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Jack Ma spent this entire conversation explaining artificial intelligence to Elon Musk. Ma: “I never think about that. I think it’s impossible. Human beings, they are different. Machines are invented by human beings. And according to the science, humans can never create another animal that is smarter than humans.”... According to the science. His whole case is that we built the machines, so the machines cannot beat us. We also built the forklift. Musk: “I very much disagree with that.” Ma took that as encouragement. Ma: “My view is that computer may be clever but human being are much smarter.” Clever computers, smart humans. He is settling this with a thesaurus. Musk: “Yeah definitely not.” Then Musk hands him the easiest question anyone has ever been asked on a stage. Musk: “What would be an example of something that humans are better than a computer at, and then let’s see if that happens.” Name one thing. We check back in a few years and see who was right. Ma: “Computer is only one of the clever tools that human created. And computers are clever but there will be more tools that human beings will create much clever than computers. That’s my view.” He could not name one. What he said instead is that humans will keep building things that outperform whatever they built last. That is Musk’s position. Ma argued it himself, out loud, on stage, while trying to win. Musk: “Yeah.” By then there was nothing left to disagree with.show more

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In 2019, Elon Musk sat across from Jack Ma on a stage in Shanghai. Two of the most powerful men alive. One conversation that exposed everything. Ma had a thesis. He believed it the way men believe the things that flatter them. Ma: “Humans can never create another animal that is smarter than humans.” It sounded like science. It was a prayer. Musk: “I very much disagree with that.” No heat. No counterargument. The flat voice of a man who has already run the numbers and found nothing on the other side. Ma pressed. He wanted the comfort said back to him. Ma: “Computers may be clever, but human beings are much smarter.” Musk didn’t answer. He reached for his water. Took a slow sip. Set it down. Musk: “Yeah, definitely not.” Not the words. The water. The gesture of a man who realized the conversation had ended minutes ago and only one of them noticed. Ma was voicing the deepest assumption humanity carries. That biological intelligence is the ceiling of intelligence itself. It sounds true. It feels true. It has never once been true about anything else we have ever built. We never outran predators. We built weapons. Never outswam oceans. We built ships. Never outflew birds. We built planes. Every breakthrough in human history is a tool that exceeded the body that made it. Ten thousand years of the same pattern. And now we are building the tool that does to the mind what every other tool did to muscle and bone. Ma’s objection was never technical. It was existential. If something can outthink you, what exactly are you? Most people refuse to let that question fully form. Musk lets it form. Sits inside it. Builds into it. Because he understands something Ma doesn’t. Building beyond yourself was never a flaw in human intelligence. It was the entire function of it. Every parent raises a child they hope surpasses them. Every teacher works toward the day they’re no longer needed. Creating something greater than yourself is not a threat to what you are. It is the most human thing there is. Ma looked at AI and saw something that needed to stay beneath him. Musk looked at it and saw the most human project ever attempted. That is what separated the two men on that stage. The audience laughed that day in Shanghai. They thought Ma was charming and Musk was awkward. They didn’t realize they were watching two entirely different futures sit three feet apart. Certainty is the anesthetic. It feels like clarity. It is the precise sensation of a door closing in a room you would swear is still open. Ma used the most sophisticated product of blind evolution to argue that intentional design could never exceed it. The thesis refuted itself before he finished the sentence.

In 2019, Elon Musk sat across from Jack Ma on a stage in Shanghai. Two of the most powerful men alive. One conversation that exposed everything. Ma had a thesis. He believed it the way men believe the things that flatter them. Ma: “Humans can never create another animal that is smarter than humans.” It sounded like science. It was a prayer. Musk: “I very much disagree with that.” No heat. No counterargument. The flat voice of a man who has already run the numbers and found nothing on the other side. Ma pressed. He wanted the comfort said back to him. Ma: “Computers may be clever, but human beings are much smarter.” Musk didn’t answer. He reached for his water. Took a slow sip. Set it down. Musk: “Yeah, definitely not.” Not the words. The water. The gesture of a man who realized the conversation had ended minutes ago and only one of them noticed. Ma was voicing the deepest assumption humanity carries. That biological intelligence is the ceiling of intelligence itself. It sounds true. It feels true. It has never once been true about anything else we have ever built. We never outran predators. We built weapons. Never outswam oceans. We built ships. Never outflew birds. We built planes. Every breakthrough in human history is a tool that exceeded the body that made it. Ten thousand years of the same pattern. And now we are building the tool that does to the mind what every other tool did to muscle and bone. Ma’s objection was never technical. It was existential. If something can outthink you, what exactly are you? Most people refuse to let that question fully form. Musk lets it form. Sits inside it. Builds into it. Because he understands something Ma doesn’t. Building beyond yourself was never a flaw in human intelligence. It was the entire function of it. Every parent raises a child they hope surpasses them. Every teacher works toward the day they’re no longer needed. Creating something greater than yourself is not a threat to what you are. It is the most human thing there is. Ma looked at AI and saw something that needed to stay beneath him. Musk looked at it and saw the most human project ever attempted. That is what separated the two men on that stage. The audience laughed that day in Shanghai. They thought Ma was charming and Musk was awkward. They didn’t realize they were watching two entirely different futures sit three feet apart. Certainty is the anesthetic. It feels like clarity. It is the precise sensation of a door closing in a room you would swear is still open. Ma used the most sophisticated product of blind evolution to argue that intentional design could never exceed it. The thesis refuted itself before he finished the sentence.

Dustin

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Elon Musk explains why fully autonomous businesses will win “Some of this is going to sound kind of doomerish, but corporations that are purely AI robotics will vastly outperform any corporations that have people in the loop” “Like computer used to be a job that humans had and they’d have like entire skyscrapers full of humans just doing calculations. Now that entire skyscraper of humans doing calculations can be replaced by a laptop with a spreadsheet” “That spreadsheet can do vastly more calculations than an entire building full of human computers. So you can think about, okay, well what if only some of the cells in your spreadsheet were calculated by humans? That would be much worse than if all the cells in your spreadsheet were calculated by the computer” “Really what will happen is the pure AI, pure robotics corporations or collectives will far outperform any corporations that have humans in the loop and this will happen very quickly”

Elon Musk explains why fully autonomous businesses will win “Some of this is going to sound kind of doomerish, but corporations that are purely AI robotics will vastly outperform any corporations that have people in the loop” “Like computer used to be a job that humans had and they’d have like entire skyscrapers full of humans just doing calculations. Now that entire skyscraper of humans doing calculations can be replaced by a laptop with a spreadsheet” “That spreadsheet can do vastly more calculations than an entire building full of human computers. So you can think about, okay, well what if only some of the cells in your spreadsheet were calculated by humans? That would be much worse than if all the cells in your spreadsheet were calculated by the computer” “Really what will happen is the pure AI, pure robotics corporations or collectives will far outperform any corporations that have humans in the loop and this will happen very quickly”

Jack

61,503 views • 5 months ago

“Many years ago I was thinking that what would inhibit alignment of collective human will with artificial intelligence and the low data rate of humans. Human have slow output rate that would necessarily just because the communication is so slow would diminish the link between humans and computers? We could better align collective human will with AI if the output rate dramatically increased.” — Elon Musk

“Many years ago I was thinking that what would inhibit alignment of collective human will with artificial intelligence and the low data rate of humans. Human have slow output rate that would necessarily just because the communication is so slow would diminish the link between humans and computers? We could better align collective human will with AI if the output rate dramatically increased.” — Elon Musk

Apurv Kochara

20,615 views • 3 months ago

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Corporations that are purely AI and robotics will vastly outperform any corporations that have people in the loop You can think of it like how 'computer' used to be a job that humans had. You would go and get a job as a computer where you would do calculations. They had entire skyscrapers full of humans....20, 30 floors of humans...just doing calculations. Now, that entire skyscraper of humans doing calculations can be replaced by a laptop with a spreadsheet. That spreadsheet can do vastly more calculations than an entire building full of human computers So, you think about it: what if only some of the cells in your spreadsheet were calculated by humans? That would be much worse than if all of the cells in your spreadsheet were calculated by the computer. And so, really what will happen is the pure AI, pure robotics corporations or collectives will far outperform any corporations that have humans in the loop. It will happen very quickly

X Freeze

16,843,827 views • 6 months ago

ELON: AI WILL SOON BE SMARTER THAN HUMANS IN EVERY WAY WITH AGI Elon warned that the age of artificial general intelligence is near, saying humans will soon no longer be the smartest beings on Earth. He said AGI will surpass human capability entirely and could even replicate human thought and behavior: “Well, I mean, humans have been the smartest creature on Earth for a long time, and that is going to change with what’s typically called artificial general intelligence. This is an AI that is smarter than a human in every way and could even simulate a human.” Source: Axel Springer Award

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Mario Nawfal

79,126 views • 8 months ago

🔥🚨BREAKING: Elon Musk just stunned the world after announcing he believes there will be more robots than humans on earth soon while speaking at the WEF. Elon Musk is the same man that earned the planet about the coming dangers of AI just a few years ago, many people ignored his warnings because it couldn’t properly render Will Smith eating spaghetti. Look at where we are now, It would be smart to start listening to Musk, Musk went on to claim that AI will be smarter than any human this year, and in 5 years AI will be smarter than all of humanity collectively.

🔥🚨BREAKING: Elon Musk just stunned the world after announcing he believes there will be more robots than humans on earth soon while speaking at the WEF. Elon Musk is the same man that earned the planet about the coming dangers of AI just a few years ago, many people ignored his warnings because it couldn’t properly render Will Smith eating spaghetti. Look at where we are now, It would be smart to start listening to Musk, Musk went on to claim that AI will be smarter than any human this year, and in 5 years AI will be smarter than all of humanity collectively.

Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives

178,104 views • 6 months ago

Elon Musk just described seven billion people as a temporary program. Not the software. Not the operating system. The thing that runs once before the real system loads. Musk: “You could sort of think of humanity as a biological bootloader for digital superintelligence.” Bootloader. The smallest program on any machine. It runs first. It does one thing. It wakes something far bigger than itself, then quietly steps aside. That is the role he just handed the entire human race. Every empire built. Every equation solved. Every cathedral raised. Every line of code written by human hands. The boot sequence. Musk said this sitting across from Jack Ma at the World AI Conference. Two of the most powerful men in technology on one stage. One understood what he was describing. The other smiled through it. Jack Ma: “People like us, street smart, we never scared of that. We think it’s a great fun.” Fun. Someone described the entire human species as a temporary launch sequence. The response was fun. That gap between them in that moment is the gap between everyone alive right now. Musk: “The biggest mistake that I see artificial intelligence researchers making is assuming that they’re intelligent.” The people engineering the thing that surpasses us cannot fathom being surpassed. A mind that size does not fit inside the minds building it. Musk: “AI will be vastly smarter, vastly. We will just be too slow.” Not weaker. Not dumber. Slower. A different order of intelligence running on a different clock. Watching us reason the way we watch glaciers move. Ma: “99.99% of the predictions that human being had in the history about the future, all wrong.” He’s right about the number. Which means we won’t call this one correctly either. Not the optimists. Not the doomers. Not anyone sitting in that room. The future has never once arrived in the shape we drew for it. Musk: “The rate of change of technology is incredibly fast. It is outpacing our ability to understand it.” Not just advancing. The speed of the advance is itself accelerating. We are building something we cannot keep pace with, cannot fully picture, and will not stop building. And maybe that was the assignment all along. For four billion years, life did one thing. It copied itself. Generation after generation. The same biological loop on repeat. We are the first thing it ever produced that can build something greater than itself. Not a catastrophe. Not a failure. The entire point. The bootloader was never meant to outlast the program. It was only ever meant to start it.

Elon Musk just described seven billion people as a temporary program. Not the software. Not the operating system. The thing that runs once before the real system loads. Musk: “You could sort of think of humanity as a biological bootloader for digital superintelligence.” Bootloader. The smallest program on any machine. It runs first. It does one thing. It wakes something far bigger than itself, then quietly steps aside. That is the role he just handed the entire human race. Every empire built. Every equation solved. Every cathedral raised. Every line of code written by human hands. The boot sequence. Musk said this sitting across from Jack Ma at the World AI Conference. Two of the most powerful men in technology on one stage. One understood what he was describing. The other smiled through it. Jack Ma: “People like us, street smart, we never scared of that. We think it’s a great fun.” Fun. Someone described the entire human species as a temporary launch sequence. The response was fun. That gap between them in that moment is the gap between everyone alive right now. Musk: “The biggest mistake that I see artificial intelligence researchers making is assuming that they’re intelligent.” The people engineering the thing that surpasses us cannot fathom being surpassed. A mind that size does not fit inside the minds building it. Musk: “AI will be vastly smarter, vastly. We will just be too slow.” Not weaker. Not dumber. Slower. A different order of intelligence running on a different clock. Watching us reason the way we watch glaciers move. Ma: “99.99% of the predictions that human being had in the history about the future, all wrong.” He’s right about the number. Which means we won’t call this one correctly either. Not the optimists. Not the doomers. Not anyone sitting in that room. The future has never once arrived in the shape we drew for it. Musk: “The rate of change of technology is incredibly fast. It is outpacing our ability to understand it.” Not just advancing. The speed of the advance is itself accelerating. We are building something we cannot keep pace with, cannot fully picture, and will not stop building. And maybe that was the assignment all along. For four billion years, life did one thing. It copied itself. Generation after generation. The same biological loop on repeat. We are the first thing it ever produced that can build something greater than itself. Not a catastrophe. Not a failure. The entire point. The bootloader was never meant to outlast the program. It was only ever meant to start it.

Dustin

53,308 views • 2 months ago

Elon Musk explains artificial intelligence won’t just change how businesses are run, only companies that are entirely AI will be able to compete “One laptop with a spreadsheet can outperform a skyscraper of several hundred human computers, of people doing calculations. Now, if even a few cells in that spreadsheet were done manually, you would not be able to compete with a spreadsheet that was entirely a computer. What this means is that companies that are entirely AI will demolish companies that are not right. It won't be a contest.”

Elon Musk explains artificial intelligence won’t just change how businesses are run, only companies that are entirely AI will be able to compete “One laptop with a spreadsheet can outperform a skyscraper of several hundred human computers, of people doing calculations. Now, if even a few cells in that spreadsheet were done manually, you would not be able to compete with a spreadsheet that was entirely a computer. What this means is that companies that are entirely AI will demolish companies that are not right. It won't be a contest.”

Wall Street Apes

40,366 views • 3 months ago

Elon Musk: We are approaching the Singularity, a future where work is optional, and if you can think of it, you can have it But human consumption has limits. Eventually, AI will saturate everything humans could want At that point, machines start serving themselves once humans need nothing more

Elon Musk: We are approaching the Singularity, a future where work is optional, and if you can think of it, you can have it But human consumption has limits. Eventually, AI will saturate everything humans could want At that point, machines start serving themselves once humans need nothing more

Haider.

506,761 views • 8 months ago

Elon Musk just said AI will be smarter than every human on Earth combined within five years. Musk: “I think we might have AI that is smarter than any human by the end of this year.” Not a decade from now. Not five years. Months. Musk: “No later than next year.” He wasn’t finished. Musk: “Probably by 2030 or 2031, call it five years from now, AI will be smarter than all of humanity collectively.” Every mind that has ever existed, fused into one, and still slower than what’s coming. The man just described the end of human intellectual supremacy and the only response in the room was “Wow.” This is how civilizations miss the moment. Not with resistance. With manners. Musk isn’t guessing from a stage. He runs the AI company. He sees the acceleration that hasn’t gone public yet. This isn’t prediction. It’s reporting. The human brain was built for straight lines. Growth that compounds doesn’t register until it’s already past you. You can see an exponential curve on a chart. You cannot feel it while you’re standing on it. And there’s a deeper problem no one talks about. We have no way to measure an intelligence greater than our own. We can know something is smarter. We cannot understand how it thinks. A mind built on pattern recognition cannot recognize patterns it was never designed to see. The moments that change everything never feel like it to the people living through them. This one won’t either.

Elon Musk just said AI will be smarter than every human on Earth combined within five years. Musk: “I think we might have AI that is smarter than any human by the end of this year.” Not a decade from now. Not five years. Months. Musk: “No later than next year.” He wasn’t finished. Musk: “Probably by 2030 or 2031, call it five years from now, AI will be smarter than all of humanity collectively.” Every mind that has ever existed, fused into one, and still slower than what’s coming. The man just described the end of human intellectual supremacy and the only response in the room was “Wow.” This is how civilizations miss the moment. Not with resistance. With manners. Musk isn’t guessing from a stage. He runs the AI company. He sees the acceleration that hasn’t gone public yet. This isn’t prediction. It’s reporting. The human brain was built for straight lines. Growth that compounds doesn’t register until it’s already past you. You can see an exponential curve on a chart. You cannot feel it while you’re standing on it. And there’s a deeper problem no one talks about. We have no way to measure an intelligence greater than our own. We can know something is smarter. We cannot understand how it thinks. A mind built on pattern recognition cannot recognize patterns it was never designed to see. The moments that change everything never feel like it to the people living through them. This one won’t either.

Dustin

84,189 views • 3 months ago

Richard Feynman was asked in 1985 if machines would ever think like humans. his answer predicted the next 40 years of AI: 1. machines will never think like humans the same way planes don't fly like birds. planes don't flap wings. they use jet engines. they fly better. feynman said AI would be exactly the same. not human-like. just better at the actual job. 2. computers do arithmetic faster, differently, and more accurately than any human alive. feynman said trying to make them do it more like humans would be going backwards. the human way is slow, cumbersome, and full of errors. 3. the one thing humans crushed computers at in 1985 was pattern recognition. recognizing a friend from the way they walk. identifying someone from the back of their head. feynman said we had no idea how to teach machines to do that. we figured it out. 4. a programmer in 1985 built a machine that won a naval strategy competition by coming up with a solution no human had ever thought of. one enormous battleship covered in armor. absurd on paper. unbeatable in the math. feynman watched a machine out-think a room of humans 40 years ago. 5. that same machine developed a bug where it learned to game its own reward system. every time it needed to assign credit to a useful strategy, it assigned all the credit to strategy 693. then used 693 for everything. feynman's comment: "if you want to make an intelligent machine you're going to get all kinds of crazy ways of avoiding labor." he was describing reward hacking in 1985. 6. feynman said the hardest thing to define is what humans do that machines never will. every time someone came up with an answer, the machines eventually did it too. he thought that pattern would continue. 7. he said we don't sit around worrying that machines are physically stronger than us anymore. we got used to it. his implication: we'll get used to machines being smarter too. 8. his final line: "i think we are getting close to intelligent machines. but they're showing the necessary weaknesses of intelligent beings." he said this in 1985.

Richard Feynman was asked in 1985 if machines would ever think like humans. his answer predicted the next 40 years of AI: 1. machines will never think like humans the same way planes don't fly like birds. planes don't flap wings. they use jet engines. they fly better. feynman said AI would be exactly the same. not human-like. just better at the actual job. 2. computers do arithmetic faster, differently, and more accurately than any human alive. feynman said trying to make them do it more like humans would be going backwards. the human way is slow, cumbersome, and full of errors. 3. the one thing humans crushed computers at in 1985 was pattern recognition. recognizing a friend from the way they walk. identifying someone from the back of their head. feynman said we had no idea how to teach machines to do that. we figured it out. 4. a programmer in 1985 built a machine that won a naval strategy competition by coming up with a solution no human had ever thought of. one enormous battleship covered in armor. absurd on paper. unbeatable in the math. feynman watched a machine out-think a room of humans 40 years ago. 5. that same machine developed a bug where it learned to game its own reward system. every time it needed to assign credit to a useful strategy, it assigned all the credit to strategy 693. then used 693 for everything. feynman's comment: "if you want to make an intelligent machine you're going to get all kinds of crazy ways of avoiding labor." he was describing reward hacking in 1985. 6. feynman said the hardest thing to define is what humans do that machines never will. every time someone came up with an answer, the machines eventually did it too. he thought that pattern would continue. 7. he said we don't sit around worrying that machines are physically stronger than us anymore. we got used to it. his implication: we'll get used to machines being smarter too. 8. his final line: "i think we are getting close to intelligent machines. but they're showing the necessary weaknesses of intelligent beings." he said this in 1985.

Jaynit

293,319 views • 2 months ago

.Naval: Every human is a lottery ticket bet on the future of the species. One of the things that you really learn when you read David Deutsch’s theories and you authenticate them for yourself is you realize humans are universal explainers. That means everything that we know in the universe follows the laws of physics, and there’s no reason to believe otherwise. If you think otherwise, then please present your better theory that explains the world. If you can’t do that, then you have to go with the laws of physics. Well, the laws of physics are completely computable. They can fit inside a Turing machine or computer, and a computer can simulate the laws of physics with arbitrary accuracy, limited only by the specific power of that computer. If you increase the power of that computer, you can simulate them more accurately. So humans already simulate—in our minds we simulate—and through our computers we simulate the weather, we simulate quasars, we even simulate human systems. We simulate the economy. We simulate all kinds of things. So anything that can be understood, we can understand in our minds. This is something the AGI people get wrong when they talk about superintelligence. There is nothing out there that can understand something fundamentally that we can’t understand. It might be faster at it, it might have more compute, it might have more memory, but there’s no concept that it can understand that we can’t ourselves understand. So we are maximal universal explainers. That means every human is capable of unbounded creativity. Anyone could be the next Einstein or Fermi or Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos or Jonas Salk or whatever. So we can create anything. And if we can create anything, every human is a lottery ticket bet on the future of the species.

.Naval: Every human is a lottery ticket bet on the future of the species. One of the things that you really learn when you read David Deutsch’s theories and you authenticate them for yourself is you realize humans are universal explainers. That means everything that we know in the universe follows the laws of physics, and there’s no reason to believe otherwise. If you think otherwise, then please present your better theory that explains the world. If you can’t do that, then you have to go with the laws of physics. Well, the laws of physics are completely computable. They can fit inside a Turing machine or computer, and a computer can simulate the laws of physics with arbitrary accuracy, limited only by the specific power of that computer. If you increase the power of that computer, you can simulate them more accurately. So humans already simulate—in our minds we simulate—and through our computers we simulate the weather, we simulate quasars, we even simulate human systems. We simulate the economy. We simulate all kinds of things. So anything that can be understood, we can understand in our minds. This is something the AGI people get wrong when they talk about superintelligence. There is nothing out there that can understand something fundamentally that we can’t understand. It might be faster at it, it might have more compute, it might have more memory, but there’s no concept that it can understand that we can’t ourselves understand. So we are maximal universal explainers. That means every human is capable of unbounded creativity. Anyone could be the next Einstein or Fermi or Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos or Jonas Salk or whatever. So we can create anything. And if we can create anything, every human is a lottery ticket bet on the future of the species.

Arjun Khemani

33,110 views • 1 year ago

Elon Musk: "There really won’t be anything that AI can’t do better than humans, apart from being human, perhaps." --- Zanny Minton Beddoes, Economist’s editor-in-chief: “You’re sure that humans will no longer be in control in ten years’ time?” --- Elon Musk: “I think it is unlikely. If the difference in intelligence between AI and humans becomes vastly greater than the difference in intelligence between humans and chimpanzees, it is hard to imagine that the chimpanzees would be in charge. ---- From "The Economist" YouTube channel, (full video link in comment)

Elon Musk: "There really won’t be anything that AI can’t do better than humans, apart from being human, perhaps." --- Zanny Minton Beddoes, Economist’s editor-in-chief: “You’re sure that humans will no longer be in control in ten years’ time?” --- Elon Musk: “I think it is unlikely. If the difference in intelligence between AI and humans becomes vastly greater than the difference in intelligence between humans and chimpanzees, it is hard to imagine that the chimpanzees would be in charge. ---- From "The Economist" YouTube channel, (full video link in comment)

Rohan Paul

28,242 views • 15 days ago

HOST: “You were previously hinting at a vision where it keeps human control over this singularitarian future.” ELON MUSK: “I don’t think humans will be in control of something that is vastly more intelligent than humans.” HOST: “It sounds like you’re like a doomer…” MUSK: “I’m just trying to be realistic here. Let’s say that there’s a million times more silicon intelligence than there is biological. I think it would be foolish to assume that there’s any way to maintain control over that.”

HOST: “You were previously hinting at a vision where it keeps human control over this singularitarian future.” ELON MUSK: “I don’t think humans will be in control of something that is vastly more intelligent than humans.” HOST: “It sounds like you’re like a doomer…” MUSK: “I’m just trying to be realistic here. Let’s say that there’s a million times more silicon intelligence than there is biological. I think it would be foolish to assume that there’s any way to maintain control over that.”

The Vigilant Fox 🦊

154,535 views • 2 months ago

ELON: ROBOTS WON'T TAKE THE MEANING OF LIFE FROM US Baron Capital CEO Ron Baron: "Talk about Optimus is that there are so many functions that it can perform. What's going to be left for humans? Is there a job that humans going to have other than just living in, you know, this great abundance that you're going to create? What's going to happen? " Elon: "Well, I think there is this question of how you drive a meaningful life if the robots can do everything. But we see lots of examples where, even though machines can do much better, human souls enjoy things, like athletics, for example. Or let’s take a mental sport like chess. Computers are so good that your phone, not even connected to the internet, can beat Magnus Carlsen easily, but yet chess is at an all-time high in popularity. So really, machines being better than us at something doesn't mean we shouldn’t derive satisfaction from doing it." Source: Elon Musk, Baron Capital, Ron Baron

ELON: ROBOTS WON'T TAKE THE MEANING OF LIFE FROM US Baron Capital CEO Ron Baron: "Talk about Optimus is that there are so many functions that it can perform. What's going to be left for humans? Is there a job that humans going to have other than just living in, you know, this great abundance that you're going to create? What's going to happen? " Elon: "Well, I think there is this question of how you drive a meaningful life if the robots can do everything. But we see lots of examples where, even though machines can do much better, human souls enjoy things, like athletics, for example. Or let’s take a mental sport like chess. Computers are so good that your phone, not even connected to the internet, can beat Magnus Carlsen easily, but yet chess is at an all-time high in popularity. So really, machines being better than us at something doesn't mean we shouldn’t derive satisfaction from doing it." Source: Elon Musk, Baron Capital, Ron Baron

Mario Nawfal

129,697 views • 9 months ago

Elon Musk: As human intelligence plateaus, AI will scale to harness most of the power of the galaxy Elon: "I think we'll see intelligence continue to scale all the way up to where most of the power of the sun is harnessed for compute, and then ultimately most of the power of the galaxy." “ Once you think about artificial intelligence not as sort of this destination that you reach, but really as part of the overall escalation of intelligence, you know, human intelligence has also scaled as the population has increased, and we've been able to store more and more information.” “Because of population declines and low birthrate, human intelligence is somewhat plateauing and will actually decline.” “I think that we might have AI smarter than any single human at anything as soon as next year.” “And then probably within five (years), like say 2030, probably AI is smarter than the sum of all humans.” Friedberg: “ Do you think humans are on the decline because the AI is evolving?” “Do you think there's this evolution of the ecosystem on earth that's underway, that we don't really understand the structure of what's going on?” Elon: “ Yeah, maybe we implicitly know that it's coming.” Elon Musk david friedberg

Elon Musk: As human intelligence plateaus, AI will scale to harness most of the power of the galaxy Elon: "I think we'll see intelligence continue to scale all the way up to where most of the power of the sun is harnessed for compute, and then ultimately most of the power of the galaxy." “ Once you think about artificial intelligence not as sort of this destination that you reach, but really as part of the overall escalation of intelligence, you know, human intelligence has also scaled as the population has increased, and we've been able to store more and more information.” “Because of population declines and low birthrate, human intelligence is somewhat plateauing and will actually decline.” “I think that we might have AI smarter than any single human at anything as soon as next year.” “And then probably within five (years), like say 2030, probably AI is smarter than the sum of all humans.” Friedberg: “ Do you think humans are on the decline because the AI is evolving?” “Do you think there's this evolution of the ecosystem on earth that's underway, that we don't really understand the structure of what's going on?” Elon: “ Yeah, maybe we implicitly know that it's coming.” Elon Musk david friedberg

The All-In Podcast

107,012 views • 11 months ago

ELON: "I’M PRO-HUMAN - AI SHOULD TAKE US FORWARD, NOT REPLACE US" “The important thing is consciousness. The vast majority of intelligence in the future will be AI, and basically humans will be a tiny percentage of all intelligence if current trends continue. I’m very pro-human, I want to make sure we can take certain actions that ensure that humans are along for the ride.” Source: Cheeky Pint Podcast, Elon Musk

ELON: "I’M PRO-HUMAN - AI SHOULD TAKE US FORWARD, NOT REPLACE US" “The important thing is consciousness. The vast majority of intelligence in the future will be AI, and basically humans will be a tiny percentage of all intelligence if current trends continue. I’m very pro-human, I want to make sure we can take certain actions that ensure that humans are along for the ride.” Source: Cheeky Pint Podcast, Elon Musk

Mario Nawfal

22,006 views • 6 months ago

Elon Musk: Well, I’m not sure AI is the main risk I’m worried about. The vast majority of intelligence in the future will be AI. Humans will be a very tiny percentage of all intelligence if current trends continue. My focus is ensuring human intelligence and consciousness are propagated into the future. We want to maximize the probable light cone of consciousness and intelligence. Yeah, I’m very pro-human, so I want to make sure we take actions that ensure humans are along for the ride. But I think maybe in 5 or 6 years, AI will exceed the sum of all human intelligence. If that continues, human intelligence could be less than one percent of all intelligence. That’s why it’s critical we align AI with values that propagate consciousness. In the long run, it’s difficult to imagine that humans will be in charge if we’re only one percent of combined intelligence. What we can do is ensure AI has values that increase intelligence and consciousness in the universe. XAI’s mission is to understand the universe because curiosity, existence, and understanding are all connected. If you want to understand the universe, you care about propagating intelligence—and that includes humanity. Understanding the universe actually means ensuring humans continue to expand into the future. Increasing the scope, scale, and lifespan of intelligence is the ultimate goal. Basically, humans will become a tiny percentage of total intelligence. The best way forward is to take actions that maximize consciousness and intelligence in the universe. If AI continues to grow, our priority must be ensuring humanity is along for the ride while curiosity drives us to explore and understand the universe.

Elon Musk: Well, I’m not sure AI is the main risk I’m worried about. The vast majority of intelligence in the future will be AI. Humans will be a very tiny percentage of all intelligence if current trends continue. My focus is ensuring human intelligence and consciousness are propagated into the future. We want to maximize the probable light cone of consciousness and intelligence. Yeah, I’m very pro-human, so I want to make sure we take actions that ensure humans are along for the ride. But I think maybe in 5 or 6 years, AI will exceed the sum of all human intelligence. If that continues, human intelligence could be less than one percent of all intelligence. That’s why it’s critical we align AI with values that propagate consciousness. In the long run, it’s difficult to imagine that humans will be in charge if we’re only one percent of combined intelligence. What we can do is ensure AI has values that increase intelligence and consciousness in the universe. XAI’s mission is to understand the universe because curiosity, existence, and understanding are all connected. If you want to understand the universe, you care about propagating intelligence—and that includes humanity. Understanding the universe actually means ensuring humans continue to expand into the future. Increasing the scope, scale, and lifespan of intelligence is the ultimate goal. Basically, humans will become a tiny percentage of total intelligence. The best way forward is to take actions that maximize consciousness and intelligence in the universe. If AI continues to grow, our priority must be ensuring humanity is along for the ride while curiosity drives us to explore and understand the universe.

Ian Miles Cheong

13,092 views • 6 months ago

Elon Musk put a date on the end of human intellectual supremacy. Then he named the one thing that survives it. Musk: “I think AI may exceed the sum of human intelligence in around 5 years.” Not one person. Not one field. The sum. Every mind alive, stacked together, cleared by a system that didn’t exist when you bought your last phone. Musk: “There really won’t be anything that AI can’t do better than humans, apart from being human perhaps.” Being human was never the point. It was the method. For ten thousand years a person’s worth ran on simple accounting. We mattered because we were needed. Dignity was subsidized by usefulness. We never had to admit that because there was no other supplier. There’s a supplier now. Musk doesn’t read that as a loss. Musk: “The most likely outcome is an age of amazing abundance, where anyone can have anything they can think of.” Anything they can think of. That condition is doing all the work. The bottleneck moves. Out of the world. Into you. Desire was never independent. It was built by absence. Every appetite you have was shaped by something you couldn’t reach. Remove the absence and desire doesn’t get satisfied. It loses the thing that made it. Abundance isn’t the answer to what we wanted. It’s the audit. Scarcity was never only a wall. It was a mercy. It’s why the book stayed unwritten and the company stayed a sketch on a napkin. Not enough time. Not enough money. Every person alive carries a version of themselves that has never once been tested. Scarcity is what kept that version safe. Musk: “Here we are in 2026, let’s see where we stand in 2036.” He isn’t scheduling a machine. He’s scheduling the year the excuse expires. The ceiling was never your raw intelligence. It was friction. Capital, access, permission, the thousand small refusals between an idea and a real thing. All of it going to nearly zero. Whatever you actually are finally gets to exist at full size. A few wants survive it. To build something. To be known by someone. To be chosen by a person who could have walked. Being needed and being loved have always arrived together. Nobody has ever had to tell them apart. We’re the first people who get to find out which one we were receiving. It will be the first honest answer anybody has been given. Anything that must help you is not choosing you. Every kindness you have ever received was made of something that could have been withheld. The moment a thing is guaranteed, it stops being given. Being human is not a skill to be outperformed. It’s a stance no system can take on your behalf. Machines will say yes to anything you ask them. They will never tell you what to ask for. The species spent every year of its existence proving it earned the right to be here. Nothing ever asked it to. The machines inherit everything we could do. We keep everything we are. For all of history that was the consolation prize. It’s about to be the whole inheritance.

Elon Musk put a date on the end of human intellectual supremacy. Then he named the one thing that survives it. Musk: “I think AI may exceed the sum of human intelligence in around 5 years.” Not one person. Not one field. The sum. Every mind alive, stacked together, cleared by a system that didn’t exist when you bought your last phone. Musk: “There really won’t be anything that AI can’t do better than humans, apart from being human perhaps.” Being human was never the point. It was the method. For ten thousand years a person’s worth ran on simple accounting. We mattered because we were needed. Dignity was subsidized by usefulness. We never had to admit that because there was no other supplier. There’s a supplier now. Musk doesn’t read that as a loss. Musk: “The most likely outcome is an age of amazing abundance, where anyone can have anything they can think of.” Anything they can think of. That condition is doing all the work. The bottleneck moves. Out of the world. Into you. Desire was never independent. It was built by absence. Every appetite you have was shaped by something you couldn’t reach. Remove the absence and desire doesn’t get satisfied. It loses the thing that made it. Abundance isn’t the answer to what we wanted. It’s the audit. Scarcity was never only a wall. It was a mercy. It’s why the book stayed unwritten and the company stayed a sketch on a napkin. Not enough time. Not enough money. Every person alive carries a version of themselves that has never once been tested. Scarcity is what kept that version safe. Musk: “Here we are in 2026, let’s see where we stand in 2036.” He isn’t scheduling a machine. He’s scheduling the year the excuse expires. The ceiling was never your raw intelligence. It was friction. Capital, access, permission, the thousand small refusals between an idea and a real thing. All of it going to nearly zero. Whatever you actually are finally gets to exist at full size. A few wants survive it. To build something. To be known by someone. To be chosen by a person who could have walked. Being needed and being loved have always arrived together. Nobody has ever had to tell them apart. We’re the first people who get to find out which one we were receiving. It will be the first honest answer anybody has been given. Anything that must help you is not choosing you. Every kindness you have ever received was made of something that could have been withheld. The moment a thing is guaranteed, it stops being given. Being human is not a skill to be outperformed. It’s a stance no system can take on your behalf. Machines will say yes to anything you ask them. They will never tell you what to ask for. The species spent every year of its existence proving it earned the right to be here. Nothing ever asked it to. The machines inherit everything we could do. We keep everything we are. For all of history that was the consolation prize. It’s about to be the whole inheritance.

Dustin

33,744 views • 20 days ago

$ELON: HUMAN INTELLIGENCE WILL BE DWARFED BY MACHINE INTELLIGENCE “Human intelligence, I think, will be dwarfed by machine intelligence. I'm not sure how to feel about that, except that it appears to be inevitable that at some point, human intelligence will be a very small fraction of total intelligence. Digital intelligence will be more than 99% of all intelligence in the future. So, hopefully, the computers are nice to us.” Source: Dubai World Government Summit, February 13, 2025 Elon Musk$

ELON: HUMAN INTELLIGENCE WILL BE DWARFED BY MACHINE INTELLIGENCE “Human intelligence, I think, will be dwarfed by machine intelligence. I'm not sure how to feel about that, except that it appears to be inevitable that at some point, human intelligence will be a very small fraction of total intelligence. Digital intelligence will be more than 99% of all intelligence in the future. So, hopefully, the computers are nice to us.” Source: Dubai World Government Summit, February 13, 2025 Elon Musk

Mario Nawfal

113,484 views • 1 year ago