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Uploaded: 2026-07-08T15:00:00.000Z
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Channel: Molly O’Shea

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Gavin Baker says AI will make video games 90% cheaper to make "In the short term, AI is going to be amazing for the video game platforms. I think AI's impact on video games has been very misunderstood. AI world models are going to lower the cost of developing a game by 90%." "If it used to cost $300 million to make a AAA title like Call of Duty, or $200 million or $100 million or whatever the number is, it goes down 90%." "This might end up being really bad for companies that make video games, because you're going to have a lot more competition. But if you were a video game platform, and we all know what those platforms are, this is going to be really good for you, because there's going to be an explosion of content."

dnap

218,282 views • 2 months ago

0:37

There's a very small YouTube channel that uses stock footage and narration, where the voice seems to be AI trained on my voice. I was told about it from one of my viewers that said when he started watching this channel he realized it was my voice, but with AI. It for sure doesn't sound perfect, and it still has that "AI" sound to it, but this stuff is going to get a lot more convincing really soon. There's not really any tools to deal with this currently, as there's no reporting system, and it's not an exact copy because the narration is different. But I feel like this may become a much bigger problem for YouTube in the future. They are going to have to adapt their copyright system to include AI voice and video copies of people under impersonation.

Joseph Carlson

46,024 views • 1 year ago

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David Friedberg: “AI is the new lightning rod for fear and divisiveness that ultimately breeds compliance and control.” “Peter Thiel said this best. He's like, ‘Look at all the money that's going into AI, there's really only one company that's making any money, and that's Nvidia.’” “Like at this point, the jury's still out. We don't even know what AI is.” “It's sort of like when the internet was happening, everyone thought these fiber optic switch companies were going to make all the money.” “Turns out that was wrong. It was the end applications that made all the money.” “And they competed in many different markets. from Google, to Amazon, to Uber.” “You can go down the list of all the beneficiaries of the core infrastructure technology of the internet that was built out.” “So what is really going on?” Well, AI is the new lightning rod for fear and for divisiveness that ultimately breeds compliance and control.” “Which is where these politicians are trying to drive the populace and the voting conditions in the United States.” “And that's what's going on right now.” “There's a lot of fear about, ‘Putting this data center in my town is gonna do X or Y or Z,’ with no real conversation about the truth of that matter.” “There's a lot of fear about wealth creation being aggregated in the hands of a few when as we saw with the internet, it benefited the many.” “And that fear mongering is a very similar tactic that we've seen in the prior generations where policies were misstated, fear was used, and then voting control allowed folks to come to power that were looking for power.” “So I think it's just the lightning rod at the moment.”

The All-In Podcast

241,257 views • 9 months ago

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Regulating AI matters. On either side of the table, the question is no longer whether it happens. It is who gets to say they did it first. "I think it's totally possible Trump regulates AI too." "There is a world where the advisors really internalize that OpenAI and Anthropic are being genuine, and they start to get scared. That's one possibility. And then there is another possibility where something really bad actually happens during his term and it forces his hand. I think these are both possible." "I would actually bet that we see AI regulation during Trump's term. I think it's more likely than not." "They are going to make a preliminary framework to begin the regulated process of AI. It's like a trade deal. This is our first framework, and then they'll refine it afterward. But that way, come election time, they'll be like, we regulated AI. We are the first ones to do it."

SemiAnalysis

23,465 views • 17 days ago

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SemiAnalysis's Jordan Nanos says prioritizing AI safety will make the labs spend more on compute, not less "Yeah, I don't think people internalize this at all. I think that's a pretty hot take right there. It's like the blog posts come out and people think slow down. They think less model releases." "They think models slow down in capabilities. And they think, therefore, less spend on compute. Pretty linear, straight line, right?" "But the nuanced take is probably that they're actually going to spend a lot more compute. They're going to use all of the compute resources they can possibly bring online to make sure this goes well." "And people genuinely care about this going well. Like, it's probably really bad for business if everybody dies, right?"

Fireside Alpha

14,668 views • 18 days ago

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Elon Musk: There are really two choices here: either be a spectator or a participant "I've been a voice saying that we need to slow down AI and we need to slow down all these things and we need to not have a crazy AI race. I've been saying that for a long time for 20+ years But then I came to realize that there are really two choices here: either be a spectator or a participant. And if I'm a spectator, I can't really influence the direction of AI But if I'm a participant, I can try to influence the direction of AI and have a maximally truth-seeking AI with good values that loves humanity And that's what we're trying to create with Grok at xAI. And the researchers, I think, are bearing this out. Grok was the only one of the AIs that weighted human life equally and didn't say For example, that a white guy's life is worth 1/20th of a black woman's life. Literally, that's what the calculation they came up with. So, I’m like, guys, this is very alarming; we’ve got to fix this stuff"

X Freeze

15,201 views • 8 months ago

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We asked David Hsu (founder of Retool) about new AI use cases. "The US has invested $1-1.5T into AI, but revenue is only $20-30B. That's a crappy 3% ROI." "My guess is 80% of that revenue is ChatGPT + cloud. But chat is pretty limited, is it going to grow 30x from where we are now?" "Can we figure out some LLM uses cases beyond just chat? What we think is missing is leveraging LLMs to automate labor." "What we're here to really solve is, can we actually allow LLMs to do things in your business (like approving orders or plans). The next frontier for AI is AI that actually does things." "I think we're almost there. That's what we are working on."

TBPN

86,230 views • 1 year ago

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✨ It's not even 2026 yet, but you can start using AI world models today! This is World Labs running inside my app 🏡 Interior AI letting you redesign your home with AI and then walk through it! It's really cool and of course not perfect especially since for now it's based on just one image, but multi-image will allow for more precise understanding of the room As always this is just the first version, and it'll get better from here World Labs is founded by Fei-Fei Li, a Computer Science professor from Stanford University, and other people like Justin Johnson, Christoph Lassner, and Ben Mildenhall "each a world-renowned technologist in computer vision and graphics" The tech essentially comes down to img2splat, search what a guassian splat is if you don't know It's in beta and wait list, but I'm trying to get this live for everyone as soon as possible as it seems like such an essential feature for interior design P.S. I also tried to worldify people photos (for Photo AI) but World Labs for safety right now seems to block it off and make it a black square, maybe in the future

@levelsio

430,981 views • 1 year ago

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Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky says the chatbot is a "pre-AI interface," rather than the end-state interface for artificial intelligence: "We're in the MS-DOS phase of AI." "The future AI interface will have a reference to chat, but it's probably going to be much more visual. Most people aren't completely text-based." "The chatbot is really a pre-AI interface that we've plugged onto this incredibly powerful engine." "I really think the models are even more powerful than people realize, because we have hardly harnessed them."

TBPN

149,252 views • 8 months ago

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Nicolas Winding Refn on AI: “Having now tried it on something later on that may show here, I really love the creativity. For me, it’s like a brush. And obviously, no one really knows all the implications of what this is going to do and what’s going to happen, but from the perspective of creativity it’s a new invention. And then it’s what you’re going to do with it.”

Variety

690,875 views • 4 months ago

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Asmongold comments on the NTE AI drama Says AI is inevitable, already being used by people via YT, Twitter, etc and wants to circle back in a few years to those same content creators complaining "AI is going to be used with everything..there's not going to be a company that's not using AI..YouTube uses AI in their transcript, subtitles, everything like that..ppl that are basically fishes complaining about water..reality is..we're totally surrounded by AI" "If ur using Twitter..ur info and what ur typing..being directly fed into grok..nothing u can do to get away from it..drawing these imaginary lines about AI doesn't make a lot of sense..how can u have a platform and an internet presence on a platform that basically is being used for AI generation" "This is what I want..a list of every creator that's going to virtue signal about how bad AI is and I want to wait 5 years, 3 years..when Twitch integrates AI..and other things integrate AI..I want to ask them, is AI good now?..they are more than willing to say this is bad when it is of no cost to them"

yeet

156,154 views • 5 months ago

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🇪🇺 EU’S AI BOSS: REGULATING AI WON’T RUIN TECH - WE STILL MAKE GOOD STUFF Kilian Gross, head of AI regulation and compliance at the European Commission: “I find this too simplistic to say always there is this contradiction between or this tension between regulation and innovation. If we look at technology, a lot of technology we have in Europe are really good at. Let's look medical devices or cars where we really have a highly regulated market, but we have very high quality products. What we expect from the AI Act that it will do a bit the same.” Source: Politico

Mario Nawfal

151,088 views • 1 year ago

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Vals AI CEO Rayan Krishnan on why sovereign AI makes Cold War-style verification necessary: "From my very idealistic perspective, I'm surprised to see so much investment in sovereign AI." "You could probably consolidate a lot of these efforts. But it seems like that's not the world we're in or the one we're headed towards. There are actually increased efforts to build AI in a sovereign way." "So that takes having a shared language to communicate about what the framework for evaluations is, and where we're going to collectively align around the risks." "There's a lot to learn from nuclear here. Reagan had this line, 'Trust but verify.' We're starting to see signs of trust in that Xi Jinping and Trump are going to be meeting... But there is no clear way to actually do the verification part of this." "Having the shared language of evals will allow us to say things like, you have the right number of nuclear warheads. In that example, there were also flyovers, a mechanism by which a country could audit another country's nuclear stockpile." "If there's concern about the societal or even existential risk of AI, it will necessitate us constructing this shared language of evaluations to do the verification process." Rayan Krishnan Jennifer Li

a16z

34,979 views • 25 days ago

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David Sacks: America needs “a single national standard” in AI to beat China and avoid Woke AI Sacks on E245: “There's a regulatory frenzy happening at the states right now.” “Everyone just seems to be motivated by the imperative to ‘do something’ on AI, even though no one's really sure what that something should be.” “So you've got 50 different states each with their own reporting regime, which is going to be a trap for startups. They've all gotta figure this out about what they're supposed to report on, what the deadlines are, who to report to.” “A single federal standard is the best way to make sure that we do not have Woke AI, that we do not have insanely burdensome regulations that allow China to basically get ahead of us in this AI race, and it's to ensure that we actually have truthful, unbiased AI instead of highly ideological AI.” – According to Polymarket, chances of a National AI Bill in 2025 are VERY LOW, despite a regulation frenzy at the state level. – At the time of taping, there was a ~20% chance. Today it’s significantly lower at 5%. “Here's the good news, it doesn't really matter what I think. The important thing is what President Trump thinks.” “And in his July 23rd speech on AI, he was really clear that there needs to be a single national standard for AI.” “I think the administration ultimately will support this, and I think more Republicans will come on board as they realize what the blue states are doing here is not helpful for conservatives. It's not helpful for having an unbiased information environment.”

The All-In Podcast

103,113 views • 1 year ago

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Dario Amodei says AI improving itself is not a moment that is coming, and he put Anthropic's internal number on how fast it is already happening: "I don't think it's a moment in time. I think it's a continuous process. We're already seeing it in some ways, where the AI is able to suggest architectures for the next AI." "I would say a year ago we were seeing 10 to 15% kind of increase in total factor productivity due to AI. Like, that's probably up to 20 or 30% now. It might be doubling. Like, as with all things, we're on the exponential." "There's no moment where AI improves itself or runs out of control or becomes unsafe. What we have is an accelerating exponential. And at each point on the exponential we have to assess, is this a time to slow down? Is this a time to put more controls on this technology? I think more and more of that is going to be required." "But I think the Rosetta Stone to all of this is the smooth exponential." "I think there's an object lesson in the people who were against all AI regulation and then they saw one thing and they wanted to nationalize. I think there's an object lesson in the people who dismissed the power of AI and then said, oh my God, it's improving itself. It's running out of control. We have to shut it all down. Yo-yoing between those extreme reactions is incredibly unhelpful as a response to this technology." "The right response, the wise response, is to say, we're not going to panic. Our countermeasures will smoothly ratchet up with the power of the technology. If you see someone having this kind of crazy yo-yo reaction, that's a sign that they were caught by surprise and that they're not serious." - Dario Amodei (Dario Amodei), CEO of Anthropic, on The Circuit with Emily Chang (Bloomberg Originals).

Karl Mehta

50,718 views • 2 months ago

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Sam Altman says AI leaders have done a terrible job at communicating to the public: “The, ‘Dear peasants, we will bequeath upon you these gifts of a cure for cancer and material wealth and great entertainment, and you stop complaining, and we'll make all the decisions about the future and just trust us, we'll be benevolent dictators.’ That’s not good. Not good.” “A lot of the people building AI have been saying, ‘There's a 25% chance we're going to destroy the world, and yet we're going to race ahead to do it because otherwise those bad guys will do it first.’” “Or, ‘Man, this thing is going to be really terrible, and 50% of the jobs are going to go away in the next year, and we hope you all are okay, but it seems really scary.’” “We have not, as a field, done a very good job of explaining to people what the benefits are and how the downsides can be mitigated—and we certainly have not done a good job even if people have had answers like saying, ‘There's going to be UBI, or work will be optional.’” “There's been very little discussion from people about how and why it's important that people have more power and personal freedom in the world, not less. And that matters a lot to most people.” “The ability of people to influence their own future and collectively design where society is going to go, and the autonomy that comes with that, is very important. I don't think a lot of people in the AI field… they feel it for themselves, but they don't spend much time thinking about it, reflecting on or acknowledging how important that is to other people.”

David Senra

32,300 views • 1 month ago

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Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky says the chatbot is a "pre-AI interface," rather than the end-state interface for artificial intelligence: "We're in the MS-DOS phase of AI." "The future AI interface will have a reference to chat, but it's probably going to be much more visual. Most people aren't completely text-based." "The chatbot is really a pre-AI interface that we've plugged onto this incredibly powerful engine." "I really think the models are even more powerful than people realize, because we have hardly harnessed them." From Brian Chesky's January 2025 appearance on the show.

TBPN

31,493 views • 7 months ago

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