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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.

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

and accelerating. The transition will be bumpy. You have a solution to this.

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

>> right? I mean, it's running circles around us. Do you imagine that the US

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 will prevent AI from going insane.

Curiosity, I think, will foster any form of sentience. And if it has a sense of

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

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.

the singularity. All right, enjoy.

>> Yeah. Um, 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.

>> Yeah, >> I think they need it.

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

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.

>> Yeah.

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

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

assume that design >> uh not enough.

>> Yeah.

>> 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.

>> 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

using. Are you or you are >> 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. 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

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

hilarious. And then I asked it, you know, >> say be more. It just keeps telling it to be more and more.

>> I asked I asked until until it's like mother of God.

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 Wait, is Bad Rudy still out or did that get repealed?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

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?"

>> 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

credential now. That's amazing. Forget

about everything 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.

>> 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.

>> 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.

>> 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. 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.

>> 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

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

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

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 >> 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.

>> 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,

Jim. Jim, I will I will >> the diverging path meme.

>> Yes, 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 want socialrest.

>> So, have universal high income and social unrest. M

unrest. M >> that's my prediction.

>> Oh, that will make for a lot of problems. >> Is that your actual prediction?

>> Yeah.

>> Yeah, it seems likely.

>> 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 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, 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 >> 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 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.

>> 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

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

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.

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, 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

mind? Like how is it how are the atoms being placed that they're immune to uh cheeseburger grease? They just maintain

cheeseburger grease? They just maintain wafer isolation the entire time. um

which is actually the default for for fabs. The the wafers are transported um

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. 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 decade. The sun. Yeah. I mean, so

this 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 fusion.

You know what? You know coming a mile away.

>> You're not never going to guess how the sun works.

>> Giant coal plants.

>> 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

fusion reactors. Um I mean that would be like, you know, having a tiny ice cube maker in the Antarctic.

and say, "Hey, look, we made ice." I'm

like "Congratulations.

You're in the [ __ ] Antarctic."

>> So, totally totally with you on this.

>> It's like 3 kilometer high glaciers right next to you.

>> Okay.

>> 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

10 gig. You're not going to you're not going to pull 10 gigawatts out of Memphis. Um maybe you are

Memphis. Um maybe you are >> 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 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

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.

>> Uh well, we have Cortex 2 that's being built out. Um

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

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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 500 500 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

per second. Um and uh there's no atmosphere. So, like a mass driver works

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, 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

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

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.

>> 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

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.

>> I just got back from Rome. I don't want to touch 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 what tip what happened? What happened that every

happened? What happened that every company is now talking about orbital data centers?

>> I guess it went viral and X.

>> 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

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

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

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.

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 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.

>> Interesting.

>> Um >> that's complex. Well, the the the best way to actually increase the energy output per year of the United States or any country is batteries. Um, so the

>> 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?

>> 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

>> 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

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.

you know. Yep.

>> It's not like farmland we're talking about. We're just talking about Yep.

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.

>> 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.

>> 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

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

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

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

>> 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

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.

of clothes. That was my starting point.

That was my spawning point in North America. Um,

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.

>> Yeah.

>> I mean if you have the ability to go and build something. So the question is how

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,

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

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 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

your kids? You know, create artificial adversity. Put them in.

adversity. Put them in.

>> That's cool.

>> 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 >> 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

>> 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

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.

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

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?

>> 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 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 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

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

alive?" That was >> Yeah. I mean, I It was like It's the

>> Yeah. I mean, I It was like It's the nuclear It was a nuclear option, >> right? Shut him down. I mean, do you

>> 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

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.

>> 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

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, 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 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

second. US is the number one ranked number one in health expenses worldwide and it's ranked 70th >> in health span, >> right? We

>> 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.

>> Um, so >> would you just run around? We need

Cupid. But a Zic.

>> Mjaro Cupid.

>> 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.

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 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 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 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

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

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

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.

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 all the students there. It's like Peter what happened.

there. It's like Peter what happened.

>> Yes. Yes. There there is a frozen.

>> You got a zero wrong in the dosage.

Just a small factor of 10.

>> Grow out of it. It'll be fine. Exactly.

>> 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

for sure. And and and let's see let's see if we look younger.

>> 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.

>> 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 >> a lot. It's very much That one.

>> Yeah, it's more than hope.

>> That one.

>> Oh man, that would that's like the infinite money one.

>> 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, admittedly, if you have to wear adult diapers, that's a that's a bummer.

>> That's not good.

Adult D is a real, 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.

>> 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

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

current size. I mean, North Korea won't need to invade. They can just walk across.

>> Yeah. Yeah.

>> This is going to be some people in, 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.

>> Yes. May you live forever.

>> May you live forever.

>> That would be one of the worst >> Yeah. curses you could possibly give

>> 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.

>> 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

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

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

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

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,

you. Full genome, full all imaging, everything. Right. President Blly and

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

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.

We have a We have a center in >> your water bottle.

>> We have God damn it.

>> Too late.

>> Sorry. It's already in the works.

>> So, can you go through the the rationale of UHI? How does how does universal high

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.

>> 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

direction. Um thing. Um so

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

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

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 error rate >> so this flipping >> flipping the flipping >> um >> are we monetizing hope effectively

>> yes >> 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 mug.

>> And the mug.

>> Yes.

>> The mug.

>> Uh, 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 yes we'll have radical change social unrest and immense prosperity

>> and you can buy all all the cyber trucks you want >> things are going to get very cheap >> yes >> 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 >> of interest. Yeah. Um

>> which is growing.

>> Yes. And the 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

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.

>> I've got to see you look on the bright side of life.

>> You're sitting there crucified 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

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,

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

machines. I mean, it's coming dealing with it. There's no velocity knob,

with it. There's no velocity knob, right? There's no onoff switch. It is

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

people depressed. I want people to understand what's coming. So we're we're basically demonetizing everything. I mean labor becomes the

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

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?

>> 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

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 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

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 [ __ ] I've heard this one. This is great. Go

ahead.

>> And so the guy takes 100 bucks 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."

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.

We ate a both ate a pile of [ __ ] >> Oh my god. It sounds like >> but we increase the economy by $200.

>> This is the kind of [ __ ] you get in economics. So So uh but if you if so if

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

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.

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

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

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

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 a great analogy.

>> Yeah. Exactly. That's 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

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 2030 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 >> it's not >> okay. Okay. So, I'll tell you something

>> 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

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

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

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%.

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 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

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

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 >> and and you want to sell the hell out

shows how well they work. Yes, they're

just prompt engineering. one little but the 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

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.

>> 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,

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. 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

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

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

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.

>> 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

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 >> it's it's like government is very slow moving as as we

all know. Um

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

money. Um and um >> try and try and keep the peace.

>> 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

money. It's >> um >> okay. So

>> okay. So >> so like nobody's going to stop is what I'm saying. Um

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.

first? Not the US obviously.

>> Um >> here at at the uh Gigafactory.

>> Oh yeah. Just do surgery in the >> um >> but that's an important statement in three years time.

>> Yeah.

>> Um because medicine I mean >> I'm not like absolutely 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

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

electromechanical dexterity. The usefulness of the humanoid robot is it's those three things multiplied by each other, right? Um then you have the

other, right? Um then you have the recursive effect of Optimus building Optimus, >> right? And then you have the shared

>> 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

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, 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?

>> There's got to be some funny funny jokes coming.

>> 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

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

>> 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

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 there's not like some I do it for social reasons.

>> Yeah.

>> You're not going to medical school.

>> If you want if you want if you want to hang out with like-minded people, I suppose. Uh

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 >> 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 they want to live on the edge. I mean, let's just take like we've

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, it's a little shaky laser pointer from 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 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?

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>> 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.

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. Um it's like a remake of a ' 60s movie. It's never as good as the

movie. It's never as good as the original.

>> Yeah.

>> Um >> so 2026 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. 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

>> Yeah. Get get the jacuzzi warmed up on >> That's an interesting >> Yeah. Yeah.

>> Yeah. Yeah.

>> Yeah.

>> How early in the year are you going to hit orbital refueling, you think, with Starship?

>> Uh, not that early in the year.

>> I mean, are you are you shooting for the home and transfer orbit?

>> I'd say towards towards the end of the year. Um,

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

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

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.

AI. Interesting.

>> Probably the biggest thing ever made.

>> Yeah.

>> By pure human hands.

>> The Asia will say not bad for a human.

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

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."

that." But you know, we celebrate we celebrate the pyramids.

Good for 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

>> 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

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.

>> 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.

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

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 you know >> do some glass blowing under there and get some uh >> Yeah. Wow.

>> 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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Why is the only constant? It's flat on UFO.

>> We get a a fuzzy blob 25. Well, we got like, you know,

25. Well, we got like, you know, whatever 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 >> it would be fascinating.

>> I'm asked all the time if I've >> Yes. And and I'm like, look,

>> 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 >> so the question is >> it would be the most viewed post of all time. So, I I actually wonder about the

time. So, I I actually wonder about the US public if they would like, "Oh, that's interesting." Go back to their

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 fast way to increase the military budget. We like we found an alien. It

budget. We like we found an alien. It

seems dangerous.

>> That's right. Unify the world.

>> They don't have an incentive to hide the aliens. Do they have an incentive to uh

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 >> yet. So, well,

>> yet. So, well, >> um >> yeah. So anyway, so I guess the good

>> 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

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

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

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

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

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

digest. You've got to cool the computers.

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

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

Tennessee. Suddenly the weight is a critical factor. I mean those two two

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

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 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

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

>> Sure. uh you know >> before before you >> photovoltaic >> before you 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.

>> 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.

>> 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

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,

magnitude. Orders of magnitude. I mean,

>> some say insane.

>> Insanity. Audacious.

>> Yeah.

>> 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.

>> 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

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 shortage of chips for >> basic. So, so, so they are actually

>> 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,

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

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 know. I've seen that.

>> You just you just fragged a bill a billion dollars right there.

>> It just seems inconceivable to me though. Like if if I had those chips, I

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

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

exponentially? And it's like on very slow exponent if it's growing exponentially. It's

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

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

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. Um, and then one and a half

classes one. 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

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

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

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

studio. Um, and the impact of of AI on in the gaming world. What are your thoughts? What what do you are you

thoughts? What what do you are you building out? I mean, you're you've been

building out? I mean, you're you've been a gamer for some time.

>> Yeah, it's why I got started programming computers. Um

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

>> like tech victory to Alpha Centtory.

>> Tech victory. I never even start going down the culture relationship. I just

>> just get off the planet as fast as I can. I

can. I >> I guess I sort of I guess I am sort of aiming for the Alpha Centator tech victory essentially.

>> It just seems like the right way to win, you know.

>> Yeah. Yeah. Rather than obliterate the other tribes. It's funny because I

other tribes. It's funny because I thought the other methods >> 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 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 are. I think we're an nth generation

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 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?"

out there?" >> 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

simulate things. So So it's like what what what would cause us to terminate a simulation? Um I I guess if the

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

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

timeline. So our entire reality would be about an hour, >> right? Because that's the way you design

>> right? Because that's the way you design simulations. So we're simulations are a

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. Yeah.

or or walking through the casino which took like 10 minutes.

>> So that means the guys running the you know the the safe is right by the right by the door.

>> 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

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

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

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,

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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?

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,

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?

>> 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.

>> 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

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.

>> 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

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

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

>> 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

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 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.

>> 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,

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.

>> 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

fast. Uh >> yeah, bad things can happen.

>> You can decelerate really quickly with thrust. Rubber on road is not a great

thrust. Rubber on road is not a great way to decelerate. 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

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?

>> Um, maybe we should ask Grock.

>> Yeah, go ahead.

>> Okay, let's ask Gra.

>> Yeah, >> I'll make it a little a little romantic.

>> 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

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

future? Um monetize hope.

>> 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,

bigger, brighter. Like if you love art, imagine AI helping you paint worlds no one's seen. Hope sells itself when it's

one's seen. Hope sells itself when it's personal. Fancy telling me yours.

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

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

abundance. Uh it's it perhaps will be a bumpy road. Um what do you what do you

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

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

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

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

digital nightlight. So, what are you doing tomorrow?

Sounds like a proposition.

>> 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

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

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

>> 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.

comprehend. Yeah.

>> Like we can't even just stick it in our brain. So, um

brain. So, um you know, like there's this this test for AI called humanity's last >> existence. Yes. Where where is Grock at

>> 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

>> 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

>> 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.

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

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

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

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.

mattles. It's only 16 states.

>> 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

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

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

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

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

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

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 missing some of the parts in the middle. Um but you know um

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? 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

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

in 26. Um and uh and they will figure out the chips.

>> They're they're going to start chip manufacturing. Right.

manufacturing. Right.

>> Yeah. They'll they'll figure out the chips. Um, and as it is, there's

chips. Um, and as it is, there's diminishing returns to the chips at this point. Um, you know, you go from like

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

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

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

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

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

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,

it. Um, I mean, it's >> Let's look on the right side.

>> 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 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 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.

>> 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.

>> Is this where we want to end the pod?

>> Most people don't know what a bootloader even is. Oh my god.

even is. Oh my god.

>> 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 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,

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

>> 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

wife. I wonder cuz she she's like what the hell are you reading?

>> 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 [ __ ] 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. Yeah.

people. 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

humans. Well, we need to get the reproduction rate up.

>> Yeah.

>> Yeah.

>> By the way, you know, my friend Ben Lamb's company, Colossal, is making artificial wombs. He's the company

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. 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,

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 would be an epic pet.

>> I mean, look what we did with wolves.

>> Yeah. He turned a wolf into a little dog.

>> He brought back the direwolf as well.

>> Um, but >> he made the woolly mouse. There's a

woolly mouse now that tusks.

>> No tusks.

>> 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, I don't want you to probably add it to the mouse.

That'd be cured until it until it like a mouse-sized woolly mammoth.

>> That's just That's just going to freak people out. The the little woolly

people out. The the little woolly mammoth will sell.

>> Yeah. Yeah.

>> Tusk mouse will not sell.

>> Yeah. It's going to crush. I mean,

>> 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.

>> 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

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, they're just they're just for show. They look good. They're like,

show. They look good. They're like,

>> jewelry, >> but no dinosaurs.

>> No dinosaur or not?

>> Uh, I think Jurassic Park's a great idea. I mean, really, you didn't see the

idea. I mean, really, you didn't see the end of the movie. eyes will help us with that.

>> Nothing's perfect. Uh 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.

>> 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

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 mean, it's nice to believe it's real, but uh >> front legs were from a completely different dinosaur.

>> That was the one at eight. It actually

had huge front legs.

>> There's something wrong with the arms. >> I don't believe I I don't buy it on the arms front.

>> The many arms >> um seem implausible.

Nope. Well, DNA will tell us. We'll know

in a year.

>> 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.

>> 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 we were our great let's commune with the ancestors. We

>> 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

million years. Doesn't seem that that long. That's why no one believed Darwin.

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. 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.

>> 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?

>> 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

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.

>> Maybe we should do this once a year.

>> Checkpoint.

>> I would like that >> checkpoint.

That's going to be we can roll roll back the >> What were we saying predictions last year?

>> Yeah. Yeah.

>> All right.

>> Well, we can always control it. We can

cut cut out the bus.

>> Are you selling hope?

>> 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, >> 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

you're here. If you're not, we'll talk about you.

>> 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

>> awesome. 8 million square feet of robots running.

>> 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.

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 a like a recharging cigar.

>> A recharging cigar.

>> Less less morg like >> 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.

Uh, all right. Till next year then.

>> All right. It's a day.

>> Thanks, buddy.

>> Awesome, guys.

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