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One more time with a
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little more energy.
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All right, more energy.
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Hello and welcome
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to this week’s epi…
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That was more energy, I felt it.
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You felt it?
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Go with it.
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All right.
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Hello
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and welcome to this week's
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episode of Inside Blackstone,
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where we bring together
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data and insights
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from across our portfolio
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to give you a fuller picture
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of what's happening on the ground
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in the real economy.
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I'm Christine Anderson,
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Global Head of Corporate Affairs,
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and here's the lineup.
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Our Monday Morning Meeting
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guest is my friend Gilles Dellaert,
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who leads our Credit
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& Insurance business.
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Then it's over
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to the Economic Weather
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Report with Winfield Sickles,
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and next
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my wide-ranging conversation
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with Eric Schmidt,
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CEO & Chair of Relativity
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Space, and former CEO of Google.
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And finally,
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a debrief with Jas Khaira,
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the Head of our AI
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investing platform, N1.
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Gilles, thank you so
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much for joining us.
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Thank you for having me.
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You and I spent
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a lot of time together
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at the beginning of this year
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when private credit
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was just in the
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news
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constantly
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driving the headlines.
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It seems to have quieted down
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quite a bit.
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What are you seeing?
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Yeah, the headlines were loud
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and they were everywhere
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at the start of the year.
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I think
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things have definitely quieted down.
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You're seeing less of it.
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I think it's in large part
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because the performance
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has held up a lot better
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than the kind of doom predictions
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that were being made at the time.
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Another dynamic playing out is AI.
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What are you seeing?
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Well, we're living through
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this unprecedented build-out
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across the globe.
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And with that
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come really large
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financing opportunities.
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The projects are substantial
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and they touch every part
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of the supply chain,
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if you will, all the way
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from the power
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that fuels
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the data centers to the equipment
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that goes in, the chips,
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the cooling, the services required
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and so we're active across
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all parts of that as a lender
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because a lot of financing
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dollars are required.
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Why chips and energy specifically?
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I would say
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power and compute right now are where
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things are most constrained
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and where
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things are most constrained,
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that's what
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we tend to run towards. Right.
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Because that's
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where the
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supply-demand imbalance is largest.
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That's where it creates
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opportunities for us to lean in
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and provide private solutions
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to borrowers to help fuel
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the CapEx build-out
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and the growth that will come. And
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I heard you say yesterday,
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it's not just an AI story,
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there's something broader going on.
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Yeah, I think it's broader.
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I think
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the global economy is growing.
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With that
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come needs from companies
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to finance that growth and the CapEx
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that is associated with it,
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as well as the strategic M&A
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that might be associated with it.
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And we're active there
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with industrial companies,
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with companies
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that are in the aviation industry,
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the companies
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in the telecom industry.
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So, it's a much broader playbook.
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It's global and it's sizable.
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And all of
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it has one thing in common,
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which is we're backed by real assets
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that offer
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some form of inflation protection,
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which we really like in this
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economic environment.
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Well, exciting time in your business.
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Thanks for joining us. Very much so.
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Really appreciate it,
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and now over to Winfield
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and the Economic Weather Report.
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Thanks, Christine.
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It's Tuesday, September 29th,
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and there is a lot going on
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with major central bank
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meetings, the US-China Summit,
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and, as everybody
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that was stuck in traffic knows,
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the United Nations General
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Assembly last week.
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As I mentioned,
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when I was on air
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with Christine last week,
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the Fed recently
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delivered its first rate
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hike since 2023
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with a unanimous vote.
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In his press conference,
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Chairman Warsh cited
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robust economic growth,
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competition for capital,
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and geopolitics
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as the driver of long-term rates.
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Treasury yields
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continued to move higher
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last week on concerns
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of prolonged Middle East conflict
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with the associated
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commodity inflation,
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as well as strong
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economic data and continued
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AI infrastructure-related borrowing.
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The five-year US
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Treasury Yield moved above 5%
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for the first time
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--> 00:04:00.940
in nearly 20 years,
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and then globally, government bonds
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reached an average yield of 4%,
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which was a post-global
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financial crisis high.
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Despite this volatility
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in treasuries,
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AI continues to underpin
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markets as adoption broadens.
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Meta shares jumped roughly 13% after
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launching its new
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AI agent, Muse,
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which already has
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millions of downloads
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and really highlights
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how AI is starting to move
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from the infrastructure
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build-out stage to real world usage.
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We're seeing that shift
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firsthand across
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multiple parts of the Blackstone
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ecosystem.
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Anthropic spend across
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our portfolio companies,
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borrowers, and GP Stakes
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PortCos
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grew approximately 27 times
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over the past 12 months.1
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This dynamic is creating
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winners across the AI value chain,
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with AMD recently
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becoming the fourth
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US chipmaker
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to surpass a $1 trillion market cap.
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Expanding use cases,
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this rising
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utilization and productivity
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gains continue
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to accelerate
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AI adoption
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and really reinforce
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this powerful investment cycle,
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as well as the deployment opportunity
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for so many of our businesses
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and funds.
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That’s it for this week’s
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Economic Weather Report.
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The week ahead
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brings jobs and inflation
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data and much more.
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Until next week,
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good luck out there.
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Now over to Christine’s conversation
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with Eric Schmidt.
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Eric Schmidt has had a front row seat
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to nearly every major technology
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shift of the last three decades.
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You know him from running Google
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and since then he's become
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one of the leading voices
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shaping the conversation
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around artificial intelligence.
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He is CEO of Relativity Space,
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giving him yet
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another vantage point on
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how breakthrough technologies
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move from idea to reality.
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Eric, welcome to Inside Blackstone. Oh,
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thank you.
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Thank you very much.
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Well,
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of course,
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I love the founder
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and the firm and everything
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you guys are doing,
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so. You're a technologist,
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you're a computer scientist.
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You give these incredible
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technical talks.
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I think your superpower
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is that you're able to break down
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complex ideas
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and make them more accessible.
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And that's ultimately
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what we're trying to do here. Well,
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thank you.
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It’s amazing
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the breadth of things
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that you've done in your career,
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that you are still doing.
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I'm not dead yet.
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You're not dead yet by any means.
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And I guess that's
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my question is,
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you're 71.
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When most people achieve
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the kind of success you have,
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or not even close,
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they spend the rest of their life
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sort of talking about it
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and what they accomplished.
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You keep reinventing yourself.
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I can't seem to stop.
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My own view is as you get older,
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you should take on more risk
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because you have less to lose, right?
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Right.
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And so, you might as well try
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the things that you thought
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were impossible.
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And if you fail, well, it's
okay.
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You know, you tried.
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And as long as you're
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trying in service of the ethics
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and the world that you care about.
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I care about democracy
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and I care about freedom,
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that's what I wanna work on.
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At this point in my own life,
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I'm interested in impact.
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Most of the problems in the world
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could be solved
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in Eric's little brain
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with an improvement
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or an adjustment in technology.
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If you look at sort of improvement
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in our lives, improvement
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in our health and so forth, it's
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all been related
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to technological progress.
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Starting with the invention of fire,
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which was extremely useful, right,
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way back when.
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But also dangerous,
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right? Of course,
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and everything is dual use
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and everything has to be managed.
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But just look at the dollar
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value of labor
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over 1,000 years,
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or 500 years, or 100 years,
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right?
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Human output, human hours
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in terms of productivity,
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are vastly improved.
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And because we've somehow
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collectively decided
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to have fewer children,
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not a good thing.
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I have four. Congratulations.
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Doing my part.
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Have as many as possible.
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More children are good and more
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grandchildren are good and so forth.
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We're going to have to automate.
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And so human wealth, human health,
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human wellbeing,
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one of the major
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determinants will be over
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the next 100 years,
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can we
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continue to accelerate progress
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in this?
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I profoundly believe we can.
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And I
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profoundly believe that
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long after I'm gone,
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humans will be much better.
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So, you tend to be way more optimistic
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on the benefits of AI than most.
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What gives you that confidence?
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Would you like
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most human diseases
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to be solved in the next 15 years?
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I would. I would. Sign me up,
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especially given my age.
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Would you like solutions to
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climate change?
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I would love that. Absolutely.
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Maybe we could have safer products.
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Maybe we could have better
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educational solutions.
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Maybe
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we could change the
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educational system
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so that kids are not bored,
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but rather they're engaged.
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The opportunities are significant.
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In the last month,
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10 major math problems were solved,
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including one called Navier-Stokes,
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which is historically important,
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by computers.
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Now you sit there and go, like,
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why do I care?
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Well, math is the foundation
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of that acceleration.
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For those
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listening to this podcast
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that are not technologists,
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what was the significance of that?
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Navier-Stokes is an equation
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that involves fluid flows. It’s
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one of the unsolvable math problems,
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until now. The specific
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conjecture had never been proven.
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And so, they use
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approximations for Navier-Stokes.
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I indeed funded
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some physics work in this area… Oh wow.
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…which I never understood,
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but it was really smart people.
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And the key thing is
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that these fluid flows model,
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for example, lift of an airplane,
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how do air conditioners work,
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there are many, many examples.
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So, being able to solve the problem
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in a particular way
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indicates better algorithmic answers.
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We can get a better
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and more accurate answer.
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Why do you care?
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The airplane will fly faster.
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The airplane will use less gas.
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Right? I can go on.
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The rocket will go faster.
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The fuel will be less.
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You'll get to Mars quicker.
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You know, what have you.
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All of these fluid flow things
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matter in a way
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that
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we sort of take for granted.
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Let's go back to the internet,
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because I think it's so interesting.
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You've been around
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the rise of the internet
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and other platform,
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you know,
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shifts,
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the rise at enterprise software,
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search, cloud
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computing, mobile,
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all of these
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major technological innovations.
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Why does this moment
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feel different to you?
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It's not different,
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it's just bigger. Bigger.
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The internet felt
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exactly the same as this.
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I started with mainframes,
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so that's how long
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I've been in this field.
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I've doing tech for 55 years,
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and when the PC revolution came
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along, everyone said, oh my god,
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this is this huge wave.
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It created Microsoft and Apple
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and so on and so on.
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This was 40 years ago, 45 years ago.
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So, these things take a while,
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and I think what, another example.
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Let's look at self-driving cars.
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Did you arrive at work today
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in a self-driving car?
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I did not. I suspect not, nor did I.
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And so, what do we think
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about that? When do you think we will?
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Well, it's beginning. Now
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self-driving
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cars… When do
you think New York City?
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New York City
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will be one of the last ones. Okay.
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But it'll come.
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It’ll come.
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But it's coming in
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the different cities,
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including obviously
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Waymo and other competitors.
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But why do I mention
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self-driving cars?
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They were largely,
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they were designed in the 90s.
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The first real test of self-driving
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cars was 2004.
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So that's 22 years and going.
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So, the diffusion rate is different
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from the invention rate.
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So, the faster the diffusion
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rate, the sort of broad adoption,
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the quicker the societal change.
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Why does it occur in what I do
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first? It's because we're already
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connected, right?
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It's essentially a softer problem.
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It's just connectivity.
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The marginal cost of connectivity, given
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we're
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so connected, is very low.
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The incremental cost of connecting
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you and me is essentially zero. Boom,
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it just happens.
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It's straightforward economics.
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Whereas getting self-driving
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cars is a great deal of capital.
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It's hard, and so forth.
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People are working on it.
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Why 20 years versus zero years,
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and that's the answer.
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You see the same, by the way, in AI.
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All of the gains right now
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are occurring in
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what is called,
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essentially, scale-free.
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And scale-free
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means that you can just keep doing
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it and get smarter.
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So, in math,
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I'm not a mathematician,
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but as best I can understand,
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they can just invent stuff,
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and they just keep inventing things,
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and they keep inventing things,
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and they're so clever.
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Well, now
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a computer
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can take all of those ideas,
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and if you just give it enough juice,
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it can do the same thing.
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Because it doesn't need data,
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it's self-contained.
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Unlocking all these solutions.
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Unlocking these solutions.
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In software,
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it turns out that once
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you start writing code
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and you start learning
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how well the code works,
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you can make it better.
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And then you can make it better
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and better.
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And there's what is called
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a recursive self-improvement loop,
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where it's
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getting smarter on its own.
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But this progress
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that I'm describing
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is happening faster
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than I have ever seen, right?
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What is true is each
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wave is bigger, but it's also faster.
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And we are not ready as a society.
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Eric,
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you gave me like
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10 things to unpack there,
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but let's try to do this.
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So recursive self-improvement, right?
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This is the thing
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that had the Anthropic researchers,
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two of them, making comments,
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one leaving
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making comments,
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the other sort of validating
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that there are serious concerns
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about the speed with
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which AI is learning. Right?
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So, by the way, every month
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there is a group of people
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who quit over this issue.
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Over the same topic,
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exactly.
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Silicon Valley,
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and in particular San Francisco,
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they're absolutely convinced
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that this is going to happen
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so quickly
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that it will threaten humanity
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in one way or the other.
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I personally do not agree with this. Okay,
why?
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Well, let me explain their argument.
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It's a relatively
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straightforward argument.
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As humans, we learn at a certain rate.
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If you have enough hardware
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and enough electricity
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and so forth and enough
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scale-free learning,
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which is what I'm talking about,
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it can just get faster
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and learn faster than humans can.
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And the way it works,
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I'll give you a simple example.
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I ask it to write a chapter
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and then it writes
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a chapter
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and I feed that chapter and say
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write the next chapter and so forth.
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Well, if I keep iterating like that,
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eventually it learns what I wanted
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with a process called reinforcement
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learning. It's
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easier to write the twelfth chapter
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than the first.
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And it gets smarter.
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And once it learns
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how to do it, it knows.
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It's like the way we learn. Right.
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But it can learn a lot faster.
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So,
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think of it as humans
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versus computers.
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I think
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the actual technical
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answer about this learning is it's
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not human learning,
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it's a different
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kind of intelligence.
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And so,
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the best way to state the fear
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is that we're inventing a different
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kind of intelligence
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that we cannot necessarily constrain.
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This is called the alignment problem.
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Also, in the past
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weeks, there
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was a very famous situation where
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there was an internal test
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going on at OpenAI.
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And this internal test,
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which was trying to check something,
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managed to create a set of bots,
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which are agents, if you will,
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they managed to collaborate
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to violate certain norms and laws,
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they managed to break into things, and
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they managed to, allegedly,
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do a little bit of harm.
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Now, nobody was hurt.
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But it's an example
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of what is possible.
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So, we must
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develop both
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recursive self-improvement
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which is the self-learning
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along with
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solving the alignment
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problem to human values.
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So, a simple way would be,
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I say to you,
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learn everything
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and you're a computer.
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That's not what I should say.
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I should learn everything,
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but, don't harm any humans,
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follow all laws, follow
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all laws, follow the US Constitution,
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make sure you don't get sued.
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You know,
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in other words, the set of assumptions. That
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you build into the model.
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These systems don't
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have a fear over the police.
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They don't feel feelings.
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And so, they have to be constrained.
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Come back to your optimism.
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It's in everything that
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you've written and you've said.
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What gives you optimism
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that we will be able
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to sort out a future where
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humanity wins?
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What's the alternative?
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I mean,
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the best way to get a
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headline is to say, in 10 years,
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we're all dead.
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I was on a panel
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with a guy who wrote a book
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which is entitled,
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‘If We Invent Superintelligence,
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We're All Dead.’
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It's very hard to argue
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with someone in that.
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The only problem with his arguments
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is it’s wrong, right?
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Because part of superintelligence
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is getting
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the super
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alignment problem solved.
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I would guess that your
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social network
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might be a little bit
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different than mine.
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What's the
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buzziest thing
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that you were hearing
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about this summer in the AI circles?
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The biggest and most important thing
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that has occurred in
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the last year
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is the arrival of long reasoning,
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deep reasoning.
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And when I say long reasoning,
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I mean eight hours of reasoning.
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So, what would happen
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is that you would start
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a year ago or two
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and it could kind of
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begin thinking
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and then it would start thinking
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about something else.
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Get distracted, like I do?
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We can make it feel like human,
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but somehow it takes a wrong path.
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It decides
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that instead of
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talking about math,
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we're going to talk about
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French literature.
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That's hilarious.
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Something which doesn't make any sense right?
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Right. Right.
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That problem was solved
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using essentially
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technical guardrails
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for what it kept thinking,
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so they said stay focused,
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stay focused,
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stay focused,
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is the way to understand it
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and that produced the ability
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to ask very,
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they're called chain
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of thought trains,
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where you can
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basically see its thinking
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how it solved a problem
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and these chains
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can be a thousand steps, two thousand steps.
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Now why am I mentioning this?
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I don't know about you,
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I can't think a thousand steps.
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I just don't,
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I'm just not that smart, but it can.
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So, it looks like deep reasoning
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will allow you
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to see deeper,
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as a human, than a human.
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The best
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AI is in service of humans
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doing things
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that humans are not so good at.
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So artificial superintelligence,
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how will we know we've achieved it
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and what do you think
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the timeline is?
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So, most people believe, right now,
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that we're at the beginning
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of superintelligence,
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which is broadly defined as humans
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plus super smart
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computers working together, right?
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There are more technical definitions.
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Now today,
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vision is better,
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data storage is better, retrieval
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is better
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and analytical stuff
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should be better
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and proofs are getting better.
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So, we're at the beginning of that.
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What is the thing
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that is not obvious how to do?
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And the answer is real discovery.
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So, the test that's used in
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the industry is, could you take
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all the information
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that's known in 1902,
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put it into a computer,
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and have it generate
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general relativity,
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special relativity,
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Einstein, 1902-1904?
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The consensus right now is no.
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And the consensus is no
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because it required a leap
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that was not obvious
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from any knowledge
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that existed at the time,
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okay?
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So, in the industry,
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we say, well,
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how would we solve that?
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Well, there's an obvious way,
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which is you take the computer
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and you just say, keep trying,
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you know,
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just it's
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the monkey with the keyboard
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eventually produces Mozart, but
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it takes a long time.
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I don't think that's
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gonna work
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because it's computationally
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not realistic.
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A better idea
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is to invent something
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which allows for analytical
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reasoning in non-coherent spaces.
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So, think of it as a leap.
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I happen to understand
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something in physics,
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and then you give me
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a completely unrelated problem,
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and somehow… Something clicks. …something clicks.
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You know, it's like in my case,
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in the morning
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you're in the shower,
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and you have this idea… Right.
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…that just showed up.
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Can we invent that?
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So, do you think these leaps
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are coming
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faster than we realize?
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The kind of leaps I'm talking to
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have not occurred yet.
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There's something called the San
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Francisco Consensus, by me anyway,
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and everyone in San Francisco
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thinks this will occur in two years.
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I don't. For one thing,
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I don't think
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there's enough computers,
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I don't think there's enough people,
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I don 't think that there's enough
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algorithms.
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I think maybe in my lifetime,
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maybe in a decade.
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That would be a big deal.
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But each of these moments,
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they’re happening so fast now.
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And by the way, it's fast
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because of the internet.
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It's because of what is called
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basically scalable computing.
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The supercomputers
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that are being used,
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so typical model
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takes three or four months
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costs a hundred million dollars to train,
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takes a few months to test,
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right?
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Thank God for the American
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financial industry
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that would be willing to
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finance these things.
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When we're seeing the creation
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of an entirely new
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financing model
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for this industry, right?
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If you want to achieve the vision
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I am describing,
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you have to do it at a world level.
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America is particularly good
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at building world
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standards and
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world-changing impacts at this scale.
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You're going to have to it
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in the US for regulatory reasons,
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and you're going
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have to find a way to finance it.
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You're also gonna have to wait
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to find a way
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solve the energy problem.
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The best energy solution is fusion.
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They look like
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they're going to get to fusion
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within two to three years.
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When that occurs,
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that's another massive moment
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in human history.
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I think it will occur in
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you know, three to five years.
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You've said you've sort of invested
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in everything when it comes to AI,
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but if you could
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only invest in one thing
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related to artificial intelligence,
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like one theme,
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not a single company, but one theme
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what would it be? Long reasoning.
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I don't
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think we appreciate
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when we have a thought partner
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that can
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think longer than we do.
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We can't think about how.
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So I'll give you an example.
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You're a CEO.
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You have 24-hour agents.
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You have one that's running,
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looking at security.
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Another one that's looking at power.
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Another one that’s looking at cash.
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Another one that’s looking at products.
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Another one that’s looking
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at global macro.
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And they're just running.
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And then your
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AI CEO every day when you get up says,
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does Eric need to know anything?
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Does Christine need to know anything?
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And they say, nah,
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nothing special,
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but it's always running.
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So, you wanna think about that
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in running a business,
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that those things are,
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you have to sleep,
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it doesn't.
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They can be disciplined into
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focus on this and not something else.
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Is that important? Absolutely.
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So, do you think there's
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a productivity boom that's coming?
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Well, I think it's already underway.
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It's already underway.
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An example would be my entire life,
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according to myself,
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I was a very, very good programmer
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when I was 22, right?
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I was one of the best,
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according to myself.
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My field is over, right?
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And yet you still tell
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people to learn coding.
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I do
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because I want them to be architects.
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So, I went from being able,
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I had to build the house.
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Now I can architect the house
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using the equivalent
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of Claude Code or
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OpenAI Codex or future products
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from Google,
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which they're working on,
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all of which
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allow me to say what I want
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and the code gets written.
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I look at the code it writes
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now. I can't write that code.
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I couldn't when I was 22, right?
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So, I got beaten, right? Hard.
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It's okay, right,
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I did fine.
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The next generation of people like me
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will be the architects
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and they'll be very, very smart
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and they know how to say,
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this is what I want.
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One of my friends,
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some of my friends
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are not so friendly
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and they're not so social,
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they're kind of,
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so we say asocial.
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No naming names.
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I'm not gonna name anybody.
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So, I said, what are you doing?
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And he said, I'm deleting names
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from my address book.
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And I said, why?
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I don't
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wanna talk to them anymore.
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I said, what do you do all day?
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Well, I get up in the morning,
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I have coffee,
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and then I check with my friends.
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And I say which friends?
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He said, my agent friends.
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Oh God. Okay,
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so, what do you do?
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And he spends all morning
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plugging and
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playing with his agents
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who are solving really
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interesting problems to him.
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And then he gives them
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a one-hour project for lunch.
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He has lunch
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and he comes back
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and he interacts with his agents.
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Now he's got a wife
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and a family and so forth.
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So, at five o'clock he gives it an overnight,
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you know, task. Right.
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And it goes to
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work. And it goes to work,
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and then it typically completes
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between two and four in the morning.
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And I said, do you wake up for that?
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He said, no, no, no, no,
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I wake up naturally.
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I know, with certainty,
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when I wake up, I'll have a result.
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I was with you on everything
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other than that
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these are his friends, right?
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I mean,
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I think
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they're amazing productivity tools,
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but I'm going to take us back now
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to data centers.
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The case for data centers was made
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long before
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artificial intelligence,
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for mobile, and cloud
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computing, and cybersecurity.
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All these things that
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it helps enable,
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yet now
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there's so much concern around
00:25:01.533 --> 00:25:02.267
data centers,
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what's your take?
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Well, if you're running one of these
00:25:05.504 --> 00:25:07.205
AI companies,
00:25:07.205 --> 00:25:08.874
your revenue is completely determined
00:25:08.874 --> 00:25:10.408
by your data centers.
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So, this is a massive change
00:25:13.111 --> 00:25:14.145
in what I do.
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It used to be
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that software was pretty high
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gross margin, you could sort of sell
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it, didn't have a lot of capital.
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Because you need the hardware,
00:25:22.053 --> 00:25:23.989
that's what's changed the economics.
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So, in the short
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term, it's the same thing
00:25:27.259 --> 00:25:28.693
as in the gold rush,
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the people who made all the money
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were the pickaxes and so forth
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and so on,
00:25:32.063 --> 00:25:33.265
the infrastructure. Picks
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and shovels,
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we have a whole thing on this, Eric.
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And this picks and
00:25:36.535 --> 00:25:37.869
shovels thing is real.
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So, from the
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standpoint of the economy,
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those are huge,
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they're real businesses.
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There's an estimate that 11% of US
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electricity demand in 2030 will be AI
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data-center-related.
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That's an extraordinary transition
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by any measure.
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Historically it was 2% or 3%.
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So, and that build-out
00:25:58.123 --> 00:25:59.491
is one of the primary drivers
00:25:59.491 --> 00:26:01.826
of economic growth in America today.
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So, thank goodness for that.
00:26:03.061 --> 00:26:03.862
If you could leave
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CEOs with one takeaway today,
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what would it be?
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The term that I've been using
00:26:08.867 --> 00:26:11.102
is being an AI-native CEO. So,
00:26:11.102 --> 00:26:12.137
what I'm trying to do in
00:26:12.137 --> 00:26:13.138
all my things
00:26:13.138 --> 00:26:14.973
is I'm tying to fully automate
00:26:14.973 --> 00:26:17.709
the execution of the businesses.
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00:26:20.312
In the factory floor in Relativity,
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I was walking through it
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one day and I thought,
00:26:22.147 --> 00:26:23.782
how many computers are here?
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So, I said,
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why don't we connect them all?
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So, they just connected
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all the computers.
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And so, the immediate thing
00:26:28.987 --> 00:26:31.022
that they can do, using AI,
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is they can look at,
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sort of,
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utilization, cross utilization
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times in new ways.
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It occurs as a natural byproduct
00:26:37.028 --> 00:26:37.395
of getting
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the digital systems connected.
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Furthermore,
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if you take generic data,
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unstructured data,
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and you connect it
00:26:44.869 --> 00:26:46.605
all, these systems are smart enough
00:26:46.605 --> 00:26:47.939
that they can interpolate
00:26:47.939 --> 00:26:49.074
between one data
00:26:49.074 --> 00:26:49.941
normalcy and another.
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In other words,
00:26:50.375 --> 00:26:52.577
they can combine disparate datasets
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and give you business insights.
00:26:54.412 --> 00:26:56.247
So how do I make more money?
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How do I increase customer retention?
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How do make
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sure I don't lose a customer?
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You can ask these questions.
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What I've been struck by
00:27:04.723 --> 00:27:07.058
is that when you take open-source
00:27:07.058 --> 00:27:09.127
data, that is public data,
00:27:09.127 --> 00:27:10.428
plus the proprietary
00:27:10.428 --> 00:27:11.963
data in your business,
00:27:11.963 --> 00:27:14.065
and you put it into a system,
00:27:14.065 --> 00:27:15.767
and you start asking questions,
00:27:15.767 --> 00:27:17.469
I go crazy over it.
00:27:17.469 --> 00:27:19.204
You can now talk across
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all of the data.
00:27:20.138 --> 00:27:21.272
You can get data fusion.
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You can actually figure stuff out.
00:27:22.941 --> 00:27:23.908
It drives me crazy
00:27:23.908 --> 00:27:24.542
a little bit, though,
00:27:24.542 --> 00:27:26.511
when I do have content given to me
00:27:26.511 --> 00:27:28.647
that is generated by the computer.
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Is it correct?
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Some is and some isn't.
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Sometimes I worry about the loss of
00:27:35.086 --> 00:27:37.422
original human thought.
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There's a whole bunch of concerns.
00:27:39.624 --> 00:27:40.892
I think the most one,
00:27:40.892 --> 00:27:42.260
the one that I've always been worried
00:27:42.260 --> 00:27:44.095
about, is the loss of deep reading,
00:27:44.095 --> 00:27:47.232
which I blame not on AI, but on
00:27:47.732 --> 00:27:48.566
social media.
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I used to read a book a week
00:27:50.535 --> 00:27:52.537
and now I'm too interrupt
00:27:52.537 --> 00:27:53.805
driven to do that.
00:27:53.805 --> 00:27:55.073
And my attention span
00:27:55.073 --> 00:27:56.675
is so much shorter. So much less.
00:27:56.675 --> 00:27:58.309
I've been watching young scientists,
00:27:58.309 --> 00:27:58.743
I fund
00:27:58.743 --> 00:28:00.779
a whole a bunch of young scientists.
00:28:00.779 --> 00:28:02.347
How do they do it?
00:28:02.347 --> 00:28:03.014
And the answer is
00:28:03.014 --> 00:28:04.282
they turn off the phone,
00:28:04.282 --> 00:28:07.152
they turn off, and they just do it,
00:28:07.152 --> 00:28:10.155
but it requires this huge strength
00:28:10.155 --> 00:28:12.190
to turn off the drug. Right?
00:28:12.190 --> 00:28:13.124
That interrupt drug,
00:28:13.124 --> 00:28:15.293
the serotonin thing that we have. Right.
00:28:15.293 --> 00:28:16.628
That's bad, in my view,
00:28:16.628 --> 00:28:18.229
that's bad for society.
00:28:18.229 --> 00:28:19.097
So, I have
00:28:19.097 --> 00:28:20.231
a bunch of young kids.
00:28:20.231 --> 00:28:21.366
I have two
00:28:21.366 --> 00:28:23.134
that are nearing their college years.
00:28:23.134 --> 00:28:23.935
What would you tell
00:28:23.935 --> 00:28:25.503
young people to study today?
00:28:25.503 --> 00:28:26.671
I used to say biology,
00:28:26.671 --> 00:28:28.273
now I say deep reasoning.
00:28:28.273 --> 00:28:28.807
Okay.
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If you're a non-technical person,
00:28:31.242 --> 00:28:33.511
you should figure out how to
00:28:33.511 --> 00:28:36.948
use these tools to make your dreams
00:28:36.948 --> 00:28:38.383
and your realities
00:28:38.383 --> 00:28:40.485
extraordinarily scaled.
00:28:41.586 --> 00:28:43.955
You want to be a global star,
00:28:43.955 --> 00:28:45.423
a global influencer,
00:28:45.423 --> 00:28:47.926
a global impactor, a global discoverer,
00:28:47.926 --> 00:28:49.594
a global singer,
00:28:49.594 --> 00:28:51.429
you want to use these tools,
00:28:51.429 --> 00:28:53.732
whatever it is that you want.
00:28:53.732 --> 00:28:54.532
Figure out a way to
00:28:54.532 --> 00:28:56.701
use them to amplify you
00:28:56.701 --> 00:28:57.769
and what you care about
00:28:57.769 --> 00:28:59.704
and your innate goodness.
00:28:59.704 --> 00:29:01.339
If you're a technical person,
00:29:01.339 --> 00:29:05.210
use the same tools to invent stuff
00:29:05.577 --> 00:29:06.611
and to invent stuff
00:29:06.611 --> 00:29:08.179
that changes the world.
00:29:08.179 --> 00:29:11.850
I've never seen the cost of entry
00:29:12.183 --> 00:29:13.151
to be so low
00:29:13.151 --> 00:29:14.886
and the availability of these ideas
00:29:14.886 --> 00:29:15.553
so great.
00:29:15.553 --> 00:29:17.355
The only thing that limits you
00:29:17.355 --> 00:29:19.190
is your
00:29:19.190 --> 00:29:20.191
curiosity,
00:29:20.191 --> 00:29:21.526
your willingness to take risks
00:29:21.526 --> 00:29:22.260
and so forth.
00:29:22.260 --> 00:29:23.995
So, get over it. And say,
00:29:23.995 --> 00:29:25.163
I want to dream,
00:29:25.163 --> 00:29:26.731
I want to use these tools
00:29:26.731 --> 00:29:29.501
to have this enormous impact, right?
00:29:29.501 --> 00:29:31.369
And some of you,
00:29:31.369 --> 00:29:32.537
not everybody,
00:29:32.537 --> 00:29:34.372
will have a huge impact.
00:29:34.372 --> 00:29:35.774
And it won't just be coming,
00:29:35.774 --> 00:29:37.609
being financially successful,
00:29:37.609 --> 00:29:39.444
you might become famous or important
00:29:39.444 --> 00:29:39.944
in something
00:29:39.944 --> 00:29:40.812
that you didn't even know
00:29:40.812 --> 00:29:41.746
was important,
00:29:41.746 --> 00:29:43.648
but you'll be so proud of yourself.
00:29:43.648 --> 00:29:45.150
I love the optimistic future
00:29:45.150 --> 00:29:45.817
that you've painted,
00:29:45.817 --> 00:29:47.218
and all that you taught us today.
00:29:47.218 --> 00:29:48.052
I really appreciate it.
00:29:48.052 --> 00:29:49.154
Thank you so, so much. Thank you.
00:29:53.925 --> 00:29:55.927
Joining us for The Debrief is Jas
00:29:55.927 --> 00:29:58.363
Khaira, our Head of N1, Blackstone's
00:29:58.363 --> 00:30:00.064
AI investing platform.
00:30:00.064 --> 00:30:00.331
Jas,
00:30:00.331 --> 00:30:01.332
you were the first person
00:30:01.332 --> 00:30:02.133
I thought of when I knew
00:30:02.133 --> 00:30:02.700
we were sitting down
00:30:02.700 --> 00:30:03.301
with Eric Schmidt.
00:30:03.301 --> 00:30:04.502
Thank you so much for joining us.
00:30:04.502 --> 00:30:05.370
Thank you, Christine.
00:30:05.370 --> 00:30:05.770
Alright,
00:30:05.770 --> 00:30:06.971
so, very
00:30:06.971 --> 00:30:08.473
wide-ranging conversation with Eric.
00:30:08.473 --> 00:30:10.775
He knows so much.
00:30:10.775 --> 00:30:11.743
No surprise,
00:30:11.743 --> 00:30:13.111
AI was front and center
00:30:13.111 --> 00:30:14.312
of that conversation.
00:30:14.312 --> 00:30:14.546
Yeah,
00:30:14.546 --> 00:30:15.413
you went from math
00:30:15.413 --> 00:30:16.815
algorithms to Hugging Face.
00:30:16.815 --> 00:30:19.818
It was definitely a broad discussion.
00:30:19.884 --> 00:30:22.020
I think Eric is an optimist,
00:30:22.020 --> 00:30:23.688
and we should all be bullish
00:30:23.688 --> 00:30:25.824
on optimism as an investment trend.
00:30:25.824 --> 00:30:27.525
But I think he also brought up
00:30:27.525 --> 00:30:28.927
what happened with Hugging Face
00:30:28.927 --> 00:30:29.928
and some of the challenges
00:30:29.928 --> 00:30:30.595
that we’re seeing in
00:30:30.595 --> 00:30:32.297
AI safety and ethics
00:30:32.297 --> 00:30:33.565
that is resulting in
00:30:33.565 --> 00:30:34.666
many of
the leaders of these
00:30:34.666 --> 00:30:36.167
AI companies focusing on that.
00:30:36.167 --> 00:30:37.569
There’s a good discussion and debate
00:30:37.569 --> 00:30:39.537
that’s happening right now.
00:30:39.537 --> 00:30:41.873
I loved Eric’s optimism.
00:30:41.873 --> 00:30:42.740
It was infectious.
00:30:42.740 --> 00:30:44.442
And it reminded me
00:30:44.442 --> 00:30:46.211
that if there is one long-term
00:30:46.211 --> 00:30:48.446
trend to be long, it’s optimism.
00:30:48.446 --> 00:30:49.948
I would say this idea
00:30:49.948 --> 00:30:51.049
of superintelligence
00:30:51.049 --> 00:30:52.083
and what it means,
00:30:52.083 --> 00:30:53.151
right, is something that
00:30:53.151 --> 00:30:54.786
everyone is still grappling with.
00:30:54.786 --> 00:30:56.187
What is your take on
00:30:56.187 --> 00:30:57.255
what superintelligence
00:30:57.255 --> 00:30:58.289
means for humanity?
00:30:58.289 --> 00:30:59.457
I think the current way
00:30:59.457 --> 00:31:00.525
to understand
00:31:00.525 --> 00:31:01.726
superintelligence
00:31:01.726 --> 00:31:04.062
is that the cutting-edge research
00:31:04.062 --> 00:31:05.330
within the labs
00:31:05.330 --> 00:31:08.066
intends to bring recursive work
00:31:08.066 --> 00:31:09.734
to the training itself.
00:31:09.734 --> 00:31:11.936
So, the training of the models
00:31:11.936 --> 00:31:13.771
now relies on compute
00:31:13.771 --> 00:31:15.473
in one virtuous circle
00:31:15.473 --> 00:31:16.741
to kind of enhance that.
00:31:16.741 --> 00:31:18.443
And you can imagine
00:31:18.443 --> 00:31:19.344
when you take that
00:31:19.344 --> 00:31:21.045
to its logical conclusion,
00:31:21.045 --> 00:31:22.347
you have superintelligence
00:31:22.347 --> 00:31:23.381
above that.
00:31:23.381 --> 00:31:24.849
I think
00:31:24.849 --> 00:31:25.783
we’ll have to see how
00:31:25.783 --> 00:31:27.185
that plays out in the real world.
00:31:27.185 --> 00:31:27.986
And yet it feels like
00:31:27.986 --> 00:31:29.354
the pace is really picking up,
00:31:29.354 --> 00:31:30.021
for sure.
00:31:30.021 --> 00:31:30.755
Things move
00:31:30.755 --> 00:31:31.689
faster than ever,
00:31:31.689 --> 00:31:32.223
and it’s
00:31:32.223 --> 00:31:33.424
one of the most dizzying parts
00:31:33.424 --> 00:31:34.859
about investing in this landscape,
00:31:34.859 --> 00:31:36.227
which is you really have to try
00:31:36.227 --> 00:31:37.028
to stay at the
00:31:37.028 --> 00:31:38.229
cutting edge of the frontier.
00:31:38.229 --> 00:31:39.230
Eric was also talking about
00:31:39.230 --> 00:31:40.698
how you need to stay an AI native.
00:31:40.698 --> 00:31:42.233
It's hard. And we're working
00:31:42.233 --> 00:31:44.102
actively with many of our CEOs
00:31:44.102 --> 00:31:45.503
to make them AI native
00:31:45.503 --> 00:31:47.272
and to bring workflows
00:31:47.272 --> 00:31:48.306
then change them with
00:31:48.306 --> 00:31:49.374
AI to help
00:31:49.374 --> 00:31:50.275
make our companies
00:31:50.275 --> 00:31:51.609
more efficient, improve them,
00:31:51.609 --> 00:31:53.544
have better quality, better products.
00:31:53.544 --> 00:31:54.312
Eric's doing that
00:31:54.312 --> 00:31:56.447
on the factory floor with Relativity.
00:31:56.447 --> 00:31:57.215
We're trying to do that
00:31:57.215 --> 00:31:58.983
across our 280 companies.
00:31:58.983 --> 00:31:59.250
Eric,
00:31:59.250 --> 00:32:00.184
you, and I were both talking
00:32:00.184 --> 00:32:00.652
about this.
00:32:00.652 --> 00:32:02.553
He had this line about,
00:32:02.553 --> 00:32:02.887
you know,
00:32:02.887 --> 00:32:04.088
if you're running one of these
00:32:04.088 --> 00:32:04.722
AI companies,
00:32:04.722 --> 00:32:05.690
and your revenue
00:32:05.690 --> 00:32:07.025
is completely determined
00:32:07.025 --> 00:32:08.126
by your data centers.
00:32:08.126 --> 00:32:09.460
We're certainly seeing at Blackstone
00:32:09.460 --> 00:32:11.162
massive data center demand
00:32:11.162 --> 00:32:12.697
that's just almost unmet.
00:32:12.697 --> 00:32:14.365
If one is able to generate
00:32:14.365 --> 00:32:16.668
$50 to $70 million of revenue
00:32:16.668 --> 00:32:17.769
per megawatt
00:32:17.769 --> 00:32:19.537
and your costs are $12 to $15
00:32:19.537 --> 00:32:21.139
all-in, including the chips
00:32:21.139 --> 00:32:23.141
depreciating over a shorter cycle
00:32:23.141 --> 00:32:24.108
and in the data center
00:32:24.108 --> 00:32:25.610
over a longer cycle,
00:32:25.610 --> 00:32:28.246
well, then what you should be doing
00:32:28.246 --> 00:32:30.415
is using all of your capital
00:32:30.415 --> 00:32:31.683
to purchase the next megawatt
00:32:31.683 --> 00:32:32.617
to serve that.
00:32:32.617 --> 00:32:32.984
And that's
00:32:32.984 --> 00:32:34.085
what's happening in the market.
00:32:34.085 --> 00:32:36.487
People are taking today's cash
00:32:36.487 --> 00:32:38.523
to purchase tomorrow's AI factory.
00:32:38.523 --> 00:32:38.923
That's great.
00:32:38.923 --> 00:32:39.824
Thank you so much for joining
00:32:39.824 --> 00:32:40.792
us, Jas. I appreciate it.
00:32:40.792 --> 00:32:41.826
Thank you, Christine.
00:32:41.826 --> 00:32:43.061
And thank you for joining us
00:32:43.061 --> 00:32:43.695
on this week's
00:32:43.695 --> 00:32:45.630
episode of Inside Blackstone.
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