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uh so first we want to thank fi and our

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our friends in the Kingdom of s for

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inviting us here to speak with all of

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you thank you very much Gavin and I are

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here together because we collaborate

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very closely on arti intelligence

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Investments because we share the same

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thesis uh we have our relationship goes

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back more than a decade um started with

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uh with Tesla has become very close over

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time and I'm going to ask Gavin to start

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with our thesis Gavin you tell people

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what we think here sure uh so wanted to

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Echo all of Antonio's thoughts of

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gratitude for towards fi and all of our

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hosts for having us here

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um I think we share the thesis that when

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there is a fundamental platform shift

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from the mini computer um to the PC and

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the client server um to the mobile phone

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to the cloud and now to AI the safest

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and best way to invest at the beginning

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of that fundamental platform shift is at

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the infrastructure layer which I'm going

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to talk about and I'll let you talk

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about the verticalized apps that come L

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later um and the infrastructure layer is

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particularly important with AI

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because a GPU which two years ago not

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many people have heard of um I'm a gamer

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so I had heard of it and I I was the

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Nvidia analyst back in the year 2000 so

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I've heard of it for a long time GPU is

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about half the size of this iPhone it is

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made from Sand um Taiwan Simi does

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amazing things to that sand and sells it

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to Nvidia for $7 to $800 that die Nvidia

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then sells that for $50,000 companies

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like Microsoft and

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Amazon and Google um and that is the

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probably the biggest markup in human

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history significantly bigger than the

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birken bag for instance and um selling

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drugs yes like narcotics yes for nerds

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narcotics for nerds is a great way to

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describe it exactly um and if you think

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of Jensen likes to call Data Centers AI

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factories I think maybe an easier more

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fasile analogy is to think of them as

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restaurants and the GPU that

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$50,000 uh chip half the size of an

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iPhone is a star chef and it has gotten

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50 times faster in the last four years

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which is a big part of why we're living

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through this AI

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Revolution the problem is you know it's

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it's got a convection oven you know all

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sorts of things it's much faster all the

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other ingredients in the restaurant all

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the other parts in that um supply chain

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have only gotten two or three times f

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faster so the food needs to be delivered

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the SF needs to prepare it um and

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because the GPU has gotten so much

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faster it is doing nothing most of the

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time 70% of the time it's doing nothing

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it's just drawing power so our kind of

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shared core infrastructure level thesis

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is we're investing in things that

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increase the GPU utilization rate

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because if you can take that GPU from uh

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being utilized 30% of the time to 60% of

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the time you've doubled the output of

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that restaurant or that AI Factory and

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this is particularly important for AI

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because we've gotten used to a world

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where compute and computation is

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essentially free everybody in this room

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is an investor has heard that software

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has zero marginal cost and it has almost

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no marginal cost to produce even in the

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cloud this is not true of AI every time

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you ask chat GPT or Gro a question a lot

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of comput is happening and it's

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extremely expensive um and the

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bottleneck is about to shift from GPU

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availability to power availability it it

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is possible that we will face a global

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power shortage in the next few years

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because of ai's ever increasing demands

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for power and a great way to deal with

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that is right now that GPU

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is consuming full power 100% of the time

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doing nothing 70% of the time and if you

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can drive the utilization up that's

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going to be great and so we've have a

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lot of shared investments in kind of

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storage networking and memory

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technologies that improve the

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utilization rate of those gpus Tonio

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maybe you want to talk about the other

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part of our I mean Gavin's background

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stemies has been super useful to us and

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you know we have a long background our

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intelligence States back Deep Mind out

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I'm going to go quickly because we're

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going to run out of time otherwise um so

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our our thesis is inform what we do and

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what we don't do so we are investing in

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we call verticalized applications these

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are applications that have uh very

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definitive data modes and reinforcement

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learning that either exist because the

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software is being used in a way that

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reinforces the the data or it's piece of

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hard or robotics that reinforces that

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learning as well we think that the only

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valuable Assets in the entire stack are

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going to ultimately that have margin

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that can be uh that can create we call

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it a data mode that creates large margin

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going Downstream is uh the data and the

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reinforcement learning those are the

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most important parts the models will

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basically be to zero and because the

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models are free so to Gavin's point the

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data center is a commodity energy you

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know might be a shortage for a while but

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is also a commodity uh the models are

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free in that entire supply chain all we

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really see from end to end that has real

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value is going to be in the data mode

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and reinforcement learning we're

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investing companies in that space so

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this is about $2 companies so Gavin so

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people want to know what we think what

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you think about training our company

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I'll do a public since you're in the

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public business why don't you to do a

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couple of privates and and we can trade

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back and forth sure um well based on the

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framework you just outline outlined I do

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think if you're a foundation model

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company and you do not are not attached

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to a major internet platform for

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distribution and reinforcement learning

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and you don't have proprietary data you

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your value is going to ASM toote to zero

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very quickly but if you're a foundation

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model company attached to a giant

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internet platform with proprietary data

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I think you're going to be immensely

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valuable there are only a few of these

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um there's Google um but it's already a

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multi-trillion dollar company there's

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Microsoft and open AI multi trillion

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dollar Plus 90 billion and meta has

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chosen to make their AI available um for

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free open source the only one left is

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xai and I submit to you with I think

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it's a reasonably high confidence um

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hypothesis that the sum of xai and X

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will be worth more than a trillion

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dollars because it has some of the most

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valuable proprietary data in the world

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for training these models and a lot of

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distribution um to help them to help

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them learn uh as far as a public company

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I agree with you Gavin by the way um

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public company I'm going at the risk of

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being accused of bias and I have a large

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position this in this in this company so

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I'll say that up front I I think Tesla

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will be the next public company you see

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p $2 Enterprise value for AR

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intelligence as an AI company not as an

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EV company but as or a Mobility company

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but as an AI company because uh people

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underestimate the impact of FSD version

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12 when you use this product you will

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see it drives like a human and that will

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blow you away and then at some point

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you've seen videos of Optimus and you I

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think people sort of they they under

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they undervalue or don't believe quite

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what's happening with Optimus when you

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see the videos but I've actually seen

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the robot itself operate it is

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extraordinary and imagine um when you

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have the most complex thing a human does

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is drive a car so we have a model at at

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Tesla knows how to drive a car and does

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that well like a human you have a robot

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that operates like a human uh you put

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those things together you get a humanoid

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Stout robot that then you can deploy

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into a factory and get reinforcement

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learning so that that lock in between

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data data mode which is UN by the way

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does unable data mode in humans driving

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a car plus the lockin of a robot working

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in a factory doing all the things we do

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in a factory right what's the torque on

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the bolt how do I not run the gabin

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while I'm walking by him where's the

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bathroom whatever robots do right the

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those things um are going to inform our

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training data by reinforcement learning

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of the robot itself that will blow

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people away and I think you'll see that

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you know I don't know exactly when but

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let's say in the next year or two uh

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this will become more obvious and it

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will accelerate the company people will

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really see it as an AI company which

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which is what it is that's my view Ai Ai

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and Robotics yes and Robotics yes yeah

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um great so the future of uh of AI what

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what do you think happens next uh um

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well I listened to this discussion this

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morning about regulation with interest

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um and I think this is a very very

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dangerous topic um what we want as

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humans is a world where there are many

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many different AIS um we want a

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multipolarity of AIS we don't want to

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live in a world where there's one AI

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superpower are two AI superpowers so I

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do think in addition to those kind of

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you know those three the grock uh xai

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Google um open AI Microsoft it's great

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that meta has open sourced their models

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it's great that MRA exists it's great

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that Google just open sourced a model

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the most dangerous world for humans and

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I would just say you know if you run any

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survey of the top thousand people

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working on AI and they call it P Doom

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probability of Doom probability that AI

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is an extinction level event for

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Humanity they can consistently pull it

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around it's a 15% chance so that's

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pretty high now there's an 85% chance

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it's it's amazing um but the most

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important thing to lower the odds of the

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15% and improve the odds of the 85%

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being awesome are that we have many many

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AIS which increases the odds that at

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least some of them are friendly to us um

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has humans um and I would say I do think

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in terms of kind of the impact of AI to

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build on some of Antonio's comments

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about um Tesla's Optimus robot and

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Robotics in general there has been a lot

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of focus on the impact of AI on

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knowledge work and white collar work I

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think when we see AI um and llm dropped

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into a very functional humanoid robot

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there may be an immense impact on blueco

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collar work manual labor um and this may

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you know it may seem very funny to

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historians that anyone was worried about

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inflation in front of this kind of tidal

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wave of kind of uh deflation I also

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think um having embodied AI in a robot

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may be very um important to them

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progressing becoming sentient becoming

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conscious um there there's a lot of

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thought that it is hard for an

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intelligence to become conscious without

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being embodied but Antonio what are your

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what are your thoughts I mean I I I

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agree with you with h with a lower

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probability set I hope on on extinction

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level event um you know I had these red

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socks now if you notice these are my

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Star Trek socks okay because I believe

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in a Star Trek future um as opposed to

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DET Terminator future and I think we are

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here to determine that that happens

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events like this are very important

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because we're having these dialogues

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this morning you know Michael Dale

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mentioned this which is the models we

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build as humans will be imbued with the

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values of their creators and you know I

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started my career um wanting to be a

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development Economist particularly in

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Latin America and worked at Goldman

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Sachs in that area and it's um the

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questions about global South and Global

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North that we have here at F5 I think

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are very important this is a period of

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time where this particular technology

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can enable the rest of us the people

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that are live in the global South to

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equalize I think their living standard

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in a way that doesn't destroy the planet

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because productivity will fundamentally

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change um it also is a time when llms

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that are the powerful models you're

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talking about uh they will be created in

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individual languages so every country

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represented here whether it's Arabic um

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if you're speaking Spanish whatever

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language we're in Miami I'll say Spanish

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but Spanish and Arabic the two languages

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there uh the the models we train in that

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in those languages with respect for your

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cultures respect for for the local

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cultures local values and if those

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models are rational they should

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cooperate like in Star Trek they should

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actually cooperate if they cooperate and

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they respect local cultures local

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languages then I think we end up in a

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Star Trek future we end in a place where

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humans are better better off as a group

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in total and the the parts of the world

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been left behind they can access

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technology it's very easy these miles

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are basically free and you can train

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them in local languages right we Falcon

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and Arabic is a good example of this um

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this is why I think it's mostly going to

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be benign I think people are overvaluing

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the possibility of a very negative

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future and Gavin is right the key to a

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positive future is multimodel I call

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multipolarity so that each country and

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each individual group can train their

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models in their ways with their values

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to protect them and also to cooperate

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other models that maybe trans with other

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values and if they're told to cooperate

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the machines will cooperate that's what

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they told to do and you know the

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ultimate multipolarity is where each

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human has its own AI that is you know

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trained on our own personality on our

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own values and is definitionally

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friendly to us and I do

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think AI may eventually be mediated

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through brain computer interfaces um and

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we may co-evolve rather than having kind

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of you know AI embodied in robots is

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probably a first step um and and that's

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a good step I think on balance for the

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world but I think a future where we

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co-evolve as a species with AIS and we

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all have our own personal individual AI

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that would be an awesome future and that

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would that would that would be the

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ultimate Star Trek future we're going

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for Star Trek we're going for Star Tre

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all right gin thank you thanks thanks

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guys thanks thanks everybody thanks

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brother

Interactive Summary

This video features a conversation about artificial intelligence, focusing on the investment thesis regarding AI infrastructure and applications. The speakers discuss the critical role of GPUs and the importance of increasing their utilization rate. They also explore the future of AI, touching upon potential risks, the necessity of multipolarity in AI development to align with diverse human values, and the potential for a positive, collaborative future similar to 'Star Trek'.

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