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Elon's Exit: An Inisde Job?
Alex Kantrowitz 2025-06-08 17:16
Washington is not like tech and it's not like Wall Street. See, you're in tech and you're on Wall Street. You're on the green team.Okay. And I'm just for the demonstration purposes, I'm showing Alex the green, right. Well, that's Swiss money, but you know, you get the point.Okay. This is green, right. This is green.See it. There's a there's a red party, there's a blue party, and there's a green party. I'm not talking about the environment.This is the party. And so, Silicon Valley, they know how to play on t ...
Anthony Scaramucci: What Elon Musk Got Wrong About Politics
Alex Kantrowitz 2025-06-07 21:00
This is green. See it? There's a There's a red party, there's a blue party, and there's a green party. I'm not talking about the environment. This is the party. And so Silicon Valley, they know how to play on the green team. They can get along when necessary if this is involved. Same on Wall Street. In Washington, you don't know what's going on. There's a blue team, a red team, a yellow team. One guy wants to be closer to the president. that the other guy's jealous that Elon's traveling with Trump back and ...
Elon Musk Just Torched 馃敟 馃敟 Trump Relationship
Alex Kantrowitz 2025-06-05 23:19
Everybody watching Elon Musk's partnership with Donald Trump thought the long-term risk was maybe at some point Democratic administration comes in and starts to look at Elon's companies the way Elon has been looking at parts of the United States government and maybe doing, you know, SpaceX or or Tesla causing problems there. This is the unexpected part here. When Elon Musk left the White House, the general commentary was he's gone, but he and Donald Trump need each other so much that it was notable that it ...
AI That Sees Your World?
Alex Kantrowitz 2025-06-05 16:30
We are trying to build AGI which is a full general intelligence. Clearly that would have to understand the physical environment, physical world around you and two of the massive use cases for that in my opinion are a truly useful assistant that can come around with you in your daily life not just stuck on your computer or one device. It needs to we want it to be useful in your everyday life for everything.And so it needs to come around you and understand your physical context. Um, and then the other big thi ...
Should we be friends with AI??
Alex Kantrowitz 2025-06-04 16:30
These two friends were talking and this woman was talking about her conversation with Chad GPT about the type of man that she should have in her life and I was like wait a second you have your friend right there like why are you speaking with Chad GPT and not your friend about this very kind of very important decision uh and I I don't think she's the only one I think this is very common now first thing I I think there really is a place for Chad GPT and friends when I say friends I mean Chad GP's friends I d ...
You Must Leave Your Comfort Zone
Alex Kantrowitz 2025-06-03 04:30
Homeostasis and Brain Function - The brain seeks homeostasis, not constant happiness [1] - Overjoy can lead to downregulation of receptors, requiring more stimulation to reach the same baseline [1] - Lack of adversity can lead to taking things for granted and requiring more to reach baseline happiness [1] Comfort Zone and Brain Adaptation - Constant challenges outside the comfort zone are necessary for optimal brain function [2]
Are We In A Simulation?
Alex Kantrowitz 2025-06-02 16:30
Theoretical Physics & Computational Universe - The speaker believes underlying physics is information theory, suggesting we are in a computational universe, but not a straightforward simulation [1] - The speaker finds the ability of systems to model real structures in nature interesting, referencing work with AlphaGo and AlphaFold [2] - The speaker may write a scientific paper about the implications of these systems for understanding reality [2] Simulation Argument & Recursion - If we are in a simulation, the beings creating it are likely in a simulation themselves [3] - This leads to either an infinite stack of simulations or a stopping criterion [3]
Sergey Brin: What I learned from Google Glass
Alex Kantrowitz 2025-06-01 16:30
What did you learn from Glass that Google might be able to apply today now that it seems like smart glasses have made a reappearance. Wow. Yeah.Uh, great question. I learned a lot. I mean, that was definitely feel like I made a lot of mistakes with Google Glass.I'll be honest. I am still um a big believer in the form factor. So, I'm glad that we have it now.Uh, and now it's like looks like normal glasses, doesn't have the thing in front. I think there was a technology gap honestly. Now in the AI world, the ...
Sergey Brin: Why I'm Back
Alex Kantrowitz 2025-05-30 11:41
Honestly, anybody who's a computer scientist should not be retiring right now should be working on AI. That's what I would just say. I mean, there's just never been a greater sort of problem and opportunity, a greater cusp of technology.So, I don't I wouldn't say it's because of the race, although we fully intend that Gemini will be the very first AGI. Clarify that. But to be immersed in this uh incredible technological revolution, I mean, it's unlike, you know, I went through sort of the web 1.0% thing.It ...
Sergey Brin: Multiple AGIs At Once?
Alex Kantrowitz 2025-05-29 16:20
Do you think that AGI is going to be reached by one company and it's game over or could you see Google having AGI, OpenAI having AGI, Anthropic having AGI, China having AGI. Wow. Um, that's a great question.I guess I would suppose that one uh company or country or entity will reach AGI first. Now, it is a little bit of, you know, kind of a spectrum. It's not like a completely precise thing.So it's conceivable that there will be more than one roughly in that range at the same time. After that what happens I ...