[Oni]

The Economist did an interview with Elon Musk last month. The first ~30 minutes of the interview are about the implications of AI and his predictions.



Timestamps:
00:00 - AI will be smarter than humans in five years
12:10 - How AI companies could regulate themselves
15:20 - Will China be the leader in AI?
25:43 - Elon Musk on Sam Altman and the AI bosses
31:20 - “Work is going to be optional”
41:07 - Should one man have so much power?
49:44 - Starlink and the war in Ukraine
55:18 - “I got too involved in politics”
57:14 - Musk: zero people died because of USAID cuts
01:01:15 - Europe, the far right and civil war in Britain
01:08:21 - Musk: I’m not a racist
01:20:27 - What do people get most wrong about Musk?

[Snickerdoodle]

The work being optional part is crazy lol. If AI really gets to that level in 5 years, that would change everything. AI has been replacing jobs but not all jobs, and at the same time people are anti-ai and are fighting to bring back human operated jobs.

[Oni]

One of the most fascinating aspects I find, is the low-level trade/chip war going on between the U.S. and China.

Elon described, but the U.S. has a significant amount of control over the export of chips to China. While China has a huge amount of electricity, they do not have access to the same chips and are being tariffed when they import them. In a way, it's no longer a race to develop a nuclear bomb or visit the moon... it's a race to control the chip market with the emergence of AI. Taiwan is home to TSMC and you can pretty much assume what that means.

[Snickerdoodle]

It would be nice to see chips being made in the US on par with what we import from China

[Kuroneko]

[Snickerdoodle]

And he also named his child some weird name.

And him and his wife had matching anime pfp's