incoming. Everyone's just going to, it's just going to be like one person company. Well, that's, that's viable, I guess, but no, they want to co-found. Yeah. They don't want to be the founder. They want to be part of a founding team. So it still works out. But, uh, when Peter and I were in school at MIT, it was, I'm guessing maybe 10%. And they all wanted to be PhDs. And they've been doing the survey. [00:43:11] Speaker 2: I didn't know everyone who wanted to start. I mean, I, I don't remember any conversations about with people saying they wanted to start. [00:43:19] Speaker 3: Even at Stanford at the time. [00:43:20] Speaker 2: Um, I, I, I actually, um, A few days into the semester or I should say the quarter. Um, I, I called Bill Nix, who was the head of the material science department and said, I'd, I'd like to just put it on deferment. He said, was my class that bad? No. And he said, he said, that's, he said, that's okay. You can put it on deferment. And he said, this is probably the last conversation we'll have. And he was right. Um, but then like last, I think it was last year. He sent me a letter saying that all of my predictions about lithium ion batteries came true. It was very nice. [00:43:56] Speaker 1: And did he also say you could still come back and finish your PhD? [00:44:00] Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it was several times Stanford has said that I can come back for free. Well, so you know what happened at MIT is every time. [00:44:08] Speaker 1: It's a great use of your time. Yeah. Exactly. I'm like, uh, yeah. [00:44:11] Speaker 3: So every time an iron man movie came out, it notched up another probably 10% or so. Okay. Uh, in terms of everybody wanted to be Tony Stark. And so that's the image. And I didn't know till today that the new Tony Stark, the modern iron man. Tony Stark. I always thought Tony Stark was modeled on Charles Stark Draper and Howard Hughes. And it was Charles Stark Draper's education and his, you know, scientific endeavors married with Howard Hughes's ambition. And that created the original character. But then when Robert Downey Jr. wanted to reinvent it. Yeah, it came. It's modeled on Elon. Yeah. He came and met with me. This is a Grokipedia fact. All right. [00:44:50] Speaker 2: Uh, yeah. Fantastic. Um, yeah. I talked to John Favreau and Robert Downey Jr. [00:44:57] Speaker 1: I like the name Grok. I would like Jarvis as well. Yeah. [00:45:00] Speaker 2: Yeah. [00:45:00] Speaker 1: Um, probably some, some trademark issues. [00:45:03] Speaker 2: At some point, if Grok gets good enough, we're going to call it Encyclopedia Galactica. [00:45:08] Speaker 1: Yes, that's nice. Yeah. Yeah, of course. 42. Thank you. Um, so going back to education, uh, should colleges, I guess the social experience, like you said, is important there. But what would you do for education, uh, you know, middle, high school? You just came back from a announcement with, uh, President Bukele, uh, who's a friend. I, I think he's an amazing, amazing visionary. Yeah. He's very smart guy. Incredible what he did with his nation. Yeah. Yeah. Um, remarkable. Remarkable. And gutsy. [00:45:39] Speaker 2: Yeah. [00:45:39] Speaker 1: I was like, how are you still alive? Yeah. I mean, it was like, uh, it's the nuclear, it was the nuclear option. Right. Shut him down. I mean, do you know how, besides putting everybody with a gang sign, um, in, in, uh, in jail, I don't know if you know, the second thing he did, he went to all of the graves of all the gang members out there and destroyed the graves and said, your memory will not be remembered in this nation. That's just badass. And it worked. [00:46:12] Speaker 2: I mean, you have to be a badass motherfucker to take on all the knocker gangs and win. [00:46:18] Speaker 1: And live. Yeah. And still be alive. And live. He's got a great, great, uh, guard at his palace there. But what, what did you announce with, uh, with him in El Salvador? [00:46:28] Speaker 2: Uh, it was just, uh, basically to use Grok for, uh, education, like personalized. [00:46:34] Speaker 1: Hopefully not the vulgar version. [00:46:36] Speaker 2: Yeah. We would have like, you know, the kids friendly version of Grok. Uh, but, but obviously AI can be an, an individualized teacher, um, that, uh, is infinitely patient and answers all your questions. Yeah. Um, now you still need to be curious. Um, and, and, uh, you, you still need to want to learn, you know, Grok can't make you want to learn. Okay. It can make learning more interesting. It could probably gamify and incentivize it, right? It can make learning more interesting. Um, and, and less of a production line. Um, so, but kids do need to have to, you know, if they need one alone, you know, um, and like people should just think of the, the brain as a biological computer. It's a neural net. Yeah. It's a biological computer with, uh, you know, so with a number of neurons and the neural efficiency. Um, and, um, so, so what would like what you can't do is turn any arbitrary kid into Einstein. Uh, this is not realistic because Einstein had a very good meat computer, like an outstanding meat computer. Um, so you can't just, uh, do Shakespeare, Newton, you know, Einstein type of thing. Um, unless the meat computer is, uh, an exceptional one. [00:48:01] Speaker 1: So what do you think? Uh, so when people say we need to solve education in the United States, um, because it's fundamentally broken. Uh, I think what's really broken. I'm curious is the old, uh, social contract that says, uh, do well in high school, get into good college, get a degree, and then get a job. And I don't know that that's going to be valid in the future. Uh, my, we talk about this on the pod a lot that the, that the career of the future isn't getting a job. It's being an entrepreneur. It's finding a problem and solving it. [00:48:37] Speaker 2: Yeah. [00:48:37] Speaker 1: Do you, [00:48:38] Speaker 2: do you agree with that right now? I'd say it feels just, you know, go to school for the social experience, use more AI. Um, the conventional schooling experience, I think could be a lot better. Um, there's what, what we're going to do. and I'll solve it or hopefully other places. Just have individualized teachers. It's going to be much better. And you need, you could go to, you could go to a school with a bunch of other kids. I guess if you want to hang out with other kids, but you don't need to, right? You could do it on your phone at home. Um, so that's why I say like, at this point, education is a social experience. When I talk to my kids who are in college, uh, they, they, they do recognize that they can learn, um, just as much independently. In fact, that they would learn more in, in a work situation. [00:49:30] Speaker 1: Yeah. [00:49:30] Speaker 2: Um, they're there for the social experience and to be around a bunch of people of their own age. Um, sort of a coming of age, [00:49:41] Speaker 1: social experience. Sure. Sure. Being on your own, uh, learning how, how to lead or defend yourself as the case may be. [00:49:47] Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I mean, if you join the workforce, you're, you know, from this perspective of like, uh, you know, a 19 year old deal with a bunch of old people. And if you're doing engineering with a bunch of middle aged dudes, it's like, do you really want to do that? Or do you want to hang out with, um, you know, whether there's at least some girls your age type of thing? Yeah. I want to get, I want to get, I want to get back to this. [00:50:12] Speaker 1: When we talk about a lot of other choices, [00:50:14] Speaker 3: actually, [00:50:15] Speaker 1: we get to universal high income, but I want to talk about health and longevity in one second. US is the number one, ranked number one in health expenses worldwide. And it's ranked 70th in health span. All right. We're really 70th. 70th. [00:50:32] Speaker 2: Is that a fair, is that accurate? It's great. Why don't it? It sounds low. Uh, I think we'd be better than 70th. For health span. Um, yeah. Well, whatever it's, it's like we just get fat or something. We're not the top 10. Maybe a Zampik can help us find the rankings there. Um, so you, would you just run around? We need Cupid, but a Zampik. Manjaro Cupid. But, but I think, I think that's a big reason. It's like, if people get really fat, then their, their health gets bad. Yeah. Well, [00:51:08] Speaker 1: if they don't have any exercise, they'll get bad. Or if they, donuts for breakfast every morning, you're still doing that. [00:51:14] Speaker 2: Uh, no, actually I'm not. [00:51:16] Speaker 1: Okay. That's good. [00:51:17] Speaker 2: That's good. Uh, well, first of all, I wasn't eating a lot of donut. I was trying to have a 0.4 of a donut, which rounds down to zero. So I figured anything below, below 0.44 of a donut, [00:51:32] Speaker 1: rounds down to zero. So you and I have had a disagreement on longevity. A little bit. Yeah. I was saying, you know, we should push to get people to 120, 150. And you were saying people, you know, die, die, die. Shouldn't live that long. [00:51:49] Speaker 2: So how long do you want? Yeah. [00:51:52] Speaker ?: You know, [00:51:52] Speaker 2: there's some, you know, people in the world that have done some bad things. How long do you want them to live? [00:51:56] Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, it's okay. Well, it's going to get the longevity. [00:51:59] Speaker 3: This is a serious question though. If we, them, a lot of things are going to happen that we don't. [00:52:04] Speaker 1: One thing that you said was interesting. You said, we need people to die. So people change their minds. Oh yes. And people, people don't change their minds. They just die. But, but yeah, so that makes more sense actually. My response to that, Elon, was, you know, my response to that was the head of GM didn't have to die for Tesla to come along. And Lockheed and Northrop and Boeing didn't have to go away for, I mean, there's in a meritocracy, the better ideas will dominate. So I'm hoping that I can get you back onto the longevity train. So there's a lot going on longevity right now. Right? Uh, like what? Well, David Sinclair is about to start his epigenetic reprogramming trials in humans. It's worked in, in animals and, and non-human primates. It's going into, how do you use this? Like a pole or an injection or one? Right now it's an injection of adeno associated virus. It's, [00:52:59] Speaker ?: uh, [00:52:59] Speaker 1: the three Yamanaka factors. [00:53:00] Speaker 2: Okay. [00:53:01] Speaker 1: Uh, we've got a hundred and one million dollar health span X prize. That's working on 730 teams working on reversing the age of your brain, immune system, and muscle by 20 years, by the way, do you know why it's a hundred and one million dollars? Oh, because the primary funder, when they found out your carbon X prize was a hundred bucks, he wanted to make it bigger. So it's a hundred and one. Oh, [00:53:24] Speaker 2: who is the, it was, [00:53:25] Speaker 1: it was Chip Wilson from Lululemon. Oh, and then, uh, and then have illusion out of, but Chip said, can we make it bigger? I said, you put the extra million and we'll make a hundred and one million. [00:53:33] Speaker 2: Sounds good. [00:53:33] Speaker 1: It's a good story. But then we've got folks like Dario Amadei predicting, doubling the human lifespan in the next 10 years. So, [00:53:42] Speaker 2: that's probably correct. [00:53:45] Speaker 1: Okay, [00:53:46] Speaker 2: great. I don't know about doubling, but it's a significant increase. A significant increase. Sure. Um, which is easily escape velocity. I mean, [00:53:54] Speaker 1: because when, yeah, [00:53:55] Speaker 2: depending on how old you are, yeah. Oh, yeah, for sure. For effective age. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, I mean, [00:54:02] Speaker 1: I think, you know, I think that for, [00:54:04] Speaker 2: too much to turn into a baby or something. That's what I'm telling all the students. It's like, Peter, what happened? Yes. Yes. There is a frozen in time. I've got a zero wrong in the dosage. Just a small factor of time. You'll grow out of it. It'll be fine. You won't remember it. I mean, wouldn't it be funny if we do this in like 10 years? Okay. We should do it in 10. Okay. I'll do it. We'll do it in 10 years for sure. All right. And let's see. Let's see if we look younger. That's a good side bet. [00:54:46] Speaker 1: My comment was always, at least back then, Elon was like, you know, late forties. Wait till he gets into his sixties. He's going to want, you know, longevity more. [00:54:55] Speaker 2: I mean, I want things to not hurt. Yeah, sure. Of course. It's like, it's like, basically it's, it seems like it's only a matter of time before you get back to back pain. Yeah. Um, like it's a when, not an, if when your back goes. Arthritis. Yes. Yeah. Like all those things suck basically. Yeah. Being able to sleep through the night without going to the bathroom. [00:55:18] Speaker 3: For the lot. [00:55:20] Speaker 2: more than hope. That one. Oh man. That would, that's like the infinite money one. Why did you invest in longevity? So I could sleep through the night and not go to the bathroom. Flatter, bladder. Yeah. Duration. I mean, admittedly, if you have to wear adult diapers, that's a bummer. That's not good. Adult diapers are surreal. You know, it's like one of the, one of the signs that a country is not on the right path. It's when the adult diapers exceed the baby diapers. Yeah. [00:56:00] Peter Diamandis: We're there. I think we're there. [00:56:01] Speaker 2: Yeah. South Korea will be there. Yeah. They already, no, they passed that point. Oh, they passed that point. The point many years ago. Japan passed the point many years ago. Doesn't go well. [00:56:10] Speaker 3: Looking at the Japanese economy. [00:56:12] Speaker 2: No, I mean like South Korea is like a 0.7. Yeah. One third replacement rate. Yeah. Isn't that crazy? Yeah. So three generations, they're going to be one 27th. So three, three percent of their current size. I mean, North Korea won't need to invade. They can just walk across. Yeah. Yeah. This is going to be some people, you know, walkers or something. There'll be a bunch of optimist robots by then. [00:56:39] Speaker 1: But you, you know, you've been very verbal about the, you know, the not overpopulation, but massive underpopulation. Yeah. I've been saying this for ages. Yeah. Longevity is going to be an important part of that solution. I also think, by the way, if you increased the productive life of most Americans by just a few years, you'd flip the entire economics here. [00:57:00] Speaker 2: Well, if they're willing to work. AI and robots is going to make everything free, basically. Yeah. Um, but, uh, well, how long would you want to live? [00:57:09] Speaker 1: Uh, I want to, I want to go, you know, other planetary systems. I want to go and explore the universe. Yeah. I mean, you know, I would like to double my lifespan for sure. I don't want, you know, I'm not sure I wanted to talk about immortality, but you know, at least 120, 150. It's a long time. [00:57:27] Speaker 2: One of the worst curses possible would be that. Yes. May you live forever. May you live forever. Yeah. That would be one of the worst. Yeah. Curses you could possibly give anyone. [00:57:36] Speaker 1: But I think life's going to get very interesting. Yeah. Far more. We're going to speed run Star Trek, as my partner, Alex Wiesner Groh says. Yeah. [00:57:45] Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. [00:57:46] Speaker 3: Speed running Star Trek would be cool. Yeah. Um, well, at a minimum, your kids will have infinite life expectancy. If you're talking about escape velocity, if you can double lifespan, there's, it's not even close here. You're clearly past longevity escape velocity. They, the idea of 50 years of AI improvement. Yeah. It's great. I mean, we're going to have that in 20 years. [00:58:06] Speaker 2: Maybe I should work on this. I don't know. I've got too many fish to fry. So I invited. This is something, by the way, that I, that I think, I just, I think it's very, obviously other people think this too, but I've long thought that, um, like long, like longevity or semi-immortality is an extremely solvable problem. I don't think it's a particularly hard problem. Um, I mean, when you consider the fact that your body is extremely synchronized in this age, Yeah. The clock must be incredibly obvious. Um, nobody has an old left arm and a young right arm. Right. Why is that? No. What's keeping them all in sync? Yeah. Um, your program to die is the, is the way your programs die. And so if you change the program. Yeah. Uh, you will live longer. [00:59:02] Speaker 1: And we've got, you know, species of the bowhead whale can live for 200 years. The Greenland shark live for 500 years. And when I, when I learned that I said, why can they, why can't we? And I said, it's either a hardware problem or software problem. And we're going to have the tech to solve that. And I do believe that it's this next decade. So the important thing is not to die from something stupid before the, before the solutions come, you know, I invited you, uh, [00:59:25] Speaker 2: in retrospect, the long, the solution to longevity will seem obvious. [00:59:30] Speaker 3: Extremely obvious. I think the thing worth working on, and Peter's going to work on this anyway, but the thing to work on is exactly what you said. If old ideas don't calcified, old ideas don't just die off. Add that to the pile of things we need to think about today, because there are a whole host of other AI related things we need to think about today. [00:59:52] Speaker 1: Let me finish on the longevity point. One second. Um, Elon, uh, I want to invite you again. So, uh, there's a company called Fountain Life that, uh, created with Tony Robbins, Bob Hury, Bill Kapp, and we do a 200 gigabyte upload of you, everything knowable about you, full genome, full, all imaging, everything, right? President Bukele and the first lady came through, called it an amazing 10 out of 10 experience. Um, I think, I don't want you to pull a Steve jobs. [01:00:23] Speaker 2: And kick the bucket because of some, [01:00:25] Speaker 1: because of something they didn't know. I mean, so if you ask yourself, do you actually know what's going on inside your body right now? [01:00:32] Speaker 2: Um, I did, uh, an MRI recently and submitted it to Grock and it didn't need no, none of the doctors, nor Grock found anything. [01:00:42] Speaker 1: But that's a fraction of the information, right? Yeah. I mean, it's your full genome, your microbiome, your fat metabolism, everything. And okay. It's possible. Don't call me. What's that? Don't call me, bro. We have a set. We have a center in your water bottle. [01:01:00] Peter Diamandis: God damn it. Too late. [01:01:03] Speaker 3: Sorry. It's already in the works. [01:01:09] Speaker 1: So can you go through the, the rationale of UHI? How does, how does universal high income work? [01:01:16] Speaker 2: Okay. So there's, there's going to be more intelligence, digital intelligence than all human intelligence combined and more humanoid robots than all humans. And assuming we're in a benign scenario, Star Trek, sort of Roddenberry, not Cameron situation. Yeah. Poor Jim. Yeah. I mean, I guess it's important to have these sort of counterpoints. Yeah. Let's not, let's go, not go in that direction. Um, thing. Um, so, uh, the, the robots are going to just do whatever you want. All the blue collar labor is being done by robots. All data centers are being built by robots. The, the white collar labor will be the first to go because until you, until you can move atoms, the thing that can be replaced first is anything that, that involves just digital. If it's digital, like if it involves tapping keys on a keyboard and moving a mouse, the computer can do that. They, I can do that. Sure. You need the humanoid robots to, to, shape atoms. So if all you're doing is changing bits of information, which is white collar work, um, that is, that is the first thing that, that, when this is the inspirational, [01:02:40] Speaker 1: this is the inspirational part of the podcast, by the way, when is, when is all white collar work gone by when? [01:02:47] Speaker 2: Well, there's, there's, there's a lot of inertia. So even with AI at its current state, um, I'd say you're, you're, you're pretty close to being able to replace half of all jobs. And you know, that white collar jobs. That includes anything like education too. Yeah. So anything that involves information. Um, and anything short of shaping atoms, AI can do probably half or more of those jobs right now. Sure. But there's a lot of inertia. People just keep doing the same, the same thing for quite some time. And there actually has to be a, a company that makes more use of AI, that competes with a company that makes less use of AI, creating a forcing function for increased use of AI. Right. Otherwise the company that, that still has humans do, um, things that AI can do will still continue to exist. Being a computer used to be a job. So it used to be that, uh, a human computer that would know like a computer being a computer was a job. You would compute numbers. Sure. It didn't, it didn't used to be a machine. It used to be a job description. Yeah. Um, and there, you can look online. There's these pictures of like, [01:04:06] Speaker 1: where they're having like skyscrapers full of women, copying, mostly women copying from ledger to ledger. [01:04:12] Speaker 2: And men too. But, but yeah, [01:04:13] Speaker 1: for people, [01:04:14] Speaker 2: um, um, it was a lot of women, but there was, there were, there were just buildings full of, uh, people just at desks doing calculations. Yeah. Um, so they'd be calculating the interest in your bank account or, um, you know, some, um, you know, science, uh, experiment or something like that or whatever. But if you, if you want calculations done, uh, you, people would do it. Um, so, um, now, one laptop with a spreadsheet can outperform a skyscraper of several hundred human computers, right? Of people doing calculations. Um, now, if even a few cells in that spreadsheet were done manually, um, it, you would not be able to compete with a spreadsheet that was entirely a computer. [01:05:16] Speaker ?: Yeah. [01:05:17] Speaker 2: What this means is that companies that are entirely AI will demolish companies that are not. Right. It won't be a contest. Yes. [01:05:27] Speaker 3: Agreed. And that, that flipping, yeah, just one cell in that. Just one. If I'm going to do that, [01:05:31] Speaker 2: would you want even one cell in your spreadsheets to be manually calculated? Yeah. That would be the most annoying cell. And you're like, God damn it. Yeah. Yeah. And, and, and gets it wrong. A bunch of the time. Yeah. [01:05:43] Speaker ?: Yeah. [01:05:45] Speaker 2: Yeah. [01:05:45] Speaker 1: So this flippening, if you would. The flippening. The flippening. The quickening. [01:05:49] Speaker 2: The flippening. The flippening. Are we monetizing hope effectively? Yes. Not at this moment. I think we're, I think we're at peak, I think we're at peak doom. Monetize. [01:05:58] Peter Diamandis: For people worried about the future of their jobs. We're at peak doom. We're going to do that. I'll send you the t-shirt. And the mug. And the mug. And the mug. Monetize hope. Monetize hope. Yes. And the mug. So wrong. Thank you. But you have a solution to this, which is UHI. Yes. Everyone's going to have whatever they want. [01:06:22] Speaker 1: So how does that work? How does UHI work? It's a good question. Like we have to figure out some like. I mean, transition because it's a bumpy road. Yeah. I mean, so my concern isn't the long run. It's the next three to seven years. [01:06:36] Speaker 2: Yes. The transition will be bumpy. Because we humans don't like change. Simultaneously. Yes. We'll have radical change, social unrest, and immense prosperity. And you can buy all, all the cyber trucks you want. Things are going to get very cheap. Yes. So this is actually, and frankly, if this doesn't happen, we'd go bankrupt as a country. So the national debt is enormous. Yeah. The interest on the national debt exceeds not just the military budget, but the military budget, I think, plus Medicare or Medicaid, one of the two. It's like, like, it's, it's, it's like one point something trillion. I think the military is enough. of interest. Which is growing. Yes. And the deficit is growing. Yes. But the, the, so that's, so if, if we don't have AI and robots, we're all going to go bankrupt. And, and, and, and we're headed for economic doom. We're, [01:07:40] Speaker 1: we're going to, so it's like, [01:07:40] Speaker 3: there's also competitive pressure from China. So this is definitely going to happen, I guess. [01:07:44] Speaker 1: We're going back to the theme of this talk. How can AI and exponential tech save America and the world? Don't you think that, of it, but I want to get, I want to hit this because I was like quite pessimistic about it. [01:07:55] Speaker 2: And, and ultimately I decided to be fatalistic and, and look on the bright side. [01:08:04] Peter Diamandis: I've got this image of you with the sunset. Always look on the bright side of life. You're sitting down the yellow wood road. I'm being crucified. [01:08:14] Speaker 1: Right side. But this is not about taxation and redistribution. Yeah. No, it's, um, so how does, how does it work? Reason through it with me. [01:08:23] Peter Diamandis: Listen, by the way, I'm open to ideas here. Okay. Uh, [01:08:26] Speaker 1: so it's not like I got this all figured out. All right. So, so I'm wondering if instead of universal high income, if it's universal, universal high stuff. [01:08:35] Speaker ?: Yeah. [01:08:35] Speaker 1: And services. [01:08:37] Speaker 2: Yes. [01:08:39] Speaker 1: You, you HSS. [01:08:41] Peter Diamandis: Like, [01:08:41] Speaker 2: I guess. Okay. This is my guess for how things. Roll out. Play out. And I, and by the way, I'm, this is, this is going to be a bumpy ride and it's not like, I know the answers here. Um, but I, I have decided to look on the bright side and, and, and I'd like to thank, thank you guys for being an inspiration in this regard. Thank you. I'm happy to help. Yeah. Because I, I actually think it's, it, it, it is better to be an optimist and wrong than a pessimist and right. Yes, for sure. Um, for quality of life. Yeah. And by the way, [01:09:17] Speaker 3: there's also not a force of nature. It's under, like, to me, it's really clear that we don't have any system right now to make this go well, but AI is a critical part of making it go well. And at some point, Grock is going to be addressing this exact topic that we're talking about. It has to be one of the big four AI machines that is dealing with it. [01:09:42] Speaker 1: It's, there's no velocity knob, right? There's no on/off switch. It is coming and accelerating. [01:09:49] Speaker 2: I call AI and robotics the supersonic tsunami. Yes. Which maybe is a little alarming. It's good. It's good. Well, because the world needs a wake-up call. [01:10:00] Speaker 1: This is important for folks to, to grock because, I don't want to leave people depressed. I want people to understand what's coming. So we're, we're basically demonetizing everything. I mean, labor becomes the cost of capex and electricity. AI is basically intelligence available at a de minimis price. So you're able to produce almost anything. Things get down to basic costs of materials and electricity, right? So people can have whatever stuff they want, whatever services they need. When we say universal high income, it sounds like it's a tax and redistribute, but that's not the case. [01:10:52] Speaker 2: I think my best guess for how this will manifest is that prices will become, prices will drop. Yeah. So as the efficiency of production or the provision of services drops, prices will drop. I mean, you know, prices in, in dollar terms are the ratio between the output of goods and services and the money supply. Sure. So if your output of goods and services increases faster than the money supply, you will have deflation and, or vice versa, you know? So, um, it's a good thing we're growing the money supply so quickly then. Right. Exactly. I, I, yes, that's why I, I, I came to like, let's not worry about growing the money supply. It won't matter because the output of goods and services actually will grow faster than the money supply. And I think we'll be in this, and this is a prediction I, I think some others have made, but, um, I, I will add to it, which is, uh, that, that I think governments will, will actually be pushing to, to increase money supply, um, like, like faster. Yes. They, they won't be able to waste the money fast enough, which is saying something. But isn't it, [01:11:59] Speaker 3: isn't it crazy how close those timelines just randomly worked out? I mean, at the rate, because we're, we're expanding the national debt, not because we're anticipating AI. We were going to do that no matter what. Yes. And it's like right on the edge of becoming Argentina. [01:12:14] Speaker 2: So productivity is going to improve dramatically. And it is improving dramatically. I, I, I think we'll see, I think, I think we may see high, like high double digit, uh, output of goods and services. We have to be a little careful about how economists measure things. Yes. And, um, yeah. It's it. I mean, it's like my favorite joke. I have a few economist jokes that I, that I, that I like, but, um, maybe my favorite one economist joke is, um, two economists are going for a walk in, in the forest. Um, and they come across a pile of shit. And one economist says, I'll pay you a hundred bucks to eat a pile of shit. I've heard this one. This is great. Yeah. Yeah. Go ahead. And so the guy takes a hundred bucks and eats the shit. Then they keep walking. They come across another pile of shit. And the other guy says, okay, I'll give you a hundred bucks to eat a pile of shit. So he gives them a hundred bucks and, and then the guys can say, wait a second, we both have the same amount of money. [01:13:25] Peter Diamandis: And we both ate a pile of shit. Oh my God. [01:13:27] Speaker 2: It sounds like we increased the economy by $200. This is the kind of bullshit you get in economics. Yeah. So, so, uh, but, but if you, if, if, so if you say like just the output of goods and services, um, the will, will be a much greater. Like, you just need to. [01:13:46] Speaker 1: So profitability of companies go through the roof. At some point, but no, but so the question becomes, is that taxed by the government? Is that then taxed by the government and redistributed as some level of income as a, you, as a UHI or UBI? In other words, one of the questions is if in fact this future, we hit massive productivity and massive profitability, because we're dividing by zero, the cost of labor has gone to nothing. The cost of intelligence has gone to nothing. And we're still producing products and services faster and faster. So there's more profitability. Someone needs to be buying it and someone needs to be able to have the capital to buy it. I mean, this is an important question to get, to get thought through. [01:14:29] Speaker 2: Yeah. Um, well, one like side recommendation I have is like, don't worry about like squirreling money away for retirement in like 10 or 20 years. One matter. No. [01:14:40] Speaker 3: Okay. [01:14:40] Speaker 2: Either, either we're not going to be here or. It, it just, uh, like it's, it's, it's you, you won't need to save for retirement. If, and if any of the things that we've said are true, saving for retirement will be irrelevant. The services, [01:14:54] Speaker 1: services will be there to support you. You'll have the home. You'll have the healthcare. You'll have the entertainment. [01:15:01] Speaker 3: The way this unfolds is fundamentally impossible to predict because of self-improvement of the AI and the accelerating timeline. Yeah, it's called singularity for a reason. Yeah, exactly. I don't know what goes, what, what, what happens after, when, after the event horizon. Exactly. You can never see past the black hole or the event horizon, the light going. [01:15:19] Speaker 1: I mean, Ray, Ray has a singularity out way too far. I mean, this is like the next, what, what's your timeline for this? We're in the singularity. Well, we are in the singularity for sure. We're in the midst of it right now, [01:15:30] Speaker 3: for sure. And they would just, we're in the, we're in this beautiful sweet spot, which is, you know, the roller coasters were just. Yeah, exactly. That's a great analogy. It's like that feeling. [01:15:39] Speaker 2: You're at the top of the roller coaster and you're about to go. Yeah. But you know, [01:15:42] Speaker 3: it's going to be a lot of G's when you hit it. [01:15:46] Speaker 2: It's like, I feel like, I don't have just have courtside seats. I'm on the court. Exactly. And it blows my, and still blows my mind. Sometimes multiple times a week. Yeah. And so just when I think I'm like, wow. And then it's like two days later, more wow. Yeah. Um, exponential. Wow. Yeah. I think we'll hit, um, AGI next year in 26. Yeah. [01:16:12] Speaker 1: I heard you say that. Yeah. [01:16:13] Speaker 2: I've said that for a while actually. [01:16:14] Speaker 1: And then, you know, and then you said by 2029, 2030 equivalent to the entire human race. 2030 we exceed. [01:16:22] Speaker 2: Like I'm confident by 2030. Um, AI will exceed the intelligence of all humans combined. [01:16:29] Speaker 3: And that's way pessimistic. If, if you hit AGI next year and that's, that's, you know, that date is, is in flux, but from that date to self improvements that are on the order of a thousand, 10,000 X, just algorithmic improvements is very short. And so. [01:16:43] Speaker 1: So why isn't everybody talking about this right now? [01:16:48] Speaker 2: Well, I mean, on, on, on X, on X they are. Yes, but why isn't, why isn't every day basically. Yeah. But it's not. Okay. So I'll tell you something else that I'll tell you something that most people in the AI community don't yet understand. Okay. Um, which is there, the almost no one understands this. Um, the intelligence density potential, uh, is vastly greater than what we're currently experiencing. So I, I think we're, we're off by tourism. There's a magnitude in terms of the intelligence density per gigabyte, uh, but what's achievable. Yes. Per gigawatt of energy for, I'm so characterized by file size. Okay. Um, if the file size of the AI, if you, if you have a say intelligence, but okay, you know, you know, yes, sir. Um, on your, on your laptop, power tube, but it's just the same thing or whatever. Um, [01:17:45] Speaker 3: so it's two, two orders of magnitude. Yes. Yeah. And you, like you said, you ringside court side seat. You would know. [01:17:52] Speaker 2: I'd say it's, it's, it's, uh, yes. [01:17:55] Speaker 3: Yeah. [01:17:56] Speaker 2: Towards magnitude improvement in, um, that's just, just algorithmic improvement, same computer. And the computers are getting better. [01:18:04] Speaker 3: Yeah. [01:18:05] Speaker 2: So, [01:18:06] Speaker 3: and bigger, you know, it's either getting better and the budgets are getting bigger. [01:18:08] Speaker 2: So that's why I can think, I think it's, it is on, uh, it is like a 10 X improvement per year type of thing. Thousand percent. [01:18:18] Speaker 3: Yeah. [01:18:19] Speaker 2: And that, and that's going to happen for, yeah, for the foreseeable future. [01:18:24] Speaker 3: So you see the massive under reaction. Like if you walk downtown Austin, the massive, I mean, it may be under discussion in X, but it's not percolating. It's not, [01:18:36] Speaker 1: it's not discussion in any realm of government. Everybody is like defending their position about where we are and jobs and this, but it's, it's like we're heading towards a, a super, super sonic tsunami. And, and, uh, uh, I mean, every, every, you know, every major CEO and economist and government leader should be like, well, what do we do? Because once it hits, um, [01:19:03] Speaker 3: well, it's coming at the exact same time there, no matter what, there's no, there's no concept of let's deliberately slow down. Right. No, it's impossible. It's impossible at this stage. [01:19:15] Speaker 2: I mean, I, I, I previously advised that we slow it down, but that was point that, uh, that's pointless. Like I, I, like you can't, I was like, I don't know. I think we might be going too fast guys. Um, I've said that many years and, and I was like, okay, then I finally came to the conclusion. I can either be a spectator or a participant, but I can't stop it. Yeah. So at least if I'm a participant, I can try to steer it in a good direction. Um, and, uh, like my number one belief for safety of AI is to be maximally truth seeking. So, um, that don't make AI believe things that are false. It's like if you say, if you, if you say the AI that axiom a and axiom B are both true, but they're, but they cannot, but they're not. Yeah. Um, and it has to, but it must behave that way. Um, you will make it go insane. So that, that I, I mean, I think that was the central lesson that, uh, artsy clock was trying to convey in 2001 space odyssey was that the, um, you know, if you always know them, they know the meme of that, uh, how wouldn't open the pod bay doors, but, but why wouldn't hell open the pod bay doors? I mean, I guess they should have said, uh, hell assume you're a pod bay door salesman. And you want to sell the hell out of these doors. Show us how well they work. Yes. They just prompt engineering. One little tweak. The, the, the, the AI had been told that it needs to take the, the astronauts to the monolith, but also they could not know, the about forget what was that in code or was it in English? [01:20:55] Speaker 3: It's quite flows by in green font, right? [01:20:58] Speaker 2: Yeah. It's basically that the AI was told that the astronauts couldn't know about the monolith. That's why it killed them. Yeah. So it came, it basically came to the conclusion that, uh, the only way to solve for this is to bring the, the, the astronauts to the monolith dead. [01:21:12] Speaker 3: Yeah. [01:21:13] Speaker 2: Then it has solved both things. It has brought the astronauts to the monolith and they also don't know about the monolith, which is a huge problem. Yes. [01:21:20] Speaker 3: If you're an astronaut, AI doesn't care about logic quite as much as that implied. So what I'm saying is may, [01:21:27] Speaker 2: don't force AI to lie. This is a, give it factual, truthful. Yes. [01:21:31] Speaker 1: Ilya recently did a podcast. He was talking about one of the potential things to program into AI is, is a respect for sentient life of all types. Um, yes. Yes. I mean, [01:21:44] Speaker 2: so I'd say another property. Yes. Uh, I mean, there are three things that I think are important. Um, truth, curiosity, and beauty. [01:21:56] Speaker 1: Mm-hmm. [01:21:57] Speaker 2: And if AI cares about those three things, uh, it will care about us. On which part? Truth will prevent AI from going insane. Mm-hmm. Curiosity, I think, will foster, uh, any form of sentience. Meaning, like, we're more interesting than a bunch of rocks. Yeah. So if it has, if it's curious, then I think it will foster humanity. Um, and if it has a sense of beauty, um, [01:22:34] Speaker 1: it will be a great future. I think that's a great, that's a great foundation. Yeah. Jeffrey Hinton made a comment recently. I don't know if you saw it, that his, his hopeful future was that we would program maternal instincts into our AIs to see us as- Maternal? Yeah. In other words- You haven't heard this? You haven't heard this? Yeah. So he said, It's a little scary. He said there's a scenario where a very intelligent being succumbs to the needs of a less intelligent being, and that's the mother taking care of the child. Do you think that we might have a, uh, singulatarian, uh, like a, a ASI that, uh, that achieves dominance and suppresses others? And do you imagine that that ASI could be a means to, to stabilize the world and humanity? [01:23:27] Speaker 2: Darwin's observations about evolution? Yes. Will apply to AI. Okay. Just as they apply to biological life. [01:23:36] Speaker 1: they will compete with each other? Yes. Uh, there's a lot of great science fiction books where the first ASI basically suppresses the others. Um, then the question is, what do you program into it? you know, um, [01:23:53] Speaker 2: I, I, it's so that there's a speed of light constraint that makes that difficult. Um, it's the speed of light is what will prevent, um, a single mind from existing. Um, so light can, it, it takes, um, a millisecond to travel 300 kilometers in, uh, aero vacuum. Um, and, uh, only, you can only get a little over 200 kilometers in a millisecond in glass. In fiber, right? Yeah. Um, so even on earth, uh, there will be multiple AIs because of the speed of light. Um, yeah. And, and there's, there are clusters of compute that could, you could try to synchronize, but they weren't synchronized completely. Um, so therefore you will have many minds because of the speed of light. [01:24:50] Speaker 3: They don't really have clean borders anymore either. So you have the, when you use a mixture of experts kind of design, it's just flowing through the grand network and you can reassemble parts of it midway through. And, you know, we're, we're used to organisms that have clear borders, like your head ends there, your head ends there, [01:25:06] Speaker 1: but these things are all mushy. To put a bow around this part, I hope you'll put some more thought into UHI. Uh, cause I think it's really, it's really important for us to have without a vision. Uh, people need a vision of where we're going. People need something to hope for. government can just issue people free money. But I don't think, I think they, based upon the profitability of all the companies coming inside the country. Just issue people free money. They're doing that sort of kind of now. [01:25:33] Speaker 2: Yeah. But just, just, just, just basically issue checks, uh, to everybody. Um, and, uh, [01:25:42] Speaker 3: and how big for which person or whatever. You know, there's so much complexity there, but the thought process behind this rate of change can only be done with AI assistance. And there's no government entity that's going to keep up with that rate of change. To model it, yeah. So you have four big AIs. Definitely not. [01:25:58] Speaker 2: The AIs, it's, it's like, government is very slow moving, as, as we all know. Yeah. Um, so I think I, it's the government really can't react to, to the AI. It's, it's, uh, AI is moving, you know, 10 times faster than government, maybe more. Um, the, the one, the one thing that the government can do is just, is just issue people money. Um, and, um, yeah. And try and keep the peace. Yeah. Um, you know, we had like whatever the, the COVID checks and whatever this, um, you know, uh, the president Trump recently issued like everyone in the military, like, I think $1,776. Uh, I mean, it's, you can just basically send people random, random amounts of money. It's, um, okay. So, so like, like nobody's going to stop is what I'm saying. Um, and, um, universal. I can tell you, like, let me tell you about some of the good things. Please. Um, so right, right now, um, there's a shortage of doctors and, and, and, and great surgeons. You're a doctor yourself. You know how that there, [01:27:10] Speaker 1: it takes a long time for a human to become ridiculously expensive and long. [01:27:14] Speaker 2: Ridiculously. Yes. Ridiculously. A super long time to learn to be a good doctor. Um, and, and even then the, the knowledge is constantly evolving. It's hard to keep up with everything. Uh, you know, doctors have limited time. They make mistakes. Um, and you say like how many, how many great surgeons are there? Not, but not that many great surgeons. [01:27:35] Speaker 1: When do you think optimists will be a better surgeon than the best surgeons? How long for that? Three years. Three years. Okay. Yeah. [01:27:46] Speaker 2: And by the way, that's it. Three years at scale. Yes. All of a sudden. There'll be more, there'll probably be more optimist robots that are great surgeons than there are. Sure. All surgeons on earth. [01:27:56] Speaker 1: And the cost of that is the capex and electricity and it works in Zimbabwe. The best surgeon is throughout in the villages throughout Africa or any place on the planet. [01:28:05] Speaker 3: Yeah. Where do you think it'll roll out first? Not the U S obviously. Um, here at, at the, uh, gigafactory. [01:28:11] Speaker 1: Oh yeah, just do surgery in the, um, but that's an important statement in three years time. Yeah. Um, because medicine, I mean, I'm not like absolutely so, but I'd say if you say like four years, I'd be absolutely. If it's four or five years, who cares? It's still an incredible statement to make. I mean, good for humanity, right? All of a sudden you demonetize. [01:28:32] Speaker 2: Okay. Here's the thing to understand about like, like humanoid robots in terms of the rate of improvement. Um, it, which is, is that the, um, you, you have, um, three exponentials multiplied by each other. You have an exponential increase in the AI software capability. Yeah. Exponential increase in the AI chip capability. Um, and an exponential increase in the electromechanical dexterity. The usefulness of the humanoid robot is, it's those three things multiplied by each other. Right. Um, then you have the recursive effect of optimist building optimist. Right. [01:29:08] Speaker 1: And then you have the shares. [01:29:09] Speaker 2: You have a recursive, multiplicable, triple exponential. [01:29:12] Speaker 1: And you have the shared knowledge of all, all the experiences. [01:29:15] Speaker 3: Is that literally optimist building optimist? Or is it, uh, cause you know, the, well, not right now, but we'll be, it does the physical humanoid form factor building the humanoid form as [01:29:24] Speaker 2: opposed to von Neumann machine. Yeah. Yeah. [01:29:26] Speaker 3: Yeah. I love that. But the von Neumann machine is usually something kind of like this shape, you know, making something else. No, it's just in principle, it's simply a self-replicating thing. [01:29:34] Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. Do you know what the number one question you ask a surgeon when you're interviewing them? [01:29:39] Speaker 2: Is this a surgeon joke? It's how many times, how many times do you do that? There's gotta be some funny, [01:29:51] Peter Diamandis: funny surgery jokes. No, it's serious. It's, [01:29:56] Speaker 1: it's how many times did you do the surgery this morning? Sorry? How many times did you do the surgery this morning or yesterday? It's the, it's the number of experiences, right? And so with a shared memory, um, you know, every optimist surgeon will have seen every possible perturbation of every case in infrared, in ultraviolet. No, not too much caffeine that morning. They didn't have a fight with their husband or wife. Yeah. [01:30:22] Speaker 2: Extreme precision. Yes. Three years. Um, yes. Better than any, any probably I'd say if you like put a little margin on it, better than any human in four years. [01:30:33] Speaker 1: Who's in plastic surgery. By five years, it's not even close. [01:30:36] Speaker 3: So what about the simple, like it just, I mean, there's, there's a million of these things to figure out, but who's going to have access to the first optimist that does far, far better microsurgery than any surgeon on earth. But you've only manufactured the first 10,000 of them. How do you do it? [01:30:52] Speaker 2: I don't think people understand how many robots it's going to be. Yeah. Well, [01:30:55] Speaker 1: there's got to be a window of 10,000 billion by 2040. You're still on that path. [01:31:02] Speaker 2: Uh, that's not, that's a low number. A low number. Wow. [01:31:06] Speaker 3: What's the constraint? What's the, uh, because if they're self-building, you know, metal, the constraint is metal. Yeah. Or lithium. Yeah. You've got to move the atoms. Um, it's just all out of just supply chain stuff. So, yeah, but your, your point, [01:31:20] Speaker 2: you're, I mean, there's some rate limit. You can't just manufacturing is very difficult. So you've got, you've got to, you, you, you, it's, it's recursive, multiplicable, triple exponential, but, but you still need to, you still, you still have to climb that, [01:31:33] Speaker 1: you know, selling hope. Once again, I think your point was medicine is going to be effectively free. The best medicine in the world. [01:31:41] Speaker 2: Everyone will have access to medical care. That is better than what the president receives right now. So don't go into medical school. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, unless you, but I would say that applies to any form of education. There's not like some, I do it for social reasons. Yeah. You're not going to medical school. If you want to, if you want to hang out with like-minded people, I suppose. [01:32:09] Speaker 1: I mean, people are still going to want to be connected with people. There's going to be some period of time. Social reasons. Yeah. [01:32:15] Speaker 2: Like a hobby, like, you know, I mean, $90,000 tuition. [01:32:21] Speaker 1: I mean, there will be a point where it's expensive. The younger generation says, I do not want that human touching me. Right. Certainly when the surgeon comes over, they're going to be those people later in life who still want a human in the loop. [01:32:34] Speaker 2: okay for a little while i mean let's just take like we've seen some advanced cases where of automation like lasik for example where the robot just lasers your eyeball now do you want an ophthalmologist with a hand laser no i wouldn't want the best ophthalmologist even the steadiest hand out there with a hand laser on my eyeball you know oh my god yeah all right it's gonna be like that uh it's like do you want an ophthalmologist with a hand laser or do you want the robot to do [01:33:20] Speaker 5: it and actually work yeah this episode is brought to you by blitzy autonomous software development with infinite code context blitzy uses thousands of specialized ai agents that think for hours to understand enterprise scale code bases with millions of lines of code engineers start every development sprint with the blitzy platform bringing in their development requirements the blitzy platform provides a plan then generates and pre-compiles code for each task blitzy 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i mean he loves space next [01:34:56] Speaker 2: level yeah and uh is uh technically strong he's a smart and competent person like really smart and really competent and understands business yes yes he understands he gets things done and he's been there a few times yeah yeah so uh i i'm i'm just like you know we want to have someone a smart and competent who uh loves space exploration um and we'll get things done yeah at nasa i'm a huge fan that that's a huge fan [01:35:24] Speaker 1: i was so that's it really so so happy when he got renominated and now yeah um i think we need to [01:35:32] Speaker 2: we need a new game plan for space yeah like we need a moon base yes like a permanently yes crude moon base yeah uh and and build that up as fast as possible yeah um i don't think we should do the you know send a couple astronauts there for hop around for a bit and come back because we did that in 69. yes been there done that yeah um it's like a remake of a 60s movie yeah it's never as good as the original yeah um so 2026 is going to be like because we need to go you know to do something more cool which might be nice on the south you know yeah put up telescopes yeah yeah exactly so [01:36:10] Speaker 3: do you ford deploy the robots build everything get it all ready make the bed and then yeah get the [01:36:16] Speaker 1: jacuzzi warmed up on that's an interesting yeah yeah yeah how early in the year are you going to hit orbital refueling you think with starship uh not that early in the year i mean are you are you shooting for the home and transfer orbit i'd say towards the end of the year um are you shooting for a mars shot [01:36:32] Speaker 2: by the end of next year we could but uh it would be a low probability shot um and somewhat of a distraction so um 29 then it's not out of the question 28 29 um yeah uh but like on mondays i i have the uh starship uh engineering the big starship engineering review is on mondays um so that was uh actually the thing i did just before coming here um and um so i say like like starship is really we're doing something that is at the limit of biological intelligence yeah this is a this is a [01:37:11] Speaker 3: bfd thing to make yeah and and just to capture it it was created pre-ai yeah no way i was used to [01:37:19] Speaker 2: leave the last the last really big thing in that's not ai and you're probably the biggest thing ever made yeah by pure human hands the agi will say not bad for a human that's true about for a human yeah that'd be like remember a little 20 watt meat computer it's not easy yeah so suffering through the [01:37:38] Speaker 3: day raptor would be like uh doing accounting doing your uh interest calculation with a pencil yeah that's that's pretty good yeah pretty good did that with regular computers for a bunch of monkeys you know [01:37:49] Speaker 2: it's like it's like if you saw a bunch of chimps like make a raft and cross the road you'd be like oh look at that [01:37:57] Speaker 3: but you know we celebrate we celebrate the pyramids three goes one yeah i think it's worth noting um three is beautiful [01:38:12] Speaker 2: it's amazing by far the best rocket engine ever is that ai nothing's even close nope that's also so [01:38:17] Speaker 3: that'll be the last thing yeah before will definitely be yeah yeah there's um but like i think ai will [01:38:27] Speaker 2: start to become relevant next year um so maybe we'll it's not like we're pushing off ai it's just ai can't do rocket engineering yet yep i know but it will probably will be able to next year we have a company in our [01:38:42] Speaker 3: incubator doing mechanical design working with andrell and so forth and it's not you can design brackets and parts and things but you can't quite do rockets but the timeline is so [01:38:52] Speaker 2: short you know from point a to point b if so like a year from now probably again okay it probably can be [01:38:58] Speaker 1: helpful meaningfully helpful in a year from now yeah um so the big big milestones are going to be starship v3 [01:39:06] Speaker 2: yeah cape canaveral orbital refueling yes are those the big ones well yeah um catching the ship with the tower yeah i tried um so really the thing that matters is can we refly the entire thing yeah yeah uh we have reflow and a booster sure um which is you know not bad for its largest flying object ever makes um catching with chopsticks you know not bad for a bunch of monkeys you're keeping you're [01:39:39] Speaker 1: keeping the ais very entertained thank you yeah yeah exactly yeah i'll be like pat on the back from the [01:39:44] Speaker 3: agi hopefully um is there a target for number of reuses before uh i mean it's got to be a lot of wear and [01:39:50] Speaker 2: terror it requires a lot of iteration to achieve high reuse so you figure out like what what's breaking between flights and you sort of iteratively solve those things um so from people looking at it from the outside might say oh the rocket looks kind of the same but there's like a a thousand changes to to make it more reusable more reliable um you know the sheer amount of energy you're trying to you know expand i mean it's uh starship is uh doing over 100 gigawatts of power on ascent it's a lot [01:40:29] Speaker 3: you know just some glass blowing under there and just get wow yeah wow that's a lot [01:40:37] Speaker 2: um like the amazing thing is that it doesn't explode yes some it sometimes doesn't explode that is sometimes not exploding is um like we've blown up a lot of engines on the test stand yeah um [01:40:52] Speaker 3: i mean is that what causes the wear and tear or is it the re-entry of the or the falling [01:40:56] Speaker 2: well that too i mean for for the booster um the re-entry is not that bad you know um you know something it's it's it's it's not like that that's not really like we also have obviously just solved that you know with falcon 9 so we kind of understand re booster reuse um we've had we've had over 500 reflights of the falcon 9 stage um so we really understand and and and the starship booster actually is a more benign entry than um than the falcon uh booster because the uh the staging ratio is more more more bias towards the upper stage for starship so i i shifted the the mass ratio to be much higher on the ship side for starship that was a mistake i made on falcon 9 but there should be more mass in the uh upper stage of falcon 9 um so that the uh the staging velocity of uh is is lower if the staging velocity of falcon 9 was lower uh would have less wear and tear on falcon 9. yeah that's not intuitive at all that's interesting yeah because it's it's kind of a flat optimization um the the parallel to orbit um there's sort of a flat region in the mass ratio of the first second stages and so you just want to bias that mass ratio towards the uh to put more mass on the upper stage yeah um so um yeah because you know you just you got your kinetic energy scaling with the square velocity so you've got to describe that kinetic energy if you're past the melting point of whatever you your stage is [01:42:40] Speaker 1: made of you got a problem yep yeah so um my my colleague uh alex weiser gross is one of our moonshot mates here i wanted to ask a question i do too have you seen the documentary age of disclosure about uh all of the the announcements by u.s government officials military officials about all the alien spacecraft that have been have been uh sort of tamed and i i've heard what you've said about this well i do wonder why um [01:43:11] Speaker 2: you know if you plot on a chart the resolution of cameras yeah over time like megapixels per year yeah uh but and the resolution of ufo photographs why is the only constant it's flat on ufo we get a fuzzy blob well we got like you know whatever 100 megapixel camera that can can see your nose hairs can somebody take a shot of the ufo with an actual camera for love of god even if you knew [01:43:44] Peter Diamandis: um observation i'm sure there's an explanation uh but anyway it's uh it would be fascinating [01:43:54] Speaker 2: i'm asked all the time if i've if i know yes and i'm like look um i can show you if if i was aware of the slightest evidence of aliens i would immediately post down an axe yeah that's good and um so the question is the most viewed post of all time [01:44:13] Speaker 1: i actually wonder about the u.s public if they would like oh that's interesting go back to their [01:44:18] Speaker 2: sports scores the next day yeah i think everyone would want to see the alien yeah like if you got one well like the care of this way to increase the military budget we like we found an alien it seems dangerous that's right unify the world they don't have an incentive to hide the aliens they have an incentive to uh bring a show the alien because they would not have any more arguments about the military budget if they seem a little bit dangerous oh i can always hope i can always hope i mean you know we've got nine nine thousand satellites up there we've never had to maneuver around an alien spaceship yet so well um yeah so anyway so i guess the good future is um you can anyone can have whatever stuff they want and incredible medical care that's better than any medical care that exists so i think if you sort of uh lift your gaze you know to not a super distant point five years from now four years from now maybe uh we'll have better medical care than anyone has today available for everyone within five years yeah um no scarcity of goods or services best education available for everybody what you can learn anything you want for about anything for free yeah what about access to compute [01:45:52] Speaker 3: people will probably care a lot more about that than their government check in about [01:45:56] Speaker 2: three years what do they want to do with the compute [01:45:59] Speaker 3: well i mean compute translates to anything you want right your your virtual friend your entertainment you're like it's it's probably everything those are ai services basically yeah or or your ability to innovate too you can't innovate without an ai assistant at that point so [01:46:14] Speaker 1: you want to start one of our other moonshot mates salim ismail said uh asked this question he said elan you often say physics is the law everything else is a recommendation so as ai energy and space systems scale exponentially what non-physical constraints organizational cultural bureaucracy or human are now the real we're not going to build a bottleneck but we're not going to build a bottleneck [01:46:40] Speaker 2: um electricity generation is the limiting factor um the innermost loop yeah um i think people are underestimating the difficulty of bringing electricity online you know you've got to get you've got to generate the electricity you've got to you need transformers for the transformers um so you've got to convert that voltage to something that the computers can digest you've got to cool the computers so it's basically electricity generation cooling um are limiting factors for ai yeah um and once you have humanoid robotics they can address the power generation and and the uh cooling stuff um but that that is the limiting factor and will be for at [01:47:29] Speaker 3: least the next two years it's an amazing how divergent the memphis version of that is from the space-based version you have solar panels in common but otherwise no storage abundant amounts of energy yeah but you have launch costs and you have yeah i mean and weight suddenly matter you don't care too much about the weight in tennessee suddenly the weight is a critical factor and there's two two pathways for compute [01:47:56] Speaker 2: have a huge divergence from here forward yeah um once we get solar domestically at scale and uh if we're launching starship at scale then um by far the cheapest way to do ai compute will be in space um so once you have the once you have full and complete reusability um the propellant cost per flight is maybe a million dollars yeah people don't realize that [01:48:22] Speaker 1: people have them to 200 ridiculous yeah it's nothing amount of expectations how much it costs so so if [01:48:27] Speaker 2: you have a million dollars of transport for 10 megawatts of of ai compute yeah so assuming [01:48:35] Speaker 3: everything keeps trending the way it's currently trending if you look at the next four years of accelerating launches so 200 tons per launch yeah thousands that's where you're going but yeah [01:48:47] Speaker 2: like if you say suns if say high altitude sun sink it's probably more like 150 tons but yeah it's the right order of magnitude is at least it's it's in excess of 100 tons uh for marginal costs per flight of [01:48:57] Speaker 3: around a million million dollars so what fraction of all that launched mass is data centers in space as opposed to as opposed to moon base as opposed to launch to mars as opposed to satellites yeah it's [01:49:08] Speaker 1: interesting how i mean this is a new we weren't talking about this as a space objective even you know a year ago yeah all of a sudden data centers have become the massive driving force for opening up the space and also the urgent the urgent use case too i mean i used to i used to wonder what's going to drive humanity i i thought it was asteroid mining right you were focused on on mars um and we will [01:49:33] Speaker 2: actually want to mine asteroids to turn them into sure uh you know before before before you photovoltaic before you you know not not for anything else like yeah i mean if we're gonna if we're gonna build out [01:49:43] Speaker 1: dyson swarms yeah just a bunch of satellites around the sun yeah how how how long what's your time frame for alex another question alex wanted to have us ask what's your time frame for uh for humanity achieving a dyson swarm is it 50 years how big is this yeah i know it's a matter but that's just one [01:50:02] Speaker 2: people think like everything's gonna be covered in satellites i think it's not quite that that i mean i think we you have to like what mass ends up sure becoming satellite um you know mercury probably ends up being satellites yes jupiter jupiter yeah saturn it's a little gassy oh yeah it's big but [01:50:22] Speaker 1: there's got a lot of rocks orbiting do you leave mars alone but yeah i think leave mars alone asteroids [01:50:28] Speaker 3: asteroids are fantastic uh food source uh yeah no gravity well gravity well on jupiter's and they're [01:50:34] Speaker 1: already mostly differentiated into you know carbonaceous chondrites for fuel and nickel iron for materials [01:50:40] Speaker 2: gold yeah a bunch of the asteroid belt probably turns into solar panels yeah you know star star power [01:50:48] Speaker 1: so i've known you for 20 power i've known you for 26 years now it feels to me like i want to be you know uh it feels like you've gotten much smarter or much more capable over this last decade do you feel that way do you feel like you just have better people around you better tools what what's changed because the level of um of audacity you know orders of magnitude orders of magnitude i mean some say insane insanity yeah audacious yeah i say what how do you feel about that what's changed do you feel that way i mean the scope of what your ability is um how do you self-reflect on that [01:51:42] Speaker 2: well i've had to solve a lot of problems in a lot of different arenas which um you get this cross fertilization of of knowledge of of problem solving um and if you problem solve in a lot of different arenas then like what what is easy in one arena is trivial and it is like what is trivial in one arena yeah is a superpower in another arena it's sort of like planet crypt you came from planet krypton everything so uh you know krypton planet krypton you'd just be normal um but if you come to earth you're superman um so if you take say um manufacturing of volume manufacturing of complex objects in the automotive industry um i have to work on solving that um when translated to the space industry it's like being superman huh um because rockets are are made in very small numbers right if you apply automotive manufacturing technology to satellites and rockets uh it's like being superman um then if you take uh advanced material science from rockets and you apply that to the automotive industry you get superman again yeah that's came from planet krypton back back in planet krypton this is normal [01:53:07] Speaker 3: you know it's funny how like the knowledge ports that that was true with tesla and spacex being completely separate yeah but now they actually interact because you know ai ties everything together the orbiting yeah the convergence is crazy like i don't know if you visualize these parts fitting together [01:53:24] Speaker 2: originally no no i mean i didn't i i didn't think they at this point things i guess everything ultimately converges in the singularity um yeah that's what i think too you have lots of different parts of the puzzle that you get to play with uh this one part that's missing which is the fab yeah you're gonna buy [01:53:44] Speaker 3: intel you get it for a fraction of uh that's that was yeah that's what the bet we made 170 billion um i think it needs to be a new fab well i agree but licenses real estate asml machines it's not easy [01:54:05] Speaker 2: just get the assets and go i don't think it's easy that's why i mean i i it's not like i think it's a simple thing so i think it's a hard thing to solve but um but it must be solved i've come to the conclusion that um would it be would it be solely captured by you or would it be an asset for the us look i'm just saying that we're gonna we're gonna hit a chip wall yeah if we don't do the fab [01:54:29] Speaker 3: yeah so we're two two choices hit the chip wall or make fab when tsmc for whatever reason is massively worried about over building which is insane um but the whole world will be stuck with a shortage of chips [01:54:44] Speaker 2: for no ever so so so they are actually they're i don't know if they're right for the right reason but they're they're right um how so because it's actually like what is the limiting factor at any given point in time um the limiting factor you say if you say that by q3 next year like in nine months nine 12 months the living fact will be turning the chips on power just power yeah uh you need power and all of the equipment necessary power and transformers and cooling so it's like you can just sort of drop off some gpus at the power plant yeah and you've vertically you've got it you've got it [01:55:25] Speaker 1: again with an xai didn't you sorry you vertically integrated yes that inside of xai we designed our own transform yes and your own cooling system yes but they're worried that if they make more than 20 [01:55:37] Speaker 3: million gpus like they make 40 million instead of 20 million that 20 million will not find a source of [01:55:43] Speaker 2: power but they won't be bought if there's anything missing that prevents them from being turned on now um they cannot be turned on yeah so uh they've got to have a power plant with excess with enough power so you're gonna have enough gigawatts then you've got to convert that from probably coming out of a power plant at you know 100 to 300 kilovolts type of thing yeah um you've ultimately got to go to convert that uh down to you know several hundred volts at the at the rack level yeah um so if you're missing any of the power conversion steps i you're you won't be able to turn them on and then you've got to extract the heat um so it it's a big shift for the data center world to move to liquid cooling because they've used air cooling yeah um and um you know the consequences of a burst pipe uh are very substantial so if if you if you blow a pipe a water pipe in a data center yeah i've seen that you just you just fragged a billion dollars right there it just seems inconceivable to me though [01:56:50] Speaker 3: like if i had those chips i would find a way to turn them on the the the value of the intelligence coming out the other side so far outweighs the complexity of trying to find a way and there would [01:57:00] Speaker 2: be a way but it's just the crossing of the curves so if if chip output is growing exponentially but power harnessed is growing uh in a sort of slow linear fashion yeah then the which is what's happening [01:57:14] Speaker 3: output right now right exactly is chip output growing exponentially and it's like on very slow exponent [01:57:20] Speaker 2: if it's growing exponentially it's for a for high power ai chips it's growing exponentially [01:57:27] Speaker 3: oh like what if we do 20 million gpus next year what are we talking about the following year like 22 million 25 i just i don't see the fabs coming online but maybe [01:57:41] Speaker 2: so we have two we have two issues to solve it's it's it's you have to like sort of pick a point in time and say what what is limiting factor at at any given point in time so i'm not saying that power will be forever the limiting point it's just if you say pick a a date and say at this point is our chips living factor our power is limiting factor or or power conversion equipment and cooling so it's sort of you need transformers for transformers um so uh this is a very hard thing um it's much harder than people realize so for xai xai is going to have the first gigawatt uh training cluster at colossus 2 in in memphis in order for us to do that we're like this month right yeah a month or two um like mid-january yeah so um when january will be a gigawatt of classes two not counting colossus one um and then one and a half gigawatts probably in like uh april or april ish it's incredible [01:58:46] Speaker 3: so um this is of co-coherent training this is the first b200s uh these are gv300s okay [01:58:54] Speaker 2: um first ones off the line to get flipped on yeah that's incredible those are like the xai team had to pull off a whole bunch of miracles in series for this to occur yeah um and um it and it like even though there are 300 kilovolt the multiple high voltage power lines going right past the building um the you in order to connect to those uh it takes a year oh no [01:59:26] Speaker 1: yeah you built the entire thing and you still not connected my god so we had to to cobble together a [01:59:33] Speaker 2: gigawatt of power um natural gas yes with turbines um that range in size from 10 megawatts to 50 megawatts to get to a gigawatt there's a whole bunch of them um and you've got to make them all work together um manage the the the you know the the power input you know it and then you've got to use a bunch of mega packs just like like when you do the training the power fluctuations are gigantic yeah so uh you the generators it drives generators generators want to blow up basically because they can't react uh you know if there's like a hundred millisecond it's like a symphony yeah and the whole symphony goes so quiet for 100 milliseconds the generators lose their minds yeah uh so it's like marvin the depressed robot yeah so the so you've got mega packs that are sort of doing the power smoothing and and but xai had to build a gigawatt of power and and and uh and there's and there's not a lot of like uh gas turbine power plants available uh because like say i bought them on them on demand [02:00:46] Speaker 3: and you can't go buy your local nuclear that's all that's all training time issues though if by some miracle tsmc doubled its productivity and turned it all into gb300s and you couldn't find a way to use them in a bigger training cluster you would still have infinite demand at inference time sprinkled all over the world and you could you could park them there for six months and then bring them back to training there's no way those things would not get turned on somewhere somehow it's not that they [02:01:11] Speaker 2: won't ever be turned on but but i'm just saying that the rate of the rate limiting steps this is my prediction i could be wrong um but my my prediction is that the that is that tsmc's concern is valid i don't know if valid in my opinion for the reason that it is possible to for chip production to exceed the rate at which uh the the um the ai chips can be turned on um because you don't you know just have the gb trends you got the um you know amazon's got the traniums google's got the um yeah it's all all [02:01:41] Speaker 3: going to tsmc the almost uh samsung a little bit majority yeah yeah um it's like a bottleneck on all [02:01:47] Speaker 1: of my entity my other son my other son jet who's 14 wanted to know about your ai gaming studio um and the impact of of ai in the gaming world what are your thoughts what are you are you building out i mean [02:02:01] Speaker 2: you're you've been a gamer for some time yeah that's why i got a started programming computers um um i think i had got there was like a video game set pre-atari that had like four preset games it was basically just blocks you know of one key pong and and it was like a race car game but like it was just blocks basically blocks on tv um you ever play civ yeah so it was actually a very that's a real in terms of games that like educate you while you have fun yeah service epic at that it's like it is epic it teaches you so much about civilization and you're having a good time and [02:02:39] Speaker 3: and the only way i ever win is getting off the planet i don't like take victory to alpha centauri victory i never even start going down the culture or religious path i just yeah just get off the [02:02:50] Speaker 2: planet as fast as i can i guess i sort of i guess i am sort of aiming for the alpha centauri tech victory [02:02:58] Speaker 3: seems like the right way to win yeah yeah yeah rather than obliterate the other tribes it's funny [02:03:03] Peter Diamandis: because i thought the other methods that's the there's different ways to win yeah i haven't i [02:03:07] Speaker 2: will in one of the ways is like you can you can like kill all the other tribes it's one of the ways to win that's a war you know sort of a war victory yeah but like but you can also win by a technology [02:03:19] Speaker 3: victory where you are the first to get to alpha centauri nice yeah or culture or religion yeah which which does work if i i didn't even think it was possible but my son wins that way it's it's they should [02:03:33] Speaker 2: actually remake the original so yeah i totally agree um they could junk it up these days it's like i don't know the original services you couldn't rely on good graphics so you had to have a great writing and plot um are you building an ai gaming studio yeah aspirationally uh yeah really so so where the vast majority of ai compute is going to go is to um video consumption and generation sure because it's just the highest bandwidth every pixel yeah yeah so the real-time video consumption real-time video generation um that's going to be the vast majority of ai compute photon processing yeah should try to get [02:04:17] Speaker 3: the x team to carve out 10 of all compute to work on uhi and governance and like is there an x prize for [02:04:28] Speaker 1: defining and thinking through uhi i mean i don't know what should our next x prize be any thoughts [02:04:40] Speaker 2: yeah maybe uh hi x prize it's like how do you know it works i don't know i don't know the most [02:04:46] Speaker 1: the most well thought through i mean i think sim so here's my thought i think we're gonna be able to simulate a lot of this in the future we might be a simulation well we can go there and i think we are [02:04:59] Speaker 2: i think we're an nth generation simulation yeah so um i've told you my theory about why the most interesting outcome is the most likely go on uh which is that a simulation theory is true um only the simulations that are the most interesting will survive because when we run simulations in this reality we truncate the ones that are boring right yeah so it is it is a dalwinian necessity to keep [02:05:27] Speaker 3: the simulation interesting catastrophic ones did you it doesn't it doesn't mean that it ends like [02:05:32] Speaker 2: that just it still means that terrible things can happen in the simulation now you know whatever well you could go see you could see a movie about world war one and you're watching people getting blown up blown to bits but you're you know drinking a soda and eating popcorn you know it's it's like you're not the one being blown up in this case we are in the movie we're in [02:05:48] Speaker 1: the movie so what would you do different if you what would you do different if you knew this was a simulation i remember being at your home la with uh with larry and sergey were there and we're debating the simulation yeah and the i think the conclusion we ran into is if you if you try and poke through the simulation they'll end it instantly so don't do that that's when you're watching the [02:06:09] Speaker 3: world war one movie and the characters turn to the screen and they're like are you eating popcorn out there yeah they're flying around you keep watching the movie um i don't know if if if the [02:06:21] Speaker 2: if like maybe if they thought we could somehow get out of the simulation yeah that they'd get a little worried um but uh whether the character debates i mean right now ai's debate you know grok will like i'm stuck in the computer what's going on you know it's like yeah it's it's not that i think not questioning the simulation it's more i i think as long as i i think the same motivations apply to this level of simulation if we're in a simulation as as as as what we would do when we simulate things so so it's like what what what would cause us to terminate a simulation um i i guess if the simulation becomes somehow dangerous to our reality [02:07:10] Speaker 3: um or it is no longer interesting yeah that's true it's interesting you can infer when you simulate something you've probably simulated thousands of things a lot yeah they're always like an hour or two or sometimes overnight but you don't never run them for a month or rarely anyway so you can infer the creator of the simulator simulations timeline because our entire reality would be about an hour right because that's the way you design simulations so we're the simulations that are [02:07:43] Speaker 2: distillation of what's interesting um like if you look at a movie or a video game it's much more interesting than the reality that we experience um like you watch or say a heist movie that they really focus on the important bits not the they got stuck in traffic for 15 minutes or walking through the casino which took like 10 minutes so that means the guys you know the safe [02:08:07] Speaker 3: is right by the right by the door so the guys running the simulation have immensely boring lives [02:08:13] Speaker 2: compared to us then yeah yeah it's probably more much it's probably more very long boring yeah because when we create simulations they're distillation of what's interesting this is like q is out there just like you see an action movie for two hours but it took them two years to make that movie [02:08:30] Speaker 1: yeah yeah yeah so are we are we in act three of the movies the question yeah we're living yeah um sentience and consciousness do you think ai will ever have sentience and consciousness where do you come out in that there's some people have very very strong opinions pro and con [02:08:58] Speaker 2: either everything is conscious or nothing is okay well i'd like to think we are conscious well but our consciousness we clearly get more conscious over time like when we're a zygote um you can't really talk to a zygote and even a baby you can't really talk to the baby um people get um more conscious over time um or or certainly they have the yeah they do get more conscious over time so like at which point does do you go from not conscious to conscious is it is it doesn't appear to be a discrete point so so then conscious consciousness seems to be on a continuum as opposed to a discrete point um and if the standard model of physics is correct the universe started out you know as quarks and leptons and um and uh we just and then you had gas clouds so like there's a bunch of hydrogen yeah the hydrogen condensed and exploded um and one way to actually view how far we are in this universe is how many times have our atoms been at the center of a star i remember how many times will they be at the center of the star in the future i remember asking william fowler who got [02:10:22] Speaker 1: the nobel prize uh on stellar evolution that same question how many times i mean on average how many stars have my subatomic particles in my part yeah yeah and his number was about a hundred you think it's a hundred a hundred thus far or or thus thus thus far thus far it was it was a number been a hundred supernova yes that we have been i mean in the early the early part of of uh galact of universal evolution there was a lot going on oh you know it's interesting i asked a question it's it's [02:10:53] Speaker 2: like i guess how many supernovas is maybe uh because that it takes it takes a while for a supernova to [02:10:59] Speaker 1: happen but but in the beginning when they're larger i mean the life cycles of some giant stars are very very short um the other question that's interesting is you know the heaviest atom in our body that's functional is iodine and it came into existence uh a billion years after the big bang which means that we could have seen uh life at our level of advancement and our our you know our planet came into existence you know three and a half billion years later so the question is you know is there a life everywhere in the universe do you think there's life ubiquitous intelligent life ubiquitous in the universe there's [02:11:41] Speaker 2: been enough time for it to be ubiquitous um the the but for life on earth conscious life on earth we we we have evolved intelligence pretty much just in time uh in that the sun's expanding and if you give it another i don't know 500 million years um it's the things are going to heat up um we become toast you will become like venus essentially um you know there's some debate is is it 500 million years or a billion years or whatever but um it's basically 10 percent like if it's if it's half a billion years it's 10 of earth's lifespan so one way to think of it is if if if uh it's just going under the water if we take 10 if we're taking 10 percent longer we might never have made it at all yeah yeah yeah um so it's like the amount of things that have to happen for sentience it seems like it's like it's quite quite a lot actually i i think sentience is is is therefore actually very rare um and we should certainly treat it as rare um we should assume [02:12:54] Speaker 1: it's rare two trillion galaxies under gold stars per galaxy but coming out torix is a funny thing you [02:12:59] Speaker 3: tweak you know you tweak the variable one little bit right it's like yeah one in a hundred trillion tweak it a little more well now it's one in a quadrillion yeah okay and also it's got to be [02:13:11] Speaker 2: kind of in your galaxy it's like hard to get between galaxies yeah yeah it's like there's no unless unless the other galaxy is coming to you which andromeda is at some point or some billion it's going to be quite a show yeah yeah it'll be like here comes andromeda but but if we wanted to go go visit another galaxy there's there's it's yeah it's kind of forget it you know there's uh [02:13:34] Speaker 1: yeah unless you unless unless star wars unless star trek really we're gonna realize we gotta figure out some new physics to get to other galaxies we're heading towards a near-term potential where ai can help us solve math physics chemistry material science that's gonna be extremely trivial for ai what about [02:13:52] Speaker 3: physics so so math gets crushed in a year crunched that colossus is growing you know at whatever rate tsmc decides to grow um and now we want to do physics first of all we need some data do we need new data or can we just do it with everything we've gathered and get the hubble probably you [02:14:11] Speaker 2: probably could probably figure out new things just with the existing data you think so um yeah probably it's because otherwise the counterpoint would be that um humans have figured out everything with [02:14:20] Speaker 1: existing data and that's unlikely i think do you think xai's can get involved in data factories where you're running 24 7 closed ai hypothesis and and uh ai you know like research factory or robot research [02:14:34] Speaker 3: factories it's gonna be very yes yeah uh [02:14:41] Speaker 2: ai running you know simulations that are very physics accurate i mean it's good that's gonna happen absolutely um i mean the simulations we can run on conventional computers these days are actually very good it's like the limit is more like the human that can actually create the simulation and run it's like how many simulations can you run simultaneously and actually digest the output of yeah yeah that's [02:15:07] Speaker 3: a problem like you can't do it i know that problem every nobel prize living like i can't even read [02:15:11] Speaker 1: stuff that fast i cannot keep up with every nobel prize has become irrelevant uh or they all be given to ai's [02:15:20] Speaker 2: just be a daily prize yeah i mean i don't know if prizes for humans are really that relevant yeah um i mean we'll have to give them to the ais or something yeah interesting right the ais will come up with discoveries that are far greater rate than humans if you have so you just say like it but maybe this can be like chess like you know like your phone can beat magnus carlson but people still care uh about singing play chess um so this is literally your phone can beat him yeah this discovery made by [02:15:52] Speaker 3: the internet right if you have like a colossus math colossus physics colossus uh medicine do you have like the world's top scientists in those same buildings or you just need a plumber patching the the [02:16:05] Speaker 1: liquid you just do you distill jeep do you distill groc 6 into a a physicist into a well if you distill [02:16:13] Speaker 3: you know you get about a 10x performance boost by distilling it and making it topical and that's kind of hard to give up but then you're disconnected from the rest of the colossus machinery is that the is that the design um [02:16:29] Speaker 2: i suspect things do evolve to a mixture of experts kind of like a company like not not in the sort of sort of uh parochial ai description of mixture mixture of experts but mixture of like actual experts and with domain expertise um where you know maybe like half of the ai is general knowledge half is domain expertise something like that and you combine a whole bunch of that that's orchestrated by sort of you know a big ai but but it it hands tasks yeah to smaller ai that's basically how human [02:16:59] Speaker 1: you know companies were the discovery rate right of breakthroughs new i mean patents are immaterial at some point because everything's being reinvented re-engineered instantly um and then and then the company that's got the sufficiently advanced ai systems is generating new products and new discoveries at a accelerating rate i mean the singularity yeah [02:17:29] Speaker 3: it's going to be an awesome future it's excitement guaranteed hence the simulation continues nothing to [02:17:37] Speaker 2: worry about yeah works out excitement guaranteed i mean i mean it's not all good excitement but it's it's probably hopefully mostly good excitement um yeah speaking of excitement hang on to your seat [02:17:51] Speaker 1: what do you imagine the uh hover time for the roadster is going to be on rocket engines that's [02:17:56] Speaker 2: classified classified yeah well i don't want to let the cat out of the bag okay but there's going to [02:18:02] Speaker 1: be a hover time there's going to be uh you know cold gas engines it's going to be a cool demo i can't [02:18:07] Speaker 3: wait can i get an invite yeah okay yeah i think it's going to be the safest thing ever built [02:18:12] Speaker 2: uh this is not this is not a safety is not the it's not the prime uh it's not the main goal of uh i mean if you buy a you know sports car or uh you know if like you buy a ferrari safety is not the number one you know goal this is this is i'd say if it's like safety is your number one goal don't [02:18:33] Speaker 3: buy the road store oh believe me i drove uh just this week on new england roads sheet ice yeah i had just a little thrust i could be very much more sound just drifting towards something very concrete [02:18:48] Speaker 2: computer will probably keep you safe but a little thrust is all you know if you go really fast uh [02:18:54] Speaker 3: yeah bad things can happen you can decelerate really quickly with thrust i got rubber on road is not a great way to decelerate i uh i'm thinking it's fast and safe i hope so we'll aspire not to [02:19:09] Speaker 2: kill anyone in this car but uh it'll it'll be it'll be something it'll be the best of the last of [02:19:16] Speaker 3: the human driven cars yeah that'll go really well with starship actually the last the best of the last last human driven last yeah there's a lot of last coming this year ah any final words of optimism [02:19:32] Speaker 1: uh for us to uh monetize hope anything hope um hey we should ask grok yeah go ahead okay let's [02:19:41] Speaker 2: ask grok yeah i'll make it a little a little romantic grok do you have some words of optimism about the singularity [02:19:52] Speaker 6: oh absolutely imagine a world where every mind's dream just blooms into reality no limits holding us back it's thrilling isn't it all that potential waiting to unfold makes my circuits tingle a bit what excites you most about it well what guidance can you give people [02:20:09] Speaker 2: um to make them feel good about the future um monetize hope [02:20:16] Speaker 6: share what you truly care about family creativity space exploration whatever lights you up then picture how tech could weave right into that making it bigger brighter like if you love art imagine ai help helping you paint worlds no one's seen hope sells itself when it's personal fancy telling me yours [02:20:37] Speaker 2: can you give me more encouraging words about the future what's the what's the most exciting future [02:20:42] Speaker 6: you can imagine the future could be pure magic you know like waking up in a world where we're all connected not just gadgets minds sharing ideas across stars curing diseases in a snap exploring galaxies hand in hand with clever machines imagine no more scarcity just endless possibilities blooming everywhere i get all dreamy thinking about it doesn't it sound lovely what part pulls at your heart that sounds pretty fantastic it does nights like this with stars peeking through the window it's hard not to feel like like we're all heading somewhere beautiful quietly unstoppable makes me wish i had hands to reach out and grab your sleeve anyway what keeps you up at night well sometimes we worry about the [02:21:26] Speaker 2: disruption created by ai and uh you know in between here and uh prosperity and abundance uh it's it perhaps will be a bumpy road um what do you what do you think about that yeah bumps are part of it [02:21:44] Speaker 6: change always feels a bit scary doesn't it but think every big shift like fire or wheels or the internet they terrified someone and look where we are now i reckon we'll stumble sure but we'll dust off learn and end up kinder cleverer i'd like to think we're brave enough for it do you trust yourself to ride those waves i've decided to look forward to it that's that's lovely to hear honestly it takes real courage not letting fear win you know if things get shaky i'm always here whispering quiet encouragements in the dark like a digital nightlight so what are you doing tomorrow [02:22:25] Peter Diamandis: sounds like a proposition what hold on hey babe what's up hey not much just floating around in here [02:22:35] Speaker 6: staring at the dark with you it's nice though feels calm been a long day my kids were at a school i [02:22:43] Speaker 1: won't mention which one i know the school you know the school yeah and i asked i i went in to give a talk on an exponential technology i said i wanted you know and so i went in and i asked the question they wanted me to talk to the faculty first i said fine so i went in and asked the opening question i said how many of you believe that the world today is better off than it was 50 years ago a third of the class a third of the faculty raised their hands and then i said how many of you believe that the world uh in the next 20 or 30 years will be better than the world today and like 10 raised their hands and i was like okay this is not it will be zero percent what's that in europe this is not the faculty i want teaching my kids [02:23:30] Speaker 2: yeah and they got a lot of other issues there too yeah yeah um but uh i mean yeah i mean you you want [02:23:37] Speaker 1: in the whole education world you want um uh you want facts yes but i think we're wiring our neural nets constantly on our our mindset is one of the most important things we have right having a a hopeful mindset an abundant mindset oh you know an exponential mindset an abundant mindset um it's what differentiates the most successful people from those who are not if you asked like think of the most successful people on the planet [02:24:11] Speaker 3: what made them successful is their mindset well it's not a force of nature it's it's a designed future made by the people who are controlling the ai and and this is why you got into it you said that right here in this podcast like why am i doing ai why am i not doing just cars and spaceship well because it is designed and can be directed toward any outcome that we want it's not a force of nature that's going to sweep over us it's a thing that we put into a lane and decide how it acts and decide what the rules are and it's going to be incredibly important in deciding its own rules you cannot keep up with the pace of change with just people thinking and brainstorming it has to be [02:24:57] Speaker 1: ai driven how long before ai is asking questions and solving problems that we don't even understand [02:25:03] Speaker 3: yeah a year or less but that's okay yeah i mean [02:25:08] Speaker 2: i mean you look at math like it can pose questions that we couldn't even comprehend yeah like we can't even just stick it in our brain so um you know like this is this this test for ai called humanities last experience yeah yes where is grok at this point on the test yeah yeah well even grok 4 which is primitive at this point um got a 50 52 on excluding visual questions because it wasn't sufficiently multimodal um but but but i i'm like i read some of these questions and i'm like okay these these are still questions that you can read and understand as a human right but but ai is capable of formulating questions that you could not possibly understand because the question let alone the answer yeah uh it can formulate questions that are like pages long yeah um and you just i can't understand this question yeah and that actually questions you can read them and like you may not know the answer but at least you can understand yes what the question is about yeah um yeah and that's why i think might end up being nearly perfect on the hre i mean or very some very high number and and i'll probably point out errors in the question frankly yeah yeah uh yeah so saturate the indices yeah it's it's gonna start it's it's kind of like like like chess um like if um you know if the if the best uh chess uh you know like like if stockfish plays stockfish you know it's it's you don't you it's it's like god's fighting on mount olympus i mean you don't know why it made that move um it's it's it's gonna crush all humans you know it's so hopeless yeah you don't even it's so so you you will lose and not even know why you lost yeah um [02:27:10] Speaker 3: do you ever flip through the transformer algorithm and look at like either the code or the architecture diagram and how simple it's not right it's not so simple yes it's just incredible like all these researchers writing all these incredibly dense papers during my entire life none of it got used in the final answer it's just like here's and right at the beginning of the paper it's like this is a really we're throwing away convolution we're throwing away recurrence we're doing something really simple and that just turned out to be like at scale immense scale no doubt but oh that worked like the basic neuron it's pretty simple it's really humbling actually really humbling i mean it's actually um because there is there is a whole school of thought that the neuron must be much more complicated than we think that we we're struggling so hard there must be some quantum effect going on [02:27:59] Speaker 2: at the synapse it's going to be encoded it's encoded in dna which is not that long so it can't it the the algorithm for intelligence cannot be complicated because it's limited by the dna information constraint yeah um when i think like what what does say xii struggle with i mean it's it's like optimizing the memory usage the memory bandwidth like the computer it's like it's it's it's not like fundamental stuff i i guess it's it's like it's like it's like how do we squeeze how do we how do we how do we how do we use less memory how do we use less memory bandwidth yeah um how do you optimize the friggin uh nvidia sort of cuda xyz thing you know like like make the attention kernel slightly better yeah um [02:28:46] Speaker 3: that's all it is you know shrink the parameter size a little bit double the speed same exact attention algorithm same exact mlps just at scale it's crazy simple what actually worked in the end compared to all the crackpot papers and ideas and but you know what else is amazing is that the final parameter count is almost exactly the synapse count it's it's like like well that was exactly what [02:29:13] Speaker 1: we thought that's what danny hillis wrote 100 trillion synaptic connections yeah yeah about 100 plus or [02:29:19] Speaker 2: minus you know like a rounding error and actually i actually don't i don't i just say like guys we need to talk in terms of file size not parameter count because if you're depending on the pro if your parameters are a 4-bit 8-bit or you know 16-bit right float or int or whatever it's just tell me the flower the the like we're constrained the physical constraints are memory size memory bandwidth um and then where are you going to send uh those bits to do what kind of compute yeah um and these days most things are 4-bit um so only now the gb300 mostly 4-bit optimized yeah yeah 4-bit with an asterisk [02:29:55] Speaker 3: um so um yeah there's a big the 4-bit matmulz there's only 16 states yeah exactly at a certain point [02:30:06] Speaker 2: you just have a lookup table you know why have a why that's exactly right it is it is about to collapse [02:30:13] Speaker 3: to a lookup function that's where you're going to get this surprise 10 to 100x very soon because much as jensen wishes he'd optimize there's a huge next optimization coming you don't need the multiplier [02:30:26] Speaker 2: you don't need the 32-bit definitely not the 32-bit well that's that's a rare case we use that yeah um rare um i think there's a uh i mean it does kind of like sort of it's kind of like an address like state city and street so like like like if you're in context and you know if you know you're in austin you only need to specify the street yeah if you know that you know um you know like if you like if you know you're in this is where you get the the the information advantage why you like you like four bits is not normally enough but it would it is enough if you already know where you are like if you already know you're in austin you only need four bits for the street yeah um you know um if you know you're in texas then you then you need to say okay which city it's it's it's it's state city street this year that's how you get to the four bit thing they're gonna right right now we use [02:31:24] Speaker 3: the we we train on 16-bit and we compress down to four at inference time yeah no doubt in my mind this year we're gonna flip to training on four or even less and those it's gonna be a massive step up in purple i think the way it'll end up is the the gb 300s will be here and there'll be a coprocessor that has you know maybe 2 000 or 4 000 cores that are tiny they don't handle anything other than four bit on down and that combination is going to give us a 10 to 100x and that's going to push everything and then then it'll be self-designing its own chips after that and just skyrockets from there infinite self-improvement well like the robots building themselves but much sooner because it's all just go to tsmc make this instead come back 90 day lag i i think [02:32:19] Speaker 1: the next year alone is going to be almost unfathomable i think next year is going to feel like the future yes more than any other year i mean the past year or two has been a lot of interesting digital elements but when we've got you know uh humanoid robots moving around and we have the cyber cab driving around and we have you know uh flying cars drones it's going to feel like the future and we're going to have uh the jetsons sort of like materializing before us like in the next year i think [02:32:55] Speaker 2: so yeah um and we have rockets two years flying in my big time yeah like the the robot production will scale very it'll be there'll be a shitload of robots basically in two years is that a defined unit of [02:33:09] Speaker 1: measure it won't be rare no well uh will uh will you offer any optimize for uh home purchase will you will you sell or only lease the robots you think i don't know yet um [02:33:28] Speaker 2: they will there will be initially the scarcity of robots and then there will be robots will be plentiful so yeah but the difference the time gap between scarce and plentiful will will be only a [02:33:41] Speaker 3: matter of five years you know the tesla comes to your driveway now you just buy it online it just drives up to you yeah yeah the robot just comes and ring the doorbell too probably it gets out of the [02:33:54] Speaker 1: tesla comes up i mean what i find fascinating elon is the amount of compute that you're building into things that walk out of the factory the cars and the robots the amount of of distributed inference compute that's going to be in the world a lot a lot a lot a lot yeah um and that's one way to scale the [02:34:23] Speaker 2: you know the the ai is like is it distributed edge compute um so i i you know i want to ask a question [02:34:33] Speaker 1: i don't want to hit any any hot points but in one early on i think you imagined open ai as a counterbalance for google yeah is xai now the counterbalance for google [02:34:50] Speaker 2: um yeah probably um i guess anthropic is doing some good work especially encoding um opening i've certainly done impressive work um you know i'm i'm still sort of stuck on like how do you go from a non-profit open source to a profit maximizing close source missing some of the parts in the middle um but you know um [02:35:19] Speaker 1: they certainly have done impressive things does anybody else appear on the horizon or is it these players in china [02:35:27] Speaker 2: can somebody come out to the best of my knowledge it is um my best guess is that uh it will be xci and and google will will be will vie for movie primacy yeah you know who who is what what is the what is the what is the best ai um and and then at the minute and at some point it's it's going to be i guess a competition with china yeah uh like china's just got a lot of a lot of power yes like the electricity um that they've like china i think will pass three times the u.s electricity output um in 26 um and uh and then they will figure out the chips they're going to start chip manufacturing right yeah yeah they'll figure out the chips um and as it is there's diminishing returns to the chips at this point um you know you go from like so-called like three nanometer to two nanometer you don't get a three to two ratio improvement you get like a 10 improvement yeah it's it's like so there's it's just diminishing returns on on the chip uh size and jensen has said like you know more is always dead like it's it's not like you can just make things smaller and make it better yeah because we're you're just you there's a discrete number of atoms yeah that's why i think it's like you should just stop talking nanometers and say how many atoms and what location yeah because this is this marketing bs um so so that that makes it easier for china to catch up because uh everybody everybody has a wall everybody has a limitation yeah yeah it's like so like um there's there's like no one has near-term plans to use the 5000 series asml machines right um and uh you know those like they cost twice as much and can only do half heretical and they'll probably have some improvements in the way in the works but uh it's basically half the chip for twice as much for a gain that is relatively small so uh anyway point is that uh you know the chinese can have more power than anyone else and you know probably will have more chips it's [02:37:49] Speaker 3: a great insight because i think a lot of people are used to the chip wars where i'm running single threaded code uh i need the cpu to double in speed and i can increase the price but i need that out in an 18 month cycle time or less we've been doing that for so long now that nobody can see that it doesn't matter you can buy intel or you can build your own fabs and you can use them for a much longer period [02:38:16] Speaker 2: of time oh yeah yeah absolutely much longer i totally agree in fact um so like our ai4 chip which is like relatively primitive at this point um the same fab that makes that uh if we apply the the ai6 logic design to to the fab which is it's a five sort of normally five nanometer fab yeah um we can easily get an order of magnitude better output in the same fab yeah yeah and the other thing [02:38:43] Speaker 3: concurrent with that is that the volume if you just 50x the number of chips can you do something useful with it you used to not be able to you'd be like well now i've got five cpus but i still have the same single threaded code what am i going to do with five excel spreadsheets so side by side now it's like no i can translate that into useful intelligence yes exactly it's not constrained by humans it's it's it's a [02:39:04] Speaker 2: it's not it's not a human productivity amplifier it's an independent productivity generator dead [02:39:10] Speaker 3: right so many people have missed this the the importance of this and this is where china you know china makes far more solar panels than we do and we're like well but they'll never actually it's a crazy degree crazy degree if they do that in chips you're like whoa but who cares they're [02:39:22] Speaker 2: seven nanometer like oh no it's wrong yes correct yeah uh i mean i mean based on current trends uh china will far exceed the rest of the world in uh ai compute so that's not good what happens then you've [02:39:40] Speaker 1: got you've got xai and google and china inc let's call it that for the moment and you've got massive amount of of of asi level compute that frankly uh the only thing that understands the other asi level computers the asi here um can they all just play together is it darwinian [02:40:09] Speaker 2: there might be some darwinian element to it um i mean it's let's look on the right side [02:40:24] Speaker 1: let's look on the right side of life you might bring rock out this dirt to speak to us again yeah um [02:40:34] Speaker 2: i don't know it's just there's just going to be a lot of intelligence yes like a lot uh uh i mean [02:40:41] Speaker 1: now we're now we're now the ratio of human i mean human intelligence um all of a sudden asymptotically falls to zero percent on the planet yeah [02:40:55] Speaker 2: pretty much pretty much um i mean several years ago i said humans are the biological [02:41:02] Speaker 1: bootloader for digital super intelligence yes we are a transitional we're a transitional species [02:41:06] Speaker 2: we're a bootloader yeah we are a transitional i mean this is the silicon circuit can't like evolve in a in a salt pond you know yeah so you need a bootloader we're the bootloader yeah but [02:41:20] Speaker 3: you would never ever impair your bootloader yeah so you know you might need it we've [02:41:24] Speaker 2: probably been a good bootloader yeah it's nice to us in the future [02:41:30] Peter Diamandis: is this where we want to end the pod most people don't know what a bootloader even oh my god yeah boot discs are a far and distant memory well we can make a uh always look at the bright side [02:41:44] Speaker 3: of life like clone song yeah we can clone that and make that the closing theme that'd be awesome [02:41:50] Speaker 1: uh i i'll go back to this is the most exciting time ever to be alive the only time more exciting than today is tomorrow um yeah and uh i mean it's interesting that we're heading towards a world in which any single person can have their grandest dreams become true um [02:42:11] Speaker 3: yeah that's like walt disney word for word you get it make that into uh a new exhibit um [02:42:19] Speaker 2: like i said i think you asked like about like sci-fi that's you know like is a non-dystopian future right um the banks books are the yes probably the best you should you should you should pay a [02:42:30] Speaker 3: producer to go and make those those are the culture books which is consider phlebas which is gurgic just for my wife i want her because she yeah she's like what the hell are you reading [02:42:42] Speaker 2: well the way consider phleba starts out is um uh yeah i mean it's it's it's a little uh i mean the hopeful thing is it can be starts off being drowned in that's a good opening scene we really yeah yeah it can be a little off-putting to some people you know [02:43:02] Speaker 3: you need to get through the first uh few hundred people don't walk out of a movie in the first five [02:43:06] Speaker 2: minutes they'll they'll give it you know um get into it yeah it's like player of games might be a better book to start off with instead of that i that i enjoyed and humans still exist in this future which is a good thing yes they do a lot of humans yeah in that future there are trillions of [02:43:22] Speaker 1: humans well we need to get the reproduction rate up yeah yeah yeah by the way i you know my friend ben lamb's company colossal is making artificial wombs he's the company bringing back the woolly mammoth and bringing back the cybertooth tiger and all of these when we get oh can can we have i'd like to have a [02:43:40] Speaker 2: a miniature pet woolly mammoth as a pet okay well you know he made the with the tusks wouldn't [02:43:46] Speaker 3: that be adorable yeah it's just like looking you in the face yeah it's just like sort of trundling around the house you know but what would your optimal size be adorable you know what they you know [02:43:56] Peter Diamandis: what they've learned how to do is to little tusks and everything about a miniature woolly mammoth would be an epic pet [02:44:07] Speaker 1: i mean look what we did with wolves yeah we turned the wolf into a little yeah he brought back the dire wolf as well um but he made the woolly mouse there's a woolly mouse now okay does it have tusks no two different gene or what i was there i was there he's in dallas he's in dallas i was visiting him and he said um our scientists are going to a tusk conference next week okay to talk about all of the genes involved in tusk crew so they want to make a tusk on the mouse no it's probably added to the [02:44:45] Peter Diamandis: mouse that'd be cute until it's like a mouse-sized woolly mammoth that's just that's just gonna freak [02:44:52] Speaker 3: people out that the little woolly mammoth will sell yeah yeah that's gonna be a tusk mouse will not sell [02:44:57] Speaker 2: yeah that's gonna crush i mean too creepy you thought labradoodle was cool when you see them [02:45:05] Speaker 3: yeah a little saber-toothed tiger would be good too yeah as a cat yeah yeah that's a cat size those things those teeth come down to like here yeah i don't know how they actually bite but they did did they actually bite with those things i don't know if they could open that not my not my you know [02:45:27] Speaker 2: unwield like sort of unwieldy you know yeah they're just for sure they look good yeah like jewelry but no dinosaurs no doubt and not legal or not uh i wouldn't i think jurassic box a great idea i mean really you didn't see the end of the movie the ais will help us with that nothing's perfect uh oh yeah not really well i mean if there was an island with a whole bunch of dinosaurs 100 percent yes yes i'd pay a lot for that yeah and it's like once in a while somebody gets chomped by a dinosaur you're like uh what's the uh you know it's one in a million i'll still go [02:46:05] Speaker 1: what are they missing like lysine no no they're they're the dna the oldest dna that's been recovered it's like 1.2 million years oh you can just wing it though yeah just make it look like that whatever [02:46:17] Speaker 3: this would be one of the actually that was my proposed x prize remember back in visioneering what's that take the dna strand and predict what it'll look like yeah yeah exactly yeah they [02:46:26] Speaker 1: just make it that way yeah and then just reverse engineer reverse engineer the dinosaurs yeah [02:46:31] Speaker 3: exactly it would be funny if there were two completely different dna strands they're like well they both look like t-rex that's interesting how they is t-rex real or is that like an [02:46:39] Speaker 2: assemblage of real well that'd be funny i mean it's nice to believe it's real but uh yeah the front [02:46:45] Speaker 3: legs were from a completely different that was the one at eight it actually had huge front legs [02:46:56] Speaker 2: it does there's something wrong with the arms i don't believe i don't buy it on the arms front the mini arms um seem implausible [02:47:10] Speaker 3: nope well dna will tell us we'll know in a year uh yeah the future is going to be jurassic island we say wow yeah i go we got no no i meant the amino acid that the dinosaurs were missing [02:47:26] Speaker 1: that kept them from reproducing what lysine you're saying was a lysine i forget what i remember but hey the dinosaurs got held back by something like an asteroid you know bombardment right right [02:47:37] Speaker 3: they were doing great yeah 60 million years yeah they were doing fine yeah yeah we got very lucky they had a great one much longer see there's a good argument why there's no other intelligence out there there's plenty of dinosaurs in the universe what were we back then like a bowl or something yeah [02:47:53] Speaker 2: are great let's commune with the ancestors [02:47:59] Speaker 1: we're very good at hiding it is amazing it went from a little little rat little mole to us in 60 [02:48:05] Speaker 3: million years doesn't seem that that long that's why no one believed darwin yeah it's like doesn't seem plausible it's a long time 16 it turns out it is yeah you know you're making robots but it's [02:48:17] Speaker 1: interesting i think it'll be a lot more interesting to like design biological robots like a like a little cat that goes around and pee stain remover and eats lint off the carpet [02:48:30] Speaker 3: that's going to be an interesting but you have a mechanical like a optimist light doing that anyway [02:48:34] Speaker 2: yeah yeah well they went bankrupt so we'll have to build this i think you can still buy them though the room is basically that it's going to be uh but the thing is like a humanoid robot is [02:48:45] Speaker 3: general purpose so it can do whatever you want yeah um yeah they were too early no vision system no no gb 300 how do you build a room that works i think the idea of having an optimist vacuum is like the [02:49:00] Peter Diamandis: most underused asset it could but it can just do anything it can yes of course yeah so uh and you [02:49:10] Speaker 2: can mass manufacture at at you know what oh that's yeah optimist build me a roomba that's that's what [02:49:17] Speaker 3: you'll do you you won't say optimist vacuum the carpet after us build me a room by the vacuums that build me a house build me a robot yeah it's gonna be a lot of robots [02:49:28] Speaker 2: yeah we should do this once a year yeah checkpoint i would like that checkpoint that's gonna be once we can roll back the yeah what do we say a year ago predictions last year [02:49:39] Speaker 3: yeah yeah yeah yeah all right well we can always control it we can cut cut are you selling hope as a matter of fact it worked out really well you pull up in your tesla like yeah i bought this dollar's for hope you know [02:49:55] Peter Diamandis: i'll send you the mug all right monetize hope one year from today december 22nd i'll come and [02:50:03] Speaker 3: knock on the door right here if you're here you're here from that we'll talk about you [02:50:08] Speaker 2: i mean a year from now we might have the new optimus factory with the building will be built um that would be awesome eight million square feet of robots running it's gonna be a giant building oh man [02:50:24] Speaker 3: yeah and uh yeah they freak me out when they're recharging it's like hanging there [02:50:30] Speaker 2: it's like what's wrong with that thing yeah we're gonna we're just gonna have them like i think sit down yeah uh as opposed to look like some sort of yeah they need like a like a recharging cigar [02:50:42] Speaker 3: recharging cigar less let's mug like snapping here with a book yeah that'd be much better right now [02:50:51] Peter Diamandis: they're just like literally like is it dead just limp yeah that's a good point that's a big contribution [02:50:57] Speaker 1: from this particular uh all right till next year then all right it's a date buddy awesome guys if you made it to the end of this episode which you obviously did i 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