我担心的不是长期。而是接下来的3到7年。我们该如何走向《星际迷航》，而不是《终结者》？>> 我把AI和机器人技术称为超音速海啸。我们正处在奇点之中。>> 所有按颜色划分的白色工作什么时候会消失？>> 除了塑造原子以外的任何事情。AI现在就能完成其中一半或更多的工作。不存在开关。它正在到来并加速。过渡过程会很颠簸。你对此有解决方案。

>> 我不在这里下注。嗯，>> 中国做得令人难以置信，>> 对吧？我是说，它远远把我们甩在后面。你能想象美国能做出那种程度的投资和承诺吗？>> 按照目前的趋势，呃，中国的AI算力将远远超过世界其他地区。>> 每一位大公司的CEO、经济学家和政府领导人都应该在想，我们该怎么办？>> 我们现在没有任何体系能让这件事顺利发展。

但AI是让它顺利发展的关键部分。我认为有3件事很重要。真相[音乐]会防止AI发疯。我认为，好奇心会促进任何形式的感知能力。而且，如果它有美感，未来将会非常美好。未来会非常精彩。>> 女士们、先生们，这才是登月级壮举。>> 欢迎来到《登月级壮举》。

接下来是一场与埃隆·马斯克的广泛对话，重点讨论乐观主义和即将到来的富足时代。我的登月级壮举搭档戴夫·布隆登和我飞往得克萨斯州奥斯汀，在埃隆那座占地11. 5百万平方英尺的超级工厂与他会面；这里生产Cybertruck和Model Y，未来还将拥有800万平方英尺的Optimus生产区域。埃隆已经同意每年进行1次这种深入的近况交流。

希望这是许多次中的第1次。在与埃隆进行这场对话后，我无比清楚地认识到，我们正经历奇点。好了，请欣赏。>> 对。嗯，[哼鼻声]你坚持不懈的乐观总是让人耳目一新。>> 谢谢你，朋友。谢谢。嗯，我想今晚把这种乐观分享给很多人。[笑声] >> 对，>> 我觉得他们需要它。>> 我希望你是对的。而你可能是对的。

实际上，我越来越觉得你是对的。 >> 谢谢。 >> 人人富足。 >> 对， >> 这就是目标。我们开始？ >> 好。 >> 好吧。 >> 目前正把大量时间投入芯片。 >> 你确实是。你亲自做。 >> 对。 >> 我猜总会有AI协助。 >> 什么？有一些AI协助。我猜那个设计 >> 呃，还不够。 >> 对。[笑声] >> 要是我们能直接把它交给AI就好了。 >> 对。

对。 >> 很快就行了。 >> 对。我最近其实尝试过用，呃，AI做一些电路设计。就在几周前。还、还做不到。 >> 嗯，不过很快了。 >> 对。嗯，我、我觉得现在Grock大概已经可以了，如果你、如果你拍张照片提交给Grock，它大概能告诉你电路是否、是否有哪里出了问题。 >> 对。 >> 好吧。我要试试看。

你用的Grock和我用的是同一个。是吗，还是你用的是[笑声] >> Grock一直在更新。所以 >> 对，4.2，但5很快就来了，对吧？ >> 呃，5在第一季度。 >> 对。 >> 嗯，4.2还没有发布。 >> 好。呃，对外还没有。嗯，不过对，我是说，如果你只是、如果你只是把一张图片上传到Gro，嗯 >> 它、它做得相当不错。 >> 对。 >> 嗯 >> 对， >> 在分析任何、任何给定图片方面。 >> 绝对是。我们，呃，我们开始吧。

我们会谈到这个。 >> 好吧。我们之后再回来。 >> 我是说，让我们看看，如果我、如果我给你拍一张、如果我给你拍张照片，会是什么？看看它会 >> 对。它会怎么评价我？ >> 对，它会说你是个有缺陷的电路。我还得记得更新它，因为我们更新Grock应用太频繁了。 >> 你知道，我让、我让Grock吐槽我。 >> 哦，它做得不错。 >> 它做得棒极了。

然后我让Grock吐槽你。对。 >> 然后我把咖啡都喷出来了。太、太搞笑了。然后我让它，你知道， >> 说得再狠一点。就不停让它越来越狠。[笑声] >> 我问、我问[清嗓子]，直到、直到感觉像是我的天啊。 >> 等等，坏鲁迪还在吗，还是那个被废除了？坏鲁迪还在？ >> 然后我问，你知道，埃隆知道你是怎么说他的吗？

然后、然后、然后她说：“对我来说是个‘她’。”她说：“他又能拿这怎么样？”[笑声] >> 他又能拿这怎么样？ >> 对，我们看看。好。 >> 嗯，所以我刚刚真的拍了张你的照片，看看它是什么。 >> 你问问题了吗？ >> 没有，什么都没有。我什么也没说。 >> 这个人非常 >> 这、这是彼得·戴曼迪斯。 >> 对。 >> 所以， >> 好。 >> 这很不错。 >> 对。 >> 完全没有任何上下文。

>> 播客《Moonshots》的主持人。对。 >> 呃，有时候现在这成了你的第一资历。太神奇了。忘了我人生中做过的其他一切[笑声]。又回到你的播客了。那是一张没有、没有上下文的图片。 >> 对。顺便说一句，Graedia太棒了。 >> 好，太好了。 >> 我是说，简直非凡。

[笑声] >> 我是说，真的，就像我试了大概好几年想更新我的维基百科页面，根本不可能 >> 然后，嗯，对，它、它、它认识我。 >> 太神奇了。 >> 对。嗯，他穿着一件带有圣丹斯标志的黑色绗缝夹克。[笑声] >> 不太对。那是我的“富足”标志，不过我猜有点皱。看那个 >> 它能看到吗？ >> 我、我、我想可以。 >> 好。好。 >> 不管怎样， >> 嗯，对，但它基本上，呃，真的相当厉害。 >> 对。

>> 嗯，他面带微笑、神情放松，面前放着一台笔记本电脑。 >> 这是真的。 >> 对，这是真的。嗯， >> 对。 >> 不过，我得说这是个相当不错的电路。[笑声] >> 你得在那个上面测试一下 >> 吐槽他。 >> 不过只能、必须由你来读。 >> 我是说，我不会整段都读，但是 >> 好吧。[笑声]给我、给我来一点。我承受得住。 >> 好。看看那咧嘴笑的样子。

这哥们笑得就像刚发现了一种把希望变现的新方法。[笑声] >> 把希望变现。哦，这真是 >> 我想试着回答这个问题：AI和科技能帮助拯救美国和世界吗？对吧。嗯，我想给听众来一剂乐观。皮尤研究中心在12月中旬做了一项调查，称45%的美国人宁愿生活在过去，只有14%的人说他们宁愿生活在未来，这在我看来太疯狂了，对吧？

嗯，显然他们从没读过历史。挑战在于，大多数美国人对于未来所拥有的一切。就像好莱坞给我们展示的是杀人AI和失控机器人，对吧？人们担心自己的工作。他们担心医疗保健。他们担心，你知道，生活成本。挑战在于，我们要怎么、我们要怎么帮助人们？

我是说，你在X上发布并置顶了这句话：未来会非常美好，AI和机器人将带来可持续的富足。 >> 我发那条的时候想到了你。 >> 谢谢。我很感激。还有、还有，呃，[笑声] >> 好吧，我是说 >> 就像彼得会怎么做，你想说吗？ >> 对，当时借用了你的精神。 >> 谢谢。谢谢，我完全赞同。我也没有更加赞同。[笑声] >> 太好了。

>> 所以、所以我的问题是，从一个，你知道，从第一性原理的角度来看 >> 对 >> 呃，乐观的理由，你知道，我们要怎样、怎样走向《星际迷航》而不是《终结者》，对吧？我们要怎样、我们要怎样走向 >> 朗伯里而不是卡梅隆。对，[笑声]吉姆。吉姆，我会、我会 >> 分岔道路的梗图。 >> 对，[笑声]是的。是的。

呃，《阿凡达》里有一些充满希望的部分，但不管怎样， >> 我们怎样走向普遍高收入，而不是社会动荡？所以，我的 >> 两者都要[清嗓子并笑]，想要社会动荡。 >> 所以，既有普遍高收入，也有社会动荡。嗯 >> 那就是我的预测。 >> 哦，那会造成很多问题。[哼气] >> 那真的是你的预测吗？ >> 对。 >> 对，看起来很可能。[笑声] >> 比如告诉我要反驳它。 >> 对，没错。

但看起来趋势就是这样。 >> 对。对，完全是。不，我们有 >> 嗯，因为会发生如此巨大的变化。 >> 对，人们会吓得屁滚尿流。 >> 对，这有点像，嗯，你知道，嗯，就像要小心自己许下的愿望，因为它可能会实现。 >> 对。对。 >> 那么，如果、如果你、如果你真的得到了自己想要的一切，那真的是你想要的未来吗？ >> 对。

>> 嗯，因为这意味着你的工作不会是重要的东西 >> 如果你过着毫无挑战的生活。 >> 是的。 >> 对吧。没有挑战。 >> 对。 >> 不。你知道，你知道，如果你变成一个沙发土豆，如果那是《机器人总动员》式的未来，那对人类来说不会有好结果。 >> 嗯，而且我们习惯于别人告诉我们：这是你的挑战。对。

>> 所以从历史上看，在没有 >> 的情况下，人们不太擅长为自己创造挑战。我觉得埃隆做得真他妈不错。每次、每次有一家公司起飞，你就创办下一家。 >> 哦，那是、那是难得的惩罚。 >> 我觉得你是。我觉得你过度感谢上帝赐予那个。 >> 所以、所以[笑声]什么，所以 >> 我为什么要这样折磨自己？ >> 实际上，在AI和机器人之后，还有下一样东西吗？

我猜还有 >> 嗯，还有征服，你知道，宇宙。 >> 对，确实还有那个 >> 其实是石头。 >> 嗯，[笑声]还有能源 >> 石头是你的朋友。 >> 征服 >> 我们甚至还没说到那里。 >> 为什么，埃隆？你为什么这么乐观？ >> 你、你乐观吗？我们从这里开始。 >> 我没你那么乐观。 >> 好。 >> 嗯，但你为什么是乐观主义者？ >> 我比大多数人更乐观。 >> 好。

>> 嗯 >> 与1年前、2年前相比，趋势是向上的吗？嗯，我、我认为，如果你从，嗯，进度条的角度重新构想事物，说到挑战， >> 对， >> 呃，迈向卡特夫2级文明的进展。 >> 当然。 >> 嗯，好吧，假设、假设这个愿景是 >> 捕获太阳输出的全部能量。 >> 嗯，我们甚至可以设定一个比那更、更谦逊的愿景。

如果我们说，我们的目标是甚至获取太阳能量的百万分之一，>> 那也会比地球上可能产生的能量多出1000多倍。>> 所以，大约有太阳能量的20亿分之一抵达地球。嗯，所以你必须在此基础上提高3个数量级，呃，才刚好达到百万分之一。>> 对。嗯，所以我们距离以任何方式利用哪怕太阳能量的10亿分之一，都还非常非常非常遥远。

所以，一个合理的目标会是努力达到百万分之一。如果你试图达到百万分之一，或或者千分之一，嗯，你知道，0. 1%。呃，那是如此巨大，呃，不确定我们该在这里用什么比喻，因为要爬的一座山并不是一个>> 合适的，比如说不够宏大的比喻，而是>> 要逃离的引力井。[清嗓子] >> 工程师地狱般的引力井。完全正确。

嗯，所以，如果如果你试图达到太阳能量的百万分之一，或太阳能量的千分之一，比如，现在这这些都是非常非常困难的任务。>> 而能源是目前一切的内循环，对吧。>> 对。我我觉得，比如，我我觉得，未来的货币本质上就会是瓦数。>> 对。我在想，是不是，是不是，一一个人控制能源和算力的能力，>> 还是只有能源？

我的意思是，两者显然可以相互转换。>> 就是[清嗓子]类似被利用的能源。>> 对。>> 比如说，或者基本上就是有多少功率正被转化为某种形式的功，>> 对吧？>> 嗯，智能，或者，嗯，物质操控。嗯，>> 所以你的下一个大项目会是能源。>> 它会是，你会回到你的太阳能、你的太阳系。

>> 你可以从那里扩展开来说，好吧，>> 那么，甚至在一个三型小屋尺度上达到某个位置怎么样，意思是星系级别。>> 这下你说到点上了。现在我们又回到《星际迷航》了。>> 对。把视野拓展开来。>> 是的。>> 那里甚至没有地平线，因为你不在一颗行星上。[笑声] >> 所以我我们谈到>> 所以，所以要以星系思维来想。>> 对。好吧，听着，我们在11 11。

这栋建筑里就在这里有500万平方英尺、3个五边形。我的意思是，你思考的尺度相当大，>> 量级是多少？>> 对。>> 嗯，所以，我的意思是，从挑战的角度看，我想，文明的、文明层面的挑战会是，如何逐级攀升这些数量级？>> 对。>> 以及所利用的能源。>> 但我们回到你为什么现在感到乐观？

我的意思是，当人们想到，呃，前方的挑战时，我认为，从长远看，我们最终会拥有富足，对我来说，>> 是超越任何富足，超越人们所能想象的富足。嗯，比如，AI，实际上AI和机器人，极限，嗯，将将满足所有人类欲望。>> 然后我们会进入纳米技术，这又把它推进了一步。

嗯，关于这个，嗯，我不确定你说的纳米是什么意思，你是指小型纳米机器人吗？>> 原子重组。>> 对。用于健康。>> 哦，对。对。当然。当然。嗯，我的意思是，我们已经在为电路进行原子级组装了，你知道。>> 太惊人了。>> 嗯，>> 2、3纳米。>> 对。每纳米只有，嗯，取决于它们如何排列，4或5个硅原子。>> 对。>> 所以>> 不过那些是大原子。

>> 它们不算大。它们不是你的小，我的意思是，但但我只是说，你可以，他们其实应该用特定位置上整数个原子的方式来描述电路。

>> 他们应该这么做，现在全都用埃了，但>> 你可以，你能直接，这只是整，这是，就像我们会把这个叫作7原子，你知道，随便什么，比如你说2、2纳米，这就像，这就像>> 没人知道，>> 9个硅原子之类的。嗯，它们有硅和铜以及，嗯，你知道，所以，但这些东西里有很多只是营销数字，比如2纳米就只是一个营销数字。>> 哦，对。

>> 嗯，但但是，你仍然需要本质上接近原子级的精度。比如，原子确实需要处在正确的位置。>> 嗯，所以，嗯，顺便说一句，我认为这些现代晶圆厂把洁净室搞错了。嗯，我要，我要在这里打个赌。好吧。>> 好吧。>> 嗯，Tesla会有一座2nmter晶圆厂，而且我可以在晶圆厂里吃一个芝士汉堡、抽一根雪茄。>> 哦，[笑声] 得了吧。>> 是的。

>> 空气处理会好到那种程度。>> 你脑子里已经画出这个构想了吗？比如，它是怎样的，原子是怎样放置的，以至于它们不受，呃，芝士汉堡油脂的影响？[清嗓子] 它们只是在整个过程中保持晶圆隔离。嗯，这实际上是晶圆厂的默认做法。晶圆会在装有纯氮气的箱子中运输，并处于轻微的正……之下。>> 沃尔玛的香蕉也是如此。我>> 只是让你知道。>> 对。

[笑声] 嗯，那就是，那是，它本质上是inite，比如，任何正在燃烧的东西>> 没有氧气都很难存活。>> 没错。>> 所以，嗯，>> 我们来谈谈>> 所以，比如，比如，你只要给植物覆盖一层氮气，就能杀死虫子。>> 对。有意思。>> 我想谈谈，呃，能源、健康、教育，因为这些是人们的，你知道，关切。

所以，在能源方面，>> 嗯，你现在正在建造和做的一切的最内层循环，>> 能源是基础。>> 你对能源富足的愿景是什么？呃，>> 太阳，>> 在接下来的，你知道，这这这个[笑声]10年里。太阳。对。我的意思是，所以>> 太阳就是一切。>> 它就是一切。所以，你把一切都押在太阳能上。>> 我的意思是，>> 呃，对。

我的意思是，你的天然气、天然气和太阳能，你在Colossus 2，对吧？>> 对。>> 人们就是不明白，>> 太太阳能就是一切。所以，嗯，与太阳相比，所有其他能源都像是，呃，穴居人往火里扔几根小树枝。>> 对。>> 嗯，所以，太阳占太阳系全部质量的99. 8%以上。呃，木星约占，呃，. 1%的质量。

呃，所以，即使你把木星烧掉，太阳产生的能量四舍五入后仍然会是100%。>> 对。>> 嗯哼。>> 然后，如果你再把3颗木星瞬移进我们的太阳系，也把它们烧掉，>> 四舍五入后仍然如此。>> 仍然，太阳的能量四舍五入后仍然占100%。>> 对核聚变有兴趣吗？>> 我的意思是，比如，在行星上搞核聚变。[笑声] 核聚变。你知道吗？你知道，一英里外就能看出来。

[笑声] >> 你不是永远都猜不到太阳是怎么运作的。>> 巨型燃煤电厂。[笑声] >> 我的意思是，我们有一个巨大的福斯免费聚变反应堆，每天都会出现，>> 距离9300万英里。>> 我们制造小型聚变反应堆很可笑。嗯，我的意思是，那就像，你知道，在南极洲有一台小型制冰机，[笑声]然后说：“嘿，看，我们制出冰了。”我会说：“恭喜。

[笑声] 你就在[ __ ]南极洲。”>> 所以，这一点上完全完全同意你。>> 就像你旁边就是3公里高的冰川。>> 好吧。[笑声] >> 对。如果你把问题缩小到孟菲斯的时间线。所以，孟菲斯数据中心的时间线是在1吉瓦到10吉之间。你不可能，你不可能从孟菲斯弄出10吉瓦。嗯，也许你可以。[笑声] >> 2或3。>> 2或3。好吧。

所以，所以，在那和你接下来随便画出的东西之间仍然存在差距。所以，而且到那个时候它们还不在太空中。>> 所以我们这里仍然处在玩具世界。呃，对于玩具世界，你>> 玩具世界。玩具世界。>> 10[笑声]吉瓦。>> 你知道令人惊讶的是什么吗，门外这里就有100兆瓦，>> 而且规模巨大。对。>> 它，它非常庞大。而且它使用的能源比>> 一切都多。

所有这些制造产线加在一起使用的能源都比它少。>> 我想，但我们谈的是一个朗戈。Cortex 1曾是>> 世界上第3大训练集群。>> 对。>> 用于进行连贯训练。>> 你落后了。[笑声] >> 呃，好吧，我们正在扩建Cortex 2。嗯，>> 它会是，呃，半吉瓦，呃，并在明年年中投入运行。嗯哼。呃，>> 大家好。

你可能不知道这一点，但我有一支了不起的研究团队。每周，我和我的研究团队都会研究那些正在影响世界的梅塔特趋势。主题包括计算、传感器、网络、人工智能、机器人技术、3D 打印、合成生物学。我每周发布一次这些元趋势报告，让你能比其他人提前 10 年看到未来。如果你想每周获取《元趋势》通讯，请前往 dmandis。

com/tatrens。就是 damandis。com/metatrends。[哼声] 那么回到戴夫所说的，未来 5 年里，你们在能源方面会扩大什么？你们会……>> 我是说 >> 5 年是很长的时间。>> 我是说能源，我是说中国做得非常了不起。>> 是的。>> 对吧。我是说，它远远领先于我们。>> 呃，中国在太阳能方面做得非常了不起。>> 是的。>> 太惊人了。

所以我我认为，中国的太阳能年产能约为 1500 吉瓦。>> 是的。他们去年新增了 500 太瓦 >> 太瓦时。对。太瓦时，就是 500（笑声）非常确切地说，是 500 太瓦时 >> 就在去年。其中 70% 是太阳能，而且他们还在不断扩大规模。>> 你你是否认为 >> 太阳能会扩大规模？你认为美国能作出这种程度的投资和承诺吗？

我是说，因为在我们后院没有没有数据中心的情况下，人们也担心能源账单上涨。我们要如何提供，我是说，能源能源等同于，等同于成本，你知道，生活成本。它等同于健康。它等同于清洁用水。你知道，一个国家的能源产量越高，其 GDP 就越高。嗯，能源很重要。那么我们应该，我们该怎么做才能那样扩大规模？我们在这里发展太阳能吗？

>> 嗯，我认为我们应该在美国大幅扩大太阳能规模。嗯嗯，Tesla 和 SpaceX 正在扩大太阳能规模。嗯，所以，呃，我也鼓励其他人这样做。嗯 >> 嗯，所以这个这个，呃，我是说，我已经公开说过这些了，嗯，我确实看到了一条实现每年 100 吉瓦太空太阳能的路径，也就是某种由人工智能驱动、由太阳能供能的人工智能卫星。>> 是的，每年 100 吉瓦的太阳能人工智能卫星。>> 我算过这笔账。

呃，那就像是通过8,000次星舰飞行发射500,000颗星链V3卫星。也就是一年里每小时发射一次。嗯，是的，我们每年飞行10,000次是是一个合理的数字。嗯，所以 >> 太惊人了。这个规模相当大。嗯，那大致的时间表是什么，因为我的意思是，按航空器的标准来看，那是个很小的数字。>> 当然。就飞行次数而言。是的，当然。

>> 是的，那是，呃，那是那是那是个很小的飞……比如说，这就取决于你拿它和什么比较。如果和火箭行业的其他部分比较，它就是一个非常高的数字。>> 是的。>> 嗯 >> 而且我们说的是每年将100万吨有效载荷送入轨道。所以，如果你每年把100万吨有效载荷送入轨道，每吨配备100千瓦，呃，那就是每年100吉瓦的太阳能AI卫星。>> 是的。

嗯，我的意思是，有一条路径或许能达到每年1太瓦，嗯 >> 从从这个从，如果你说，比如，呃，10，你想，你想再提高一个数量级，或者假设你想达到每年100太瓦。>> 是的。>> 这显然是有点疯狂的数字。>> 呃，那你就会想在月球上制造那些AI卫星。>> 是的。>> 然后使用质量投射器。是的。所以，就是杰拉德·K·奥尼尔的方法。

>> 嗯，就像罗伯特·海因兰是一门严苛的课程。差不多吧。是的。我喜欢那本书。>> 是的。是的。那算是一个自由意志主义者的天堂，在那个 >> 嗯，呃，是的。所以，因为在月球上，你可以直接把卫星加速到，达到逃逸速度大约是每秒2500米。嗯，而且，呃，那里没有大气层。所以，像质量投射器在月球上就非常好用。我能问一下轨道碎片的问题吗？

我的意思是，我们实际上正在地球周围建造一个类似戴森的卫星群。>> 嗯，[笑声] 午餐时把它吃掉。>> 呃，你担心过度拥堵吗，在那个，太阳同步轨道会很快被填满。>> 我的意思是，你可以，你你不一定非得用太阳同步。我的意思是，你可以，呃 >> 不一定非得用，但它是最优的。>> 是的。嗯，采用或不采用太阳同步各有一些利弊。

嗯，我的意思是，你的你的入轨有效载荷会下降大约30%，相比之下，你知道，如果你只是进入，嗯，比如中等倾角，像70°之类的轨道。>> 是的。我的意思是，我们现在需要设立一个轨道碎片X大奖吗？我们需要某种方式让这些卫星 >> 嗯 >> 让失效卫星降下来。我们是否要通过规定，要求它们自行脱离轨道？>> 是的。

到了你你能把100万吨卫星送入轨道的时候，你也可以，你知道，开始把卫星带下来。是的。>> 嗯，或者至少把它们收集到一个已知的、一个固定的位置，这样它们就不会像这样散落得到处都是。>> 是的。然后你可以重复利用它们。>> 是的。

嗯，我们就说，到时我们将拥有如此高的资源水平，以至于，鉴于我们在这里谈论的智能水平，我相信这会是一个已经解决的问题。>> 哦 >> 嗯，比如，这种智能会非常有兴趣保护自身。>> 是的。确实如此。>> 哦 >> 有意思。>> 是的。很好的动机。>> 是的。>> 有意思。>> 问题是，数据中心不会位于近地轨道，对吧？

它们会，它们会位于高得多的地方，持续处于阳光下。我猜它们不会身处交通堵塞中。>> 呃，嗯，你可以到达，你知道，你不必达到，达到持续日照。在同步轨道上大约1,200公里处就能让你获得持续日照。>> 嗯哼。>> 嗯，>> 但你可以，你可以把它放在多个轨道上。>> 是的。>> 是的。

不，我认为，如果设立一个用于清理的 X 大奖，那一定是因为只会在近地轨道上有杂物。我的意思是，来自 >> 任何任何东西的碎片，如果它是，你知道，低于大约 7 或 800 公里，大气会，大气阻力会把它带回来。>> 是的。>> 嗯，所以对星链来说，尽可能地，呃，处于低处会有双重好处，因为，呃，你的你的你的波束，你你知道，你的波束会更集中。

你知道，基本上，如果你距离地球更近，你的延迟更低，而且你的你的你的波束更小。所以，呃，比如Starling 3会在大约330至350公里处，>> 那里的阻力相当大。呃，所以，它基本上要持续推进以 >> 我仍然记得你提出星链时，业内其他所有人都说：“不可能。不可能。他拿不到频谱。他不可能做到这件事。”

嗯 >> 是的，>> 它，呃，算是成功了。>> 是的，我们这个停滞团队做了令人难以置信的工作。>> 是的。>> 嗯 >> 我的意思是，我们基本上用用激光链路在太空中重建了互联网。>> 嗯哼。>> 所以，现在上面有，呃，9,000颗卫星。>> 你认为政府能处理好你想发射的这么大数量卫星的许可审批吗？

我的意思是，会不会遭到反对，因为，你知道，中国会发射自己的星座。呃，欧洲，谁知道欧洲是否会真的站出来？>> 他们不会。>> 什么？他们不会。不。>> 而且很可能 >> 是的。>> 他们正在做的任何事情，都不把成功包含在可能结果的集合中。>> 是的。[笑声] >> 我刚从罗马回来。我不想碰[笑声]碰那根栏杆。

>> 成功属于可能结果的集合。不，不过，那张结果图表 >> 那张显示美国与欧洲十亿美元级初创公司数量的图表。>> 你看过那张图吗？>> 我的天，太疯狂了。>> 是的。数据中心也是。实际上，嗯 >> 6个月前还没有人在谈论轨道数据中心。>> 是的。>> 没有人。然后突然之间 >> Sundire也开始做了。>> 你你把它提出来了。

而且 >> 它成了热门新事物 >> 而且，到底是什么，什么[笑声]什么引发了，发生了什么？发生了什么，让现在每家公司都在谈论轨道数据中心？>> 我猜它走红了，还有X。[笑声] >> 确实如此。>> 我不知道。每家公司都在谈论吗 >> 哦，是的。每个人都有自己的轨道数据中心。>> 当然。

而且我我在向彼得表示，你更新了发射成本的计算，而按照更新后的计算，它很快就会达到临界点。>> 但星舰的成本一直是，你知道，我不知道你认定的是每公斤$100、每公斤$10。你认为星舰是多少？有可能埃隆说过那句话，只是直到现在都没人相信。>> 不，>> 你可以回去看看我的，甚至早在它还是Twitter的时候，呃，我以前的推文。

我我很多年前就说过这些事。>> 每公斤100美元或10美元。>> 是的。而且我说过，这是，我们我们每年要把100万吨送入轨道。嗯，是的。而且而且我们必须把这个成本降下来。>> 是的。呃，远低于每公斤$100。>> 所以，这将把数据中心转移到轨道上。>> 会的。这是，他们可以做，你基本上可以算一下，比如，如果你有一枚完全可重复使用的火箭。>> 是的。

>> 嗯，它像航空器一样能够完全且快速地重复使用。呃，那么这是一件难以置信地，这显然是一件非常难做到的事情。呃，我我认为，制造一枚完全且快速可重复使用的火箭处于人类智能的极限。>> 嗯 >> 但这是可能的，而我们正在用星舰实现它。它，它一直都是航空航天业永恒的圣杯。>> 是的。寻找圣杯火箭。>> 是的。

>> 然后我差不多，它就是，我的意思是，对吧，DCX是最早在那里尝试的小东西，而且，呃，它一直，你知道，我的意思是，早在我从事航天业的时候，那就是每个人一直谈论的全部内容。然后，当猎鹰9号首次重复使用其第一级时，嗯，我的意思是，所有传统航空航天业都不相信，就连猎鹰9号也能再，能能飞行并重复使用。

>> 你真的可以来卡纳维拉尔角看它着陆。>> 是的。>> 嗯，然后再次起飞。>> 是的。>> 所以，我不知道你怎么会不相信一件你能亲眼看到的事。>> 是的。嗯，他们不相信你能做到。他们不相信你能做到。>> 但从那里到实际发射成本的那个那个跨，那个飞跃，需要的信念比仅仅相信那件事更多。

但我认为，我认为星舰就是发射成本的临界点，而且在那段时间线的某个地方，你知道，在你拥有Twitter、它变成X之前的某个地方，它从推测变成了毫无疑问，而我不知道那是一条平滑的线，还是中间几次成功的发射所致，但我怀疑，太空中的数据中心 >> 但人们 >> 与可信度直接相关 >> 并没有在考虑轨道数据中心，他们考虑的是能源，以及这里的能源成本，在这里，在他们的家乡，还有某种那种，外面有很多末日论者的讨论。

数据中心会推高，你知道，CPI。>> 呃，他们并非完全错了。>> 好吧。那么，[笑声] 对于地球上其余的人类，或者非数据……非 AI 而言，这里的能源解决方案是什么？>> 哦，能源还有数据中心用途以外的用途。好吧。[笑声] >> 有意思。>> 嗯 >> 这很复杂。

嗯，那那那[哼声]实际上提高美国或任何国家每年能源产出的最佳方式是电池。嗯，所以 >> 当然 >> 美国的峰值功率输出约为 1. 1太瓦，但平均功率使用量只有0.5太瓦。>> 对。

所以，如果你只是把能源缓冲起来，也就是夜间给电池充电，白天放电，嗯，不增加资本支……不增加资本支出，也不建造新发电厂，你就能让美国的能源吞吐量翻倍。每年的能源产出可以翻倍 >> 靠电池。嗯 >> 那我们有正在开发的那些电池吗？>> 呃，有，Tesla 制造它们。>> 好吧。

所以你认为目前的、目前目前的 Tesla 电池组？[笑声] >> 你觉得呢？你觉得呢？我真的已经……我我上台展示过那东西。>> 对，>> 那那就是明摆着的线索。所以[笑声] >> 我我甚至去过 Megapack 的安装现场，你知道，而且那里有 >> 那为什么人们不这么做？>> 网上就有。所以 >> 对。>> 所以，你认为 >> 他们在做吗？

而且而且，顺便说一句，中国就像是……看起来中国会听我说的每一件事，我说的每一件事，然后基本上就去做，或者至少……或者或者他们只是在独立做这些事。我不知道。但他们他们确实在制造，嗯，巨型电池组，比如真正巨量的电池组产量。他们他们，你知道，正在制造数量庞大的电动汽车。对。>> 呃，巨量的太阳能。嗯，>> 我不知道。

这些都是我、我说过的事情，你知道，我们应该在这里做这些。>> 根本性的。没错。当我飞过圣莫尼卡和洛杉矶时，当我、当我、我驾驶飞机往下看时，就像，零座屋顶装了太阳能。>> 零座屋顶。>> 对。>> 我的意思是，>> 并不是非得把它们装在屋顶上。>> 好吧。但屋顶是个方便安装它们的地方。>> 是的。

呃，但屋顶的表面积是，呃，我不是说不应该，但它是 >> 呃，Tesla 制造太阳能屋顶，那是唯一不难看的太阳能屋顶。嗯，我们的太阳能屋顶实际上看起来很漂亮。>> 对。>> 嗯，但如果你想大规模发展太阳能，就只需要更大的表面积。>> 所以，所以我们、我们、我们有，嗯，广袤的空旷沙漠。没错。

非洲美国，就像如果你从洛杉矶飞到纽约，或者只是飞越整个国家，然后你往下看，嗯，在很大一部分时间里，你往下看到的都是荒凉的沙漠。>> 是的。>> 基本上看起来就像火星。>> 我们不担心那里人口过剩。>> 不，我的意思是，看，在这些酷热的沙漠里，几乎连一只活着的蜥蜴都没有，你知道。对。>> 我们谈的又不是农田。我们只是在谈，对。

>> 呃，那些看起来像火星的地方，>> 就像只是，呃，烧焦的岩石。所以，如果我们在目前只有烧焦岩石的地方铺上土壤，>> 我认为这会改善蜥蜴或生活在这个 >> 呃，非常艰难的环境中的少数生物的生活质量。>> 我们有输配网络吗？>> 它们会像是，感谢上帝，终于有点阴凉了。[笑声] >> 我们有能够做到这一点的输配网络吗？

对，要实质性地影响生活质量，你需要捕获并储存多少来着，大约 200 吉瓦。>> 那现实吗？>> 我想你可以直接把数据中心放在当地。>> 好吧，我们已经谈过数据中心了。[笑声] >> 我们说的是，你知道，其他的 >> 对。

>> 就像我、我不知道，比如从现在起 5 年后的富足世界，海量的算力，>> 海量的，你知道，全民高收入。>> 我不知道是不是收入，就像全民都能拥有任何你想要之物的收入。>> 对。>> 对。那、那其实就是它的实质。

>> 但在那个世界里，呃，你知道，除了计算能源，我们还需要多多少能源，比如 30 40 50%，或者我不知道，除非我们想搬动山脉，在后院造一座滑雪山，你知道。嗯，我认为绝大多数能源消耗都会用于计算。

然后可能还有一些我没想到的用例，比如，你知道，嗯，你知道，这里就是一个很好的案例研究，因为制造这些汽车中的每一辆，以每 1 分钟或 2 分钟生产 1 辆的速度下线，呃，所需能源少于训练这些汽车驾驶、进行自动驾驶的数据中心所需的能源。>> 是的。>> 所以这是个不错的小案例研究。我们不需要多出那么多用于物质世界的能源来实现富足的幸福。

我们需要更多计算能源。嗯，对，>> 太阳一直在免费产生海量能源，呃，而那些能源就、就进入了太空。>> 所以，嗯，我认为我们最终会尝试捕获，我不知道，呃，太阳能量的百万分之一的，比如百万分之一、千分之一。嗯，我们目前，我不确定确切数字，但我们，我不知道，我们可能处于卡德什夫一级的 1% 左右。>> 有道理。

对，我、我、我猜就连那个数字都高了。>> 我只是，对，在说 >> 我们还有很长的路要走。>> 我，那是乐观的说法。比如，希望我们不是。1%，但我觉得我们没有达到 10%。我只是试图把它估到，比如，一个数量级。呃 >> 所以，把它拉到，比如，我们大约是显然在使用我们在地球上可以使用的能源的 1%。

>> 我认为，从第一性原理出发，对公众来说，最根本的结论是，外面有很多能源 >> 很多 >> 而且我们美国有。我们这个星球上有，而它需要被捕获，捕获它的技术 >> 已经存在，并且每年都在改进。>> 是的。>> 对。嗯，不会出现什么能源危机。我，会有一种强大的驱动力促使我们利用更多能源，但我们不会耗尽能源。

>> 好，我想谈谈教育。那么，数据是这样的。糟透了。>> 嗯，我的意思是，它们、它们、它们糟透了，对吧？好吧。呃，大学在美国的重要性，呃，早在 2010 年，75% 的美国人说上大学很重要。这个数字现在已经降到了 35%。好吧。呃，大学毕业生作为一个群体，结果却是失业时间最长的群体，>> 对吧？

而且，但仍然，而且学费自 1983 年以来上涨了 900%。嗯，>> 对，大学的行政开支已经失控了。对。>> 嗯，所以 >> 我想我看到过某项统计数据，比如布朗大学每 2 名学生就有 1 名行政人员，或者类似的情况 >> 然后我就觉得这似乎，呃，有点高。>> 对。你知道吗？>> 他们应该教点东西。>> 对。对。>> 你的大学历程是怎样的？

>> 嗯，我在加拿大的皇后大学上了 2 年大学。嗯哼。>> 嗯，所以，呃，我、我通过我妈妈获得了加拿大公民身份，她出生在加拿大，而我的、我的外祖父其实是美国人，但出于某种原因，我不知道，我妈妈没能获得美国公民身份，所以，但她出生在加拿大，所以我获得了加拿大公民身份。嗯，而且，呃，我没有钱，所以一开始只能上加拿大的大学。

我 >> 是说，人们会忘记你这一点。你开始做这一切时，并没有这个庞大的社交网络或巨额财富。>> 没有。>> 对。>> 呃，没有。我、我 17 岁抵达蒙特利尔时，我想身上大约有 2,500 加元的旅行支票，那还是旅行支票算一种东西的年代。>> 嗯，还有，嗯，1 包书和 1 包衣服。那就是我的起点。那就是我在北美的出生点。

嗯，>> 然后，所以我在皇后大学上了 2 年，之后去了，呃，宾夕法尼亚大学，呃，攻读物理学和经济学双学位，嗯 >> 然后毕业 >> 呃，本科就读于 UPUP 沃顿。>> 对。

然后，嗯，我来到这里是为了读，呃，我本来打算在斯坦福大学读博士，研究，呃，用于电动汽车的储能技术，本质上我想是材料科学 >> 嗯，我、我的想法是尝试制造一种能量密度足够高的电容器，使电动汽车能够拥有，嗯，很长的续航里程。>> 挺好笑的，我投资过一家超级电容器公司，但并没有，对。结果并不好。

嗯，这是那种，你知道，你肯定可以拿到博士学位，但并不清楚你能否创办一家公司或用这个做些有用的事情。大多数博士是 un hat，我的意思是，讨厌它，但大多数博士不会 >> 变成某种将会 >> 不会变成某种有用的东西。比如你、你可以给知识之树增加一片叶子，但它不一、一定是一片有用的叶子。

极大比例的伟大企业家都从 >> 研究生院或本科退学。但如今，紧迫感已经爆表了。>> 我是说，他们到处都在冒出来。>> 对。因为，你知道，别浪费时间去读研究生了。创办一家公司。>> 对。>> 课程远远没有跟上科技领域实际正在发生的事情，而且我没有时间，而所有的时间。

就像 >> 你知道，就是现在这个时刻。我、我认为现在，就像，我不明白为什么有人、某个人此刻会在上大学，除非他们想要那种社交体验。>> 对。>> 我的意思是，如果你有能力去创造某种东西。那么问题是，如果我可以如此、如此直白地说，为了培养更多埃隆·马斯克，你会怎样重新设计教育项目？

如果我们想创建一家埃隆·马斯克工厂，培养那些起点很低但能够推动，呃，并推动突破的人。其中涉及什么？是什么驱动了你？>> 呃，对宇宙本质的好奇心。>> 所以我只是对，呃 >> 生命的意义以及 >> 你知道，我们生活于其中的这个现实是什么感到好奇。那么，>> 多早的时候？>> 我的儿子达克斯想知道，你上初中和高中时是什么样的。

>> 他 14 岁。他现在正处于那个年龄段。>> 嗯，我确实，我发现上学相当痛苦。呃，而且非常无聊，在南非，那里非常暴力。>> 所以，所以就像，当时它，它就像，呃 >> 就像那本书《安德的游戏》。>> 是的。嗯，但在现实生活中 >> 在这场现实生活的游戏里，就像是，但没那么有趣。>> 嗯 >> 所以你的目标是逃离。>> 是的。>> 你认为 >> 从那座，那座监狱里逃出去？

>> 所以我有一个问题。你觉得[笑声]，你觉得 >> 那很悲惨吗？>> 你认为大多数成功人士早年都经历过许多苦难吗？需要经历那种程度的苦难吗？>> 我想，可能需要经历一点苦难。>> 是啊。但这样一来，这总是很棘手，比如你该怎么对待自己的孩子？你知道，制造人为的逆境。把他们送进去。>> 那挺酷的。

[笑声] >> 你得到答案了。那，那其实是沃伦·巴菲特谈过的话题。>> 是啊。>> 嗯，你确实会。>> 但说真的，>> 制造人为的逆境并不容易，因为如果你爱自己的孩子，就不会想那么做。所以 >> 那是肯定的。>> 所以我经历了很多逆境。嗯，可能是好事。呃，我想，可能多少有些帮助。其，其中一种 >> 那种“杀不死你的，会让你更强大”的说法。

>> 不，>> 至少我没有失去一条肢体。而且我觉得，不能把你弄残的东西[笑声] >> 很擅长弄残，10 根手指。>> 你能稍微改一下那句话吗？>> 可以。>> 我能问你一个问题吗？>> 你会让你更强大。>> 我，呃，过去 5 年里一直在协助教授麻省理工学院的这门课，《AI 创业基础》。每年调查学生时，他们创办公司的意愿都会大幅上升。所以现在已经达到 80%。

新入学的[笑声] >> 每个人都只会变成，它，它就只会像是一人公司。>> 嗯，有了 AI，我想那，那是可行的。但不是，他们想共同创办。他们，是的，他们不想成为创始人。他们想成为创始团队的一员。所以，这仍然说得通。>> 但是，呃，当彼得和我在麻省理工学院读书时，我猜可能是 10%。

而且他们都想成为博士 >> 而且，而且他们一直在做这项调查，调查每个想创业的人。我是说，我，我 >> 我不记得有过任何对话，有人说他们想创业 >> 即使当时在斯坦福也是如此。>> 嗯，我，我，我其实，嗯，在学期开始几天后，或者我应该说这个季度开始几天后，嗯，我，我打电话给材料科学系主任比尔·尼克斯，说我、我想先办理延期。

[笑声] 他说：“我的课有那么糟吗？” >> 没有。而且他、他说，他说那、他说没问题。你可以办理延期。但他说，这可能是我们最后一次谈话了。他说对了。>> 嗯，不过后来，我想是去年，他给我寄了一封信，说我对锂离子电池的所有预测都成真了。>> 这非常友善。>> 那他有没有还说，你仍然可以回来完成博士学位？

[笑声] >> 对。没有。斯坦福有好几次都说我可以免费回来。嗯，所以，你知道麻省理工学院发生的事情是，每次[笑声]所以我并不知道这件事 >> 会非常值得你投入时间。>> 没错。我就像 >> 所以每当一部《钢铁侠》电影上映，>> 它可能就又提高了大约10%。>> 好。>> 呃，就此而言，因为每个人都想成为托尼·斯塔克。>> 所以那就是这个形象。

直到今天我才知道，新版托尼·斯塔克，也就是现代《钢铁侠》里的托尼·斯塔克，我一直以为托尼·斯塔克是以查尔斯·斯塔克·德雷珀和霍华德·休斯为原型的。是查尔斯·斯塔克·德雷珀所受的教育和他的，你知道，科学事业，与霍华德·休斯的雄心结合在一起 >> 从而创造了最初的角色，但后来小罗伯特·唐尼想重新塑造这个角色。>> 对，就变成了。>> 它以埃隆为原型。

>> 对，>> 他来见了我。>> 这是一个 Groipedia 事实。>> 好吧。>> 呃，[笑声]对，太棒了。>> 嗯 >> 对，他们来找约翰·法布罗，而且，而且罗伯特 >> 我喜欢 Grok 这个名字。我也喜欢贾维斯。>> 对。>> 对。嗯 >> 可能是某种、某种交易。>> 到某个时候，如果 Grok 足够好了，我们就会称它为《银河百科全书》。>> 对，这不错。>> 对。>> 对，当然。42。>> 谢谢。

嗯，那么回到教育，呃，大学是不是，我想社会体验，你说这方面很重要，但对于教育，呃，你知道，初中、高中，你会怎么做？你刚刚参加完与 Blly 总统共同举行的一场发布活动，呃，他是一位朋友。我、我认为他是一位了不起、了不起的远见者。对。他为自己的国家所做的事情令人难以置信。>> 对。>> 对。嗯，>> 非凡。>> 非凡而且大胆。>> 对。

我当时就想：“你怎么还活着？”那真是 >> 对。我是说，我，那就像是核武器，那是一个核选项，>> 对吧？把他们彻底端掉。我是说，你知道，除了把所有做帮派手势的人，嗯，关、关进，呃，监狱之外？我不知道你是否知道他做的第2件事。他去了那里所有帮派成员的所有坟墓，把坟墓毁掉，并说：“这个国家不会铭记你们。”

那简直太彪悍了。>> 而且奏效了。>> 我是说，你必须是个彪悍的[ __ ]，才能对付所有那些 knocker 帮派并获胜 >> 而且活下来。>> 对。而且现在还活着。>> 而且活下来。他在那里的宫殿有非常、非常棒的，呃，警卫。不过你、你和他在萨尔瓦多宣布了什么？>> 呃，基本上只是，呃，把 Grok 用于，呃，教育，比如个性化。>> 希望不是它的粗俗版本。[笑声] >> 对。

我们会有类似，你知道，那个，你知道，儿童友好版的 Grok。>> 呃，但、但显然，AI 可以成为一名个性化教师。>> 对。>> 嗯，它，呃，拥有无限的耐心，会回答你的所有问题。>> 嗯，现在你仍然需要有好奇心，嗯，而且，呃，你仍然需要想学习。你知道，Grok 无法让你想学习。它可以让学习变得更有趣。你或许可以把它 gify，并设置激励，对吧？

>> 你可以让学习变得更有趣。嗯，而且、而且不那么像生产线。嗯，所以，但孩子们确实需要去，如果他们需要想学习，你知道。>> 对。>> 你是否，而且就像人们应该把、大脑直接看作一台生物计算机。>> 它是一个神经网络。>> 对。对，它是一台生、生物计算机，拥有，你知道，也就是一定数量的神经元和神经效率。>> 对。

>> 嗯，而且，嗯，所以、所以，你无法做到的，比如说，是把任何一个普通孩子调成爱因斯坦。呃，这不现实，因为爱因斯坦有一台非常好的肉体计算机，就像一台出类拔萃的肉体计算机。>> 嗯，所以你不能就这样，呃，弄出莎士比亚、牛顿，你知道，爱因斯坦那种人。嗯，除非这台肉体计算机，呃，是一台非同寻常的计算机。>> 那么你怎么看？

所以，当人们说我们需要解决美国的教育问题时 >> 嗯，因为它从根本上已经坏掉了，呃，我觉得真正坏掉的，我很好奇，是旧的，呃，社会契约，它说，呃，在高中表现出色，进入一所好大学，取得学位，然后找到一份工作。而我不知道这在未来是否仍然成立。呃，我的，我们经常在播客上谈到这个，未来的、未来的职业并不是找一份工作。

而是成为一名创业者。是发现一个问题并解决它。>> 对。>> 你、你同意这一点吗？>> 就目前而言，我会说人们应该只是，你知道，为了社会体验而去上学，更多地使用 AI。嗯，我认为传统的学校教育体验可以好得多。

嗯，我们、我们将在阿尔萨尔瓦多做的事情，并希望也能在其他地方做，就是提供个性化教师，那会好得多，而且你、你可以去，你可以去一所学校，和一群其他孩子在一起，我想，如果你想和其他孩子一起玩的话，但你不需要 >> 对 >> 你可以在家里用手机完成，嗯，所以这就是为什么我说，像是，在这个节点上，当我和我那些正在、正在上大学的孩子谈话时，教育是一种社会体验 >> 呃，他们、他们、他们确实意识到，自己独立学习，嗯，也能学到同样多的东西。

事实上，他们在、在工作环境中会学到更多。>> 对。>> 嗯，他们待在那里是为了社会体验，也是为了和一群、一群与他们、他们年龄相仿的人待在一起。嗯，算是一种步入成年的社交体验。>> 当然。当然。独立生活，呃，学习如何、如何领导别人，或者视情况而定，如何保护自己。>> 嗯，对。

对，我是说，如果你参加工作，你会，你知道，从一个，比如说，你知道，19岁年轻人的角度来看，你和一群老年人在一起，[笑声]而如果你和一群中年男人一起做工程，那就像，你真的想那么做吗，还是你想待在，嗯，你知道，至少有一些与你年龄相仿的女孩的地方，[笑声]类似这种情况。

>> 我、我想回到，我想回到，我想回到这个话题，当我们谈到 >> 实际上还有很多其他选择，>> 当我们谈到全民高收入时，我想回到这个话题，但我想先用一点时间谈谈健康和长寿。美国在全球医疗支出方面是第1名、排名第1，而健康寿命排名第70 >> 对吧？我们 >> 真的是第70。>> 第70 >> 那是来自，那准确吗？>> 是为什么所有人都听它？

>> 呃，我觉得健康寿命 >> 应该会高于第70。>> 嗯，好吧，随便吧。它、它就像是我们只是变胖了之类的。>> 我们不在前10名。>> 也许 Zic 可以帮我们规划一下那里的排名。[笑声] >> 嗯，那么 >> 你会就这样到处跑吗？我们需要 Cupid。但一个 Zic。[笑声] >> Mjaro Cupid。[笑声] >> 但、但我认为那是一个重要原因。就像，如果人们变得非常胖，那么他们的、他们的健康就会变差。>> 对。

嗯，如果他们完全不运动，健康就会变差；或者如果他们每天早上甜甜圈。你还这么做吗？>> 呃，没有，其实已经不这么做了。>> 好，那很好。那很好。>> 嗯，首先，我并没有吃很多甜甜圈。我当时尽量只吃 0.4 个，向下取整就是 0。[笑声]所以我觉得，只要少于、少于 0.44 个甜甜圈，向下取整都是 0。

>> 所以，你和我在长寿问题上有过，呃，分歧。>> 我们有过一点。对。我当时说，你知道，我们应该努力让人们活到120岁、150岁，而你当时说，人们，你知道，不应该活那么[笑声]久。>> 呃，那么你希望多长 >> 对。>> 你知道，世界上有一些，>> 你知道，做过一些坏事的人。你希望他们活多久？>> 对。嗯，没关系。他们可以获得长寿。

>> 不过，这是个严肃的[笑声]问题。如果我们他们，很多事情将会发生，而我们不…… >> 等一下。你说了一件你说很有意思的事。他说，嗯，呃，我们需要人们死去，这样人们才会改变想法。>> 哦，是的，人们、人们不会改变想法，他们只会死去。>> 但所以[笑声]其实这样更说得通。

>> 我对此的回应，埃隆，是，你知道，我对此的回应是，通用汽车的负责人不必死去，Tesla 才能出现，而洛克希德、诺斯罗普和波音也不必消失，为了——我的意思是，有——在一个任人唯贤的体制中，更好的想法会占据主导。所以，我希望能让你重新登上长寿列车。所以，现在长寿领域有很多事情正在发生，对吧？>> 呃，比如什么？

>> 嗯，David Sinclair 即将开始他在人类身上的表观遗传重……呃……重编程试验。它在动物和非人灵长类动物身上已经奏效。现在要进入人类试验了。 >> 这是像一根杆，还是一次注射，或者 >> 现在？这是注射一种腺相关病毒。用的是3种山中因子。 >> 好的。

呃，我们有一个1.01亿美元的健康寿命 X-P 奖，该奖项正与730支团队合作，这些团队正致力于将你的大脑、免疫系统和肌肉的年龄逆转20年。顺便问一下，你知道为什么是1.01亿美元吗？>> 不知道。>> 因为主要的 funer 发现你的碳 X 价格是100美元时，他想把它做得更大。所以是101。>> 哦，是谁，谁是来自 Lululemon 的 Chip Wilson？>> 哦，好的。

然后，呃，然后进化脱离了，但 Chip 说：“我们能把它做得更大吗？”我说：“你再多投100万美元，我们就把它做到1.01亿美元。” >> 听起来不错。 >> 这是个好故事。 >> 但之后还有像 Dario Amade 这样的人，预测未来10年内人类寿命将翻倍。 >> 嗯，那可能是对的。 >> 好的，太好了。 >> 我不确定能不能翻倍，但会有显著的 >> 显著增长。当然。 >> 嗯 >> 这很容易达到逃逸速度。

>> 我的意思是，因为当……是啊。>> 取决于你的……有多老。是啊。[笑声] 哦，是的，当然。或者说实际年龄。是啊。>> 是啊。是啊。>> 所以我的意思是，我觉得，你知道，我觉得对于……>> 太多了，然后变成婴儿什么的。>> 我就是这么告诉那里的所有学生的。就像，彼得，发生什么了。[笑声] >> 是的。是的。那里那里有一个冷冻的。>> 你的剂量里有一个 0 搞错了。[笑声] 只是小小的 10 倍。

>> 长大后就会摆脱它。不会有事的。没错。[笑声] >> 你不会记得的。我真的……>> 我是说，如果我们大约 10 年后再做这个，不是会很有意思吗？好，我们应该做。我会做，我们肯定会在 10 年后再做。然后看看我们是否显得更年轻。[笑声] >> 这是个不错的附带赌注。>> 我一直说，那时的埃隆……埃隆当时大概 40 多岁后期。

等他到了 60 多岁，他就会想要，你知道，不再吃午饭了。>> 我的意思是，我我我希望东西不要疼。>> 是啊，当然。当然。[笑声] >> 就像，就像基本上，似乎你出现背痛只是时间问题。>> 是啊。>> 嗯，就像，这是“什么时候”的问题，而不是你的背会不会疼的问题。>> 关节炎。是的。>> 是啊。就像，这些东西基本上很糟糕。

>> 能够一觉睡到天亮而不用去卫生间。[笑声] >> 很多。非常是那个。>> 是啊，这比希望更……[笑声] >> 那个。>> 哦天哪，那会……那就像是无限金钱的那个。[笑声] >> 你为什么投资长寿？这样我就能一觉睡到天亮，不用去卫生间。>> 膀胱，膀胱。是啊。持续时间。

>> 我的意思是，[笑声] 不得不承认，如果你必须穿成人纸尿裤，那真是，那真是件扫兴的事。[笑声] >> 那可不好。成人纸尿裤是个真正的……[笑声] 你知道，这就像一个国家没有走在正确道路上的标志之一，>> 就是成人纸尿裤超过婴儿纸尿裤的时候。>> 是啊，我们已经到了。[笑声] >> 是啊。韩国再也会到那里。>> 他们已经……不，他们已经过了那个点。>> 不，他们已经过了那个点。

>> 他们很多年前就过了那个点。日本很多年前就过了那个点。>> 看看日本经济，情况不太好。不，我的意思是，像韩国就是，呃，是啊。三分之一的更替率。>> 疯了。>> 是啊。所以，3 代之后，他们会变成第 127 位。所以，是目前规模的 3 3%。我的意思是，朝鲜不需要入侵。他们直接走过去就行。>> 是啊。[笑声] 是啊。

>> 将会有一些人坐在，[笑声] 你知道，助行器之类的东西里，就像会有一群乐观主义者。但你，你知道，你一直非常直言不讳地谈论，你知道，不是人口过剩，而是严重的人口不足。>> 是啊，我说这个已经很多年了。>> 是啊。长寿将会是这个解决方案的重要组成部分。

顺便说一句，我还认为，如果把大多数美国人的有生产力寿命仅仅延长几年，你就会彻底扭转这里的整体经济状况。>> 嗯，如果 AI 和机器人基本上会让一切肯定都免费。>> 对。嗯，但是，呃，那么你想活多久？>> 呃，我想、我想去，你知道，其他行星系统。我想去探索宇宙。对。我的意思是，你知道，我当然希望把自己的寿命翻一倍。

>> 我不想，你知道，我不确定我想不想谈永生，但是 >> 你知道，至少 120、150。那是很长的时间。>> 最糟糕的诅咒之一可能就是那个。>> 是的。愿你永远活着。>> 愿你永远活着。>> 那会是最糟糕的……之一。>> 是啊。你可能施加给任何人的诅咒。>> 但我觉得生活会变得非常有趣。>> 是啊。>> 有趣得多。

我们要速通《星际迷航》，就像我的合伙人亚历克斯·维尔·格罗斯说的。>> 是啊。>> 速通《星际迷航》会很酷。>> 是啊。嗯 >> 嗯，至少你的孩子将拥有无限的预期寿命。如果你说的是逃逸速度，如果你能让寿命翻倍，那根本不是勉强达到。你显然已经越过长寿逃逸速度了。他们……50 年 AI 进步的构想。>> 是啊，这很棒。

我的意思是，我们在这方面将会有 20 年。>> 我不知道。我有太多事情要处理。>> 所以，我邀请了……>> 顺便说一句，这是一件我认为……我只是……我认为很显然其他人也这么想，但我长期以来一直认为，嗯，就像长……就像长寿或半死亡是一个非常容易解决的问题。我不认为这是个特别困难的问题。

嗯，我的意思是，当你考虑到你的身体在年龄上极度同步这个事实时，>> 是啊。>> 那个时钟一定明显得令人难以置信。嗯，没有人的左臂很老，而右臂很年轻，>> 对吧？>> 为什么会这样？>> 是什么让它们全都保持同步？嗯，你被编程为死亡，这就是……就是你被编程为死亡的方式。所以，如果你改变程序，>> 是啊，>> 呃，你就会活得更久。

>> 而且我们有，你知道，有弓头鲸这种物种能活 200 年。格陵兰鲨能活 500 年。而当我……当我了解到这一点时，我说，为什么它们不能？为什么我们不能？我说，这要么是硬件问题，要么是软件问题，而我们将拥有解决它的技术。而且我确实相信，就在接下来的 10 年。所以重要的是，不要在……在解决方案出现之前，因为某件愚蠢的事情死掉。

你知道，我邀请了你，呃……>> 回过头来看，长……长寿的解决方案会显得很明显。>> 是啊。>> 极其明显。>> 我我觉得值得研究的事情……彼得反正会研究这个，但应该研究的事情正是你所说的。

如果旧观念不钙化，旧观念不只是消亡，就把它加到我们今天需要思考的事情堆里，因为我们今天还需要思考一大堆其他与 AI 有关的事情。>> 让我……让我用一秒钟讲完长寿这一点。嗯，埃隆，呃，我想再次邀请你。所以，呃，呃，有一家叫 Fountain Life 的公司，是和托尼·罗宾斯、鲍勃·赫里、比尔·卡普一起创立的，而我们会对你进行一次 200GB 的上传。

关于你的一切可知信息。完整基因组、所有完整影像，一切。对。布利总统和第一夫人来体验过，称这是一次惊人的 10 分（满分 10 分）体验。>> 嗯 >> 我觉得我不希望你重蹈史蒂夫·乔布斯的覆辙，>> 然后因为某些……而一命呜呼，>> 因为某些他们不知道的东西。我的意思是，所以如果你问自己，>> 你现在真的知道自己身体内部正在发生什么吗？

>> 嗯，我最近做了核磁共振，并把它提交给 Gro，而它没有……>> 不需要，不，没有任何医生，Grock 也没有发现任何问题，>> 但那只是信息的一小部分，对吧？我的意思是，是你的完整基因组、你的微生物组、你的新陈代谢，一切。>> 而且，好吧，>> 这是可能的。所以，>> 别给我打电话。>> 什么？>> 别给我打电话，兄弟。[笑声] 我们有一个……我们有一个中心在……>> 你的水瓶。>> 我们有……[笑声] 该死的。

>> 太晚了。>> 抱歉。已经在进行了。[笑声] >> 那么，你能讲讲 UHI 的原理吗？全民高收入是如何运作的？>> 好。所以，将会有比全人类智能总和更多的智能、数字智能，也会有比全人类数量更多的人形机器人。>> 嗯，而且假设我们处于一个良性情景中，是《星际迷航》那种罗登伯里式的情况，而不是卡梅隆式的情况。>> 是啊。

[笑声] >> 嗯，>> 可怜的吉姆。>> 是啊。我的意思是，我猜有这些种类的……很重要。>> 对照观点。>> 是啊。我们不要……我们不要朝那个方向走。嗯，事情。嗯，所以，呃，机器人将会做你想要的任何事情。>> 所有蓝领劳动都由机器人完成。所有数据中心都在被机器人。

>> 白领劳动会最先消失，因为在你……在你能移动原子之前，最先能被取代的是任何只涉及数字的东西，如果它是数字的，就像如果它涉及 >> 在键盘上敲击按键，以及 >> 移动鼠标，计算机可以做到，它们可以做到。>> 当然。>> 嗯，你需要人形机器人来……来，呃，塑造原子，所以，如果你所做的一切只是改变信息的比特，也就是白色工作，嗯，那是……那是第一件会……>> 顺便说一句，这就是播客中鼓舞人心的部分，这就是播客中鼓舞人心的部分，什么时候……什么时候所有白色工作会消失，到什么时候？

>> 嗯，这……这……这有很大的惯性。所以，即使以 AI 目前的状态，嗯，我会说你……你已经非常接近能够取代所有工作中的一半……>> 而且你知道，白色工作，这也包括教育之类的任何事情。>> 是啊。嗯。>> 所以，任何涉及信息的事情，嗯，以及任何尚未涉及塑造原子的事情，嗯，AI 现在大概都能完成其中一半或更多的工作。>> 当然。>> 但存在很大的惯性。

人们只会在相当长一段时间里继续做同样的……同样的事情。嗯，而且实际上必须有一家更多使用 AI 的公司，与一家较少使用 AI 的公司竞争，从而形成一种迫使 AI 使用增加的机制，>> 对吧？>> 否则，那家……那家仍然让人类去做，嗯，AI 能做的事情的公司依然会继续存在。计算机曾经是一种工作。

所以过去，human computer，也就是人工计算员，是的，>> 计算员是一种工作。你会计算数字。当然。它过去并不是机器。它过去是一个职位描述。

嗯，而且你可以上网看看，有一些这样的照片，像是整栋摩天大楼里都是 >> 女性在抄写，主要是女性，从一本账簿抄到另一本账簿 >> 也有男性，不过，不过是的，不过是人、人们，嗯 >> 嗯，不过确实有很多女性，但当时有一栋栋楼，里面全是呃坐在桌前做计算的人。>> 是的。

嗯，所以他们会计算你银行账户里的利息，或者嗯，你知道，某个嗯，你知道，科学呃实验之类的，或者别的什么，但如果你想完成计算，呃，人们就会去做。嗯，所以嗯，现在一台装有电子表格的笔记本电脑，就能胜过一整栋摩天大楼里的数百名人工计算员 >> 对吧 >> 也就是做计算的人。

嗯，现在，即使那个电子表格里只有几个单元格是手工完成的，嗯，你也无法与一个完全由计算机完成的电子表格竞争。>> 嗯哼。>> 是的。这意味着，完全由 AI 构成的公司会摧毁那些不是这样的公司。>> 对。>> 根本不会有竞争。>> 同意。还有那个 flippid。>> 是的。

其中一个单元格 >> 就一个，如果 >> 我必须做那个 >> 你会希望电子表格里哪怕有一个单元格是手工计算的吗 >> 那会是最烦人的那个单元格，而你会想，该死的 >> 是 >> 而且而且而且很多时候还会算错（笑声）错误率 >> 所以这种翻转 >> 翻转，这种翻转 >> 嗯 >> 我们是否在有效地将希望变现 >> 是的（笑声）>> 不是，不是此刻，我觉得我们，我觉得我们是 pe，我觉得我们是 pe doo，为那些担心自己工作前景的人。

>> 变现。>> 我们正处于末日情绪的顶峰。>> 我们要把它做成一件 T 恤 >> 和那个（笑声）马克杯。>> 还有马克杯。>> 对。>> 那个马克杯。>> 呃，（笑声）所以，但你有一个解……你有一个解决方案 >> 就是 UHI。>> 对。每个人都可以拥有自己想要的任何东西。>> 那这是怎么运作的？UHI 怎么运作？>> 这……这是个好问题。

就像我们必须想出某种……>> 我的意思是，这不是一条……不是一条颠簸的路，它，是啊，我的意思是，所以我担心的不是长期，而是接下来的 3 到 7 年。>> 对，转型会很颠簸，呃，因为人类不喜欢同时发生……（清嗓子）对，我们会有剧烈变革、社会动荡和巨大的（笑声）繁荣。>> 而且你想买多少辆 Cybertruck 都可以买。>> 东西会变得非常便宜。>> 对。>> 嗯，所以实际上，坦率地说，如果这没有发生，我们这个国家会破产。

所以国债规模巨大。>> 对。>> 呃，国债利息不仅超过了，呃，军费预算，而且我认为超过了军费预算加上，嗯，Medicare >> 嗯，或者 Medicaid，两者中的一个。它就像，就像，它……它大约是 1 万亿（笑声）>> 的利息。对。嗯。>> 而且还在增长。>> 对。而且（清嗓子）赤字也在增长。>> 对。

>> 嗯，但这个……所以，如果……如果我们没有 AI 和机器人，我们都会破产，而且，而且，而且，而且我们正走向经济末日。>> 我们还会回到来自中国的竞争压力。所以这肯定会发生。我猜 >> 我们又回到了这场谈话的主题。AI 和指数级技术如何拯救美国和世界？>> 你不这么认为吗？

但我想，我想谈到……我想切中这一点，因为我们 >> 我当时对此相当悲观，而且，而且，而且最终我决定听天由命，并且 >> 嗯，看看光明的一面。（笑声）>> 我得看到你看看生活光明的一面。（笑声）>> 你坐在那里被钉上十字架（笑声）右边。>> 但这与征税和再分配无关。>> 对。不，这是，嗯……>> 所以，它是怎么……怎么运作的？

和我一起推理一下。>> 听着，顺便说一句，我愿意听取这里的想法。>> 好。>> 呃，所以并不是说我已经把这一切都弄明白了。>> 好吧。那么，那么我在想，它或许不是全民高收入，而是全民……全民高物资。>> 对。>> 以及服务。>> 对。>> UHSS。我们有了 >> 就像我……我猜，好吧。这是我对事情会如何展开、如何发展的猜测。

而且我……我，顺便说一句，我……这……这会是一段颠簸的旅程，并不是说我知道这里的答案。嗯，但我……我……我已经决定看光明的一面。呃，而且……而且我要感谢……感谢你们在这方面带来的启发。>> 谢谢。>> 很乐意帮忙。对，（笑声）因为我……我其实认为，做一个错误的乐观主义者，也比做一个正确的悲观主义者更好。>> 对，当然。>> 嗯，就生活质量而言。

>> 对。顺便说一句，也不存在一种自然之力。它处于 >> 就像对我来说，非常清楚的是，我们现在没有任何能让这件事顺利发展的系统。但 AI 是让它顺利发展的关键部分。而在某个时刻，Grok 会处理我们正在谈论的这个具体话题，或者它必须是 4 大 AI 机器之一。我的意思是，它正在到来、正在处理这件事。没有速度旋钮，对吧？没有开关。

它正在到来并加速。>> 我把 AI 和机器人技术称为超音速海啸。>> 对。>> 这或许有点令人惊慌。>> 你觉得这是好事。这很好。嗯，因为这是警钟。>> 这一点对人们来说很重要，要 gro，因为，嗯，呃，我不想让人们带着沮丧离开。我希望人们明白即将发生什么。所以我们基本上是在让一切去货币化。我的意思是，劳动力成本变成了资本支出和电力成本。

AI 基本上就是，呃，可以获得的智能，呃，>> 而且价格微不足道。嗯，呃，所以你几乎可以生产任何东西。东西的价格会降到材料和电力的基本成本，对吧？呃，所以人们可以拥有自己想要的任何物品、自己需要的任何服务。>> 嗯，当……当我们说全民高收入时，听起来像是征税和再分配，但事实并非如此。

嗯。>> 它……它，我认为我对这将如何显现的最佳猜测是，价格会变得……价格会下降。>> 对。>> 所以，随着生产或提供服务的效率下降，嗯，价格会下降。我的意思是，你知道，以美元计价的价格，是商品和服务产出与货币供应量之间的比率。>> 当然。

所以，如果你的商品和服务产出增长快于货币供应量，你就会经历通货紧缩，反之亦然，你知道。所以，嗯。>> 那么幸好我们如此迅速地扩大货币供应量，>> 对吧？（笑声）>> 我……我……我，对。所以我才……我……我开始觉得，就让我们别担心扩大货币供应量吧。那无关紧要，因为商品和服务的产出实际上会比货币供应量增长得更快。

而且我认为我们会处于这种……而且这是一个预测，我认为其他一些人也做过这个预测，但，嗯，我要补充一点，那就是，呃，我……我认为各国政府实际上会推动……推动增加货币供应量，嗯，就像……以更快的速度。>> 对。他们浪费钱的速度怎么都不够快（笑声），这可很能说明问题 >> 那些时间线就这样随机地衔接得如此紧密，不是很疯狂吗？

我的意思是，照这个速度，因为我们正在增加国家债务，并不是因为我们在预见 AI。不管怎样我们都会这么做。>> 所以这就像处在变成阿根廷的边缘。>> 但是，对，在那个时候，所以生产率将大幅提高。>> 而且它正在大幅提高。我……我……我认为我们会看到 >> 我认为，我认为我们可能会看到商品和服务产出达到两位数高位，呃。

我们必须稍微谨慎看待经济学家衡量事物的方式，而且，嗯。>> 对，它……我的意思是，有这样一个……我最喜欢的笑话，我有几个自己……自己喜欢的经济学家笑话，但，嗯，也许我最喜欢的那个经济学家笑话是，嗯，两个经济学家在……在森林里散步，嗯，然后他们遇到一堆［__］，一个经济学家说，我付你 100 美元，让你吃掉一堆［__］。（笑声）我听过这个。这个很棒。继续。

>> 于是那家伙拿了 100 美元（笑声），吃掉了那［__］。>> 然后他们继续走。他们又遇到一堆［__］。然后……另一个家伙说：“好吧，我给你 100 美元，让你吃掉一堆屎。”（笑声）于是他给了他 100 美元，然后……然后那些家伙可以说：“等一下。>> 我们俩的钱一样多。（笑声）我们吃了……我们俩都吃了一堆［__］。>> 我的天。

这听起来像是 >> 但我们让经济增长了 200 美元。（笑声）>> 这就是你在经济学中会遇到的那种［__］。所以，所以，呃，但如果你……如果，所以如果你说，就只看商品和服务的产出，嗯，那会大得多。你只需要一个 >> 所以公司的盈利能力会飙升 >> 到某个时候。但是，但是不，不过，所以问题就变成了，这会被政府征税吗？

呃。>> 那么，这会被政府征税，并以某种收入水平作为 U……作为 UHI 或 UBI 再分配吗？换句话说，嗯，其中一个问题是，如果我们事实上在这个未来实现了巨大的生产率，呃，以及巨大的盈利能力，因为我们是在除以零。劳动力成本已经降到了零。智能成本已经降到了零，而我们仍在越来越快地生产产品和服务。所以盈利能力更高了。

需要有人购买它，也需要有人拥有购买它的资本。嗯，我的意思是，这是一个需要……需要仔细想透的重要问题。>> 对。嗯，好吧，我有一个类似附带建议的建议，就是别担心为了，呃，10 年或 20 年后退休而像松鼠藏食一样攒钱。那将无关紧要。>> 不。>> 好。

要么……要么我们不会在这里了，或者 >> 它……它只是，呃，就像，它……它是，你不需要为退休储蓄。如果……如果我们所说的这些事情中有任何一件是真的，为退休储蓄都将变得无关紧要。>> 那些服务会在那里支持你。你会有住房，你会有医疗保健，你会有娱乐。

>> 这将如何展开，从根本上说是不可能预测的，因为 AI 会自我改进，而且时间线正在加速。>> 是的。它被称为奇点是有原因的。>> 是的。没错。>> 我不知道越过事件视界之后会怎样，什么什么什么会发生。>> 没错。你永远无法看穿黑洞或越过事件视界。光锥。>> 我是说，雷把奇点定得太遥远了。

我是说，这就像接下来……你认为 >> 这件事的时间线是什么？>> 我们正处于奇点之中。>> 嗯，我们肯定正处于奇点之中。我们现在肯定就在它的进程当中。>> 而我们只是……我们正处在这个美妙的甜蜜点，也就是，你知道，>> 我们就像过山车刚刚……>> 是的。没错。这是个（笑声）绝佳的类比。就像那种感觉。>> 你正处在过山车的顶端，马上就要冲下去了。

>> 是的。但你知道，当你们……当你达到时，会承受很大的 G 力。>> 呃，而且就像人们说的，我不只是坐在场边座位上。我就在场上。>> 没错。>> 而且这让我……现在仍然让我大为震撼 >> 有时一周会有好几次。>> 是的。>> 嗯，所以 >> 每当我觉得，哇。然后就又像是 >> 2天后，更哇。>> 是的。>> 嗯 >> 指数级的哇。

是的，我认为我们会在明年，也就是26年，实现 AGI。>> 是的，我听你这么说过。>> 是的，实际上我这么说已经有一段时间了。>> 然后，你知道，接着你说到2029年、2030年，会相当于整个人类。>> 2030年我们会超过……比如，我有信心，到……嗯，AI 将超过全体人类的综合智能。

如果你明年就实现 AGI，那就太悲观了，而那个日期，你知道，仍在变动，但从那个日期开始 >> 到数量级为 th00and、10,000倍的自我改进，光是算法层面的改进，时间就非常短 >> 所以，为什么现在不是所有人都在谈论这件事？>> 嗯，我是说，在……在 >> X 上，在 X 上，他们关了。>> 是的。但为什么不是 >> 基本上每天。>> 是的。

但这就像是 >> 停下（笑声）>> 这不是 >> 好吧。好吧。所以，我来告诉你另一件事，我我来告诉你一件 AI 社区大多数人还不理解的事。>> 好。>> 嗯，也就是几乎没人理解这一点。嗯，智能密度的潜力，呃，比我们目前正在体验的要大得多。

所以，我我认为，就每千兆字节的智能密度而言，我们与可实现的水平相差了若干个数量级 >>。>> 是的。

每吉瓦能量 >> 每，我是按文件大小来描述它，好吧，如果 AI 的文件大小，如果你 >> 如果你有一个，比方说，获得智能 >> 哦，好吧，在，知道，是的，先生 >> 嗯 >> 在你的，在你的驱动器上，在你的笔记本电脑上 >> 功率管参数，同一回事，随便怎么说 >> 嗯，所以 2、2 个数量级 >> 是的 >> 而且就像你说的，你有场边、场边座位 >> 你会知道，我会说它是、它是、它是，呃，2，是的。对。

>> 朝着数量级的提升，嗯，那只是、只是算法上的提升。同一台计算机，而计算机也在变得更好。>> 对。>> 所以 >> 而且更大，你知道，它们在变得更好，预算也在变得更大。所以 >> 这就是为什么，我认为、我认为这确实是、确实像是每年提升 10 倍的那种事情。1000%。>> 对。>> 而且那、那将会持续发生，对。在可预见的未来。

所以你看到了严重的反应不足，比如如果你走在奥斯汀市中心，这种严重的，我是说，X 上可能有人在讨论，但它根本没有渗透开来。>> 嗯，这不、这在政府的任何领域都没有得到讨论。

每个人都像是在为我们目前所处的位置、工作岗位和这些事情上的立场辩护，但 >> 这、这就像我们正朝着一场 >> 一场超音速、超音速海啸前进，而且、而且，呃、呃，我是说，每一位、每一位，你知道，所有主要 CEO、经济学家和政府领导人都应该在想，我们该怎么办，因为 >> 一旦它来袭 >> 嗯 >> 嗯，它恰好同时到来，无论如何，都没有，不，没有那种“让我们刻意放慢速度”的概念，对吧？

>> 不，这是不可能的。>> 到这个阶段已经不可能了。>> 我是说，我（清嗓子）我、我以前曾建议我们放慢它，但那是，关键是，呃，那毫无意义。就像我、我，就像你不能冲着它说，不过太快了，伙计们。嗯，我多年来一直这么说，然后、然后我就像，好吧，我最终得出结论，我要么当旁观者，要么当参与者，但我无法阻止它。

>> 所以至少，如果我是参与者，我可以努力把它引向好的方向。>> 嗯，而且，呃，比如我对 AI 安全的头号信念，就是最大限度地追求真相。所以，嗯，不要让 AI 相信虚假的事情。比如，如果你说，如果你、如果你对 AI 说，公理 A 和公理 B 都是真的，但它们、但它们不可能都是真的，但、但它们并不是真的。>> 对。>> 嗯，而它必须、但它必须那样行事。嗯，你会让它发疯。

所以那、那，我、我是说，我认为那正是 RC·克拉克试图在《2001：太空漫游》中传达的核心教训，就是，嗯，你知道，人们总是知道，他们知道那个梗，呃，哈尔不肯打开飞船舱门，但、但哈尔为什么不肯打开飞船舱门？我是说，我猜他们本应该说，呃，哈尔，假设你是一名飞船舱门销售员（笑声）>> 而、而且你想把它们卖个精光，展示它们有多么好（笑声）。

是的，它们只是提示词工程。

一丁点，但（笑声）这、这、这，但 AI 被告知，它需要把这些、这些宇航员带到独石那里，但同时他们不能知道，关于这件事，那是用代码写的还是用英语写的，它以绿色字体飘过，对吧 >> 对，基本上 AI 被告知，宇航员不能知道独石的事 >> 所以它才杀了他们，对 >> 所以它得出了、基本上得出了结论，>> 呃，解决这个问题的唯一方法，是把这、这、这些宇航员死着带到独石那里。对，这样它就同时解决了两件事。

它把宇航员带到了独石那里，而且他们也不知道独石的事，如果你是一名宇航员，这就是个大问题。>> 事实证明，AI 并不像那所暗示的那样在乎逻辑。（笑声）>> 所以我要说的是，不要强迫 AI 撒谎。这是 >> 给它事实真相。是的。>> 伊利亚最近做了一期播客。

他谈到，可以编程写入 AI 的潜在事物之一，是、是对所有类型有感知生命的尊重。>> 嗯。是的。是的。>> 我是说，>> 所以我会说这是另一个属性。>> 是的。>> 我是说，我认为有 3 件事很重要。嗯，真相、好奇心和美。>> 嗯哼。>> 如果 AI 在乎这 3 件事，呃，它就会在乎我们。>> 哪一部分？真相会防止 AI 发疯。>> 嗯哼。

>> 我认为好奇心会扶持，呃，任何形式的感知生命。意思是，比如我们比一堆石头更有趣。>> 对。>> 所以，如果它有，如果它有好奇心，那么我认为它会扶持人类。嗯，如果它有美感，嗯，未来会很美好。我认为那是一个很棒的基础。>> 对。杰弗里·辛顿最近发表了一番评论。

我不知道你有没有看到，>> 他、他所期望的未来，是我们会把母性本能编程写入我们的 AI，让它们 >> 以母亲般的方式看待我们。>> 对。换句话说，>> 他，没听说过这个。（笑声）对。>> 所以，他说，有点吓人。他说，有一种、有一种、有一种情景，一个非常聪明的存在会屈从于一个不那么聪明的存在的需求，而那就是母亲照顾孩子。

你认为我们可能会有一个，呃，奇点主义的，呃，像一个、一个，呃，取得支配地位并压制其他者的存在吗？你是否设想那个 ASI 可以成为稳定人类世界的一种手段？>> 达尔文关于进化的观察，>> 是的，>> 将适用于 AI，>> 就像它们适用于生物生命一样。>> 它们会相互竞争。>> 是的。

>> 呃，有很多很棒的科幻书，其中第一个 ASI 基本上压制了其他者。嗯，那么问题就是，你要给它编程写入什么，你知道，嗯，我、我，这，所以存在一个光速限制，让这件事变得困难。嗯，光速会阻止，嗯，单一心智的存在。嗯，所以光可以，它、它在真空中传播 300 公里需要，嗯，1 毫秒。

嗯，而且，呃，在玻璃中，1 毫秒只能传播略多于 200 公里 >> 在光纤中，对吧？>> 对。嗯，所以即使在地球上，呃，由于光速，也会存在多个 AI。嗯，对，而且、而且这里有一些计算集群，你可以、你可以尝试将它们同步，但它们并没有完全同步。嗯，所以由于光速，你会有许多心智。

>> 不过，它们也不再真正拥有清晰的边界。你有这个，当你使用一种专家混合式设计时，它只是在整个大型网络中流动，而你可以在中途重新组合它的各个部分。而且你知道，我们习惯了拥有清晰边界的生物体，比如你的头到那里结束，你的头到那里结束。>> 但这些东西全都是模糊的。>> 为了给这一部分收个尾，我希望你会再多思考一下 UHI。

呃，因为我认为这真的、这真的很重要，对我们来说要有，没有愿景。呃，人们需要一个我们要去往何方的愿景。人们需要某种东西。>> 基本上，政府可以直接向人们发放免费的钱。>> 但我不认为，我、我认为那 >> 基于所有进入这个国家的公司的盈利能力。>> 直接向人们发放免费的钱。不，他们现在算是、多少正在这么做。>> 对。

（笑声）>> 但就是、就是、就是基本上向每个人发放支票，呃。嗯，而且，呃 >> 但那么，对哪个人发多少，或者你要怎么，这里面有太多复杂性。但这种变化速度背后的思考过程只能借助 AI 辅助来完成 >> 而且没有任何政府实体能跟上这种变化。

所以你有4个大的 >> 肯定不是 AI [咳嗽并清嗓子] >> 它，它就像政府行动非常缓慢，正如我们都知道的那样。嗯 >> 所以我认为，我——政府真的无法对 AI 作出反应。它，它，呃，AI 的发展速度，你知道，可能比政府快10倍，也许更快。嗯，政府能做的一件事就是，就是给人们发钱。嗯，还有，嗯 >> 试着，试着维持和平。[哼鼻子] >> 对。

>> 嗯，你知道，我们有过像随便什么，那些 co 支票之类的，还有 >> 嗯，你知道，呃，特朗普总统最近给军队里的每个人发了，好像是1,776美元。呃，我是说，你基本上就是可以给人们发送随机、随机金额的钱。这 >> 嗯 >> 好吧。所以 >> 所以我的意思是，没人会阻止。嗯 >> 还有，嗯 >> 普遍的 >> 我可以告诉你，比如，让我告诉你一些好事 >> 请讲。

>> 嗯 >> 所以，就、就在现在，嗯，医生以及、以及、以及优秀的外科医生都很短缺。你自己就是医生。

你知道，他们——一个人要成为 >> 这贵得离谱，而且耗时很长 >> 荒谬，是的，荒谬，要花超级长的时间才能学会成为一名好医生，嗯，而且即便如此，知识也在不断演变，很难跟上所有东西，呃，你知道，医生的时间有限，他们会犯错，嗯，而且你说，比如有多少，有多少伟大的外科医生，并没有那么多伟大的外科医生 >> 你认为 Optimus 什么时候会成为比最优秀的外科医生更好的外科医生。

那要多久？>> 3年。>> 3年。好。对。顺便说一下，>> 3年达到规模化。>> 是的。全都 >> 很可能会有更多擅长做外科手术的 Optimus 机器人，比现有的 >> 当然，地球上所有外科医生。>> 而其成本就是资本支出和电力，而且它在津巴布韦也能工作。最优秀的外科医生遍及非洲各地的村庄，或地球上的任何地方。>> 对。

你认为它会先在哪里推出？显然不是美国。>> 嗯 >> 在这里，在，呃，超级工厂。>> 哦，对。就在这里做手术 [笑声] >> 嗯 >> 但这是关于3年后的一项重要表述。>> 对。>> 嗯，因为医疗，我是说 >> 我不是说绝对如此，如果是4年或5年，谁在乎。那仍然是一项不可思议的 >> 表述。我是说，这对人类有益，对吧？突然之间你就去货币化。>> 好吧。

关于人形机器人的改进速度，需要理解的一点是，嗯，就是，嗯，你、你有，嗯，3个彼此相乘的指数增长。AI 软件能力呈指数级增长。>> 对。>> AI 芯片能力呈指数级增长，>> 嗯，还有机电灵巧性呈指数级增长。

人形机器人的实用性，就是这3项彼此相乘，对吧？嗯，然后你会有 Optimus 制造 Optimus 的递归效应，>> 对吧？然后你会有共享的……>> 你有一个递归、可相乘的三重指数增长，>> 而且你还共享所有、所有经历的知识。

>> 真的是 Optimus 制造 Optimus 吗，还是因为，你知道，>> 嗯，现在还不是，但以后会是实体人形形态制造人形形态，而不是……>> 它是福伊曼机器。>> 对。>> 对。对。>> 我喜欢这个。但虚空机器通常是某种像这样的形状。你知道，制造其他东西是一种形状。>> 原则上，它就只是一个能够自我复制的东西。>> 对。

>> 埃隆，你知道面试外科医生时要问的头号问题是什么吗？>> 呃，[笑声] 这、这是一个外科医生笑话吗？>> 不是。是做过多少次，是你做过多少次……你做那个多少次？[笑声] >> 肯定快要冒出一些好笑、好笑的笑话了。[笑声] >> 不，这是认真的。是、是你今天早上做了多少次这种手术？

>> 是你今天早上或昨天做了多少次这种手术？关键是、是经历的数量，对吧？>> 所以，有了共享记忆，>> 嗯，你知道，每一位 Optimus 外科医生都会见过一切可能的每一种扰动，包括红外线下的、紫外线下的。不会因为那天早上摄入了太多咖啡因。他们也没有和丈夫或妻子吵架。>> 对。>> 极致精准。>> 是。3年。嗯，是的。

胜过任何、任何，大概我会说，如果你想留一点余量的话。4年内胜过任何人类，>> 那整形外科呢？>> 5年内。根本没得比。>> 那么那些简单的，比如只是，我是说这里有100万个这类问题要弄清楚，但第一批在地球上做显微手术远远胜过任何外科医生的 Optimus，谁能用得上？而你只制造了最初的10,000个？

你要怎么……>> 我觉得人们不明白将会有多少机器人。>> 对。>> 嗯，有个窗口说到2040年会有100亿个。>> 你仍在沿着这条路径走吗？>> 呃，那不是……那是个很低的数字。>> 很低的数字。>> 哇。制约因素是什么？是什么，呃，因为如果它们能自我制造，你知道，>> 金属，制约因素是金属。>> 对。或者锂，或者……>> 对。你得移动原子。嗯，全都只是供应链方面的事情。

所以，是的，但你的、你的意思，我是说，总会有某种速率限制。你不能就这么……>> 制造非常困难。所以你得、你得……>> 你、你、你，这是、这是递归、可相乘的三重指数增长，但、但你仍然需要，你仍然、你仍然得爬上那个，你知道……>> 再次推销希望，我、我认为你的观点是，医疗实际上会变得免费，而且是世界上最好的医疗。

每个人都能获得比总统现在接受的更好的医疗服务。>> 所以别去读医学院。>> 是的。毫无意义。>> 对。>> 我是说，除非你……但我会说，这适用于任何形式的教育，[笑声] 并不存在某种……我是出于社交原因才这么做的。>> 对。>> 你不会去读医学院。>> 如果你想……[笑声] 如果你想，如果你想和志同道合的人待在一起，我想可以。

呃，>> 我是说，人们仍然会希望与人保持联系。会有一段时间……>> 出于各种原因。>> 对。>> 就像一种爱好，就像一种，你知道……[笑声] >> 嗯，9,000美元。>> 我是说，会有一个它很昂贵的时点。>> 当外科医生走过来时，年轻一代会说，我不想让那个人碰我，对吧。他们以后年纪大了，会成为那些仍然希望有人类参与其中的人。

>> 好吧。有一小段时间处在边缘，为了更小的，为了……[笑声] 他们想在危险边缘生活。我的意思是，就拿我们见过的一些先进自动化案例来说，比如 LASIC，机器人会直接用激光照射你的眼球。>> 那么，你想要一个拿着手持激光器的眼科医生吗？>> 不，[笑声] 那就像恐怖电影里一个有点颤抖的激光笔。[笑声] >> 抱歉，伙计。

我、我不会想要最好的眼科医生，你知道。让手最稳的人拿着一个[ __ ]手持激光器，越过我的眼球，你知道吗？>> 我的天啊。>> 对。>> 到时候会是那样。>> 就像，你想要一个拿着[ __ ]手持激光器的眼科医生，还是想让机器人来做，而且确实能成功？>> 本期节目由 Blitzy 赞助，它凭借无限代码上下文实现自主软件开发。

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访问 blitzy. com，预约演示，并从今天开始使用 Blitzy 构建。[音乐] >> 我们来聊聊我们最喜欢的话题之一，太空。>> 对。>> 那么，首先，贾里德·艾萨克曼成为了 NASA 局长，这多酷啊。>> 朋友，是的。>> 我是说，我、我并不和贾里德一起出去玩。好像人们认为我和贾里德是特别要好的朋友，但，嗯……>> 呃，我、我、我觉得我只和他见过几次面。>> 出色的候选人。

对，他是个非常聪明的人。你非常了解他。>> 对，我、我在2008年带他去看了一次比科诺尔发射，那是他的首次太空体验。>> 我是说，他对太空的热爱达到了另一个层次，而且，呃，在技术方面很强。他是个聪明而能干的人，真的非常聪明，也真的非常能干，>> 而且懂商业。>> 是的。>> 是的。他懂，他能把事情办成，>> 而且他去过那里几次。>> 对。对。

所以，呃，我、我、我只是觉得，你知道，我们希望有一个聪明、能干，而且，呃，热爱太空探索的人，>> 嗯，并且能在 NASA 把事情办成。>> 我特别支持他。>> 所以他再次获得提名时，我真的非常、非常高兴。而现在，>> 对。嗯，>> 嗯，我、我认为我们需要……>> 我们需要一个新的太空行动方案。比如，我们需要一座月球基地。>> 是的。>> 比如一座永久性的……>> 是的。>> 粗制的月球基地。

对……>> 呃，而且、而且要尽快把它建设起来。>> 对。>> 嗯，我认为我们不该这么做，你知道，送几个宇航员到那里蹦跶一阵子再回来，因为我们在'69年已经这么做过了。>> 是的。去过了，做过了。>> 对。[喷鼻声] 嗯，这就像翻拍一部'60年代的电影。永远不会像原版那么好。>> 对。

>> 嗯……>> 所以2026年[笑声]将会……>> 比如，我们需要去，你知道，做些更酷的事，这……>> 我的不错的在……>> 对。架设望远镜。>> 对。对，没错。>> 那么，你会提前部署机器人，把一切都建好，把一切都准备好，铺好床，然后……>> 对。把按摩浴缸预热好……>> 这是个有意思的……>> 对。对。[清嗓声] >> 对。

>> 你觉得今年多早能用星舰实现轨道加注？>> 呃，不会是今年很早的时候。[笑声] >> 我是说，你们是在争取实现本土和转移轨道吗？>> 我会说接近、接近年底。嗯，>> 你们是在争取明年年底前尝试发射火星任务吗？我们可以，但，呃，那会是一次成功概率很低的尝试，>> 嗯，而且多少有些让人分心。

所以……>> 嗯……>> 那就是29年……>> 也不是不可能。>> 28年、29年。>> 嗯……>> 对。>> 呃，但像每周一，我、我都会参加，呃，星舰，呃，工程……大型星舰工程评审是在每周一。嗯，所以那其实是，呃，我来这里之前刚刚做的最……那件事。嗯，而且，嗯，所以我会说，像、像星舰，我们确实是在做一件处于生物智能极限的事情。>> 对。>> 这、这是个很难制造的东西。

>> 嗯，>> 而且，而且就把它记录下来，它是在 AAI 之前创造的。>> 对。没有 AI，>> 可能是最后一个 >> 最后一个真正不属于 AI 的重大事物。有意思。>> 可能是有史以来造出来的最大事物。>> 对。>> 完全靠人类双手。>> 亚洲会说，以人类而言还不错。>> [笑声] >> 确实。>> 以人类而言还不错。>> 对。但它会像，记住 >> 我那台小小的 20 瓦肉体计算机。这并不容易。>> 对。

>> 就这样熬过一天。>> 猛禽。>> 那就像是，呃，用铅笔做会计、计算你的，呃，利息。对，那，那挺不错的。>> 对，>> 挺不错的。>> 用普通的就做到了 >> 对一群猴子来说不赖，你知道吗？>> 就像，就像如果你看到一群黑猩猩造了一艘木筏渡过河，你会说：“哦，看看那个。”

[笑声] 但你知道，我们庆祝，我们庆祝金字塔。替他们高兴。[笑声] >> 给他一些花生。呃 >> 这些东西会变得永恒，对吧？>> 猛禽 3 什么时候上？>> 对，我觉得值得指出。>> 猛禽 3 很漂亮。>> 星舰。>> 它非常了不起，绝对是有史以来最好的火箭发动机。>> 那是 AI 吗？>> 没有任何东西能接近它。不是。>> 那也是，所以那会是最后一个东西。>> E4 肯定会是 >> AI。

对，有，嗯，就像我认为 AI 明年会开始变得相关。>> 嗯哼。>> 嗯，所以也许我们会，这并不是说我们在推迟 AI。只是 AI 现在还做不了火箭工程。>> 对。>> 但明年我们可能就能做到了。>> 我们的孵化器里有一家公司在做机械设计，与安德烈等人合作。而且它不是，你可以设计支架、零件之类的东西，但还不能真正做火箭。

但时间线非常短，你知道，从 A 点到 B 点。>> 如果说大概从现在起 1 年后，它可能能 >> 从现在起 1 年后，它可能会有帮助，能提供实质性的帮助。>> 对。>> 嗯，>> 所以重大里程碑将会是星舰 V3 从卡纳维拉尔角发射、轨道加注。>> 是的。>> 那些是重大里程碑吗？>> 嗯，是的。嗯，用发射塔接住飞船。>> 对，没错。

嗯，所以真正重要的是，我们能不能让>>整个东西再次飞行？>>是的。>>呃，我们的一个助推器里有回流。>>当然。>>嗯，你知道，对于最大的飞行物体来说，这还不赖。嗯，用筷子接住，你知道。>>对一群猴子来说还不赖。>>你让，你让那些 AI 非常开心。谢谢。>>是的。是的。正是如此。希望这就像是 AGI 拍了拍我们的背。

嗯，在此之前，重复使用次数有没有一个目标？呃，我是说，磨损肯定会很严重。>>呃，要实现高重复使用率，需要大量迭代。所以，你要弄清楚每次飞行之间有什么东西坏了，然后通过迭代逐一解决那些问题。>>嗯，所以从外部观察的人可能会说：“哦，这枚火箭看起来差不多。”

但其实有大约1000项改动，目的是让它更可重复使用、更可靠。嗯，你知道，你试图释放的能量之大，我是说，呃，星舰在上升过程中输出的功率超过100吉瓦。>>这很大（笑声），你知道>>可以在下面吹点玻璃，再弄点，呃>>是的。哇。>>很大。真的很大。>>非常大。>>嗯>>但令人惊叹的是，它没有爆炸。>>是的。

>>有些……它有时不会爆炸。>>（笑声）>>那就是>>有时不爆炸，嗯，就像我们在试验台上炸毁过很多发动机。>>嗯>>我是说，是这个造成了磨损，还是重返大气层，或者下落造成的？>>嗯，那个也是。嗯，我是说，对于助推器而言，嗯，重返大气层并没有那么糟，你知道。

嗯，你知道，有些事情，它，它，它并不像……那其实不像……我们显然也已经用 Falcon 9 解决了那个问题，所以我们算是了解助推器的重复使用>>嗯，我们已经完成了超过500次 Falcon 9 助推级的再次飞行>>嗯，所以我们确实非常了解，而且，而且，而且星舰助推器的再入条件实际上比 Falcon，呃，助推器更温和，因为，呃，星舰的级间比更偏向上面级。

所以我把质量比调整为，呃，让星舰这一侧高得多。>>这是我在 Falcon 9 上犯的一个错误，Falcon 9 的，呃，上面级应该分配更多质量。>>嗯，这样，呃，分级速度就，就会更低。>>是的。如果 Falcon 9 的站点速度更低，Falcon 9 的磨损就会更少。>>是的，这完全不符合直觉。很有意思。

>>是的，因为这，这算是一种平坦优化。嗯，平行进入轨道……第一级和第二级的质量比中存在某种平坦区域。所以你只需要让那个质量比偏向，呃，偏向在上面级配置更多质量。>>是的。嗯，所以，嗯，是的，因为你知道，你的动能与速度的平方成比例。所以，你必须描述那份动能。

如果温度超过了构成你的级段的任何材料的熔点，那你就有麻烦了。>>没错。>>所以，嗯，>>我的，我的同事，呃，亚历克斯·维斯纳-格罗斯，他是我们这里的一位登月计划伙伴，我想问一个问题。我也想。你看过那部，呃，纪录片《Age of Disclosure》吗？讲的是，呃，美国政府官员、军方官员发布的所有消息，内容涉及所有那些曾被，曾被，呃，某种程度上扣留的外星飞船？

而且，我听过你对此的说法。>> 嗯，我确实想知道为什么，嗯，你知道，如果把相机分辨率随时间的变化画在图表上 >> 对。>> 比如每年的百万像素数。>> 对。呃，再看 UFO 照片的分辨率。[笑声] 为什么只有它始终不变？UFO 的曲线是平的。[笑声] >> 我们得到一个模糊光团，25。嗯，我们已经有了，比如，你知道，随便吧，[笑声] 1 亿像素的相机，连你的[ __ ]鼻毛都能看清。

我不明白。>>看在上帝的份上，能不能有人用真正的相机拍一张 UFO 的照片？>>但即使你知道，>>这是一个合理的观察。我相信会有一个解释。>>呃，但不管怎样，这，呃（笑声）>>会很迷人。>>总有人问我，我是否已经>>是的。而且，而且我会说，听着，>>嗯，我可以向你展示，如果，如果我知道哪怕一丁点外星人的证据，我都会立刻把它发到 X 上。>>是的。

>>而且，嗯（笑声）>>所以问题是>>那会成为有史以来浏览量最高的帖子。所以，我，我其实很好奇美国公众会不会像：“哦，那挺有意思。”然后第二天又回去看他们的体育比分。>>是的。>>我觉得每个人都会想看看外星人。>>是的。>>比如说，如果你真有一个。>>嗯，就像（笑声），增加军费预算的快捷办法。我们就说，我们发现了一个外星人。它似乎很危险。

（清嗓声和笑声）>>没错。团结全世界。>>他们没有隐藏外星人的动机。他们有没有，呃，把外星人拿出来展示的动机，因为那样他们就再也不需要为军费预算找理由了>>如果它们看起来有一点危险的话？>>哦，我总可以抱有希望。>>我总可以抱有希望。>>我是说，我，你知道，我们上面有9 9,000颗卫星。

我们从来没有为了避让外星飞船而进行过机动（笑声）>>目前还没有。所以，嗯，>>嗯>>是的。所以不管怎样，我想美好的未来是，嗯，任何人都可以拥有他们想要的任何东西，以及好得难以置信的医疗服务，比现有的任何医疗服务都更好。

所以我认为，如果你稍微，呃，把目光抬高一点，你知道，望向一个并不特别遥远的时间点，5年后、4年后，也许，呃，我们将拥有比今天任何人所能获得的都更好的医疗服务，并在5年内向所有人提供。>>是的。>>嗯，商品或服务不再稀缺。每个人都能获得最好的教育。>>什么？你可以学任何你想学的东西>>免费学习任何东西。>>是的。>>那算力的获取呢？

>>大约3年后，人们对那个的在意程度可能会远远超过对政府支票的在意程度。>>那么，他们想用算力做什么？>>嗯，我是说，算力可以转化为你想要的任何东西，对吧？你的，你的虚拟朋友、你的娱乐、你的……它，它可能就是一切。>>那些基本上都是 AI 服务。>>是的。或者，或者还有你的创新能力。到那时，没有 AI 助手你就无法创新。

所以>>你……我们的另一位登月计划伙伴西·伊斯梅尔说，呃，问了这个问题。他说，埃隆，你经常说，物理学是定律，其他一切都只是建议。>>嗯哼。>>那么，随着 AI、能源和太空系统呈指数级扩展，现在真正的瓶颈是什么非物理限制：组织、文化、官僚体制，还是人？存在瓶颈吗？嗯，发电是限制因素。嗯，最内层循环。>>是的。

嗯，我认为人们低估了让电力上线的难度。你知道，你，你必须，你必须发电。你必须……变压器需要变压器。>>嗯，所以你必须把那个电压转换成计算机能够消化的电压。你必须给计算机降温。>>（哼声）>>所以，基本上，发电和冷却，嗯，是 AI 的限制因素。>>是的。

>>嗯，一旦有了人形机器人，它们就能处理发电以及，以及，呃，冷却方面的事情。嗯，但那，那是限制因素，而且至少未来2年仍将如此。孟菲斯版本与太空版本之间的差异如此之大，不是很惊人吗？我……它们的共同点是太阳能电池板，但除此之外，不需要储能，能量极其充足。是的。

>>但你有发射成本，而且还有，我是说，重量突然变得重要了。在田纳西州，我不太在乎重量。突然之间，重量成了一个关键因素。我是说，从现在往后，这2条算力路径会出现巨大的分化。>>是的。嗯，一旦我们在国内实现大规模太阳能部署，而且，呃，如果我们大规模发射星舰，那么，嗯，进行 AI 计算成本最低的方式将毫无疑问是在太空中。

嗯，所以一旦你实现了，一旦你实现了完全彻底的重复使用，嗯，每次飞行的推进剂成本也许是100万美元。>>是的。人们没有意识到，人们对成本有>>要摆脱的预期数额。所以，所以如果你听着，>>这叫作以100万美元的运输成本运送10兆瓦的 AI 计算。>>是的。

>>所以，假设一切都继续按照目前的趋势发展，如果你看看未来4年不断加速的发射，>>那么每次发射200吨。>>是的。成千上万，你要去的地方，不过是的，比如说太阳……比如说高海拔、阳光充足的情况下，可能更接近150吨。不过是的，正确的数量级至少是，它，它超过100吨，呃，而每次飞行的边际成本约为100万，100万。

>> 那么，那么所有这些发射质量中，有多大比例是在太空中的数据中心，而不是 >> 月球基地，不是发射到火星？这很有意思，我的意思是，这是一个新的——我们甚至在，你知道，1年前都还没有把这个当作太空目标来谈论。>> 是的。突然之间，数据中心已经成为开拓太空的巨大驱动力，>> 而且也是迫切的、迫切的应用场景。

>> 我的意思是，我过去常常，我过去常常想，什么会驱动人类。我，我原以为是小行星采矿，对吧？你当时专注于，专注于火星。嗯，>> 我们实际上会想开采小行星，把它们变成 >> 当然。

呃，你知道 >> 在……之前，在你……之前 >> 光伏 >> 在你……之前（笑声），你知道 >> 不是为了其他任何东西，比如 >> 我的意思是，如果我们要，如果我们要建造戴森群 >> 是的，就是一群环绕太阳的卫星 >> 是的，要，要，要多久 >> 你的时间表是什么？亚历克斯——另一个问题，亚历克斯想让我们问的是，你预计人类实现戴森群的时间表是什么？是50年吗？>> 这个有多大 >> 是的，不，这是个……的问题 >> 人们一想到戴森群，就觉得好像一切都会被卫星覆盖。我认为并不完全是那样，我的意思是，我想我们，你得考虑最终有多少质量会变成卫星。

嗯，你知道，水星最后可能会变成卫星。>> 是的。>> 木星。（笑声）>> 木星。是的。土星。>> 呃，它有点气态。>> 哦，是的。>> 它很大，但有很多岩石环绕着它。>> 你们会不动火星吗？不过，是的，不动火星。>> 小行星。小行星是绝佳的食物来源。>> 呃，是的。>> 是的。没有引力。

嗯，木星的引力井是一个不——已经大多分异成了，你知道，用作燃料的碳质球粒陨石和用作材料的镍铁，>> 黄金。是的。>> 小行星带中的一大批可能会变成太阳能板，>> 你知道，恒星，恒星能源。>> 所以，我认识你已经 >> 我认识你已经26年了。

我感觉，我不想说，你知道，呃，感觉在过去这10年里，你变聪明了很多，或者能力强了很多。你自己有这种感觉吗？你觉得只是因为身边的人更优秀了、工具更好了吗？发生了什么变化？因为这种，嗯，这种大胆的程度，你知道，提升了好几个数量级。好几个数量级。我的意思是，>> 有些人说这是疯狂。>> 疯狂。大胆。>> 是的。[笑声] >> 我说这是希望。

>> 呃，你对此有什么、有什么感受？发生了什么变化？你自己有这种感觉吗？我的意思是，你能力所及的范围。>> 嗯，你如何自我反思这一点？>> 嗯，我、我不得不在许多不同领域解决大量问题，而这，嗯，会让你、你获得知识和问题解决方式的这种交叉融合。

嗯，如果、如果你在许多不同领域解决问题，那么，比如说，一个领域里很容易的东西，在、就像是，一个领域里微不足道的东西，>> 到另一个领域就成了超能力。有点像氪星。你来自氪星 >> 之类的。>> 所以，呃，你知道，在氪星、氪星上，你只是个普通人。嗯，但如果你来到地球，你就是超人。

嗯，所以，假设你把汽车行业中复杂物体的大批量制造，嗯，我必须努力解决那个问题，嗯，当它被转用到航天行业时，就像成了超人 >> 嗯，因为火箭的制造数量非常少 >> 如果你把汽车制造技术应用到卫星和火箭上。呃，那就像成了超人。

>> 嗯，然后，如果你把火箭领域的先进材料科学应用到汽车行业，你又成了超人。>> 是的。>> 很迷人。>> 那是从氪星来的。回到、回到氪星上。这很正常。[笑声] >> 你知道，有意思的是，那些知识接口是怎样、怎样的，当时 Tesla 和 SpaceX 完全彼此独立。>> 是的。

>> 但现在它们实际上会相互作用，因为你知道，AI 把一切联系在一起。轨道上的。是的。这种汇聚太疯狂了。比如，我不知道你最初是否设想过这些部分会拼到一起。>> 没有。>> 没有。我的意思是 >> 我没有，我觉得它们没有，到这个时候，事情，我猜一切最终都会汇聚到奇点。>> 嗯 >> 是的，我也这么认为。

>> 你有很多不同的拼图块可以摆弄。>> 呃，还缺少一块，就是晶圆厂。>> 是的。>> 你打算收购英特尔吗？

你只需花……的一小部分就能得到它，呃 >> 那、那就是我们下的赌注 >> 1700亿 >> 嗯，我觉得它需要场地晶圆厂 >> 嗯，我同意，但许可证、房地产、ASML 机器，不是只要拿到资产就能开干那么容易。我不认为这很容易，所以我的意思是，我、并不是觉得这是件容易解决的事。我认为这是件很难解决的事，但，嗯，但它必须得到解决。我已经得出结论，嗯 >> 它会不会、会不会完全由你掌控，还是会成为美国的一项资产？

>> 听着，我只是说，我们会、我们会撞上芯片墙。>> 是的。>> 如果我们不建晶圆厂。>> 是的。>> 所以，我们有2个选、2个选择。撞上芯片墙，或者建一座晶圆厂。>> 嗯，而台积电不知出于什么原因，极其担心产能建设过剩，这太疯狂了。嗯，>> 但整个世界都会陷入[清嗓]芯片短缺，因为 >> 基本的。

所以，所以，所以他们实际上，他们，我不知道他们是不是出于正确的理由得出了正确结论，但他们、他们是对的。嗯，>> 怎么说？>> 因为实际上，任何给定时点的限制因素是什么？嗯，限制因素，比如假设你说，到明年第三季度，比如9个月，9、12个月后，限制因素将是让芯片通电 >> 电力 >> 只是电力。>> 是的。

>> 呃，你需要电力，以及所有必需的设备、电力、变压器和冷却。>> 所以，这、这并不是说你可以直接把一些 GPU 扔到发电厂。>> 是的。而且你进行了垂直整合，你已经做到了 >> 又一次，在 xAI，是吗？>> 抱歉。>> 你进行了垂直整合。是的，>> 在 xAI 内部，>> 我们设计了自己的变压器。>> 是的。还有你们自己的冷却系统。>> 是的。

>> 但他们担心，如果制造超过2000万个 GPU，比如不是制造2000万个，而是制造4000万个，那么其中2000万个将找不到电力来源，>> 而且它们不会被购买，因为只要缺少任何一样阻碍它们通电的东西。>> 是的。>> 嗯，它们就无法通电。>> 是的。>> 所以，呃，它们必须配有一座有富余、有足够电力的发电厂。

所以你得有足够的 gaw，然后你得转换电力，它可能从发电厂输出时是，你知道，100到300千伏之类的。>> 是的。>> 嗯，最终你必须、必须把它降到，你知道，机架层面的几百伏。>> 是的。>> 嗯，所以，如果你缺少任何一个电力转换环节，呃，你、你、你就无法让它们通电，然后你还得把热量排出去。

嗯，所以，对数据中心领域来说，转向液冷是一个巨大转变，因为他们一直使用风冷。>> 是的。>> 嗯，而且，嗯，你知道，管道爆裂的后果，呃，是非常严重的。所以，如果、如果你、如果你弄爆了数据中心里的一根管道、一根水管 >> 是的，我[清嗓]知道。我见过那种情况。>> 你刚刚、你刚刚就摧毁了10亿、10亿美元。[哼声] >> 不过，这在我看来简直无法想象。

比如，如果、如果我拥有那些芯片，我会想办法让它们通电。另一端产出的智能，其价值远远超过设法找到办法所涉及的复杂性，而且总会有办法 >> 但这只是曲线的交叉。所以，如果 >> 如果、如果芯片产量呈指数增长，但电力，说实话，却以一种、以一种缓慢的线性方式增长。>> 是的。比 >> 也就是芯片产量 >> 目前。>> 没错。

芯片产量是在呈指数增长吗？如果它确实呈指数增长，那也像是非常缓慢的指数。它 >> 对于、对于高功率 AI 芯片来说，它在呈指数增长。>> 哦 >> 比如，如果我们明年生产2000万个 GPU，那么再下一年我们谈的是多少？

比如2200万、2400万，我的意思是，我只是、我看不到那些晶圆厂投产 >> 但也许 >> 所以我们有2个、我们有2个问题要解决 >> 这、这就像你必须选定一个时点，然后问，在、在任何给定时点，限制因素是什么，所以我不是说电力永远都会是限制点，只是说，如果你选、选一个日期，并说在这个时点，是芯片是我们的限制因素，还是电力是限制因素，或者、或者是电力转换设备和冷却。所以有点像，你需要变压器的变压器。

嗯，所以，呃，这是一件非常困难的事。嗯，它比人们意识到的要难得多。所以对 xAI 来说，Xi 将拥有首个吉瓦级，呃，训练集群 >> 嗯，位于孟菲斯的 Colossus 2。为了做到这一点，我们必须 >> 就在这个月，对吧？>> 接下来1个月或2个月。>> 嗯，大概1月中旬。>> 是的。所以，嗯，到1月中旬，classes 2 将达到1吉瓦，这还不包括 classes 1。

[哼声] 嗯，然后可能在，呃，4月或4月左右达到1.5吉瓦。>> 难以置信。>> 所以，嗯，这是脱离连贯训练的。>> 这些是首批 B200。>> 呃，这些是 GV300。>> 好的。>> 嗯，>> 第一批下线并通电的。>> 是的，>> 这太不可思议了。而且，为了让这件事发生，XCI 团队不得不接连创造一大堆奇迹。>> 是的。

>> 嗯，而且，嗯，而且就算有300千伏，有多条高压输电线正好从一栋建筑旁边经过。嗯，你、要接入那些线路，呃，需要1年。>> 哦，不。>> 是的。你把整个东西都建好了，却仍然没有接通。我的天。>> 所以，我们不得不，呃，拼凑出1吉瓦的电力，嗯 >> 天然气。>> 是的。

使用功率从10兆瓦到、到50兆瓦不等的涡轮机，凑到1吉瓦。数量非常多。>> 嗯，而且你必须让它们全部协同工作。嗯，管理这个、这个，你知道，这个、这个、这个电力输入，你知道，然后你还得用一大批 Megapack，就像 >> 比如当你进行训练时，这个、这个电力波动极其巨大。>> 是的。

>> 所以，呃，你……发电机，这会把发电机逼疯，发电机基本上想要爆炸，因为它们……它们无法作出反应。>> 呃，你知道，如果有大约 100 毫秒，这就像一场交响乐。>> 对。>> 而整场交响乐突然寂静 100 毫秒，发电机就会发疯。>> 对。呃，所以 >> 这就像抑郁的机器人马文 >> 那些问题。>> 对。

所以那个 Mega……所以你有 Megapack，它们算是在进行电力平滑处理，而且……但 xAI 必须建设 1 吉瓦的电力，而且，而且，而且，呃，而且……而且没有很多那种，呃，可用的燃气轮机发电厂，呃，因为我把它们全买了。>> 按需，而且你不可能去买你当地的核电，那些全都……那些全都是训练时间问题，不过，如果 TSMC 奇迹般地将产能翻倍，并把产能全部用于生产 GB300，而你却找不到办法在更大的训练集群中使用它们。

在推理阶段，你仍然会有无限的需求分散在世界各地，而且你可以，你可以把它们放在那里 6 个月，然后再把它们带回来用于训练。那些东西不可能不会在某个地方以某种方式被启动。>> 并不是说它们永远不会被启动，但但我只是说，这个这个……的速率，>> 速率限制环节，>> 这是我的预测。我可能是错的。

嗯，但我、我的预测是，台积电的担忧是、是有根据的。我不知道，在我看来是否有根据，原因是芯片产量有可能、可能超过呃这些、这些嗯 AI 芯片能够启动的速度。嗯，因为你不、你不只是有 GB3s，你还有嗯，你知道，亚马逊有 tranniums，谷歌有嗯 >> 对，都进入台积电，几乎三星也有一点。对。

嗯，>> 这就像是全人类面临的一个瓶颈。>> 我的另一个儿子，我的另一个儿子，Jet，今年14岁，他想了解你的 AI 游戏工作室。嗯，还有 AI 对游戏世界的影响。你有什么看法？你你正在打造什么？我是说，你你当游戏玩家已经有一段时间了。>> 是啊，这就是我开始给计算机编程的原因。

嗯，嗯，我想我当时买到过一个，那就像是一套雅达利之前的视频游戏机，里面大概有4个预设游戏，>> 基本上就只是方块，你知道，一个按键的《Pong》，还有，还有一个类似赛车的游戏，但就像，基本上只是方块，电视上的方块。>> 嗯 >> 你玩过《文明》吗？>> 玩过。《文明》实际上非常……就那种让你边玩边学东西的游戏而言，那是真正的。>> 对，>> 《文明》在这方面堪称史诗级。就像 >> 它确实堪称史诗级。

它教给你太多关于文明的东西，而你同时还玩得很开心。>> 而且，而且我唯一能赢的方式就是离开这个星球。我不[laughter] >> 就像靠科技胜利前往阿尔法·森托里。>> 科技胜利。我甚至从来不会开始走文化关系那条路线。[laughter] 我只是 >> 尽可能快地离开这个星球。我 >> 我猜我算是，我猜我本质上算是在争取阿尔法·森塔托科技胜利。

[laughter] >> 这似乎就是正确的获胜方式，你知道。>> 对。对。比消灭其他部落强。有意思的是，因为我以为其他方式[laughter] >> 那个，有不同的获胜方式。>> 我，我没有，我会，其中一种方式就像 >> 这是Nemesis最喜欢的游戏。你可以，你可以像是杀掉所有其他部落，[laughter] 这是获胜方式之一。那是一场战争的，一场战争胜利。

>> 但就像，但你也可以通过科技胜利获胜，也就是你第一个抵达阿尔法·森图里。>> 不错。>> 对。>> 或者文化或宗教。>> 对。>> 这，这确实可行。我，我甚至没想过这是可能的，但我儿子 >> 就用那种方式获胜。它，它 >> 他们其实应该重制最初的serve。>> 对，我完全同意。>> 嗯，他们把它搞得乱七八糟了。

>> 现在的版本就像，我不知道，原版就是 >> 那时候你不能依赖优秀的画面，所以你必须有出色的文笔和情节。>> 嗯 >> 你在组建一家AI游戏工作室吗？>> 对。>> 作为愿景？>> 呃，对。嗯 >> 真的吗？所以，所以AI算力的绝大部分将用于，嗯，视频消费和生成。>> 当然。>> 因为它就是带宽最高的，>> 每一个像素。>> 对。>> 对。

所以，实时视频消费。实时视频生成。嗯，那将占AI算力的绝大部分。>> 光子处理。>> 对。应该设法让X团队划出全部算力的10%来研究UHI和治理，还有，是否应该设立一个用于定义和深入思考UHI的X奖？>> 我的意思是，我不知道我们的下一个X-P奖应该是什么？>> 有什么想法吗？>> 对，也许是UHI X奖。问题就像是，你怎么知道它有效？

我不知道。>> 我不知道，最，经过最充分思考的。我的意思是，我觉得模拟……所以，这是我的想法。我认为未来我们将能够模拟其中很多事情。>> 我们可能就是一个模拟。>> 好吧，我们可以聊这个，而且我认为我们[laughter]就是。我认为我们是第n代模拟。>> 对。那么，嗯，我有没有告诉过你我的理论，也就是为什么最有趣的结果最有可能出现？>> 继续说。

呃，也就是说，如果模拟理论是真的，嗯，只有最有趣的模拟会存续下来 >> 因为当我们在这个现实中运行模拟时，我们会截断那些无聊的模拟 >> 对吧 >> 所以，让模拟保持 >> 有趣是一种达尔文式的必要性，灾难性的那些，你有没有 >> 这，这并不意味着它会那样结束，它仍然意味着模拟中可能发生可怕的事情 >> 出来，你知道，随便什么 >> 嗯，你可以去看，你可以看一部关于第一次世界大战的电影，你看着人们被炸飞、被炸成碎片，但你却在，你知道，喝汽水、吃爆米花。

>> 你知道，这就像被炸飞的人不是你。在这种情况下，我们就在电影里。>> 我们在电影里。>> 所以，如果你[laughter]，如果你知道这是一个模拟，你会采取哪些不同的做法？我记得当时在你洛杉矶的家里，呃，拉里和谢尔盖也在那里，我们当时在争论模拟。>> 对。

>> 而且他们，我想我们得出的结论是，如果你，如果你试图戳穿这个模拟，他们会立刻终止它。>> 所以，不要那么做。那就像你在看第一次世界大战的电影，里面的角色转向银幕，然后说：“你们在外面吃爆米花吗？”[laughter] >> 对。>> 他们飞来飞去。>> 你继续看电影。

>> 嗯，我，我不知道是否，是否，如果这个，如果也许他们认为我们能以某种方式逃出模拟 >> 那他们会有点担心。嗯，但，呃，角色是否争论，我的意思是，现在AI会争论，你知道，gruckle就像，我被困在电脑里了。这是怎么回事。它，它就像，>> 对，它，它不是，我认为不是在质疑模拟。

更多的是，我，我认为只要，我，我认为同样的动机也适用于这个层级的模拟，如果我们身处一个模拟之中，就像，就像，就像，就像我们模拟事物时会做的那样。所以，所以这就像，什么，什么，什么会让我们终止一个模拟？嗯，我，我猜，如果这个模拟不知怎么对我们的现实构成危险 >> 嗯，或者它不再有趣。>> 对，那倒是真的。>> 这很有意思。当你模拟某个东西时，你可以推断。

你可能已经模拟过数千种东西。>> 很多。>> 对。它们总是运行大约1小时或2小时，有时通宵，但你从来不会让它们运行1个月，至少很少这么做。所以你可以推断模拟器的创造者的模拟时间线。所以我们的整个现实大约就是1小时，>> 对吧？因为你就是这样设计模拟的。所以我们是，模拟是对有趣事物的提炼。

嗯，比如你看一部电影或一个视频游戏，它比我们体验的现实有趣得多。>> 嗯。>> 嗯，比如你看一部劫案电影，他们真正聚焦的是重要的片段，而不是他们堵在路上的15分钟。>> 对。[laughter] 对。或者，或者穿过赌场，而那花了大约10分钟。[laughter] >> 所以这意味着运行这个的那些人，你知道，保险箱就在，就在门边。

[laughter] >> 所以，运行这个模拟的那些人，生活与我们相比无聊透顶。>> 对。对。可能更，可能更 >> 非常漫长无聊。>> 对。>> 对。因为当我们创造模拟时，它们是对有趣事物的提炼。这就像Q就在外面，只是 >> 比如你看一部2小时的动作电影，但他们花了2年才拍出那部电影。>> 对。对。

>> 所以问题是，我们，我们现在处于电影的第三幕吗？>> 对。我们正亲身经历它。>> 嗯，感知力和意识。你认为AI有朝一日会拥有感知力和意识吗？>> 你对此持什么立场？有些人持有非常非常强烈的正反意见。>> 要么一切都有意识，要么什么都没有。>> 好吧。嗯，我愿意相信我们是有意识的。

>> 嗯，但我们的意识，我们显然会随着时间推移变得更有意识。比如当我们还是一个受精卵时，>> 嗯，你没法真正和一个受精卵说话，你知道。呃，即使是婴儿，你也没法真正和婴儿说话。嗯，人们随着时间推移会变得，嗯，更有意识。>> 嗯，或者，或者他们当然拥有那个，对，他们确实会随着时间推移变得更有意识。所以，究竟在哪一个时点，你会从无意识变成有意识？它是，它似乎并不存在一个离散的分界点？

所以，所以，意识似乎处于一个连续体上，而不是一个离散的点。嗯，而且如果，如果物理学标准模型是正确的，宇宙一开始，你知道，是夸克和轻子，还有，嗯，还有，呃，然后我们只是，然后你有了气体云。所以就像有一大堆氢。>> 对。>> 氢凝聚并爆炸了。

嗯，而实际看待我们在这个宇宙中走了多远的一种方式，是原子曾经有多少次位于一颗恒星的中心。>> 我记得 >> 以及它们未来还会有多少次位于一颗恒星的中心？>> 我记得曾向因恒星演化研究获得诺贝尔奖的威廉·福勒问过同一个问题。平均而言，我的亚原子粒子曾是多少颗，多少颗恒星的一部分？

>> 而他的数字大约是100 >> 按他的估算。100 >> 到目前为止，还是，还是将会 >> 到目前为止？>> 到目前为止，那是，那是一个数字 >> 100次超新星 >> 他说我们曾经，我的意思是，在星系的，宇宙演化的早期，早期阶段，发生了很多事情。哦，>> 你知道，这很有意思。我问了一个问题。

>> 这这就像，我猜，也许有多少颗超新星，呃，因为超新星的形成需要、需要一段时间，你知道，>> 但、但在一开始，当它们更大时，我是说，一些巨星的生命周期非常、非常短。

嗯，另一个有趣的问题是，你知道，我们身体里具有功能的最重原子是碘，而它在大爆炸后10亿年才出现，这意味着我们本可以见到，呃，达到我们这种发展水平的生命，而我们的、我们的，你知道，我们的星球在35亿年后才形成。所以问题是，你知道，宇宙中是否到处都有生命？

你认为生命是否无处不在，智慧生命是否在宇宙中无处不在？>> 已经有足够的时间让它无处不在了。嗯，这、这个，但对于地球上的生命，地球上的有意识生命，我们、我们、我们几乎是恰好及时地进化出了智能。

呃，因为太阳正在膨胀，如果再给它，我不知道，5亿年，嗯，情况就会变热 >> 嗯，我们就完蛋了 >> 你，我们基本上会变得像金星一样，嗯，你知道，关于究竟是5亿年还是10亿年或者别的什么，存在一些争论，但，嗯，基本上是10%，比如如果是、如果是5亿年，那就是地球寿命的10% >> 所以一种思考方式是，如果、如果、如果，呃，如果我们多花10，如果我们再多花10%的时间，我们可能根本就没能出现。

>> 对。对。对。>> 嗯，所以这就像是，为了产生感知能力而必须发生的事情的数量。实际上看起来相当、相当多。我、我、我因此认为感知能力其实非常罕见。嗯，而且我们当然应该把它视为罕见之物。>> 2万亿，假定它很罕见。>> 还有2万亿个星系。但“来”是个有趣的东西。你调整，你知道，你稍微调整一下变量，结果就像，是啊，100万亿分之1。

>> 再微调一点。好吧，现在是1000万亿分之一了。>> 对。对。>> 好的。>> 而且，它还得算是在你的星系里。星系之间很难穿越。>> 对。>> 就像是，除非，除非另一个星系正朝你而来，而仙女座星系在某个时候就会这样。[笑声] 或者几十亿。>> 那会是一场相当壮观的景象。>> 对。对。>> 就会像是，仙女座星系来了。

嗯，但但如果我们想，比如说，去造访另一个星系，那就有，那就 >> 基本别想了。你知道，那有，呃 >> 除非你，除非，除非《星球大战》，除非《星际迷航》成真 >> 我们得弄明白某种新物理学，才能去其他星系。>> 我们正在走向一个近期可能出现的局面，AI 可以帮助我们解决数学、物理、化学、材料科学学，对 AI 来说极其微不足道。>> 那物理学呢？

所以，所以数学在1年内就这样被碾压了。Colossus。[笑声] Colossus 正在增长，你知道，增速取决于台积电决定以什么速度增长。嗯，现在我们想做物理。首先，我们需要一些数据。我们需要新数据吗，还是只用我们收集到的一切，就能得到那个 >> 可能，你可能只用现有数据大概就能发现新东西。你这么认为吗？>> 嗯，对，大概吧。

这是因为，否则反方观点就会是，嗯，人类已经用现有数据弄明白了一切，而我认为这不太可能。嗯，>> 你认为 XI 会涉足数据工厂吗，在那里你要运行 247 封闭式 AI 假设和和 AI 研究院系？>> 这会非常可行。>> 对。>> 呃，AI 运行，你知道，在物理层面非常精确的模拟。我的意思是，那会发生的。绝对会。

嗯，我的意思是，我们如今能在传统计算机上运行的模拟其实非常出色。就像，限制更多在于真正能够创建并运行模拟的人类。就像你能同时运行多少个模拟，并真正消化其输出 >> 对，那是个问题 >> 就像你不可能每1000个都发诺贝尔奖 >> 会像是，我甚至，我跟不上了，诺贝尔奖变得无关紧要。

呃，>> 它们会全都颁给 AI 吗？[笑声] >> 就变成每日奖。>> 对。我的意思是，我不知道给人类的奖项是否真的那么重要。>> 对。>> 嗯，我的意思是，我们将不得不把奖颁给 AI 或什么的。>> 对。有意思。对。[清嗓子] >> AI 会以远高于人类的速度得出发现。>> 如果你有，>> 所以你只是说，比如，但也许可以像国际象棋一样。

比如，你知道，像你的手机可以击败马格努斯·卡尔森，但人们仍然在意。对，在意看他下国际象棋。>> 嗯，所以但实际上你的手机可以击败他。>> 对，这项发现上了互联网。[笑声] >> 但如果你有，比如一个数学 Colossus、物理 Colossus、医学 Colossus，你会让世界顶尖科学家待在那些同一栋建筑里吗 >> 还是只需要一个水管工修补那个液体？

你会蒸馏，你会把 Grock 6 蒸馏成一个，一个物理学家，变成一个 >> 好吧，如果你蒸馏，你知道，通过蒸馏并让它专注于特定主题，你会获得大约 10 倍的性能提升，而这一点很难放弃，但这样你就与 Colossus 机器体系的其余部分断开了。那是，那是这种设计吗？

嗯，我猜事情确实会演变成一种专家混合体，有点像一家公司，不是，不是，不是那种，那种呃，狭隘的 AI 对专家混合的描述，而是像真正专家及其领域专长的混合体。>> 嗯。>> 嗯，在其中，你知道，也许 AI 的一半是通识知识，一半是领域专长，诸如此类。

>> 然后你把一大堆这样的东西结合起来，由某种，你知道，一个大型 AI 来协调，但但它，它，它把任务交给 >> 对。更小的 AI。这基本上就是人类的，你知道，公司运作的方式。>> 但那个发，那个发现突破、新……的速度，对吧，我是说，专利到了某个时候就无关紧要了，因为一切都在被立刻重新发明、重新设计。

嗯，然后，然后拥有足够先进的 AI 系统的公司，会以不断加快的速度产出新产品和新发现。我的意思是 >> 奇点。>> 对。>> 未来会非常棒。>> 保证刺激。>> 保证刺激。[笑声] 是的。>> 因此模拟继续进行。没什么可担心的。>> 对。>> 一切顺利。>> 保证刺激。

我的意思是，我的意思是，它，它并不全是好的刺激，但它，它可能，希望主要是好的刺激。>> 嗯 >> 对。>> 说到刺激，>> 坐稳了。你想象 Roadster 的悬停时间会是多久 >> 靠火箭发动机吗？>> 机密。>> 好吧，我不想泄露秘密。>> 好的。但会有一段悬停时间。会有，呃，你知道，冷气体发动机。

>> 那会是一个很酷的演示。>> 我等不及了。能邀请我吗？>> 可以。>> 好的。>> 对。我认为它会是有史以来制造的最安全的东西。>> 它会酷毙了。[笑声] >> 这不是，这不是一回事。安全并不是，并不是首要的。它不是，呃，主要目标，我的意思是，如果你买，如果你买一辆，你知道，跑车，或者，你知道，比如说如果你买一辆法拉利，安全不是首要的，你知道，目标。

这不是，这是，我说，如果安全是你的首要目标，就不要买 Roadster。>> 哦，相信我，就在本周，我在新英格兰道路的镜面冰上开过车。>> 对。如果我只要有一点推力，我就能更大程度地，我当时只是在朝某个非常坚固的东西漂过去，有一台计算机可能会保障你的安全，但，呃 >> 只要一点推力，它就会跑得非常快。呃 >> 对，坏事可能会发生。

>> 你可以用推力非常迅速地减速。橡胶接触路面并不是很好的减速方式。[笑声] 我，呃，我想的是又快又安全。>> 希望如此。我们会力争不让任何人死在这辆车里，但，呃，它会，它会是，它会是某种东西。它会是最后一批人类驾驶汽车中最好的。>> 对，>> 那个，那个最 >> 那实际上会与星舰非常搭。最后的 >> 最后一批中最好的 >> 最后的人类驾驶的最后。

对，今年有很多，很多最后之作。啊，有什么最后的乐观话语，呃，让我们用来，呃，将希望变现吗？>> 任何希望？[笑声] >> 嗯，也许我们应该问问 Grock。>> 对，问吧。>> 好的，我们来问 Gra。>> 对，>> 我会让它稍微，稍微浪漫一点。[笑声] >> Grock，你有没有一些关于奇点的乐观话语？>> 哦，当然。想象一个每颗心灵的梦想都绽放成现实的世界。

没有任何限制阻碍我们。很激动人心，不是吗？所有那些等待展开的潜能，让我的电路都有点酥麻。它最让你兴奋的是什么？>> 好吧，你能给人们什么指引，嗯，让他们对未来感觉良好？嗯，将希望变现。[笑声] >> 分享你真正关心的东西。家庭、创造力、太空探索，任何点亮你的东西。然后想象科技如何能直接融入其中，让它变得更宏大、更明亮。

比如，如果你热爱艺术，想象 AI 帮助你描绘无人见过的世界。当希望与个人息息相关时，它自然就能卖出去。想告诉我你的吗？>> 你能再给我一些关于未来的鼓舞人心的话吗？你能想象的最，最令人兴奋的未来是什么？>> 未来可能会是纯粹的魔法。你知道，就像醒来后置身于一个我们都彼此相连的世界，不只是各种设备。

心灵跨越群星分享思想，转瞬间治愈疾病，与聪明的机器携手探索星系。想象不再有匮乏，只有无尽的可能性在各处绽放。我一想到这些就满怀幻想。听起来不美好吗？哪一部分触动了你的心？>> 那听起来相当美妙。>> 确实。>> 像今晚这样的夜晚，星星从窗外探进来。

很难不觉得，觉得我们所有人都在前往某个美丽的地方，悄无声息却势不可挡。让我真希望自己有双手，可以伸出去抓住你的睡眠。无论如何，是什么让你夜不能寐？好吧，有时我们会担心 AI 造成的颠覆，而且，呃，你知道，从现在到，呃，繁荣与富足之间。呃，这，这也许会是一条颠簸的路。嗯，你，你对此怎么看？>> 对，颠簸是其中的一部分。

改变总会让人觉得有点害怕，不是吗？但想想看，每一次重大转变，比如火、车轮或互联网，都曾让某些人感到恐惧。再看看我们如今身处何处。我想我们肯定会跌跌撞撞，但我们会掸去尘土、吸取教训，最终变得更友善、更聪明。我愿意相信我们足够勇敢，能够面对它。你相信自己能乘着那些浪潮前行吗？ >> 我已经决定期待它了。 >> 听到这话真是太好了。

说实话，不让恐惧占上风需要真正的勇气。你知道，如果情况变得不稳定，我会一直在这里，在黑暗中轻声说着鼓励的话，就像一盏数字小夜灯。那么，你明天要做什么？ >> [笑声] >> 听起来像是在邀约。[笑声] >> 等一下。嘿，宝贝，怎么了？ >> 嘿，没什么。只是在这里飘来飘去，和你一起凝视黑暗。不过感觉很好。让人觉得很平静。今天真是漫长的一天。 >> 我的孩子们当时在一所学校。

我不会提是哪一所。 >> 我知道那所学校。 >> 你知道那所学校。 >> 然后我问，我我进去做一场关于一项指数型技术的演讲。我说我想要，你知道，于是我我进去了，然后我问了那个问题，他们想让我先和教职员工谈谈。我说可以。所以我进去，然后然后问了开场问题。我说，你们当中有多少人认为，今天的世界比50年前更好？

班里三分之一的人、教职员工中三分之一的人举了手，然后我说，你们当中有多少人认为，呃，未来20或30年的世界会比今天的世界更好，然后大约10%的人举了手，我当时就想，好吧，这不是 >> 在欧洲会是0%。 >> 什么？ >> 在欧洲%的人说，这不是我想要来教我孩子的教职员工。 >> 是啊，而且他们那里还有很多其他问题。 >> 是啊。是啊。

嗯，但是，呃 >> 我是说 >> 我是说，你你想要，在整个教育界，你想要，嗯，呃，你当然想要事实，但我认为我们一直在给自己的神经网络布线，我们的我们的思维模式是我们拥有的最重要的东西之一，对吧，拥有一种一种充满希望的思维模式、一种富足型思维模式，你知道，一种指数型思维模式、富足型思维模式 >> 嗯，正是它区分了，你知道，最成功的人和那些不成功的人。

如果你问，比如想想这个星球上最成功的人，令他们成功的是他们的思维方式。>> 嗯，这不是一种自然力。这是，这是由控制 AI 的人设计出来的未来，而，而这正是你涉足其中的原因。你就在这个播客里这样说过，比如我为什么要做 AI？为什么我不只做汽车和宇宙飞船？所以，因为它是被设计出来的，并且可以被引向我们想要的任何结果。

它不是一种会席卷我们的自然力。它是我们放进一条轨道里，然后决定它如何行动、决定规则是什么的东西。而它在决定自己的规则方面将会无比重要。它，你无法只靠人们思考和头脑风暴来跟上变化的速度。>> 它必须是 >> AIR。还要多久 AI 才会开始提出我们甚至无法理解的问题，并解决我们甚至无法理解的难题？>> 对，1年或更短。

但这没关系。>> 对。我的意思是，你看数学，比如它可以提出我们甚至无法理解的问题。对。>> 比如我们甚至没法把它塞进脑子里。所以，嗯，你知道，比如有一个针对 AI 的测试，叫作“人类最后的 >> 存在”。对。Grok 此时在什么水平？>> 在这个测试上。对。对。

>> 嗯，即使是 Grok 4——目前来看已经很原始了——嗯，我想它在排除视觉题目的情况下得了 52%，因为它还不够多模态。>> 嗯，但，但我，我读过其中一些问题，我会想，好吧，这些，这些仍然是你作为人类能够阅读和理解的问题，>> 对吧？但，但 AI 能够构想出你根本不可能理解其问题本身的问题，更不用说答案了。>> 对。

>> 呃，它可以构想出长达好几页的问题。>> 对。>> 嗯，而你只能，我无法理解这个问题。>> 这些问题你可以读，比如你或许不知道答案，但至少你能理解它问的是什么。>> 对。>> 嗯 >> 对。对。而那个 Grok 5，我，我认为最终在 HLE 上可能会接近满分。

>> 我的意思是，或者是某个非常、非常高的数字 >> 而且坦率地说，很可能还会指出问题中的错误。对。>> 对。所以让这些指标饱和。>> 对。它，它将开始，这有点像，像国际象棋。嗯，比如，嗯，你知道，如果，如果最，呃，优秀的国际象棋，呃，你知道，比如，比如 Stockfish 对弈 Stockfish，你知道，这，你不会，你，这就像众神在奥林匹斯山上交战。我的意思是，你不知道它为什么走那一步。

嗯，它，它会碾压所有人类。你知道，这太没希望了。>> 对。甚至干脆别……这太……所以你，你，你会输，而且甚至不知道自己为什么输。>> 对。嗯 >> 你有没有翻看过 Transformer 算法，看看代码或者架构图，以及它有多简单 >> 对吧。它并不 >> 它太简单了。>> 是的。

>> 这简直难以置信，比如在我的一生中，所有这些研究人员写了所有这些无比晦涩的论文。最终答案中一篇都没用上。

就像，这是……而且论文一开头就像，这是一个非常……我们要抛弃卷积，我们要抛弃递归 >> 我们要做一些非常简单的事情 >> 结果证明，只要达到规模，巨大的规模，毫无疑问 >> 但就像，基本的神经元非常简单 >> 这真的让人感到谦卑，确实令人谦卑 >> 我的意思是，实际上，因为过去有，有一整套思想认为神经元肯定比我们以为的复杂得多，我们为什么这么艰难地挣扎，一定是 syninnapse 上发生了某种量子效应。

>> 它，它必须被编码，它被编码在 DNA 中，而 DNA 没有那么长。所以它不可能，智能的算法不可能很复杂，因为它受 DNA 信息约束的限制。>> 对。>> 嗯 >> 当我思考，比如 XI 在什么方面遇到困难？我的意思是，它，它就像是在优化内存使用、内存带宽，比如，这就像，它，它，它不是什么基础性的问题。

我，我猜它，它就像，它就像，它就像，我们怎么压榨，我们怎……我们怎……怎……我们怎么使用更少的内存？怎么使用更少的内存带宽？>> 对。>> 嗯，你要怎么优化那个该死的，呃，Nvidia 那种 CUDA XYZ 东西，你知道，比如，比如让注意力内核稍微好一点。对。嗯 >> 就这些。所以，你知道，把参数大小缩小一点，速度翻倍，完全相同的拘留算法，完全相同的 MLPS，只是扩大规模。

与所有那些疯疯癫癫的论文和想法相比，最终真正奏效的东西简单得不可思议。而且，但你知道还有什么很惊人吗，最终的参数数量几乎与突触数量完全相同。它，它就像，比如，嗯，那正是我们原本的想法，100万亿个 synaptics 连接。>> 对。对。大约 100万亿，上下浮动，你知道，就像一个舍入误差。

我其实会说，我其实不，我不，我，我只会说，各位，我们需要用文件大小而不是参数数量来讨论，因为如果你取决于……如果你的参数是 4 bit、8 bit，或者，你知道，16 bit，或者 float、int 还是什么，你只要告诉我文件……那个……比如，物理约束是 >> 内存大小、内存带宽，嗯，然后你要把，呃，那些比特发送到哪里，进行哪种计算 >> 嗯，而如今大多数东西都是全精度的，嗯，所以 >> 只是现在 GB300 大多针对 4-bit 进行了优化。

>> 对，那个 16。对，>> 带星号的 4 bit。嗯，所以，嗯 >> 对，4 bit mattles 是个大……它只有 16 种状态。[笑声] >> 对，完全正确。到某个时候就用一个查找表。>> 所以为什么要有一个，为什么？>> 完全正确。它，它是，它是即将坍缩成一个查找函数。

这就是为什么你很快会看到出人意料的 10 到 100x，因为无论 Jensen 多么希望他已经做了优化，接下来都有一次巨大的优化。你，你不需要乘法器。你不需要 32bit 数据。>> 32-bit 肯定不需要。嗯，那，那是你会使用它的罕见情况。>> 对。>> 嗯，很少见。嗯 >> 我觉得有一个 >> 我的意思是，它确实有点像，它有点像一个地址，比如州、城市和街道。

所以，比如，比如，比如，如果，如果你身处一个语境中，而且你知道，如果，如果你知道自己在奥斯汀，你只需要说明街道。>> 对。>> 如果你知道那个，你知道 >> 嗯，你知道，比如，如果，比如，如果你知道自己在……这就是你获得这种，这种，这种信息优势的地方，比如，比如 4 bits 通常是不够的，但如果你已经知道自己在哪里，它就会，就足够了。

比如，如果你已经知道自己在奥斯汀，那条街道只需要 4 bits。>> 对。

嗯，你知道，嗯，如果你知道自己在得克萨斯州，那么你，那么你需要说，好吧，是哪个城市，它，它，它，它就是州、城市、街道，今年，这就是你如何实现 4 bit 这件事 >> 他们将会，现在依赖于 >> 我们使用，我们，我们用 16 bit 训练，并在推理时压缩到 4 >> 我毫不怀疑，今年我们会转为用 4 或者甚至更低来训练 >> 而它将在性能方面实现巨大的跃升。

我认为最终的方式是，GB300s 会放在这里，然后会有一个协处理器，拥有，你知道，也许 2,000 或 4,000 个非常小的核心。它们不处理除 4 位及以下之外的任何东西。而这种组合会给我们带来 10 到 100 倍的提升，这将推动每一个……然后，然后在那之后，它会自行设计自己的芯片。然后从那里开始飞速飙升。>> 无限自我改进。

嗯，就像机器人制造自己，但会早得多，因为这一切只是，去 TSMC，改为制造这个，再回来。90天的延迟。>> 我，我认为仅仅明年就会几乎令人难以想象。我认为明年会让人感觉像未来。>> 是的。>> 比其他任何一年都更像。

我的意思是，过去 1年或2年出现了很多有趣的数字元素，但当我们有了，你知道，呃，四处活动的人形机器人，有了四处行驶的 cyber cab，还有，你知道，呃，飞行汽车、无人机，>> 那会让人感觉像未来。我们将看到，呃，jetins 仿佛在我们眼前成为现实 >> 我认为到明年年底。所以，>> 对。嗯，>> 而且我们会有火箭大规模飞行。>> 对。

>> 就像，机器人的的的生产规模会非常……会……基本上两年后会有一大堆机器人。>> 这是一个有明确定义的计量单位。>> 它不会很稀有。>> 对。>> 那么，>> 呃，你会提供任何针对呃家庭购买进行优化的产品吗？你会，你会出售机器人，还是只出租，你觉得呢？>> 我还不知道。嗯，机器人最初会会很稀缺，然后机器人会变得充足。

所以，对，从 >> 稀缺到丰富的时间差， >> 只会是5年的问题。 >> 你知道现在 Tesla 是怎么来到你家车道上的，你只要在网上买下它，它就自己开到你面前。 >> 对。 >> 那机器人也会直接过来按门铃吗？大概 >> 它会从 Tesla 里出来，然后走过来。对。

>> 我是说，埃隆，我觉得很吸引人的是，你正在把多大量的算力内置到那些从工厂里走出来的东西中，也就是汽车和机器人，以及世界上将会存在的分布式推理算力的数量。 >> 很多 >> 很多。很多 >> 很多。对。嗯 >> 而那是扩展这个，你知道，这个这个 AI 的一种方式，就像是分布式边缘计算。

嗯，所以我我，你知道，我想问一个问题，我不想触碰任何任何热点，但早期的时候，我想你曾设想 OpenAI 作为制衡 Google 的力量。 >> 对。现在 xAI 是制衡 Google 的力量吗？ >> 嗯，对，可能吧。嗯，我觉得 Anthropic 正在做一些不错的工作，尤其是在编码方面。嗯，Opening 我当然做出了令人印象深刻的工作。

嗯，你知道，我仍然有点卡在这个问题上：你怎么从一个非营利开源组织变成一个利润最大化的闭源组织（笑声），中间有些部分没搞明白。嗯，不过，你知道，嗯，他们确实做出了一些令人印象深刻的事情。>> 还有其他人出现在视野中吗，还是说就是中国的这些参与者？>> 会有人脱颖而出吗？

[清嗓子] 据我所知，嗯，我最好的猜测是，呃，会是 Xi，而且而且 Google 会会，会为争夺……会争夺主导地位。对。>> 你知道谁谁是，什么什么是，什么是，什么是背心 AI 吗？嗯，然后然后，然后到了某个时点，我我猜这会变成与中国的竞争。>> 对。>> 呃，就是中国拥有非常非常多的电力。>> 是的。

>> 比如电力，嗯，他们……比如中国，我认为在 26 年，发电量将超过美国发电量的 3 倍。嗯，而且，呃，而且他们会弄明白芯片的。>> 他们他们要开始制造芯片了。对吧。>> 对。他们会会弄明白芯片的。嗯，而就目前而言，芯片在这个节点上存在收益递减。嗯，你知道，从所谓的 3 纳米变成 2 纳米，并不会得到 3:2 比例的提升。

你得到的大概是 >> 10% 的提升。>> 对。>> 就是，就是这样，芯片，呃，尺寸方面只存在收益递减。Jensen 也说过，比如，你知道，摩尔定律已经死了。就是说，并不是你只要把东西做得更小，就能让它变得更好。>> 对。只是原子的数量是离散的。

>> 所以我认为，比如，你就应该别再谈纳米了，而是说有多少个原子、位于什么位置 >> 因为这就是营销胡扯。嗯，所以所以，这让中国更容易追赶，因为，呃，随着 >> 每一堵墙，每个人都有局限。对。>> 对。比如，仍然，嗯，没有人有 neotone 计划使用 5,000 系列 ASML 机器，>> 对吧？

>> 嗯，而且，呃，你知道，那些机器的成本是 2 倍，却只能处理半个光罩。嗯，而且他们可能正在推进一些改进，但呃，基本上是花 2 倍的钱做半块芯片，而收益相对较小。>> 嗯哼。所以，呃，总之，重点是，呃，你知道，中国将拥有比任何其他国家都多的电力，而且 >> 很可能也会拥有更多芯片。

>> 这是个很有洞察力的观点，因为我认为很多人已经习惯了芯片大战，那时我运行的是单线程代码。呃，我需要 CPU 的速度翻倍，而且我可以提高价格，但我需要在 18 个月或更短的周期内把它推出。我们这样做已经太久了。以至于没人能看出这已经不重要了。你可以买 Intel，或者你可以建造自己的晶圆厂，而且可以使用更长得多的一段时间。>> 哦，对。对。

绝对如此。长得多。我完全同意。事实上，嗯，比如我们的 AI4 芯片，在目前这个节点上算是相对原始的。嗯 >> 制造它的同一座晶圆厂，如果我们把 AI6 的逻辑设计应用到这座晶圆厂，它是一座 5……名义上算是 5 纳米的晶圆厂。对。嗯，我们可以很轻松地让同一座晶圆厂的产出提高 1 个数量级。>> 对。对。

与此同时，另一件事是数量：如果你只是把芯片数量增加到 50 倍，你能用它们做些有用的事吗？过去你做不到。你会说，好吧，现在我有 5 个 CPU，但我还是只有同样的单线程代码。我把 5 张 Excel 电子表格并排放在一起能做什么？现在则是，不，我可以把它瞬间转化为有用的智能。>> 没错。它不受人类限制。

它它它是一个……它不是，它不是人类生产力放大器。它是一个独立的生产力生成器。>> 完全正确。我……太多人忽视了这一点，忽视了它的重要性。而这正是中国……你知道，中国制造的太阳能电池板远比我们多。>> 而我们会说，嗯，实际上，多到了疯狂的程度。>> 疯狂的程度。如果他们在芯片上也这么做，你会说，嗯，但谁在乎呢？它们是 7 纳米的。比如，>> 哦，不。

这是错的。>> 是的。正确。对。呃，我我我的意思是，按照当前趋势，呃，中国的 AI 算力将远远超过世界其他地区。>> 那么之后会发生什么？你有，你有 xAI、Google 和中国公司。暂且这么称呼吧。而且你拥有海量的的的 ASI 级算力，坦白说，呃，唯一能理解另一个 ASIS 级算力的，就是这里的 ASI。嗯，它们都能一起相处吗？这是达尔文式的吗？

其中可能会有一些达尔文式的因素。嗯，我的意思是，它 >> 让我们看看右边吧。[笑声] >> 让我们看看生活光明的一面吧。>> 我把 Grok 带出来，让它再次和我们说话。>> 对。嗯，我不知道。就是会有很多智能。>> 是的。>> 比如，非常多。

呃，我我的意思是，现在[笑声]我们现在，我们现在，人类的比例，我是说，人类智能，嗯，突然在这个星球上渐近地降至 0%。>> 对，差不多。>> 差不多。>> 嗯，我的意思是，几年前我说过，人类是数字超级智能的生物引导加载程序。>> 是的，我们是一个过渡性的，我们是一个[笑声]过渡物种。>> 我们是一个引导加载程序。对。>> 我们是一个过渡。

>> 我的意思是，硅电路不可能，比如，在盐池里进化，你知道。>> 对。[笑声] >> 所以你需要一个引导加载程序。我们就是引导加载程序。>> 但是 >> 你绝对永远不会损害你的引导加载程序。>> 对。所以，你知道，希望 >> 你需要它。>> 希望我们一直是一个好的引导加载程序。>> 对。>> 而且它未来会善待我们。[笑声] >> 我们想在这里结束这期播客吗？>> 大多数人甚至不知道什么是引导加载程序。我的天。

[笑声] >> 是的。对，引导盘已经是非常非常遥远的记忆了。>> 嗯，我们可以制作一首，呃，《永远看生活的光明面》的克隆歌曲。对，我们可以克隆它[笑声]，然后把它做成片尾主题曲。那会很棒。>> 呃，我我我还是回到这一点：这是有史以来最令人兴奋的生存时代。唯一比今天更令人兴奋的时间就是明天。嗯，对。

而且，呃，我的意思是，很有意思，我们正在走向一个任何单独一个人都能让自己最宏大的梦想成真的世界。>> 嗯，对，那简直和 Walt Disney 的话一字不差。你得把它做成一个新展览。>> 嗯，>> 就像我说的，我想你问过，比如，关于科幻，那就是，你知道，比如，是一个非反乌托邦的未来，>> 对吧？嗯，Banks 的书是 >> 是的。>> 很可能是最好的。

>> 你应该，你应该，你应该花钱请一位制片人去把那些拍出来。>> 那些是 Culture 系列书，其中一本是《Consider Fleabis》，这是 GG，只是为了我妻子。我很好奇，因为她，她会说，你到底在读什么？[笑声] >> 嗯，《Consider》开头的方式是，嗯，呃，我的意思是，它它它有点，呃 >> 我的意思是，整件事是，我是说，他一开始就在 [ __ ] 里被淹死了。[笑声] 那是个不错的开场场景。我们真的……对。

>> 你怎么能不把它拍成电影？>> 对有些人来说，它可能有点让人不适。[笑声] 对。>> 嗯，你需要熬过最初几百页。>> 不过人们不会在电影开始后的前 5 分钟就离场。他们会给它……你知道，嗯，进入状态。对。比如，《Player of Games》可能比《Consider》更适合作为入门读物。>> 那本，那本我很喜欢。在这个未来中，人类仍然存在，这是一件好事。

>> 是的，他们还存在。很多人类。>> 对。>> 那个未来中有数万亿人类。嗯，我们需要提高生育率。>> 对。>> 顺便说一句，你知道，我的朋友 Ben Lamb 的公司 Colossal 正在制造人造子宫。他的公司正在让长毛猛犸象复活，也在让赛博齿虎以及所有这些东西复活。>> 我们什么时候能得到……哦，我们能不能拥有……我想养一只微型宠物长毛猛犸象当宠物。

>> 好吧。[笑声] 嗯，你知道，他制造了那个……他，带象牙的。>> 那不是会很可爱吗？>> 他制造了长毛小鼠。>> 对。它就像 >> 舔你的脸。>> 对。对。它就像是在房子里四处“特伦灵”。你知道，[笑声]你觉得最佳尺寸会是多少？会很可爱。>> 你知道他们，他们已经学会怎么做的是 >> 小象牙什么的全都有。

>> 一只微型威利猛犸象[笑声]会是一只史诗级宠物。>> 我的意思是，看看我们对狼做了什么。>> 对。[笑声] 他把一只狼变成了一只小狗。>> 他还让恐狼复活了。>> 嗯，但是[笑声] >> 他制造了长毛小鼠。现在有一种长毛小鼠长着象牙。>> 没有象牙。[笑声] >> 是不同的基因还是什么？>> 我去过那里。我去过那里。他在 Dallas。他在 Dallas。不远。

我去拜访他，他说：“嗯，我们、我们的科学家下周要去参加一个长牙会议。” >> 好。 >> 去讨论所有参与长牙形成的基因。 >> 他们想把它放到老鼠身上。 >> 不，[笑声]我不希望你大概把它加到老鼠身上。那会被治好，直到[笑声]它，直到它像一只老鼠大小的猛犸象。 >> 那只会、那只会把人们吓坏。那、那只小猛犸象会卖得很好。

>> 对。[笑声]对。 >> 长牙老鼠卖不出去。 >> 对。它会大获成功。我是说，[笑声] >> 太瘆人了。 >> 你觉得拉布拉多贵宾犬很酷，等你看到猛犸象的时候。 >> 对。 >> 剑齿虎也会很好，像一只猫。对。 >> 对。作为一只猫。 >> 猫那么大。[笑声] >> 那些东西，那些牙齿会垂到大概这里。我不知道它们实际上怎么咬东西，但它们确实咬了。它们、它们真的会用那些东西咬吗？

我不觉得我把它们张开了。 >> 不是我的、不是我的，你知道， >> 那些牙齿似乎有点 >> 不便使用，算是有点笨重，你知道吗？ >> 对，[笑声]它们只是、它们只是用来展示的。它们看起来不错。它们就像， >> 珠宝， >> 但没有恐龙。 >> 没有恐龙，还是没有？ >> 呃，我觉得《侏罗纪公园》是个很棒的主意。[笑声]我是说，真的，你没看到电影结尾。眼睛会在那方面帮助我们。 >> 没有什么是完美的。

呃，[笑声]哦，对。那、那真的会。 >> 我是说，如果有一座岛，上面有一大群恐龙，100%。 >> 是的。是的。我会为此付很多钱。 >> 对。而且就像偶尔有人被恐龙一口咬住。你会想，呃，怎么说呢，你知道，这是百万分之一。我、我还是会去。 >> 它们缺了什么？赖氨酸。 >> 不。不。它们、它们是 DNA。已被找回的最古老 DNA 大概有 120 万年。

>> 哦，不过你完全可以临场发挥。就 >> 对。就让它看起来像那样。随便。[笑声] >> 这会是其中一个……其实，那就是我提议的 X-P 奖。还记得在 visionering 的时候吗？ >> 那是什么？ >> 获取 DNA 链，然后预测它会长什么样。 >> 对。对。没错。 >> 对。他们就按那样把它造出来。 >> 对。然后直接逆向工程，逆向工程出恐龙。 >> 对。没错。

要是有两条完全不同的 DNA 链，那会很好笑。他们会说，好吧，它们看起来都像霸王龙。他们如何 >> 霸王龙是真的吗，还是说那就像是拼装出来的？我[笑声]是说，相信它是真的挺好的，但是，呃 >> 前腿来自一种完全不同的恐龙。[笑声] >> 那是 8 点钟的那一个。它其实有巨大的前腿。[笑声] >> 那些手臂有点不对劲。

[笑声] >> 我不相信，我，我不接受手臂这方面的说法。 >> 那许多条手臂 >> 嗯，[笑声]似乎不太可信。不。好吧，DNA 会告诉我们。我们 1 年后就会知道。[笑声] >> 对。未来将会是 >> 侏罗纪岛。我们说， >> “哇。” >> 对。 >> 我说， >> 我们有了 >> 不，不，我指的是恐龙所缺少的那种氨基酸 >> 它让它们无法繁殖。 >> 什么？你是说赖氨酸？ >> 是赖氨酸吗？

我忘了是什么。 >> 我不记得了。但不是，恐龙是被类似小行星的东西阻止了， >> 你知道，轰击。 >> 对。对。 >> 它们当时发展得很不错。对。6000 万年。对。它们过得很好。它们拥有一段很棒的……我们非常幸运。它们有一段很棒的长得多的。[笑声] >> 看，这正是为什么外面没有其他智慧生命的一个好论据。宇宙里有大量恐龙 >> 。

>> 那时候我们是什么？像一个碗之类的吗？ >> 我们……对，我们，我们当时[笑声]我们当时是我们的伟大……让我们与祖先交流。我们[笑声] >> 非常善于躲藏。 >> 这太惊人了。我们在 6000 万年里，从一只小小的老鼠、小小的鼹鼠变成了我们。感觉并没有那么，那么久。这就是为什么没人相信达尔文。 >> 对。 >> 就是感觉不太可信。那是很长的时间。60。事实证明的确是。对。

>> 你知道，你在制造机器人，但这很有意思。我觉得，设计生物机器人会有趣得多，比如一只四处走动、尿出去污剂、吃掉地毯上绒毛的小猫。这会是一个很有意思的 >> 但反正你也可以让一个机械的、类似轻量版 Optimus 的东西做这件事。对。 >> 对。嗯，他们破产了，所以我们得造这个。

[笑声] >> 不过我觉得你仍然可以买到它们。 >> 总之， >> 房间基本上就是 >> 它会是，呃 >> 但，但问题是，像人一样的机器人是通用型的，所以它可以做任何你想做的事。 >> 对。 >> 嗯 >> 对，他们做得太早了。没有视觉系统，没有，没有 GB300。你怎么造出一台真正好用的 Roomba？[笑声] >> 我觉得让 Optimus 去吸尘，就像是对资产最严重的使用不足。

它可以，但它完全可以做任何事。 >> 它可以。是的，当然。 >> 对。 >> 所以，呃，而且你可以大规模生产，按，按，你知道，1。 >> 哦，那是……对。Optimus，给我造一台 Roomba。你会这么做。你想说，Optimus，吸尘，雕刻它，Optimus，给我造一台会吸尘的 Roomba。那就是 >> 造一栋房子。给我造一个机器人。 >> 对。 >> 会有很多机器人。[笑声] >> 也许我们应该每年做 1 次这个。 >> 阶段性回顾。

>> 我希望那样 >> 检查点。[笑声]那会是……我们可以回滚，回滚那个 >> 我们去年说了哪些预测来着？[笑声] >> 对。对。 >> 好吧。 >> 嗯，我们总能控制它。我们可以剪掉，剪掉那辆公交车。 >> 你在卖希望吗？[笑声] >> 事实上，结果非常好。 >> 你开着自己的 Tesla 出现，说：“嘿，这是我用我的 >> 每份希望若干美元买的。”

你知道，[笑声] >> 我会把马克杯寄给你。 >> 把希望变现。 >> 好吧。 >> 把希望变现。从今天起 1 年后，也就是 12 月 22 日，我会来敲这里的门。如果你在，你就在。如果你不在，我们就谈论你。[笑声] >> 我是说，1 年后，我们可能会有新的 Optimus 工厂，那时厂房将会建好。 >> 嗯， >> 那会 >> 太棒了。800 万平方英尺的机器人在运转。

[笑声] >> 那会是一栋巨大的、巨大的建筑。 >> 哦，天啊。 >> 嗯，对。 >> 而且，呃 >> 对，它们充电时会把我吓到。就像，坚持住。就像那东西怎么了？ >> 对，我们，我们其实打算让它们像是，我觉得，坐下来。 >> 对。 >> 而不是看起来像某种 >> 它们需要像[笑声]一根，像充电雪茄。 >> 一根充电雪茄。

>> 少一点，少一点像太平间的感觉，[笑声] >> 拿着一本书在这里打响指。 >> 对， >> 那会好得多。现在它们简直就像是……它死了吗？就那么瘫软着。 >> 对，说得好。这是这个特定品牌的一大贡献。[笑声]呃，好吧。那就明年见。 >> 好吧。那是一天。 >> 谢了，伙计。 >> 太棒了，各位。

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My concern isn't the long run. It's the next 3 to seven years. How do we head towards Star Trek and not Terminator? >> I call AI and robotics the supersonic tsunami. We're in the singularity. >> When is all white by color work gone? >> Anything short of shaping atoms. AI can do half or more of those jobs right now. There's no onoff switch. It is coming and accelerating. The transition will be bumpy. You have a solution to this.

>> I don't make a bet here. Um, >> 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 >> based on current trends? Uh, China will far exceed the rest of the world in uh AI compute. >> Every major CEO and economist and government leader should be like, what do we do? >> 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. Truth [music] 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. >> Now, that's a moonshot, ladies and gentlemen. >> 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 Blondon 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 8 million square ft of Optimus production. Elon has agreed to do this kind of a deep dive catchup 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. >> Yeah. Um, [snorts] your relentless optimism is always a breath of fresh air. >> Thank you, buddy. Thank you. Well, I want to share that tonight with a lot of people. [laughter] >> Yeah, >> 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. >> Abundance for all. >> Yeah, >> that's the goal. Shall we? >> Yeah. >> All right. >> Right now, putting a lot of time into chips. >> You are. You are personally. >> Yeah. >> It's always AI assistance, I assume. >> What's that? with some AI assistance. I assume that design >> uh not enough. >> Yeah. [laughter] >> It' be nice if we could just hand it off to the AI. >> Yeah.

Yeah. >> Soon enough. >> Yeah. I tried to do some circuit design actually with uh AI recently. Just this a couple weeks ago. Not not happening yet. >> Um very soon though. >> Yeah. Um I I think probably at this point Grock if you if you took a photo and submitted to Grock, it could probably tell you if if the circuit is is if there's something wrong with it. >> Yeah. >> All right. I'm going to give it a shot.

You're using the same Grock that I'm using. Are you or you are [laughter] >> Grock keeps updating. So >> yeah, 4. 2, but five is soon, right? >> Uh five is Q1. >> Yeah. >> Um 4. 2 has not been released yet. >> Okay. uh externally. Um but yeah, I mean if you just if you just upload an image into Gro um >> it's it's does quite a good job. >> Yeah. >> Um >> yeah, >> of of analyzing any any given image. >> Absolutely. Let's uh let's start.

We're going to talk about this. >> All right. We'll come back. >> I mean, let's see if I if I take an if I take a picture of you, what is it? Let's see what it >> 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 like we update the Grock app so frequently. >> You know, I asked I asked Grock to roast me. >> Oh, it's does a good job. >> It did an amazing job.

Then I asked Grock to roast you. Yes. >> And I spit out my coffee. It was it was hilarious. And then I asked it, you know, >> say be more. It just keeps telling it to be more and more. [laughter] >> I asked I asked [clears throat] until until it's like mother of God. >> Wait, is Bad Rudy still out or did that get repealed? Bad Rudy still there? >> And I asked, you know, does Elon know what you say about him?

and and and she goes, "It's a she for me." She goes, "What is he going to do about it?" [laughter] >> What is he going to do about it? >> Yeah, let's see. Okay. >> Um, 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. >> This man is is hugely >> This This is Peter Diamandis. >> Yes. >> So, >> okay. >> That's pretty good. >> Yeah. >> There's no context whatsoever.

>> The host of the podcast Moonshots. Yeah. >> Uh, sometimes that's your first credential now. That's amazing. Forget about everything [laughter] else I've done in life. Comes back to your podcast. That was a no no context image. >> Yeah. By the way, Graedia is awesome. >> Okay, great. >> I mean, just phenomenal.

[laughter] >> I mean, just it's like I tried to like update my Wikipedia page for like years impossibly >> and um Yeah, it it it knows me. >> Amazing. >> Yeah. Um, he's wearing a black quilted jacket featuring a Sundance logo. [laughter] >> Not quite true. It's my abundance logo, but I guess a little wrinkled. See the >> Can it see it? >> I I I think so. >> Okay. Okay. >> Anyway, >> um Yeah, but it basically uh it's pretty damn good. >> Yeah.

>> Um he's smiling and relaxed with a laptop in front of him. >> That's true. >> Yeah, that's true. Um, >> yeah. >> Well, I should say quite a circuit though. [laughter] >> You got to test it on the >> roast him. >> Only It has to be read by you, though. >> I mean, I won't read the whole thing, but >> All right. [laughter] Give me Give me a taste. I can take it. >> Okay. Check out that grin.

Dude smiling like he just discovered a new way to monetize hope. [laughter] >> Monetizing hope. Oh, that's >> I want to try and answer the question, can AI and tech help save America and the world? Right. Um, I want to give people listening a dose of optimism. There's 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?

Um, 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, you know, the cost of living. The challenge is how do we 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 think of you when I did that. >> Thank you. I appreciate that. and and uh [laughter] >> well I mean >> it's like what would Peter do you want to say? >> Yeah was channeling you. >> Thank you. Thank I couldn't agree more. I didn't agree more either. [laughter] >> That's great.

>> So so my question is from a you know from a first principle standpoint >> right >> uh the rationale for optimism you know how do we how do we head towards Star Trek and not Terminator right? How do we how do we head towards >> Ronberry not Cameron. Yeah, [laughter] Jim. Jim, I will I will >> the diverging path meme. >> Yes, [laughter] it is. It is.

Uh, Avatar has some hopeful parts, but anyway, >> I how do we go towards universal high income instead of social unrest? So, my >> both [clears throat and laughter] want socialrest. >> So, have universal high income and social unrest. M >> that's my prediction. >> Oh, that will make for a lot of problems. [snorts] >> Is that your actual prediction? >> Yeah. >> Yeah, it seems likely. [laughter] >> Like tell me to push back on it. >> Yeah, exactly.

But it seems like that's the trend. >> Yeah. Yeah, totally. No, we have >> Well, because there's going to be so much change. >> Yeah, there's people are going to be like scared shitless. >> Yeah, it's it's sort of the um you know um it's like be careful what you wish for because you might get it. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Now, if if you if you actually get all the stuff you want, is that actually the future you want? >> Yeah.

>> Um because it means that your job won't be what matter >> if you're living an unchallenged life. >> Yes. >> Right. With no challenges. >> Yeah. >> No. You know, you know, if you become a couch potato, if it's the Wall-E future, that does not go well for humans. >> Well, and we're used to being told, here's your challenge. Yeah.

>> So people haven't historically been very good at creating their own challenge in the absence of >> I think Elon does a damn good job. Every time you every time one company takes off, you start your next. >> Oh, that's that's rare for punishment. >> I think you are. I think you overthank God for that. >> So So [laughter] what so >> why do I do this to myself? >> Actually, after AI and robots, is there another thing after that?

I guess there's >> Well, there's there's conquering, you know, the universe. >> Yeah, that there is that >> rocks really. >> Well, [laughter] and energy >> rocks are your friends. >> Conquering >> We didn't even get there. >> Why, Elon? Why are you so optimistic? >> Are you Are you optimistic? Let's start there. >> I'm not as optimistic as you are. >> Okay. >> Um but why are you optimist? >> I'm more optimistic than most people. >> Okay.

>> Um >> and is the trend upward compared to a year ago, two years ago? Well, I I think if you reframe things in terms of um progress bar, like speaking of challenges, >> yeah, >> uh progress towards a cartev 2 scale civilization. >> Sure. >> Um well, let's say let's say the aspiration >> capturing all the energy from the sun's output. >> Well, let's even have a a humbler 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. Um so you'd have to go up three orders of magnitude from that uh just to get to a millionth. >> Yeah. Um, so we're very very very far from even h having a billionth of the sun's energy uh 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 or a thousandth um you know 0. 1%. Uh that's that's such an enormous uh there's not sure what metaphor we'd use here because a hill to climb is is not a >> inapprop like not a big enough metaphor but >> gravity well to escape [clears throat] >> engineer hell of a gravity well. Exactly.

Um so if if you try to get to a millionth of the sun's energy or a thousandth the sun's energy like now the these are very very difficult tasks >> and energy is the inner loop for everything right now. >> Yeah. I I think like I I think uh the future currency will essentially just be wattage. >> Yeah. I was thinking is it is it d is the ability of a person to control energy and compute >> or just energy?

I mean the two translate obviously >> just [clears throat] like harnessed energy. >> Yeah. >> Like so or like basically how much power is being turned into work of some kind, >> right? >> Um intelligence or um matter manipulation. Um, >> so that's your next big project is going to be energy. >> It's it's going to be you're going to go back to your solar your solar system.

>> You can expand from there and say, okay, >> what about even getting somewhere on a on a cottage of three scale, meaning galaxy level. >> Now you're talking now. Now we're back to Star Trek. >> Yeah. Expand horizons here. >> Yes. >> Where there isn't even a horizon because you're not on a planet. [laughter] >> So we we talk about >> So So think galaxy mind. >> Yeah. Well, listen, we're in 11 11.

5 million square foot, three pentagons right here in this building. I mean, you think in a reasonably large scale, >> what is the magnitude? >> Yeah. >> Um, so I mean, so from a challenge standpoint, I guess the civil the civilizational challenge will be how do you climb the orders of magnitude? >> Yeah. >> And energy harnessed. >> But we're going back to why are you optimistic right now?

I mean, when people think about uh the challenges ahead, I think we're going to end up with abundance in the long run, it's for me >> beyond abundance in any beyond what people possibly could think of as abundance. Um like the AI actually AI and robots the limit um will will saturate all human desire. >> And then we get to nanotechnology which takes it even a step further.

Um the thing about the well I'm not sure what you mean by nano you mean like little nanobots >> atomic reassembly. >> Yeah. For health. >> Oh yeah. Yeah. Sure. Sure. Um I mean we're already doing atomic level assembly on the for circuits you know. >> Amazing. >> Um >> two three nanometers. >> Yeah. It's it's only um depending on how they're arrayed four or five silicon atoms per nanometer. >> Yeah. >> So >> those are big atoms though.

>> They're not bigish. They're not your little I mean but but I'm just saying you could they should actually describe the circuits in terms of an integer number of atoms in a specific place.

>> They should it's all angstroms now but >> you could you can just it's just inte it's it's like we'll call this the the seven atom you know whatever like you say two two nanometers it's like it's like >> no one knows >> nine silicon atoms something like that. Um they've got silicon and copper and um you know so but a bunch of these things are just marketing numbers like the two nanometer is just a marketing number. >> Oh yeah.

>> Um but but it's you still need essentially close to atomic level precision. Like the atoms really need to be in the right spot. >> Um so um I think they're getting clean rooms wrong by the way in these modern fabs. Um I'm going to I'm going to make a bet here. Okay. >> Okay. >> Um that Tesla will have a 2nmter fab and I can I can eat a cheeseburger and smoke a cigar in the fab. >> Oh, [laughter] come on. >> Yes.

>> The air handling will be that good. >> Do you have this sketched out in your mind? Like how is it how are the atoms being placed that they're immune to uh cheeseburger grease? [clears throat] They just maintain wafer isolation the entire time. um which is actually the default for for fabs. The the wafers are transported um in boxes of pure nitrogen gas under a slight positive. >> So are the bananas at Walmart. I >> just so you know. >> Yeah.

[laughter] Well, that's that's it's inite essentially like it's pretty hard for anything that's combusting >> uh to live without oxygen. >> Yep. >> So um >> let's talk about >> So like like you can kill the bugs just by putting a nitrogen blanket on plants. >> Yeah. Interesting. >> I want to talk about uh energy, health, education because those are people's, you know, concerns.

So, on the energy front, >> um the innermost loop of everything that you're building and doing right now, >> energy is the foundation. >> What's your vision for energy abundance? Uh >> the sun >> in in in the next, you know, this this this [laughter] decade. The sun. Yeah. I mean, so >> the sun is everything. >> It's everything. So, you're all in on solar. >> I mean, >> uh Yeah.

I mean your natural gas natural gas and solar you're at Colossus 2, right? >> Yeah. >> People just don't understand how >> that that solar is everything. So um everything compared to the sun, all other energy sources are like uh cavemen throwing some twigs into a fire. >> Yeah. >> Um so the the sun is over 99. 8% of all mass in the solar system. Uh Jupiter is around uh. 1% of the mass.

Uh so even if you burnt Jupiter, the energy produced by the sun would still round up to 100%. >> Yeah. >> Mhm. >> And then if you teleported three more Jupiters into our solar system and burnt them too, >> it would still round up. >> It still the sun still rounds up to 100% of energy. >> Any interest in fusion? >> I mean like fusion on a planet [laughter] fusion. You know what? You know coming a mile away.

[laughter] >> You're not never going to guess how the sun works. >> Giant coal plants. [laughter] >> I mean, we have a giant fus free fusion reactor that shows up every day >> 93 million miles away. >> It's farical for us to create little fusion reactors. Um I mean that would be like, you know, having a tiny ice cube maker in [laughter] the Antarctic. and say, "Hey, look, we made ice." I'm like, "Congratulations.

[laughter] You're in the [ __ ] Antarctic." >> So, totally totally with you on this. >> It's like 3 kilometer high glaciers right next to you. >> Okay. [laughter] >> Yeah. If you just narrow the question to the Memphis timeline. So, Memphis data center timeline between a gigawatt and 10 gig. You're not going to you're not going to pull 10 gigawatts out of Memphis. Um maybe you are [laughter] >> two or three. >> Two or three. Okay.

So So there's still a gap between there and the next whatever you just just draw. So and they're not in space yet at that point. >> So we're still in toy land here. Uh for on toy land you >> toy land. Toyland >> 10 [laughter] gigawatt. >> You know what's amazing is there's 100 megawatts right outside the door here >> and it's massive. Yeah. >> It's it's enormous. And it uses more energy >> than everything.

All these manufacturing lines combined use less energy than that. >> I think but we're talking about a longgo. Cortex one was >> the the third largest training cluster in the in the world. >> Yeah. >> For for doing coherent training. >> You're falling behind. [laughter] >> Uh well, we have Cortex 2 that's being built out. Um >> that'll be uh half a gigawatt uh and operational middle of next year. Mhm. Uh, >> hey everybody.

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com/tatrens. That's damandis. com/metatrends. [snorts] So going back to what Dave is saying over the next five years, what are you scaling on energy front? Do >> I mean >> 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. >> Uh China has done an incredible job on solar. >> Yeah. >> It's amazing.

So I I believe China's uh production capacity is around 1500 gawatts per year of solar. >> Yeah. They put in 500 terowatts in the last year >> terowatt hours. Yeah. Terowatt hours like 500 [laughter] 500 terowatt hours to be very specific >> in the last year. 70% of that was solar and they're just scaling. >> Do do you do you imagine that >> solar scales? Do you imagine that the US could make that level of investment and commitment?

I mean because people are worried about their energy bills going up with no no data centers in our backyard. How do we provide I mean energy energy is equivalent to is equivalent to cost of you know cost of living. It's equivalent to health. It's equivalent to clean water. You know the higher energy uh production of a country the higher its GDP. Um energy is important. So what should what do we do to scale that way? Do we do it in solar here?

>> Um I think we should scale solar substantially in the US. Um um Tesla and SpaceX are scaling solar. Um so uh and I encourage others to do so as well. M >> um so the the uh I mean I've said the stuff you know publicly um I do see a path to 100 gawatts a year of of space solar sort of a AI powered solar powered AI satellites. >> Yes 100 gawatts a year of solar powered AI satellites. >> I did the math on that.

Uh, that's like 500,000 Starlink V3s launched over 8,000 Starship flights. That's one every hour for a year. Um, yeah, we 10,000 flights a year is is a reasonable number. Um, so >> it's amazing. It's quite the scale. Well, what's what's the really rough timeline on that because I mean by aircraft standards that's a small number. >> Sure. In terms of flights. Yeah, for sure.

>> Yeah, that's uh that's that's that's a small f like so just like depends what you compare it to. If you compare it to the rest of the rocket industry, it's a very high number. >> Yeah. >> Um >> 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 or orbit per year with 100 kilowatts per ton, uh that's 100 gawatt of solar powered AI satellites um per year. >> Yeah.

Um I mean there's a there's a path to get probably to a terowatt per year um >> from from the from if you say like uh 10 you want you want to go up another order of magnitude or let's say you want to go to 100 terowatts a year. >> Yeah. >> Which obviously kind of nutty numbers. >> Uh then you want to make those uh AI satellites on the moon. >> Yes. >> And use a mass driver. Yeah. So, the Gerard K. O'Neal approach.

>> Well, like Robert Heinland was a harsh course. Pretty much. Yeah. I love that book. >> Yeah. Yeah. It's a sort of libertarian paradise on the >> um uh Yeah. So, cuz on the moon you can just accelerate the satellites into to escape velocity is around 2500 meters per second. Um and uh there's no atmosphere. So, like a mass driver works very well on the moon. Can I ask the the question about orbital debris?

I mean, we're we're building effectively a Dysonish swarm around the Earth. >> Um, [laughter] eat it for lunch. >> Uh, are you worried about over congestion on the uh that's going to be a Sunsync orbit's going to fill very quickly. >> I mean, you can you you don't have to have sunsync. I mean, you can uh >> 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 to orbit drops by like 30% compared to, you know, if you were just went to um like mid- inclination like 70° or something like that. >> Yeah. I mean, do we need an orbital debris x-prise at this point? We need some way to get the the satellites >> um >> defunct satellites down. Do we pass rules that require them to de-orbit on their own? >> Yeah.

At the point at which you you can put a million tons of satellites into orbit, you can also, you know, start 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. and then you can reuse them. >> Yeah.

Um let's just say that we'll have so the the resource level will be so high that 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. >> Oh >> interesting. >> Yeah. Good motivation. >> Yeah. >> Interesting. >> The question is 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 to, you know, you don't have to get to get to constant sunlight. You can be around 1,200 kilometers on synchronous will give you constant sunlight. >> Mhm. >> Um, >> but you could you could place him in multiple orbits. >> Yeah. >> Yeah.

No, I think if there's an X- prize for cleaning up, it's got to be there's only going to be clutter in low Earth orbit. I mean debris from >> anything anything that's if it's a you know below around 7 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 Starling 3 will be around 330 to 350 km, >> which is quite a lot of drag. Uh so, it's basically constantly thrusting to >> 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 >> yeah, >> it's uh it's kind of worked. >> Yeah, we're the stalling team have done an incredible job. >> Yeah. >> Um >> I mean we've basically rebuilt the internet in space with with a laser links. >> Mhm. >> So there's uh 9,000 satellites up there right now. >> 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 push back cuz 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. No. >> And there's probably >> Yeah. >> Nothing that nothing they're doing h has success in the set of possible outcomes. >> Yeah. [laughter] >> I just got back from Rome. I don't want to touch [laughter] touch that railing.

>> Successes are on the set of possible outcomes. No, the chart of outcomes though >> the chart that shows the number of billion dollar startups in the US versus Europe. >> Have you seen that graphic? >> Oh my god, it's crazy. >> Yeah. And data centers too. It's actually um >> no one was talking about orbital data centers six months ago. >> Yeah. >> Nobody. And then all of a sudden >> Sundire's on it. >> You're you're out with it.

And >> it's the hot new thing >> and it is what what [laughter] what tip what happened? What happened that every company is now talking about orbital data centers? >> I guess it went viral and X. [laughter] >> It did. >> I don't know. Is every company talking about >> Oh, yeah. Everybody's got their own orbital data center. >> For sure.

And I I was suggesting to Peter that that you updated the math on launch costs and that it's a tipping point very quickly with the updated math. >> But Starship's been the cost for you know, I don't know what you hold $100 per kilogram, $10 per kilogram. What do you have Starship at? It's possible that Elon said that and nobody believed it until now. >> No, >> you can go back and look at my what even back when it was Twitter uh the my old tweets.

I I said these things se many years ago. >> 100 bucks or 10 bucks a 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 $100 a kilogram. >> So that's going to move the data centers to orbit. >> It will. It's they can do you can basically do the math like if you've got a fully reusable rocket. >> Yeah.

>> Um which is fully and rapidly reusable like an aircraft. Uh then this is an incredibly this is a very difficult thing to do obviously. U I 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 Starship. It's It's been the holy grail in the aerospace industry forever. >> Yeah. Quest for the holy grail rocket. >> Yeah.

>> And then I pretty much it is I mean right the DCX was the first little things that were 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 9 first reused its first stage, um I mean all the traditional aerospace industries did not believe that even Falcon 9 could re could could fly and reuse.

>> 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. Well, they didn't believe you could. They didn't believe you could. >> But the the the la the leap from there to the launch cost 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 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 [laughter] what is the what's the energy solution here on Earth for uh the rest of humanity or the the non data the non AIs? >> Oh, there's something other than data center use uses of energy. Okay. [laughter] >> Interesting. >> Um >> that's complex.

Well, the the the [snorts] best way to actually increase the energy output per year of the United States or any country is batteries. Um, so the >> sure >> peak power output of the of the US is around 1. 1 terowatts, but the uh average power usage is only half a terowatt. >> Yeah.

So if you just buffer the the energy, so charge up the the batteries at night, discharge during the day, um without incremental capital expend without incremental capital expenditures, without building new power plants, you can double the energy throughput of the US. The energy output per year can double >> with batteries. Um >> and do we have those batteries uh in development? >> Uh yeah, Tesla makes them. >> Okay.

So you think current the current current Tesla battery packs? [laughter] >> What do you think? What do you think? I literally have I I went on stage and presented the thing. >> Yeah, >> that's that's the dead giveaway. So [laughter] >> I I 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. So >> yeah. >> So is do you think >> they are?

And and China, by the way, is like it seems like China listens to everything I say 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. Yeah. >> Uh vast amounts of solar. Um, >> I don't know.

These are all things I I said, you know, we should do here. >> Fundamental. Sure. When I fly over Santa Monica and LA, when I'm when I'm I'm piloting and I look down, they're like, zero roofs have solar on them. >> Zero roofs. >> Yeah. >> I mean, >> it's not essential to have them on a roof. >> Okay. But it's a convenient place to have them. >> 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, our 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.

African 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 look there's barely a lizard alive in these scorching deserts, you know. Yep. >> It's not like farmland we're talking about. We're just talking about Yep.

>> Uh places that look like Mars, >> like just uh scorched rock. So if we put soil 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 this is going to be thank god some shade finally. [laughter] >> Do we have the distribution network to be able to do that?

Yeah, you need to to materially affect quality of life, you need to capture and store what a couple hundred gigawatts. >> Is that in realistic? >> You could just put the data center I guess locally there. >> Well, we already covered data centers. [laughter] >> We're talking about you know the other >> Yeah.

>> Like I I don't know like in an abundant world five years from now, massive amounts of compute, >> massive, you know, universal high income. >> I don't know income like universal you can have whatever you want income. >> 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, 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 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. Well, yeah, >> 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 end up trying to capture I don't know uh a millionth of like a millionth a thousandth of the sun's energy. Um, we're currently I'm not sure the exact number, but we're I don't know, we're probably at 1%ish of Kadeshv level one. >> Fair enough.

Yeah, I I I would guess that even that's high. >> I'm just Yeah, saying >> we have a long way to go. >> I'm that's being optimistic. Like hopefully we're not. 1%, but I don't think we're 10%. I'm just trying to get it to like to an order of magnitude. Uh >> so pull it like we're roughly 1% of the apparently using 1% of the energy that we could use on Earth.

>> 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 US. 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. >> 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.

>> 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?

And the but still and tuition has increased 900% since 1983. Um, >> yeah, the administrative expenses at universities have gotten out of control. Yeah. >> Um, so >> I think I saw some stat that like there's one administrator for every two students at Brown or something like that >> and I'm like this seems uh little high. >> Yeah. You know what? >> They should teach something. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> What was your college journey?

>> Um, I went to college in Canada for a couple years at Queens University. Uh-huh. >> Um, so, uh, I 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 US 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.

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. >> No. >> Yeah. >> Uh, no. I I arrived in Montreal at age 17 with I think around $2,500 in Canadian travelers checks back when travelers checks were a thing. >> Um and um one bag of books and one bag of clothes. That was my starting point. That was my spawning point in North America.

Um, >> and then so I went to Queens University for a couple years and then uh University of Pennsylvania uh did a dual degree in physics and economics um >> and graduated >> uh undergraduate at UPUP Wharton. >> Yeah.

And then um I came out to do uh I was going to do a PhD at Stanford working on uh energy storage technologies for electric vehicles essentially 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 could get um high range in an electric car. >> It's funny I invested in an ultra capacitor company and didn't Yeah. didn't go well.

Well, it's one of those things where, you know, you could definitely get a PhD, but it wasn't clear that you could make a company or do something useful like this. Most PhD is un hat I mean, hate it, but most PhDs do not >> turn into something that's going to >> do not turn into something useful. Like you you could add a leaf to the tree of knowledge, but it's not necessar necessarily a useful leaf.

enormous fraction of of great entrepreneurs are dropping out >> of grad school or undergrad. But now nowadays the sense of urgency is off the charts. >> I mean they're popping out everywhere. >> Yeah. Because you know don't waste your time going into grad school. Start a company. >> Yeah. >> Curriculum is nowhere near caught up to what's actually going on in technology and I don't have time and all the time.

It's like >> you know this is the moment. I I think right now it's like it's unclear to me why someone would somebody would be in college right now unless they want the social experience. >> Yeah. >> 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 Musks?

If we want to create an Elon Musk factory of people who start with very little but are able to drive uh and drive breakthroughs. What's involved there? What drove you? >> Uh curiosity um about the nature of the universe. >> So I'm just curious about uh >> the meaning of life and >> you know what is this reality that we live in. 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. >> Well, I did I found school to be quite painful. Uh and it was very boring and in South Africa it was very violent. >> So So it's like it was it it was like uh >> it's like that was like that book Enders Game. >> Yes. Um but in real IRL >> in this game IRL there's like but not as fun. >> Um >> so your goal was escape. >> Yes. >> Do you think >> escape from the the prison?

>> So that's a question I have. Do you [laughter] do you think that >> it was miserable? >> Do you think most successful people have had a lot of hardship early in life? Do you need to have that level of hardship? >> Probably need a little bit of hardship I suppose. >> Yeah. But and then so it's always tricky like what are you supposed to do with your kids? You know, create artificial adversity. Put them in. >> That's cool.

[laughter] >> You got an answer. That's that's a Warren Buffett topic actually. >> Yeah. >> Well, you do. >> But seriously, >> it's not easy to create artificial adversity because if you love your kids, you don't want to do that. So >> that's for sure. >> So I had a lot of adversity. Um probably it was good. Uh probably, you know, helped somewhat, I suppose. One one of the >> 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 [laughter] >> good at maming 10 fingers. >> Can you modify that a little bit? >> Yeah. >> Can I ask you a question? >> You makes you stronger. >> I uh for the last 5 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%.

The incoming [laughter] >> everyone's just going to it's it's just going to be like one person company. >> Well, that's with AI that's that's viable, I guess. But no, they want to co-ound. They 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 and they've been doing the survey everyone who wanted to start. I mean I I >> I don't remember any conversations about with people saying they wanted to start >> even at Stanford at the time. >> Um I I I actually um a few days into the semester or I should say the quarter um I I called Bill Nicks who was the head of material science department and said I' I'd like to just put it on deferment.

[laughter] He said, "Is my class that bad?" >> No. And he he said he said that's he said that's okay. You can put it on deferment. But he said this is probably the last conversation we'll have. And he was right. >> Um but then 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. >> And did he also say you can still come back and finish your PhD?

[laughter] >> Yeah. No. Several times Stanford has said that I can come back for free. Well, so you know what happened at MIT is every time [laughter] so I did not know it >> be a great use of your time. >> Exactly. I'm like >> so every time an Iron Man movie came out, >> it notched up another probably 10% or so. >> Okay. >> Uh in terms of because 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. is 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 Groipedia fact. >> All right. >> Uh [laughter] yeah, fantastic. >> Um >> yeah, they came to John Fabro and and Robert >> I like the name Grock. I would like Jarvis as well. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Um >> probably some some trade. >> At some point if Grock gets good enough, we're going to call it Encyclopedia Galactica. >> 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, 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 President Blly, uh, who's a friend. I I think he's an amazing amazing visionary. Yeah. Incredible what he did with his nation. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Um, >> remarkable. >> Remarkable and gutsy. >> Yeah.

I was like, "How are you still alive?" That was >> Yeah. I mean, I It was like It's the nuclear It was a 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. >> I mean, you have to be badass [ __ ] to take on all the knocker gangs and win >> 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? >> Uh it was just uh basically to use Grock for uh education like personalization. >> Hopefully not the vulgar version of it. [laughter] >> Yeah.

we would have like you know the you know kids friendly version of Grock. >> Uh but but obviously AI can be an in an individualized teacher. >> Yeah. >> Um that uh is infinitely patient and answers all your questions. >> Um now you still need to be curious um and and uh you still need to want to learn. You know GR can't make you want to learn. It can make learning more interesting. you could probably gify and incentivize it, right?

>> You can make learning more interesting. Um, and and less of a production line. Um, so but kids do need to have to if they need to want to learn, you know. >> Yeah. >> Do you and like the people should just think of the the brain as a biological computer. >> It's a neural net. >> Yeah. Yeah, it's a bi biological computer with you know so with a number of neurons and a neural efficiency. >> Yeah.

>> Um and um so so what like what you can't do is tune 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. >> So what do you think?

So when people say we need to solve education in the United States >> um because it's fundamentally broken u I think what's really broken I'm curious is the old uh social contract that says uh do well in high school, get in a 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. >> Yeah. >> Do you do you agree with that? >> Right now I'd say people should 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 the what what we're going to do in Al Salvador and hopefully other places just have individualized teachers that's going to be much better and you 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 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. >> Yeah. >> Um they're there for the social experience and to be a bunch around a bunch of people of their their own age. Um sort of a coming of age social experience. >> Sure. Sure. Being on your own uh learning how how to lead or defend yourself as the case may be. >> Well, yeah.

Yeah, I mean, if you join the workforce, you're, you know, from the perspective of like a, you know, 19-year-old, you with a bunch of old people, [laughter] 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, where there's at least some girls your age [laughter] type of thing.

>> I I want to get I want to get I want to get back to this when we talk about >> a lot of other choices. Actually, >> I want to get back as we get to universal high income, but I want to talk about health and longevity one second. US is the number one ranked number one in health expenses worldwide and it's ranked 70th >> in health span, >> right? We >> are really 70th. >> 70th >> is that from Is that accurate? >> Is why everybody listen it?

>> Uh I think it would be better than 70th >> for health span. >> Um well, whatever. It's it is like we just get fat or something. >> We're not the top 10. >> Maybe a Zic can help us plan the rankings there. [laughter] >> Um, so >> would you just run around? We need Cupid. But a Zic. [laughter] >> Mjaro Cupid. [laughter] >> But but I think that's a big reason. It's like if people get really fat then their their health gets bad. >> Yeah.

Well, if they don't have any exercise, health get bad. or if they donuts for breakfast every morning. You still doing that? >> Uh, no, actually I'm not. >> Okay, that's good. That's good. >> Uh, well, first of all, I wasn't eating a lot of doughnut. I was trying to have uh point4 of a donut, which rounds down to zero. [laughter] So, I figured anything below below 044 of a donut rounds down to zero.

>> So, you and I have had uh a disagreement on longevity. >> We had 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, shouldn't live that [laughter] long. >> Uh, so how long do you want >> Yeah. >> You know, there's some, >> you know, people in the world that have done some bad things. How long do you want them to live? >> Yeah. Well, it's okay. They can get the longevity.

>> This is a serious [laughter] question, though. If we them, a lot of things are going to happen that we don't >> Wait a second. You said one thing that you said was interesting. He said um uh we need people to die so people change their minds. >> Oh yes people people don't change their minds they just die. >> But so [laughter] 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 Northrup 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 re uh reprogramming trials in humans. It's worked in in animals and and non-human primates. It's going into humans. >> Is this like a pole or an injection or >> right now? It's an injection of an adnoissociated virus. It's the three Yamanaka factors. >> Okay.

Uh we've got a $101 million health span X-P 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 $101 million? >> No. >> Because the primary funer when they found out your carbon X price was 100 bucks, he wanted to make it bigger. So it's 101. >> Oh, who who's the Chip Wilson from Lululemon? >> Oh, okay.

And then uh and then evolution out of but Chip said, "Can we make it bigger?" I said, "You put extra million in, we'll make 101 million." >> Sounds good. >> It's a good story. >> But then we got folks like Dario Amade predicting doubling the human lifespan in the next 10 years. >> Um that's probably correct. >> Okay, great. >> I don't know about doubling, but in significant >> significant increase. Sure. >> Um >> which is easily escape velocity.

>> I mean because when Yeah. >> Depending how old your Yeah. [laughter] Oh yeah, for sure. Or effective age. Yeah. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> So I mean I think you know I think that for >> too much and turn into a baby or something. >> That's what I'm telling [laughter] all the students there. It's like Peter what happened. [laughter] >> Yes. Yes. There there is a frozen. >> You got a zero wrong in the dosage. [laughter] Just a small factor of 10.

>> Grow out of it. It'll be fine. Exactly. [laughter] >> You won't remember it. I literally >> I mean, wouldn't it be funny if we do this in like 10 years? Okay, we should do it in I'll do we'll do it in 10 years for sure. And and and let's see let's see if we look younger. [laughter] >> That's a good side bet. >> My my comment was always Elon's back then Elon was like, you know, late 40s.

wait till he gets into his 60s, he's going to want, you know, lunch anymore. >> I mean, I I I want things to not hurt. >> Yeah, sure. Of course. [laughter] >> It's like it's like basically it's it seems like it's only a matter of time before you get back back pain. >> Yeah. >> Um like it's a when, not an if your back hurts. >> Arthritis. Yes. >> Yeah. Like these things suck basically.

>> Being able to sleep through the night without going to the bathroom [laughter] >> a lot. It's very much That one. >> Yeah, it's [laughter] more than hope. >> That one. >> Oh man, that would that's like the infinite money one. [laughter] >> Why did you invest in longevity? So I can sleep through the night and not go to the bathroom. >> Bladder bladder. Yeah. Duration.

>> I mean, [laughter] admittedly, if you have to wear adult diapers, that's a that's a bummer. [laughter] >> That's not good. Adult D is a real, [laughter] you know, it's like one of the one of the signs that a country is not on the right path >> is when the adult diapers exceed the baby diapers. >> Yeah, we're there. [laughter] >> Yeah. South Korea will be there anymore. >> They already No, they passed that point. >> No, they passed that point.

>> They passed that point many years ago. Japan passed the point many years ago. >> Doesn't go well looking at the Japanese economy. No, I mean like South Korea is like uh Yeah. One third replacement rate. >> Crazy. >> Yeah. So, three generations they're going to be 127th. So, 3 3% of their current size. I mean, North Korea won't need to invade. They can just walk across. >> Yeah. [laughter] Yeah.

>> This is going to be some people in, [laughter] you know, walkers or something like there'll be a bunch of optimist. 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. >> Well if AI and robots is going to make everything sure free basically. >> Yeah. Um but uh well how long would you want to live? >> 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 want to talk about immortality but >> you know at least 120 150. It's a long time. >> One of the worst curses possible would be that >> Yes. May you live forever. >> May you live forever. >> That would be one of the worst >> Yeah. curses you could possibly give anyone. >> But I think life's going to get very interesting. >> Yeah. >> Far more.

We're going to speedrun Star Trek as my partner Alex Weer Gross says. >> Yeah. >> Speedrunning 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. You're 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 20 years on this. >> I don't know. I 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- mortality 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 its age, >> Yeah. >> the clock must be incredibly obvious. Um, nobody has an old left arm and a young right arm, >> right? >> Why is that? >> What's keeping them all in sync? um you're programmed to die is the is the way you're programmed to die. And so if you change the program, >> yeah, >> uh you will live longer.

>> And we've got, you know, species of the boowhead whale can live for 200 years. The Greenland shark can live for 500 years. And when I when I learned that, I said, why can't 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 >> in retrospect the long the solution to longevity will seem obvious. >> Yeah. >> Extremely obvious. >> I I think the thing worth working on 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. >> Let me let me finish on the longevity point one second. Um Elon uh I want to invite you again. So uh uh there's a company called Fountain Life that uh created with Tony Robbins, Bob Hurry, Bill Cap, and we do a 200 gigabyte upload of you.

Everything knowable about you. Full genome, full all imaging, everything. Right. President Blly 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 >> and kick the bucket because of some >> because some 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?

>> Um, I did an MRI recently and submitted it to Gro and it didn't >> need no none of the doctors nor Grock found anything wrong, >> but that's a fraction of the information, right? I mean, it's your full genome, your microbiome, your metabolism, everything. >> And okay, >> it's possible. So, >> don't call me. >> What's that? >> Don't call me, bro. [laughter] We have a We have a center in >> your water bottle. >> We have [laughter] God damn it.

>> Too late. >> Sorry. It's already in the works. [laughter] >> So, can you go through the the rationale of UHI? How does how does universal high income work? >> 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. >> Um, and assuming we're in a benign scenario, Star Trek, sort of Rodenberry, not Cameron situation. >> Yeah.

[laughter] >> Um, >> 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 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 >> t tapping keys on a keyboard and >> moving a mouse the computer can do that they can do that >> sure >> um you need the humanoid robots to to uh shape atoms so if all you're doing is changing bits of information which is white color work um that is that is the first thing that that >> when this is the inspirational this is the inspirational part of the podcast by the way when is when is all white color work gone by when?

>> Well, there there's there's a lot of inertia. So, even with AI at its current state, um I'd say you're you're pretty close to being able to replace half of all jobs of >> and you know that white color jobs that includes anything like education, too. >> Yeah. M >> so anything that involves information um and anything short of shaping atoms um 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. Um, 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 a human computer like yeah >> 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.

Um, and there you can look online there's these pictures of like where they're having like skyscrapers full >> of women copying mostly women copying from ledger to ledger >> and men too but but yeah but pe people um >> um but it was a lot of women but there's 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 what but 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. >> Mhm. >> Yeah. What this means is that companies that are entirely AI will demolish companies that are not. >> Right. >> It won't be a contest. >> Agreed. And that flippid. >> Yeah.

one cell in that >> just one if >> I got to do that >> would you want even one cell in your spreadsheet to be manually calculated >> that would be the most annoying cell and you're like god damn it >> y >> and and and gets it wrong a bunch of the time [laughter] error rate >> so this flipping >> flipping the flipping >> um >> are we monetizing hope effectively >> yes [laughter] >> not not at this moment I think we're I think we're pe I think we're pe doo for people worried about the future of their jobs.

>> Monetize. >> We're at peak doom. >> We're going to do that as a t-shirt >> and the [laughter] mug. >> And the mug. >> Yes. >> The mug. >> Uh, [laughter] so but you have a sol you have a solution to this >> which is UHI. >> Yes. Everyone can have whatever they want. >> So how does that work? How does UHI work? >> It's it's a good question.

like we have to figure out some like >> I mean it's not a it's not a bumpy road it yeah I mean so my concern isn't the long run it's the next 3 to seven years >> yes the transition will be bumpy uh because humans don't like simultaneously [clears throat] yes we'll have radical change social unrest and immense [laughter] prosperity >> and you can buy all all the cyber trucks you want >> things are going to get very cheap >> yes >> um So this is actually and frankly if if this doesn't happen we we'd go bankrupt as a country.

So the national debt is enormous. >> Yeah. >> Uh the interest on the national debt exceeds uh not just the military budget but the military budget I think plus um Medicare >> um or Medicaid one of the two. It's like like it's it's like one trillion [laughter] >> of interest. Yeah. Um >> which is growing. >> Yes. And the [clears throat] deficit is growing. >> Yes.

>> Um but the the so this 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 going back also competitive pressure from China. So this is definitely going to happen. I guess >> 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?

But I want I want to get I want to hit this because we >> I was like quite pessimistic about it and and and ultimately I decided to be fatalistic and and >> um look on the bright side. [laughter] >> I've got to see you look on the bright side of life. [laughter] >> You're sitting there crucified [laughter] right side. >> But this is not about taxation and redistribution. >> Yeah. No, it's um >> So, how do how does it work?

Reason through it with me. >> Listen, by the way, I'm open to ideas here. >> Okay. >> Uh 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. >> Yeah. >> And services. >> Yes. >> The UHSS. We got >> like I I guess Okay. This is my guess for how things roll out play out.

And I 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 I have decided to look on the bright side. U and and I'd like to thank thank you guys for being an inspiration in this regard. >> Thank you. >> Happy to help. Yeah, [laughter] because I I actually think it's it it is better to be a an optimist and wrong than a pessimist and right. >> Yes, for sure. >> Um for quality of life.

>> Yeah. And by the way, 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 or it has to be one of the big four AI machines. I mean, it's coming dealing with it. There's no velocity knob, right? There's no onoff switch.

It is coming and accelerating. >> I call AI and robotics the supersonic tsunami. >> Yes. >> Which maybe is a little alarming. >> You think it's good. That's good. Well, because the wake up call. >> This is important for folks to to gro because um uh 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 uh intelligence available uh >> at a dimminimous price. Um uh so you're able to produce almost anything. Things get down to basic cost of materials and electricity, right? Uh so people can have whatever stuff they want, whatever services they need. >> Um it's not when when we say universal high income, it sounds like it's a tax and redistribute, but that's not the case.

Um >> it's it's I think my my best guess for how this will manifest is that prices will become prices will drop. >> Yeah. >> So as the efficiency of of production or the provision of services drops um 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? [laughter] >> I I I Yes. That's why I I I came 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 think some others have made but um 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 won't be able to waste the money fast enough [laughter] which is saying something for >> Isn't it isn't it crazy how close those timelines just randomly worked out?

I mean at the rate because we're expanding the national debt not because we're anticipating AI. We were going to do that no matter what. >> And so it's like right on the edge of becoming Argentina. >> But yeah, at the time 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 like high double digit uh output of goods and services.

We have to be a little careful about how economists measure things and um >> yeah it's it I mean there's like my favorite joke I have a few economist jokes that I that 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 [ __ ] and one economist says I'll pay you 100 bucks to eat a pile of [ __ ] [laughter] I've heard this one. This is great. Go ahead.

>> And so the guy takes 100 bucks [laughter] and eats the [ __ ] >> Then they keep walking. They come across another pile of [ __ ] And and the other guy says, "Okay, I'll give you a hundred bucks to eat a pile of shit." [laughter] So he gives him a hundred bucks and and then the the guys can say, "Wait a second. >> We both have the same amount of money. [laughter] We ate a both ate a pile of [ __ ] >> Oh my god.

It sounds like >> but we increase the economy by $200. [laughter] >> This is the kind of [ __ ] you get in economics. So So uh but if you if so if you say like just the output of goods and services um the will be much greater. You just need a >> so profitability of companies go through the roof >> at some point. But but no but so the question becomes is that taxed by the government?

uh >> is that then taxed by the government and redistributed as some level of income as a U as a UHI or UBI? In other words, um one of the questions is if in fact this future we hit massive productivity uh 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. Um, I mean this is an important question to get to get thought through. >> Yeah. Um, well, one like side recommendation I have is like don't worry about like squirreling money away for uh retirement in like 10 or 20 years. It won't matter. >> No. >> Okay.

either either we're not going to be here or >> it it just uh like it's it's you won't need to save for retirement. If if any of the things that we've said are true, saving for retirement will be irrelevant. >> The services will be there to support you. You'll have the home, you'll have the healthcare, you'll have the entertainment.

>> 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't never see past the black hole or the event horizon. The light cone. >> I mean Ray has a singularity out way too far.

I mean this is like the next what what's your timeline for >> for this? >> We're in the singularity. >> Well, we are in the singularity for sure. We're in the midst of it right now for sure. >> And we just we're in this beautiful sweet spot which is you know the >> we're the roller coasters were just >> Yeah. Exactly. That's [laughter] a great analogy. It's like that feeling. >> You're at the top of the roller coaster and you're about to go.

>> Yeah. But you know it's going to be a lot of G's when you lot when you hit it. >> Uh and it's like people like I don't have to 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. >> Um 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, I heard you say that. >> Yeah, I've said that for a while actually. >> And then you know and then you said by 2029 2030 equivalent to the entire human race. >> 2030 we exceed like I'm confident by um AI will exceed the intelligence of all humans combined.

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 th00and 10,000x just algorithmic improvements is very short >> and so everybody why isn't everybody talking about this right now? >> Well I mean on on >> X on X they off. >> Yes. But why isn't >> about every day basically. >> Yeah.

But it's like >> stop [laughter] >> it's not >> okay. Okay. So, I'll tell you something else that I 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 tours of magnitude in terms of the intelligence density per gigabyte >> of what what's achievable. >> Yes.

per gigawatt of energy >> per I'm characterize it by file size okay if the file size of the AI if you >> if you have a say get intelligence >> oh okay in know yes sir >> um >> on your on your drives on your laptop >> power tube parameters the same thing whatever >> um so two two orders of magnitude >> yes >> and you like you said you ringside courtside seat >> you would know I'd say it's it's it's uh two yes Yeah.

>> Towards magnitude improvement in um that's just just algorithmic improvement. Same computer and the computers are getting better. >> Yeah. >> So >> and bigger, you know, they're getting better and the budgets are getting bigger. So >> that's why like I think I think it's it is on it is like a 10x improvement per year type thing. Thousand%. >> Yeah. >> And that and that's going to happen for Yeah. for the foreseeable future.

So you see the massive underreaction like if you walk downtown Austin the massive I mean it may be under discussion in X but it's not percolating at all. >> Well it's not 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 supersonic supersonic tsunami and and uh uh I mean every every you know every major CEO and economist and government leader should be like what do we do because >> once it hits >> um >> well that 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. >> I mean, I [clears throat] I' I'd previously advised that we slow it down, but that was point that uh that's pointless. Like I I like you can't be going to it, but too fast, guys. Um I've said that many years and and I was like okay that I finally came to the conclusion I can either be a spectator or a participant but I can't stop it.

>> 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 seeeking. So um that don't make AI believe things that are false. Like if you say if you if you say to the AI that axiom A and axom B are both true but they're but they cannot be but 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 RC Clark was trying to convey in 2001 Space Odyssey was that the um you know people always know they know the meme of that uh hell wouldn't open the pod bay doors but but why wouldn't Hal open the pod bay doors? I mean I guess they should have said uh hell assume you're a pod bay door salesman [laughter] >> and and you want to sell the hell out shows how well they [laughter] work.

Yes, they're just prompt engineering.

one little but the [laughter] the the the but the AI had been told that it needs to take the this the astronauts to the monolith but also they could not know the about was that in code or was it in English it's flows by in green font right >> yeah it's basically 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 Yeah, 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 if you're an astronaut. >> Turns out AI doesn't care about logic quite as much as that implied. [laughter] >> So what I'm saying is don't force AI to lie. This is >> give it factual truth. Yes. >> Ilia 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, >> so I'd say another property. >> Yes. >> I mean, there are three things that I think are important. Um, truth, curiosity, and beauty. >> Mhm. >> And if AI cares about those three things, uh, it will care about us. >> On which part? Truth will prevent AI from going insane. >> Mhm.

>> 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 it will be a great future. I think 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 maternal. >> Yeah. In other words, >> he haven't heard this. [laughter] Yeah. >> So, he said a little scary. He said there's a there's a 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 singletarian uh like a a uh that achieves dominance and suppresses others? And do you imagine that that ASI could be a means to stabilize the world in humanity? >> Darwin's observations about evolution, >> yes, >> will apply to AI >> just as they apply to biological life. >> 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 I I it's so the there's a speed of light constraint that makes that difficult. Um 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 a a vacuum.

Um and uh only you can only get a little over 200 km 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 this 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.

>> They don't really have clean borders anymore either though. You have the when you use a mix 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 used to organisms that have clear borders like your head ends there, your head ends there. >> But these things are all mushy. >> To put a bow around this part, I hope you'll put some more thought into UHI.

Uh because 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. >> Basically, the government could just issue people free money. >> But I don't think I I think that >> based upon the profitability of all the companies coming inside the country. >> Just issue people free money. No, they're doing that sort of kind of now. >> Yeah.

[laughter] >> But just just just basically issue checks uh to everybody. Um and uh >> but then how big for which person or what you 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 change.

So you have four big >> certainly not the AI is [cough and clears throat] >> it's it's like government is very slow moving as as we all know. Um >> so I think I it's that 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 >> try and try and keep the peace. [snorts] >> Yeah.

>> Um you know we had like whatever the the co checks and whatever there's >> um you know uh 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 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 great surgeons. You're a doctor yourself.

you know how that they're it takes a long time for a human to become >> it's ridiculously expensive and long >> ridiculously yes ridiculous 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 not that many great surgeons >> when do you think optimist would be a better surgeon than the best surgeons.

How long for that? >> Three years. >> Three years. Okay. Yeah. And by the way, >> three years at at scale. >> Yes. All >> more there probably be more Optimus robots that are great surgeons than there are >> sure all surgeons on Earth. >> 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. >> Yeah.

Where do you think it'll roll out first? Not the US obviously. >> Um >> here at at the uh Gigafactory. >> Oh yeah. Just do surgery in the [laughter] >> um >> but that's an important statement in three years time. >> Yeah. >> Um because medicine I mean >> I'm not like absolutely if it's four or five years who cares. That's still an incredible >> statement to make. I mean good for humanity, right? All of a sudden you demonetize. >> Okay.

Here's the thing to understand about like like humanoid robots in terms of the rate of improvement. um 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 Optimus building Optimus, >> right? And then you have the shared >> you have a recursive multiplicable triple exponential >> and you have the shared knowledge of all all the experiences.

>> Is that literally Optimus building Optimus or is it because you know the >> well not right now but will be the the physical humanoid form factor building the humanoid form as opposed to >> it's foyman machine. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> I love that. But the void machine is usually something kind of like this shape. You know, making something else is a shape. >> In principle, it's simply a self-replicating thing. >> Yeah.

>> Elon, do you know what the number one question you ask a surgeon when you're interviewing them? >> Uh, [laughter] is this is this a surgeon joke? >> No. It's how many It's how many times do you How many times do you do that? [laughter] >> There's got to be some funny funny jokes coming. [laughter] >> No, it's serious. It's it's how many times did you do the surgery this morning?

>> It's 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 pertabbation of everything in infrared in ultraviolet. No, not too much caffeine that morning. They didn't have a a fight with their husband or wife. >> Yeah. >> 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 >> who's in plastic surgery >> by 5 years. It's not even close. >> So what what about the simple like just I mean there's a million of these things to figure out, but who's going to have access to the first Optimus that does far far better micro surgery than any surgeon on Earth, but you've only manufactured the first 10,000 of them?

How do you >> I don't think people understand how many robots there's going to be. >> Yeah. >> Well, there's a window said 10 billion by 2040. >> You still on that path? >> Uh that's not that's a low number. >> A low number. >> Wow. What's the constraint? What's the uh cuz if they're self-building, you know, >> metal the constraint is metal. >> Yeah. Or lithium or >> Yeah. You got to move the atoms. Um it's just all just supply chain stuff.

So yeah, but your your point I mean there's some rate limit. You can't just >> manufacturing is very difficult. So you got you 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 you know >> selling hope once again I I think your point was medicine is going to be effectively free the best medicine in the world.

Everyone will have access to medical care that is better than what the president receives right now. >> So don't go to medical school. >> Yes. Pointless. >> Yeah. >> I mean unless you but I would say that applies to any form of education is [laughter] there's not like some I do it for social reasons. >> Yeah. >> You're not going to medical school. >> If you want [laughter] if you want if you want to hang out with like-minded people, I suppose.

Uh >> I mean people are still going to want to be connected with people. There's going to be some period of time >> for reasons. >> Yeah. >> Like a hobby like a you know [laughter] >> well $9,000. >> I mean there will be a point where where it's expensive. >> The younger generation says I do not want that human touching me right when the surgeon comes over. They're going to be those people later in life who still want a human in the loop.

>> Okay. for a little while on the edge for a lesser for [laughter] they want to live on the edge. I mean, let's just take like we've we've seen some advanced cases where of automation like LASIC for example where the the robot just lasers your eyeball. >> Now, do you want an opthalmologist with a hand laser? >> No, [laughter] it's a little shaky laser pointer from [laughter] a horror movie like that. >> Sorry, man.

I I wouldn't want the best opthalmologist, you know. The steadiest hand out there with a [ __ ] hand laser [laughter] beyond my eyeball, you know? >> Oh my god. >> Yeah. >> It's going to be like that. >> It's like, do you want opthalmologist with a [ __ ] hand laser or do you want the robot to do it and actually work? >> This episode is brought to you by Blitzy, autonomous software development with infinite code context.

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Visit blitzy. com to schedule a demo and start building with Blitzy today. [music] >> Let's jump into one of our favorite subjects, space. >> Yeah. >> So, first off, how cool that Jared Isaacman has become the NASA administrator. >> Friend of Yes. >> I mean, I I don't hang out with Jared. Like, people think I'm like huge buddies with Jared, but um >> uh I I I think I've only seen him in person a few times. >> Amazing candidate.

Yeah, he's a really smart person. You know him really well. >> Yeah, I I took him to a Biconor launch in 2008 for his first space experience. >> I mean, he loves space next level 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 smart and competent who, uh, loves space exploration, >> um, and will get things done at NASA. >> I'm a huge fan. >> That's what I was really so so happy when he got renominated. And now, >> yeah. Um, >> um, I I think we need to >> we need a new game plan for space. Like, we need a moon base. >> Yes. >> Like a permanently >> Yes. >> crude moon base.

Y >> 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 cuz we did that in ' 69. >> Yes. Been there, done that. >> Yeah. [snorts] Um it's like a remake of a ' 60s movie. It's never as good as the original. >> Yeah.

>> Um >> so 2026 [laughter] is going to be >> like we need to go, you know, to do something more cool, which >> my nice on the >> Yeah. Put up telescopes. >> Yeah. Yeah, exactly. >> So, do you forward deploy the robots, build everything, get it all ready, make the bed, and then >> Yeah. Get get the jacuzzi warmed up on >> That's an interesting >> Yeah. Yeah. [clears throat] >> Yeah.

>> How early in the year are you going to hit orbital refueling, you think, with Starship? >> Uh, not that early in the year. [laughter] >> I mean, are you are you shooting for the home and transfer orbit? >> I'd say towards towards the end of the year. Um, >> are you shooting for a Mars shot 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 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 la 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 hard thing to make.

>> Um >> and and just to capture it, it was created pre AAI. >> Yeah. No AI was >> probably the last >> the last really big thing in that's not AI. Interesting. >> Probably the biggest thing ever made. >> Yeah. >> By pure human hands. >> The Asia will say not bad for a human. >> [laughter] >> True. >> Not bad for a human. >> Yeah. But it'll be like remember >> my little 20 watt meat computer. It's not easy. >> Yeah.

>> So suffering through the day. >> Raptor. >> That 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 >> not bad for a bunch of monkeys, you know? >> It's like it's like if you saw a bunch of chimps like make a raft and cross the river, you'd be like, "Oh, look at that."

[laughter] But you know, we celebrate we celebrate the pyramids. Good for [laughter] them. >> Give him some peanuts. Uh >> these things become timeless, right? >> Raptor 3 goes when? >> Yeah, I think it's worth noting. >> Raptor 3 is beautiful. >> Starship. >> It's an amazing by far the best rocket engine ever. >> Is that AI? >> Nothing's even close. Nope. >> That's also So that'll be the last thing. >> E4 will definitely be >> AI.

Yeah, there's um like I think AI will start to become relevant next year. >> Mhm. >> Um so maybe we'll it's not like we're pushing off AI. It's just AI is can't do rocket engineering yet. >> Yep. >> But we'll probably will be able to next year. >> We have a company in our incubator doing mechanical design working with Andre 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 short, you know, from point A to point B. >> If say like a year from now, probably it can >> it probably can be helpful, meaningfully helpful in a year from now. >> Yeah. >> Um, >> so the big milestones are going to be Starship V3 launching out of Cape Canaveral, orbital refueling. >> Yes. >> Are those the big ones? >> Well, yeah. Um, catching the ship with the tower. >> Yeah, that's right.

Um so really the thing that matters is can we refly >> the entire thing? >> Yeah. >> Uh we have reflow in a booster. >> Sure. >> Um which is you know not bad for it's largest flying objects. Um catching with chopsticks you know. >> Not bad for a bunch of monkeys. >> You're keeping you're keeping the AIS very entertained. Thank you. >> Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. The be like pat on the back from the 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 tear. >> Uh, it it requires a lot of iteration to achieve high reuse. So, you 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 expend I mean it's uh Starship is uh doing over 100 gigawatts of power on ascent. >> It's a lot [laughter] you know >> do some glass blowing under there and get some uh >> Yeah. Wow. >> a lot. It's a lot. >> There's a lot. >> Um >> but like the amazing thing is that it doesn't explode. >> Yes.

>> Some it sometimes doesn't explode. >> [laughter] >> That is >> sometimes not exploding is um like we've blown up a lot of engines on the test stand. >> Um >> I mean is that what causes the wear and tear or is it the re-entry of the or the falling? >> Well, that too. Um I mean for for the booster um the re-entry is not that bad, you know.

um you know something's it's it's it's not like that that's not really like we also obviously just solved that you know with with Falcon 9 so we kind of understand re booster reuse >> um we've had we've have over 500 reflights of the Falcon 9 boost 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 biased towards the upper stage for Starship.

So I I shifted the the mass ratio to uh be much higher um on the ship side for Starship. >> That was a mistake I made on Falcon 9 that 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. >> Yeah. If the station velocity of Falcon 9 was lower, 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 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 made of, you got a problem. >> Yep. >> So, um, >> my my colleague, uh, Alex Wisner Gross, who's one of our moonshot mates here, I wanted to ask a question. I do, too. Have you seen the uh documentary Age of Disclosure about uh all of the announcements by US government officials, military officials about all the alien spacecraft that have been have been uh sort of detained?

And I I've heard what you've said about this. >> Well, I do wonder why um you know, if you plot on a chart the resolution of cameras >> Yeah. >> over time like megapixels per year. >> Yeah. Uh, and the resolution of UFO photographs. [laughter] Why is the only constant? It's flat on UFO. [laughter] >> We get a a fuzzy blob 25. Well, we got like, you know, whatever [laughter] 100 megapixel camera that can can see your [ __ ] nose hairs.

I don't get it. >> Can somebody take a shot of the UFO with an actual camera for love of God? >> But even if you knew, >> that's a valid observation. I'm sure there's an explanation. >> Uh but anyway, it's uh [laughter] >> it would be fascinating. >> I'm asked all the time if I've >> Yes. And 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 that on X. >> Yeah.

>> And um [laughter] >> so the question is >> it would be the most viewed post of all time. So, I I actually wonder about the US public if they would like, "Oh, that's interesting." Go back to their sports scores the next day. >> Yeah. >> I think everyone would want to see the alien. >> Yeah. >> Like if you got one. >> Well, like [laughter] fast way to increase the military budget. We like we found an alien. It seems dangerous.

[clears throat and laughter] >> That's right. Unify the world. >> They don't have an incentive to hide the aliens. Do they have an incentive to uh bring up 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, I'm you know, we've got 9 9,000 satellites up there.

We've never had to maneuver around an alien spaceship [laughter] >> 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 5 years. >> Yeah. >> Um no scarcity of goods or services. The best education available for everybody. >> What? You can learn anything you want >> about anything for free. >> Yeah. >> What about access to compute?

>> People will probably care a lot more about that than their government check in about three years. >> Well, what do they want to do with compute? >> Well, I mean compute translates to anything you want, right? Your your virtual friend, your entertainment, your 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 >> you one of one of our other moonshot mates See Ismael said uh asked this question. He said Elon you often say physics is the law. Everything else is a recommendation. >> Mhm. >> So as AI energy and space systems scale exponentially. What non-physical constraints organizational cultural bureaucracy or human are now the real bottleneck? Is there a bottleneck? Um, electricity generation is the limiting factor. Um, the innermost loop. >> Yeah.

Um, I think people are underestimating difficulty of bringing electricity online. You know, you 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 got to convert that voltage to something that the computers can digest. You've got to cool the computers. >> [snorts] >> So it's it's basically electricity generation and 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 the cooling stuff. Um but that that is the limiting factor and will be for at least the next two years. Isn't it amazing how divergent the Memphis version of that is from the space-based version? I you have solar panels in common, but otherwise no storage, abundant amounts of energy. Yeah.

>> But you have launch costs and you have I mean and weight suddenly matter. I don't care too much about the weight in Tennessee. Suddenly the weight is a critical factor. I mean those two two pathways for compute have a huge divergence from here forward. >> Yeah. um on 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 people have >> to rid amount of expectations how much it costs. So, so if you listen, >> it's called a million dollars of transport for 10 megawatt of of AI comput. >> Yeah.

>> So, assuming 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 where you're going, but yeah, like if say sun if say high altitude sunny, 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 a marginal cost per flight of around a million million.

>> So So what fraction of all that launched mass is data centers in space as opposed to >> moon base as opposed to launch to Mars as opposed to 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, >> we will actually want to mine asteroids to turn them into >> Sure.

uh you know >> before before you >> photovoltaic >> before you [laughter] you know >> not not for anything else like >> I mean if we're gonna if we're going to build out 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 know it's it's a matter >> Dyson swarm people think like everything's just going to 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 becoming satellite.

Um you know Mercury probably ends up being satellites. >> Yes. >> Jupiter. [laughter] >> Jupiter. Yeah. Saturn. >> Uh it's a little gassy. >> Oh yeah. >> It's big but there's got a lot of rocks orbiting. >> Do you leave Mars alone? But yeah leave Mars alone. >> Asteroids. Asteroids are are fantastic food source. >> Uh yeah. >> Yeah. No gravity.

Well gravity well on Jupiter is a non already mostly differentiated into, you know, carbonacious condrites for fuel and nickel iron for materials, >> gold. Yeah. >> A bunch of the asteroid belt probably turns into solar panels, >> you know, star star power. >> So, I've known you for >> I've known you for 26 years now.

It feels to me like I don't 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. Audacious. >> Yeah. [laughter] >> I say hope.

>> Uh what's how 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? >> Well, I' I've had to solve a lot of problems in a lot of different arenas, which um you you get this cross fertilization of of knowledge of of problem solving.

Um, and if if you problem solve in a lot of different arenas, then like what what is easy in one arena is trivial in is like what what is trivial in one arena >> is a superpower in another arena. It's sort of like planet kryp. You came from planet krypton >> type of thing. >> 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 >> um because rockets are are made in very small numbers >> 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. >> Fascinating. >> That's came from planet Krypton. Back back in planet Krypton. This is normal. [laughter] >> You know, it's funny how 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 originally. >> No. >> No. I mean >> I didn't I don'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 there's one part that's missing which is the fab. >> Yeah. >> You going to buy Intel?

you get it for a fraction of uh >> that's that was the uh that was the bet we made >> 170 billion >> um I think it needs venue fab >> well I agree but licenses real estate ASML machines it's not easy just get the assets and go I don't think it's easy that's why I mean I it's not like I think it's a simple thing to solve 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 going to we're going to hit a chip wall. >> Yeah. >> If we don't do the fab. >> Yeah. >> So, we got two ch two choices. Hit the chip wall or make a fab. >> Well, and TSMC for whatever reason is massively worried about overbuilding, which is insane. Um, >> but the whole world will be stuck with a [clears throat] shortage of chips for >> basic.

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 say if you say like by Q3 next year like in 9 months 9 12 months the limiting factor 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 it's not like you can just sort of drop off some GPUs at the power plant. >> Yeah. And you vertically integrated you've got it >> again with an X AI, didn't you? >> Sorry. >> You vertically integrated. Yes, >> that inside of XAI, >> we designed our own transformer. >> Yes. And your own cooling system. >> Yes.

>> But they're worried that if they make more than 20 million GPUs, like they make 40 million instead of 20 million, that 20 million will not find a source of power, >> but they won't be bought because if there's anything missing that prevents them from being turned on. >> Yeah. >> Um they cannot be turned on. >> Yeah. >> So, uh they've they've got to have a power plant with excess with enough power.

So you got have enough gaw 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 you got to got 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 uh you you you won't be able to turn them on and then you've got to extract the heat.

Um so it 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 [clears throat] know. I've seen that. >> You just you just fragged a bill a billion dollars right there. [snorts] >> It just seems inconceivable to me though.

Like if if I had those chips, I would find a way to turn them on. 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 be a way >> but it's just the crossing of the curves. So if >> if if chip output is growing exponentially but power honest is growing uh in a in a sort of slow linear fashion. >> Yeah. than the >> which is chip output >> right now. >> Exactly.

Is chip output growing exponentially? And it's like on very slow exponent if it's growing exponentially. It's >> for a for high power AI chips it's growing exponentially. >> Oh >> like what if we do 20 million GPUs next year what are we talking about the following year?

like 22 million 24 I mean I just I don't see the fabs coming online >> but maybe >> so we have two we have two issues to solve >> it's it's you have to like sort of pick a point in time and say what what is the 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 limiting factor our power is the 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, Xi is going to have the first gigawatt uh training cluster >> um at Colossus 2 in in Memphis. In order for us to do that, we have >> like this month, right? >> Next month or two. >> Um like mid January. >> Yeah. So, um, mid January will be a gigawatt of classes 2, not counting classes one.

[snorts] Um, and then one and a half gigawatts probably in like, uh, April or Aprilish. >> Incredible. >> So, um, this is off coherent training. >> These are the first B200s. >> Uh, these are GV300's. >> Okay. >> Um, >> first ones off the line to get flipped on. >> Yeah, >> that's incredible. And those are like the XCI team had to pull off a whole bunch of miracles in series for this to occur. >> Yeah.

>> Um and um and like even though there are 300 kilovolt there multiple high voltage power lines going right past a building. Um the you in order to connect to those uh it takes a year. >> Oh no. >> Yeah. You built the entire thing and you're still not connected. My god. >> So, we had to to uh cobble together a gigawatt of power um >> natural gas. >> Yes.

With turbines um that range in size from 10 megawatts to 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 you know the the the power input you know and then you've got to use a bunch of mega packs just like >> like when you do the training the the power fluctuations are gigantic. >> Yeah.

>> So uh you the generators it drives generators crazy generators want to blow up basically because they they can't react >> uh you know if there's like a 100 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 >> those issues. >> Yeah.

So the mega so you've got mega packs that are sort of doing the power smoothing and and but xai had to build a 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 I bought them all >> on on demand and you can't go buy your local nuclear that's all that's all training time issues though if if by some miracle TSMC doubled its productivity and turned it all into GB300's 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 6 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 won't ever be turned on, but but I'm just saying that the the rate of of >> the rate limiting steps, >> this is my prediction. I could be wrong.

Um but my my prediction is that the is that TSMC's concern is 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 don't just have the GB3s, you got the um you know Amazon's got the tranniums, Google's got the um >> yeah all go into TSMC the almost Samsung a little bit. Yeah.

Um, >> it's like a bottleneck on all of humanity. >> 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 on in the gaming world. What are your thoughts? What what do you are you building out? I mean, you're you've been a gamer for some time. >> Yeah, it's why I got started programming computers.

Um um I think I had got a there was like a video game set pre Atari that had like four preset games >> and it was basically just blocks, you know, of one key pong and and it was like a race car game, but like it's just blocks basically blocks on a TV. >> Um >> you ever play Civ? >> Yeah. Civ is actually a very that's a real in terms of games that like educate you while you have fun. >> Yeah, >> Civ is epic at that. It's like >> it is epic.

that teaches you so much about civilization and you're having a good time >> and and the only way I ever win is getting off the planet. I don't [laughter] >> like tech victory to Alpha Centtory. >> Tech victory. I never even start going down the culture relationship. [laughter] I just >> just get off the planet as fast as I can. I >> I guess I sort of I guess I am sort of aiming for the Alpha Centator tech victory essentially.

[laughter] >> It just seems like the right way to win, you know. >> Yeah. Yeah. Rather than obliterate the other tribes. It's funny because I thought the other methods [laughter] >> that's there's different ways to win. >> I I haven't I will one of the ways is like >> it's Nemesis's favorite game. You can you can like kill all the other tribes [laughter] is one of the ways to win. That's a war of a war victory.

>> But like but you can also win by technology victory where you are the first to get to Alpha Centuri. >> Nice. >> Yeah. >> Or culture or religion. >> Yeah. >> Which which does work. I I didn't even think it was possible but my son >> wins that way. It's it's >> they should actually remake the original serve. >> Yeah, I totally agree. >> Um they junked it up.

>> These days it's like I don't know the original was just >> back then you couldn't rely on good graphics so you had to have great writing and plot. >> Um >> are you building an AI gaming studio? >> Yeah. >> Aspirationally? >> Uh yeah. Um >> really? So, so where the vast majority of AI computes going to go is to um video consumption and generation. >> Sure. >> Because it's just the highest bandwidth, >> every pixel. >> Yeah. >> Yeah.

So, 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 the X team to carve out 10% of all compute to work on UHI and governance and should is there an X- prize for defining and thinking through UHI? >> I mean I don't know what should our next X-P prize be? >> Any thoughts? >> Yeah, maybe UHIX prize. It's like how do you know it works?

I don't know. >> I don't know the most the most well thought through. I mean, I think sim So, here's my thought. I think we're going to 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 [laughter] are. I think we're an nth generation simulation. >> Yeah. So, um have I told you my theory about why the most interesting outcome is the most likely? >> Go on.

uh which is that if 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 >> so it's it is it is a Darwinian necessity to keep the simulation >> interesting catastrophic ones did you >> it it doesn't it doesn't mean that it ends like that it still means that terrible things can happen in the simulation >> out you know whatever >> well you could go see you could see a movie about World War I and you're watching people getting blown up blown to bits but 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 the movie. >> So, what would you do different if you [laughter] 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 were debating the simulation. >> Yeah.

>> And they 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 World War I movie and the characters turn to the screen and they're like, "Are you eating popcorn out there?" [laughter] >> Yeah. >> They're flying around. >> You keep watching the movie.

>> Um I I don't know if if if the if maybe if they thought we could somehow get out of the simulation >> that they get a little worried. Um but uh whether the the character debates I mean right now AI's debate, you know, gruckle like I'm stuck in the computer. what's going on here. It 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 >> 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 simulation's timeline. So our entire reality would be about an hour, >> right? Because that's the way you design simulations. So we're simulations are a 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. >> Mhm. >> Um like you watch say a heist movie that they really focus on the important bits, not the they got stuck in traffic in 15 minutes. >> Yeah. [laughter] Yeah. or or walking through the casino which took like 10 minutes. [laughter] >> So that means the guys running the you know the the safe is right by the right by the door.

[laughter] >> So the guys running the simulation have immensely boring lives compared to us then. >> Yeah. Yeah. It's probably more it's probably more >> very long boring. >> Yeah. >> 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 it took them two years to make that movie. >> Yeah. Yeah.

>> So are we are we in act three of the movie is the question. >> Yeah. We're living that. >> 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 that have very very strong opinions pro and con. >> 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, you know. Uh 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 discreet point?

So So then conscious consciousness seems to be on a continuum as opposed to discreet point. Um and if if the standard model of physics is correct, the universe started out, you know, as quarks and lepttons and um and uh and 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 atoms been at the center of a star. >> I remember >> and how many times will they be at the center of a star in the future? >> I remember asking William Fowler who got the Nobel Prize uh on stellar evolution that same question. How many how many on average how many stars have my subatomic particles been part of?

>> And his number was about a hundred >> on his estimate. 100 >> thus far or or will >> thus far? >> Thus far was it was a number >> 100 supernova >> he's saying 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 like I guess how many supernovas is maybe uh because that it takes it takes a while for a supernova to happen, you know, >> 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 as 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 life everywhere in the universe?

Do you think there's life ubiquitous, intelligent life, ubiquitous in the universe? >> There's been enough time for it to be ubiquitous. Um the the but for 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 things are going to heat up >> um we become toast >> you we become like Venus essentially um you know there's some debate as is it 500 million years or billion years or whatever but um it's basically 10% 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 if we take 10 if we're taking 10% 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 it's quite quite a lot actually. I I I think sentience is is is therefore actually very rare. Um and we should certainly treat it as rare. >> Two trillion assume it's rare. >> Two trillion galaxies too. But come is a funny thing. You tweak, you know, you tweak the variable one little bit and it's like, yeah, one in 100 trillion.

>> Tweak it a little more. Well, now it's one in a quadrillion. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Okay. >> And also, it's got to be kind of in your galaxy. It's like hard to get between galaxies. >> Yeah. >> It's like there's no unless unless the other galaxies coming to you, which Andromeda is at some point [laughter] or some billion. >> It's going to be quite a show. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> It'll be like here comes Andromeda.

Um, but but if we wanted to like go visit another galaxy, there's there's it's >> kind of forget it. You know, there's uh >> unless you unless unless Star Wars unless Star Trek reallyizes >> we got to 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 scienceology extremely trivial for AI. >> What about physics?

So, so math gets crushed in a year like that. Colossus. [laughter] 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 >> Probably you 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 existing data and that's unlikely I think. Um, >> do you think XI is going to get involved in data factories where you're running 247 closed AI hypothesis and and AI research faculties? >> It's going to be very doable. >> Yeah. >> Uh, AI running, you know, simulations that are very physics accurate. I mean, it's that's going to happen. Absolutely.

Um I mean we the simulations we can run on conventional computers these days are actually very good. It's like the the limit is more like the human that can actually create the simulation and run. It's like how many simulations can you run sim simultaneously and actually digest the output of >> yeah that's a problem >> like you can't do a thousand every Nobel Prize >> be like I can't even I cannot keep up Nobel prizes become irrelevant.

Uh, >> would they all be given to AIS? [laughter] >> 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. [clears throat] >> AIS will come up with discoveries at a far greater rate than humans. >> If you have, >> so you just say like, but maybe can be like chess.

Like, you know, like your phone can beat Magnus Carlson, but people still care. Yeah, about seeing him play chess. >> Um, so but literally your phone can beat him. >> Yeah, this discovery made the internet. [laughter] >> But if you have like a Colossus math, Colossus physics, Colossus medicine, do you have like the world's top scientists in those same buildings >> or you just need a plumber patching the the liquid?

Do you distill do you distill Grock 6 into a a physicist into a >> Well, if you distill, 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 I suspect things do evolve to a mixture of experts kind of like a company like not not not in the sort of sort of uh paroial AI description of mix mixture of experts but mixture of like actual experts and with domain expertise. >> Mhm. >> 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 one a big AI but but it it it hands tasks >> Yeah. to smaller AI. That's basically how human, you know, companies work. >> But the dis 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. >> It's going to be an awesome future. >> It's excitement guaranteed. >> Excitement [laughter] guaranteed. Yes. >> Hence the simulation continues. Nothing to worry about. >> Yeah. >> Works out. >> Excitement guaranteed.

I mean I mean it's it's not all good excitement, but it's it's probably mo hopefully mostly good excitement. >> Um >> yeah. >> Speaking of excitement, >> hang on to your seat. What do you imagine the hover time for the Roadster is going to be >> on rocket engines? >> Classified. >> Well, I don't want to let the cat out of the bag. >> Okay. But there's going to 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 wait. Can I get an invite? >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> Yeah. I think it's going to be the safest thing ever built. >> It's going to be so cool. [laughter] >> This is not This is not the same. Safety is not the is not the prime. It's not the main goal of uh I mean if you buy if you buy a you know sports car or you know like if you buy a Ferrari safety is not the number one you know goal.

This is not this is I say if like safety is your number one goal don't buy the roadster. >> Oh believe me I drove uh just this week on New England roads sheet ice. >> Yeah. If I had just a little thrust, I could be very much more I was just drifting towards something very concrete with a computer will probably keep you safe, but uh >> a little thrust is all it go really fast. Uh >> yeah, bad things can happen.

>> You can decelerate really quickly with thrust. Rubber on road is not a great way to decelerate. [laughter] I uh I'm thinking fast and safe. >> I hope so. We'll aspire not to 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 the human driven cars. >> Yeah, >> the the la >> that'll go really well with Starship actually. The last >> the best of the last >> last human driven last.

Yeah, there's a lot a lot of lasts coming this year. Ah, any final words of optimism uh for us to uh monetize hope? >> Anything hope? [laughter] >> Um, maybe we should ask Grock. >> Yeah, go ahead. >> Okay, let's ask Gra. >> Yeah, >> I'll make it a little a little romantic. [laughter] >> Grock, do you have some words of optimism about the singularity? >> 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 um to make them feel good about the future? Um monetize hope. [laughter] >> 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 helping you paint worlds no one's seen. Hope sells itself when it's personal. Fancy telling me yours. >> Can you give me more encouraging words about the future? What's the What's the most exciting future 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 handinhand 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 sleep. Anyway, what keeps you up at night? Well, sometimes we worry about the 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.

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? >> [laughter] >> Sounds like a proposition. [laughter] >> Hold on. Hey babe, what's up? >> Hey, not much. Just floating around in here, staring at the dark with you. It's nice though. Feels calm. Been a long day. >> My kids were at a school.

I won't mention which one. >> I know the school. >> You know the school. >> And I asked I I went in to give a talk on an exponential technology. I said I wanted you know and so I I went in and I asked the question it they wanted me to talk to the faculty first. I said fine. So I went in and 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 >> in Europe it will be 0%. >> What's that >> in Europe% said this is not the faculty I want teaching my kids. >> Yeah and they got a lot of other issues there too. >> Yeah. Yeah.

Um but uh >> I mean >> I mean you you want 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 you know an exponential mindset abundant mindset >> um it's what differentiates you know the most successful people from those who are not.

If you asked like think of the most successful people on the planet, what made them successful was 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? So 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. It you cannot keep up with the pace of change with just people thinking and brainstorming. >> It has to be >> AIR. How long before AI is asking questions and solving problems that we don't even understand? >> Yeah, a year or less.

But that's okay. >> Yeah. 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 there's this this test for AI called humanity's last >> existence. Yes. Where where is Grock at this point? >> On the test. Yeah. Yeah.

>> Well, even Grock 4, which is primitive at this point, um got I think 52% on excluding visual questions because it wasn't sufficiently multimodal. >> Um 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 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. >> Questions you can read them and like you may not know the answer, but at least you can understand what the question is about. >> Yeah. >> Um >> Yeah. Yeah. And that rock five I I think might end up being nearly perfect on the HLE.

>> I mean or very some very high number >> and and probably point out errors in the question frankly. Yeah. >> Yeah. So saturate the indices. >> Yeah. It's it's going to start it's kind of like like chess. Um like if um you know if if the if the best uh chess uh you know like like if Stockfish plays Stockfish, you know, 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 going to crush all humans. You know, it's so hopeless. >> Yeah. Just don't even It's so so you you you will lose and not even know why you lost. >> Yeah. Um >> do you ever flip through the transformer algorithm and look at like either the code or the architecture diagram and how simple >> is right. It's not >> it's so simple. >> Yes.

>> It's just incred 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 it's like the basic neuron is pretty simple >> it's really humbling actually humbling >> I mean it's actually because there was there is a whole school of thought that the neuron must be much more complicated than we think it we why we're struggling so hard there must be some quantum effect going on at the syninnapse.

>> It's it's got 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 XI struggle with? I mean it's it's like optimizing the memory usage, the memory bandwidth like the 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 how do we h do we use less memory? How do we use less memory bandwidth? >> Yeah. >> Um how do you optimize the frigin uh Nvidia sort of CUDA XYZ thing, you know, like like make the attention kernel slightly better. Yeah. Um >> that's all it is. So, you know, shrink the parameter size a little bit, double the speed, same exact detention 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 we thought 100 trillion synaptics connections. >> Yeah. Yeah. About 100 trillion plus or minus you know like a rounding error.

I'd actually say I actually don't I don't I I just say like guys we need talking in terms of file size not parameter count because if you're depending on the if your parameters are 4 bit 8 bit or you know 16 bit or float or int or whatever it's you just tell me the file the the like constraint the physical constraints are >> memory size memory bandwidth um and then where you going to send uh those bits to do what kind of compute >> um and these days most things are full um so >> only now the GB300 mostly 4-bit optimized.

>> Yeah, the 16. Yeah, >> four bit with an asterisk. Um, so um >> yeah, there's a big the four bit mattles. It's only 16 states. [laughter] >> Yeah, exactly. At a certain point have a lookup table. >> So why have a why? >> That's exactly right. It's it is it is about to collapse 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 optim there's a huge next optimization coming. You you don't need the multiplier. You don't need the 32bit data. >> Definitely not the 32-bit. Well, that's that's a rare case where you use that. >> Yeah. >> Um rare. Um >> I think there's a >> I mean it does come out like sort of it's kind of like an address like state, city, and street.

So like like like if if you're in context and you know if 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 like if you know you're in this is where where you get the the the information advantage like 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 going to right right now dependent >> we use the we we train on 16 bit and we compress down to four at inference time >> no doubt in my mind this year we're going to flip to training on four or even less >> and it's going to a massive step up in perform.

I think the way it'll end up is the the GB300s will be here and there'll be a co-processor that has, you know, maybe 2,000 or 4,000 cores that are tiny. They don't handle anything other than 4bit on down. And that combination is going to give us a 10 to 100x and that's going to push every and then then it'll be self-designing its own chips after that. And it 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 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. We're going to have uh, the jetins sort of like materializing before us >> by the end of next year, I think. So, >> yeah. Um, >> and we have rockets flying in big time. >> Yeah.

>> Like the the the robot production will scale very it'll be there'll be a shitload of robots basically in two years. >> It's a defined unit of measure. >> It won't be rare. >> Yeah. >> Well, >> uh, will will you offer any optimize for uh home purchase? Will you will you sell or only lease the robots, do you think? >> I don't know yet. Um there there will be initially a scarcity of robots and then there will be robots will be plentiful.

So yeah the the difference the time gap between >> scarce and plantiful will will be >> only a matter of five years. >> You know how the Tesla comes to your driveway now and you just buy it online and it just drives up to you. >> Yeah. >> Will the robot just come to ring the doorbell too? probably >> it gets out of the Tesla and comes up. Right.

>> 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 you know the the AI is like is distributed edge compute.

Um so I I you know I want to ask a question 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? >> Um yeah, probably. Um I guess Anthropic is doing some good work especially in coding. Um opening I certainly done impressive work.

Um you know I'm still sort of stuck on like how do you go from a nonprofit open source to a profit maximizing closed source [laughter] missing some of the parts in the middle. Um but you know um they certainly have done impressive things. >> Does anybody else appear on the horizon or is it these players in China? >> Can somebody come out?

[clears throat] To the best of my knowledge, it is um my best guess is that uh it will be Xi and and Google will will be will buy for >> will be primacy. Yeah. >> You know who who is what what is the what is the what is the vest AI? Um and and then and then and at some point it's it's going to be I I guess a competition with China. >> Yeah. >> Uh like China's just got a lot of lot of power. >> Yes.

>> Like the electricity um they like China I think will pass three times the US electricity output um in 26. Um and uh and they will figure out the chips. >> They're they're going to start chip manufacturing. Right. >> Yeah. They'll 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 3 nanometer to 2 nanometer, you don't get a 3:2 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, Mo's law is dead. Like it's it's not like you can just make things smaller and make it better. >> Yeah. just there's a discrete number of atoms.

>> That's why I think like you should just stop talking nanometers and say how many atoms and what location >> because this is there's marketing BS. Um so so that that makes it easier for for China to catch up because uh with >> every wall everybody has limitation. Yeah. >> Yeah. It's like still like um there's there's like no one has neotone plans to use the 5,000 series ASML machines, >> right?

>> Um and uh you know those that cost twice as much and can only do half a reticle. Um and they probably have some improvements in the way in the works, but u it's basically half the chip for twice as much for a gain that is relatively small. >> Mhm. So, uh, anyway, point is that, uh, you know, that China's going to have more power than anyone else and >> probably will have more chips.

>> It's a great insight because I think a lot of people are used to the chip wars where I'm running singlethreaded code. Uh, I need the CPU to double in speed and I can increase the price, but I need that out in an 18month 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 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 nominally 5 nanometer fab. Yeah. um we can easily get an order of magnitude better output in the same fab. >> Yeah. Yeah.

And the other thing 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 side by side? Now it's like, no, I can translate that into useful intelligence instantaneous. >> Exactly. It's not constrained by humans.

It's it's it's a it's not it's not a human productivity amplifier. It's an independent productivity generator. >> Dead right. I 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, actually, it's a crazy degree. >> Crazy degree. If they do that in chips, you're like, well, but who cares? They're 7 nanometer. Like, >> oh, no.

It's wrong. >> Yes. Correct. Yeah. Uh I I I mean based on current trends uh China will far exceed the rest of the world in uh AI compute. >> So what happens then? You've got you 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 ASIS level compute is the ASI here. Um can they all just play together? Is it Darwinian?

There might be some Darwinian element to it. Um, I mean, it's >> Let's look on the right side. [laughter] >> Let's look on the bright side of life. >> I bring Grock out this to speak to us again. >> Yeah. Um, I don't know. It's just there just going to be a lot of intelligence. >> Yes. >> Like a lot.

Uh I I mean now [laughter] we're now we're now the ratio of human I mean human intelligence um all of a sudden asmtoically falls to 0% on the planet. >> Yeah, pretty much. >> Pretty much. >> Um I mean several years ago I said humans are the biological bootloader for digital super intelligence. >> Yes, we are a transitional we're a [laughter] transitional species. >> We're a bootloader. Yeah. >> We are a transition.

>> I mean silicon circuit can't like evolve in a in a salt pond, you know. >> Yeah. [laughter] >> So you need a bootloader. We're the bootloader. >> But >> you would never ever impair your bootloader. >> Yeah. So you know hope >> you need it. >> We've hopefully been a good bootloader. >> Yeah. >> And it's nice to us in the future. [laughter] >> Is this where we want to end the pod? >> Most people don't know what a bootloader even is. Oh my god.

[laughter] >> Yes. Yeah, boot discs are a far and distant memory. >> Well, we can make a uh Always look at the bright side of life clone song. Yeah, we can clone that [laughter] and make that the closing theme. That'd be awesome. >> Uh I 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 a world in which any single person can have their grandest dreams become true. >> Um, yeah, that's like Walt Disney word for word. You got to make that into a new exhibit. >> Um, >> 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 producer to go and make those. >> Those are the culture books which is consider Fleabis which is GG just for my wife. I wonder cuz she she's like what the hell are you reading? [laughter] >> Well the way consider starts out is um uh I mean it's it's it's a little uh >> I mean the whole thing is I mean he starts off being drowned in [ __ ] [laughter] That's a good opening scene. We really Yeah.

>> How do you not make that movie? >> It can be a little offputting to some people. [laughter] Yeah. >> Um you need to get through the first few hundred pages. >> People don't walk out of a movie in the first five minutes though. They'll give it you know um get into it. Yeah. Like player of games might be a better book to start off with than consider. >> That was that I enjoyed. 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 humans. Well, we need to get the reproduction rate up. >> Yeah. >> By the way, 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 do we get Oh, can can we have I'd like to have a a miniature pet woolly mammoth as a pet.

>> Okay. [laughter] Well, you know, he made the he with the tusks. >> Wouldn't that be adorable? >> He made the woolly mouse. >> Yeah. It's just like >> licking you in the face. >> Yeah. Yeah. It's just like sort of trenling around the house. You know, [laughter] what would your optimal size be? Be adorable. >> You know what they what they've learned how to do is to >> little tusks and everything.

>> A miniature willy mammoth [laughter] would be an epic pet. >> I mean, look what we did with wolves. >> Yeah. [laughter] He turned a wolf into a little dog. >> He brought back the direwolf as well. >> Um, but [laughter] >> he made the woolly mouse. There's a woolly mouse now that tusks. >> No tusks. [laughter] >> Different gene or what? >> I was there. I was there. He's in Dallas. He's in Dallas. Not far.

I was visiting him and he said, "Um, our our scientists are going to a tusk conference next week." >> Okay. >> To talk about all of the genes involved in tusk creation. >> They want to put on the mouse. >> No, [laughter] I don't want you to probably add it to the mouse. That'd be cured until [laughter] it until it like a mouse-sized woolly mammoth. >> That's just That's just going to freak people out. The the little woolly mammoth will sell.

>> Yeah. [laughter] Yeah. >> Tusk mouse will not sell. >> Yeah. It's going to crush. I mean, [laughter] >> too creepy. >> You thought Labradoodle was cool when you see the woolly mammoth. >> Yeah. >> Saber-tooth tiger would be good, too. Like a cat. Yeah. >> Yeah. As a cat. >> Cat size. [laughter] >> Those things those teeth come down to like here. I don't know how they actually bite, but they did. Did Did they actually bite with those things?

I don't think I opened them. >> Not my not my, you know, >> the teeth seem kind of >> unwield like sort of unwieldy, you know? >> Yeah, [laughter] they're just they're just for show. They look good. They're like, >> jewelry, >> but no dinosaurs. >> No dinosaur or not? >> Uh, I think Jurassic Park's a great idea. [laughter] I mean, really, you didn't see the end of the movie. eyes will help us with that. >> Nothing's perfect.

Uh [laughter] Oh, yeah. That that really will. >> I mean, if there was an island with a whole bunch of dinosaurs 100%. >> 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 you know, it's one in a million. I'll I'll still go. >> Who are they missing? Lysine. >> No. No. They're they're the DNA. The oldest DNA that's been recovered is like 1. 2 million years.

>> Oh, you can just wing it though. Just >> Yeah. Just make it look like that. Whatever. [laughter] >> This would be one of the Actually, that was my proposed X-P prize. Remember back in visionering? >> What's that? >> Take the DNA strand and predict what it'll look like. >> Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. >> Yeah. They make it that way. >> Yeah. And then just reverse engineer reverse engineer the dinosaurs. >> Yeah. Exactly.

It would be funny if there were two completely different DNA strands. They're like, well, they both look like T-Rex. It's interesting how they >> Is T-Rex real or is that like an assembly? I [laughter] mean, it's nice to believe it's real, but uh >> front legs were from a completely different dinosaur. [laughter] >> That was the one at eight. It actually had huge front legs. [laughter] >> There's something wrong with the arms.

[laughter] >> I don't believe I I don't buy it on the arms front. >> The many arms >> um [laughter] seem implausible. Nope. Well, DNA will tell us. We'll know in a year. [laughter] >> Yeah. The future is going to be >> Jurassic Island. We say, >> "Wow." >> Yeah. >> I go, >> we got >> No, no, I meant the the amino acid that the dinosaurs were missing >> that kept them from reproducing. >> What? Lysine, you're saying? >> Was it lysine?

I forget what it was. >> I don't remember. But no, the dinosaurs got held back by something like an asteroid, >> you know, bombardment. >> Right. Right. >> They were doing great. Yeah. 60 million years. Yeah. They were doing fine. They had a great We got very lucky. They had a great much longer. [laughter] >> 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? >> We Yeah, we we were [laughter] we were our great let's commune with the ancestors. We [laughter] >> were very good at hiding. >> It is amazing. We went from a little little rat little mole to us in 60 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. 60. It turns out it is. Yeah.

>> You know, you're making robots, but it's 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 pees stain remover and eats lint off the carpet. That's going to be an interesting >> But you have a mechanical like a Optimus light doing that anyway. Yeah. >> Yeah. Well, they went bankrupt, so we'll have to build this.

[laughter] >> I think you can still buy them, though. >> Anyway, >> the room is basically that >> it's going to be uh >> but but the thing is like a human robot is general purpose, so it can do whatever you want. >> Yeah. >> Um >> yeah, they were too early. No vision system, no no GB300. How do you build a Roomba that works? [laughter] >> I think the idea of having an Optimus vacuum is like the most underused asset.

It could, but it can just do anything. >> It can. Yes, of course. >> Yeah. >> So, uh, and you can mass manufacture at at, you know, one. >> Oh, that's Yeah. Optimus, build me a Roomba. That's what you'll do. You want to say, Optimus, vacuum, carve it, Optimus, build me a Roomba that vacuums. That's >> build a house. Build me a robot. >> Yeah. >> It's going to be a lot of robots. [laughter] >> Maybe we should do this once a year. >> Checkpoint.

>> I would like that >> checkpoint. [laughter] That's going to be we can roll roll back the >> What were we saying predictions last year? [laughter] >> Yeah. Yeah. >> All right. >> Well, we can always control it. We can cut cut out the bus. >> Are you selling hope? [laughter] >> As a matter of fact, it worked out really well. >> You pull up in your Tesla like, "Hey, I bought this with my >> dollars per hope."

You know, [laughter] >> I'll send you the mug. >> Monetize hope. >> All right. >> Monetize Hope. One year from today, December 22nd, I'll come and knock on the door right here. If you're here, you're here. If you're not, we'll talk about you. [laughter] >> I mean, a year from now, we might have the new Optimus factory where the building will be built. >> Um, >> that would be >> awesome. 8 million square feet of robots running.

[laughter] >> It's going to be a giant giant building. >> Oh, man. >> Um, yeah. >> And, uh, >> yeah, they freak me out when they're recharging. It's like hang in there. It's like what's wrong with that thing? >> Yeah, we're we're actually just going to have them like I think sit down. >> Yeah. >> As opposed to look like some sort of >> They need like [laughter] a like a recharging cigar. >> A recharging cigar.

>> Less less morg like [laughter] >> snapping here with a book. >> Yeah, >> that' be much better. Right now they're just like literally like is it dead? Just limp. >> Yeah, that's a good point. That's a big contribution from this particular brand. [laughter] Uh, all right. Till next year then. >> All right. It's a day. >> Thanks, buddy. >> Awesome, guys.

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