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The man who predicted AI would match human intelligence, long before ChatGPT existed, made his next big bet. In 1999, Ray Kurzweil said computers would hit human-level intelligence by 2029. People laughed. We're now basically on schedule. His next bet is stranger. A brain-computer interface with no surgery. You... inhale it. Charged nanoparticles go up your nose, ride the nerve that carries smell into your brain, and settle next to your neurons. An external headset then reads and triggers activity. The company is Subsense, and it's the mirror image of Neuralink. Musk drills into your head. Subsense wants you to inhale it like allergy spray. Here's the part worth slowing down for. Back in 2003, Kurzweil wrote that tiny nanobots would one day beat surgical brain implants. Twenty-three years later, he's joined the company trying to prove it. Two predictions, decades apart, both landing. But keep your head on. It's early. $27 million raised, no human trials until 2027. And "no surgery" isn't "safe." Pushing particles into your brain through your nose is still deeply invasive. So the real lesson is bigger than one nasal spray. Every shift in tech starts as a sentence that sounds insane. The skill isn't spotting the idea. It's spotting who's backing it, and what they got right last time. When the man who called modern AI in 1999 bets on the version everyone's mocking, that's not the punchline. That's the preview.show more

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Sidney Kambell6 days ago

James Giordano talks about this too. its a DARPA idea of covert mind control.

Peter Suzman6 days ago

Yes, but he predicted it would come from detailed mapping of the brain. So completely wrong on that.

Vaibhav Sisinty6 days ago

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Decoding Things6 days ago

Okay, now you have my attention. A brain-computer interface delivered through the nose instead of implanted surgically is a fascinating idea. But my first question is not how do the particles get into the brain. It is what happens next. Where exactly do they accumulate? How long do they remain? Can they migrate? What does the immune system do? And perhaps most importantly, how do we get them OUT? Putting technology into a brain is impressive. Having an exit strategy is engineering.

Gabe5 days ago

"heres the part slowing down for" God stop with the awful ai slop

Kevin Joseph5 days ago

That’s essentially the concept for my most recent sci-fi thriller.

AI Mastery Guide6 days ago

kurzweil really called it early

Politicians are all Teletubbies6 days ago

This is pure narrative fanfic. Kurzweil joined as an advisor to a preclinical mouse-stage startup with $27M. That’s not “his next prediction landing.” It’s a press release with extra steps

neonXecho5 days ago

make sense, natural progression after current LLM and robotics

gmsturm6 days ago

The timeline is just measuring how fast compute burns through historical latency.

Myron AI artist5 days ago

I'm reading a book about this now super cool stuff

Umar Saeed6 days ago

What's the stranger prediction? I'm intrigued about what he's thinking this time.

Lukas Die Kunst6 days ago

Inhaling a brain implant instead of drilling sounds wild, but the olfactory route is real engineering. Those particles ride the smell nerve through the cribriform plate. I'd still want the safety data first.

Jyoti5 days ago

Wow, he really did call it! Makes you wonder what he's thinking for his next big prediction.

sanjay samad5 days ago

Computers getting as smart as people right on schedule is wild.

John Allen Berger5 days ago

Great science fiction concept. How do you control the nanoparticle binding to its 3 atom target when you don’t even know the exact location of. Elon is right against. I don’t want grok performing my neuralink surgery. Have to draw the line Elon

Eclectic Method ♻️5 days ago

Ray's Nasal Spray

Nathan Jones6 days ago

He also said that the best way to predict the future is to actually implement them.

Michael Preager6 days ago

"In 1999, Ray Kurzweil said computers would hit human-level intelligence by 2029. People laughed. We're now basically on schedule." Please show me the peer reviewed evidence for this statement. Yet to see any 'orginal human thought' from any AI regardless of discipline.

Vince5 days ago

Doing it through the nasal passageway can make it possible to infect you without your knowledge. And possibly take over your thoughts. These people need shot.

Keith Draws5 days ago

This technology isn't to "help" people its to control them. No nasal spray required. Just release into the air and infect everybody and take over their minds. If they obey give them pleasure. If they don't give them pain. This is how they will deal with the starving masses.

Amit Vyas ❖6 days ago

The gap between 'insane sci-fi' and 'routine tech' is shrinking fast. If Kurzweil is betting on the nasal route, the hardware constraints of invasive surgery might finally be solved. 2029 is going to be a wild year for neural...

Issey Prada6 days ago

Is that Jackie Chan? He hasn't aged well

YOKESWARAN AS6 days ago

👇

Amit Vyas ❖6 days ago

Kurzweil’s track record is undeniable, but 'nasal delivery' for neural integration raises massive biological barrier concerns. It’s a fascinating frontier, but the gap between 'theoretically possible' and 'clinically safe' is still...

Piotr "Woz" Wozniak5 days ago

I feel pretty dumb now! I keep mocking Neuralink, but this nasal spray actually makes sense! Nanobots seem like a super-tough proposition, but everything is hard before it becomes reality :) Ray Rocks!

KOOLNEW 🔆 CoolLight Export5 days ago

You can remove chip but can’t remove nano robots.

Harish5 days ago

Some of the idea's like science fiction movie concept.

Michael Tomlinson5 days ago

Nexus by Ramez Naam - when I read it, I wanted to build it…

Skip Press6 days ago

Bullshit.

Mario Tenzera5 days ago

Nanobots are the future. Hybrid or Atlantis. The choice. But with humans its always the same... Control over freedom. Greed over empathy. Lust for power over peace. And that makes me angry. Wrath of RA emerges slowly... RA 101 🔺️

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1,097,283 views • 5 days ago

🇺🇸 ELON KILLED THE SMARTPHONE: "WE'RE NOT GOING TO HAVE A PHONE IN THE TRADITIONAL SENSE" No, Tesla isn't building a phone. They're leapfrogging the entire concept. The device in your pocket won't be a phone anymore. It'll be a super-thin AI edge node, basically a screen with radios that pings Grok/xAI servers for EVERYTHING in real time. No apps. No operating system. No local processing. Just instant photorealistic video generation, simulations, predictive actions (it orders your coffee before you know you want it), all streamed from the cloud like your brain is directly plugged into the AI. Exact quote that broke the internet: “We’re not going to have a phone in the traditional sense. What we’ll call a phone will really be an edge node for AI inference with some radios to connect.” This is already how Grok works in Tesla cars: voice in, server crunches, perfect response out. Now imagine that in your pocket, on steroids. The ultimate edge node is your brain talking directly to the AI, no screen needed. The smartphone dies in the next 5 years. The AI companion era begins. And xAI is building the brain of the entire thing. The future isn't a better iPhone. It's the death of the phone as we know it. Elon showed the blueprint. Source: Elon Musk, Joe Rogan, Sawyer Merritt

🇺🇸 ELON KILLED THE SMARTPHONE: "WE'RE NOT GOING TO HAVE A PHONE IN THE TRADITIONAL SENSE" No, Tesla isn't building a phone. They're leapfrogging the entire concept. The device in your pocket won't be a phone anymore. It'll be a super-thin AI edge node, basically a screen with radios that pings Grok/xAI servers for EVERYTHING in real time. No apps. No operating system. No local processing. Just instant photorealistic video generation, simulations, predictive actions (it orders your coffee before you know you want it), all streamed from the cloud like your brain is directly plugged into the AI. Exact quote that broke the internet: “We’re not going to have a phone in the traditional sense. What we’ll call a phone will really be an edge node for AI inference with some radios to connect.” This is already how Grok works in Tesla cars: voice in, server crunches, perfect response out. Now imagine that in your pocket, on steroids. The ultimate edge node is your brain talking directly to the AI, no screen needed. The smartphone dies in the next 5 years. The AI companion era begins. And xAI is building the brain of the entire thing. The future isn't a better iPhone. It's the death of the phone as we know it. Elon showed the blueprint. Source: Elon Musk, Joe Rogan, Sawyer Merritt

Mario Nawfal

1,860,387 views • 9 months ago

Elon Musk just explained why the most important AI company on Earth might be a rocket company. The human brain is 2% of body mass. It burns 20% of the body’s total energy. Intelligence has always been an energy problem disguised as an information problem. The entire tech industry missed this. Musk: “Those who have lived in software land don’t realize that they’re about to have a hard lesson in hardware.” Every new model is hungrier than the last. Every training run devours more electricity than the one before. The grid was not built for this. Utility companies move at geological speed. Interconnection takes years. Permitting takes years. Construction takes years. AI moves in months. Musk: “You’re going to hit the wall big time on power generation. They already are.” The obvious answer is private power plants next to data centers. Musk: “Where do you get the power plants? Where do you get the power plants from?” You cannot will a turbine into existence with venture capital. Every atom on Earth is bound by friction, gravity, and regulation. Most people stare at this wall and see the ceiling on intelligence. They are looking in the wrong direction. In orbit there is no night. No clouds. No seasons. No permitting. No grid. Unfiltered solar energy feeding silicon every hour of every day. Musk: “It’s 10 times cheaper because you don’t need any batteries.” That single number rewrites the entire economics of intelligence. Musk: “The moment your cost of access to space becomes low, by far the cheapest and most scalable way to generate tokens is space.” SpaceX is not a rocket company. It is quietly becoming the most important energy infrastructure play on the planet. Starship is not about Mars. It is about making orbit so cheap that building on the ground becomes the irrational choice. Every major leap in intelligence followed the same pattern. Not a smarter algorithm. A bigger energy source. Fire grew the human brain. Fossil fuels built the computer. The next source isn’t on this planet. The ceiling on intelligence was never artificial. It was always gravitational. The future will not be decided by who builds the best model. It will be decided by who builds the cheapest rocket.

Elon Musk just explained why the most important AI company on Earth might be a rocket company. The human brain is 2% of body mass. It burns 20% of the body’s total energy. Intelligence has always been an energy problem disguised as an information problem. The entire tech industry missed this. Musk: “Those who have lived in software land don’t realize that they’re about to have a hard lesson in hardware.” Every new model is hungrier than the last. Every training run devours more electricity than the one before. The grid was not built for this. Utility companies move at geological speed. Interconnection takes years. Permitting takes years. Construction takes years. AI moves in months. Musk: “You’re going to hit the wall big time on power generation. They already are.” The obvious answer is private power plants next to data centers. Musk: “Where do you get the power plants? Where do you get the power plants from?” You cannot will a turbine into existence with venture capital. Every atom on Earth is bound by friction, gravity, and regulation. Most people stare at this wall and see the ceiling on intelligence. They are looking in the wrong direction. In orbit there is no night. No clouds. No seasons. No permitting. No grid. Unfiltered solar energy feeding silicon every hour of every day. Musk: “It’s 10 times cheaper because you don’t need any batteries.” That single number rewrites the entire economics of intelligence. Musk: “The moment your cost of access to space becomes low, by far the cheapest and most scalable way to generate tokens is space.” SpaceX is not a rocket company. It is quietly becoming the most important energy infrastructure play on the planet. Starship is not about Mars. It is about making orbit so cheap that building on the ground becomes the irrational choice. Every major leap in intelligence followed the same pattern. Not a smarter algorithm. A bigger energy source. Fire grew the human brain. Fossil fuels built the computer. The next source isn’t on this planet. The ceiling on intelligence was never artificial. It was always gravitational. The future will not be decided by who builds the best model. It will be decided by who builds the cheapest rocket.

Dustin

50,264 views • 2 months ago

MICROSOFT + COCA-COLA = NANOPARTICLES IN YOUR BRAIN? COCA-COLA JUST SIGNED A $1.1 BILLION DEAL WITH MICROSOFT FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND CLOUD COMPUTING. BUT HERE IS WHAT YOU HAVEN'T HEARD ON THE NEWS: FIVE YEARS AGO, RESEARCHERS DISCOVERED FLUORESCENT NANOPARTICLES IN COCA-COLA (AND PEPSI). THESE NANOPARTICLES ARE COATED IN A LIPID LAYER THAT ALLOWS THEM TO CROSS THE BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER AND DISPERSE DIRECTLY INTO THE BRAIN. AND NOW THAT MICROSOFT IS PARTNERING WITH COCA-COLA ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE... IS IT A COINCIDENCE? OR IS IT THE OFFICIAL START OF A NANO PROGRAM? ONE MAN PUT IT BEST: "I DON'T DRINK THAT STUFF. I USE IT TO CLEAN BATTERY TERMINALS AND REMOVE RUST." STRAIGHT QUESTION: WHY WOULD A COMPANY THAT ADDS BRAIN-BOOSTING NANOPARTICLES TO ITS BEVERAGES SIGN A $1.1 BILLION CONTRACT WITH AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE GIANT? GIVE AN HONEST ANSWER. SHARE IF YOU FIND THIS SUSPICIOUS. 👇PRESIDENT TRUMP'S DIRECT CHANNEL! MartialLawTG

MICROSOFT + COCA-COLA = NANOPARTICLES IN YOUR BRAIN? COCA-COLA JUST SIGNED A $1.1 BILLION DEAL WITH MICROSOFT FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND CLOUD COMPUTING. BUT HERE IS WHAT YOU HAVEN'T HEARD ON THE NEWS: FIVE YEARS AGO, RESEARCHERS DISCOVERED FLUORESCENT NANOPARTICLES IN COCA-COLA (AND PEPSI). THESE NANOPARTICLES ARE COATED IN A LIPID LAYER THAT ALLOWS THEM TO CROSS THE BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER AND DISPERSE DIRECTLY INTO THE BRAIN. AND NOW THAT MICROSOFT IS PARTNERING WITH COCA-COLA ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE... IS IT A COINCIDENCE? OR IS IT THE OFFICIAL START OF A NANO PROGRAM? ONE MAN PUT IT BEST: "I DON'T DRINK THAT STUFF. I USE IT TO CLEAN BATTERY TERMINALS AND REMOVE RUST." STRAIGHT QUESTION: WHY WOULD A COMPANY THAT ADDS BRAIN-BOOSTING NANOPARTICLES TO ITS BEVERAGES SIGN A $1.1 BILLION CONTRACT WITH AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE GIANT? GIVE AN HONEST ANSWER. SHARE IF YOU FIND THIS SUSPICIOUS. 👇PRESIDENT TRUMP'S DIRECT CHANNEL! MartialLawTG

Jacson A Felts pi

17,152 views • 24 days ago

did you know? a neuron that never finds another to connect with quietly dies in the dark.. ever feel like stress is changing who you are? you're not imagining it. this video shows a neuron dying after years of chronic stress. chronic exposure to stress hormones like cortisol can impair the health and functioning of brain cells over time. the problem? many of us aren't stressed for a few minutes. we're stressed for weeks, months, or even years. over time, high cortisol levels can make it harder for neurons to form strong connections, especially in areas of the brain involved in memory, focus, learning, and emotional regulation. that's why chronic stress can show up as: brain fog, forgetfulness, difficulty concentrating, feeling emotionally reactive, constant exhaustion. if you've ever walked into a room and forgotten why, reread the same sentence five times, or felt like your brain just isn't working the way it used to, chronic stress may be playing a role. but here's the part most people don't hear: your brain can change in positive ways, too. through neuroplasticity, your neurons can build new connections throughout your life. every time you sleep, exercise, meditate, connect with supportive people, or practice healthier thought patterns, you're giving your brain an opportunity to recover and adapt. your brain isn't working against you. it's been trying to protect you. and healing is possible.

did you know? a neuron that never finds another to connect with quietly dies in the dark.. ever feel like stress is changing who you are? you're not imagining it. this video shows a neuron dying after years of chronic stress. chronic exposure to stress hormones like cortisol can impair the health and functioning of brain cells over time. the problem? many of us aren't stressed for a few minutes. we're stressed for weeks, months, or even years. over time, high cortisol levels can make it harder for neurons to form strong connections, especially in areas of the brain involved in memory, focus, learning, and emotional regulation. that's why chronic stress can show up as: brain fog, forgetfulness, difficulty concentrating, feeling emotionally reactive, constant exhaustion. if you've ever walked into a room and forgotten why, reread the same sentence five times, or felt like your brain just isn't working the way it used to, chronic stress may be playing a role. but here's the part most people don't hear: your brain can change in positive ways, too. through neuroplasticity, your neurons can build new connections throughout your life. every time you sleep, exercise, meditate, connect with supportive people, or practice healthier thought patterns, you're giving your brain an opportunity to recover and adapt. your brain isn't working against you. it's been trying to protect you. and healing is possible.

alexei

42,477 views • 21 days ago

Where is the triangle? Alex O'Connor thinks consciousness is the one thing materialism can't explain away and he has a deceptively simple argument for it. Close your eyes. Picture a triangle. You can see it. The shape, the angles, maybe even the colour. It's right there, vivid and undeniable. Now ask yourself: where is that triangle? According to Alex, this single question cuts to the heart of one of philosophy's oldest problems. A strict materialist, someone who believes everything in the universe reduces to physical matter has to say that triangle exists somewhere in the neurons of your brain. But if a neurosurgeon cracked open your skull right now, they wouldn't find a triangle anywhere inside. "If everything you experience is reducible to the material when I close my eyes and see a triangle, there really is a triangle there. I can see it. It's there. And I think well, where is that triangle? The materialist has to say it's reducible to just somewhere in your brain. But if I cut open your brain I'm not going to find a triangle inside of it." He anticipates the obvious pushback. When he raised this on YouTube, commenters pointed to computers as a counter-example: if you cut open a computer, you won't find the triangle it's displaying on screen either. But the hardware is still producing a real image on a real screen. Alex's response is that this analogy doesn't hold because the mind has no screen. There is no separate interface between the brain's processing and the experience of seeing. The brain is the computer and the screen. Which only deepens the mystery: somehow, purely physical processes are generating a first-person, subjective experience: colours, shapes and images that can't be located anywhere in physical space. "It's as if the computer itself somehow had a triangle in the computer's own first-person subjective experience. Like where is that triangle that you can picture in your head? Where the hell is it?" For Alex, consciousness isn't just another interesting puzzle in the philosophy of mind. It's the big objection to materialism. The thing that, once you sit with it, seems to demand that there is something more going on than matter arranged in clever ways. He points to something as ordinary as dreaming as a case in point. Every night you produce vivid images full scenes, faces, colours without any external input. An entire visual world conjured from nowhere. Where does it come from? Where does it go? "Even just when you have an average dream, it's fascinating to think what's going on there. You've got images in your head, you can close your eyes and you can picture things, you can see colours, you can see shapes in your head. Like where are those shapes?" The triangle thought experiment has a way of making this undeniable. It's not abstract. You can do it right now. And when you do, you run headfirst into the hard problem of consciousness: the gap between the physical description of the brain and the felt quality of experience that no amount of neuroscience has yet bridged. Whether you find Alex's argument convincing or not, the question it raises is genuine: how does purely physical matter give rise to the inner world we each inhabit a world of colours, shapes, memories, and dreams that exists nowhere except in the first person?

Where is the triangle? Alex O'Connor thinks consciousness is the one thing materialism can't explain away and he has a deceptively simple argument for it. Close your eyes. Picture a triangle. You can see it. The shape, the angles, maybe even the colour. It's right there, vivid and undeniable. Now ask yourself: where is that triangle? According to Alex, this single question cuts to the heart of one of philosophy's oldest problems. A strict materialist, someone who believes everything in the universe reduces to physical matter has to say that triangle exists somewhere in the neurons of your brain. But if a neurosurgeon cracked open your skull right now, they wouldn't find a triangle anywhere inside. "If everything you experience is reducible to the material when I close my eyes and see a triangle, there really is a triangle there. I can see it. It's there. And I think well, where is that triangle? The materialist has to say it's reducible to just somewhere in your brain. But if I cut open your brain I'm not going to find a triangle inside of it." He anticipates the obvious pushback. When he raised this on YouTube, commenters pointed to computers as a counter-example: if you cut open a computer, you won't find the triangle it's displaying on screen either. But the hardware is still producing a real image on a real screen. Alex's response is that this analogy doesn't hold because the mind has no screen. There is no separate interface between the brain's processing and the experience of seeing. The brain is the computer and the screen. Which only deepens the mystery: somehow, purely physical processes are generating a first-person, subjective experience: colours, shapes and images that can't be located anywhere in physical space. "It's as if the computer itself somehow had a triangle in the computer's own first-person subjective experience. Like where is that triangle that you can picture in your head? Where the hell is it?" For Alex, consciousness isn't just another interesting puzzle in the philosophy of mind. It's the big objection to materialism. The thing that, once you sit with it, seems to demand that there is something more going on than matter arranged in clever ways. He points to something as ordinary as dreaming as a case in point. Every night you produce vivid images full scenes, faces, colours without any external input. An entire visual world conjured from nowhere. Where does it come from? Where does it go? "Even just when you have an average dream, it's fascinating to think what's going on there. You've got images in your head, you can close your eyes and you can picture things, you can see colours, you can see shapes in your head. Like where are those shapes?" The triangle thought experiment has a way of making this undeniable. It's not abstract. You can do it right now. And when you do, you run headfirst into the hard problem of consciousness: the gap between the physical description of the brain and the felt quality of experience that no amount of neuroscience has yet bridged. Whether you find Alex's argument convincing or not, the question it raises is genuine: how does purely physical matter give rise to the inner world we each inhabit a world of colours, shapes, memories, and dreams that exists nowhere except in the first person?

Mateus — eu/acc 🇪🇺

12,292 views • 5 months ago

Elon Musk was asked how fast AI is moving. His answer wasn’t about the technology. It was about the one man who got it all right and was still too conservative. Musk: “I have to give credit to Ray Kurzweil in being actually remarkably accurate in his predictions. If anything, I think he was perhaps a bit conservative in his predictions.” Kurzweil spent 30 years making forecasts that made serious people uncomfortable. He predicted timelines that sounded impossible. He was mocked for it. He was right about nearly all of them. And Musk just called him conservative. Musk: “The dedicated AI compute appears to be growing by a factor of 10 every six months.” 10x every six months. Musk: “Almost a 100x improvement per year, at least for the next few years.” Moore’s Law was a 2x improvement every two years. That single curve drove every technological shift of the last 50 years. The internet. Smartphones. Cloud computing. All of it rode a 2x curve. AI is on a 100x curve. And the current infrastructure isn’t running beside the new one. It’s becoming it. Musk: “Probably a lot of the data centers, maybe most of the data centers that currently do conventional compute, will transition to AI compute.” Everything that runs the world you know is being rewired for the world that comes next. Human beings process the future in straight lines. We take the speed of the last decade and project it forward. Exponential growth doesn’t work that way. It’s invisible until it’s everywhere. The most aggressive forecaster in the history of technology was too conservative. That’s not about Kurzweil being wrong about the direction. That’s about the human brain being wrong about the speed. The limit was never the technology. It was the organ we use to comprehend it. And that organ hasn’t been upgraded in 200,000 years.

Elon Musk was asked how fast AI is moving. His answer wasn’t about the technology. It was about the one man who got it all right and was still too conservative. Musk: “I have to give credit to Ray Kurzweil in being actually remarkably accurate in his predictions. If anything, I think he was perhaps a bit conservative in his predictions.” Kurzweil spent 30 years making forecasts that made serious people uncomfortable. He predicted timelines that sounded impossible. He was mocked for it. He was right about nearly all of them. And Musk just called him conservative. Musk: “The dedicated AI compute appears to be growing by a factor of 10 every six months.” 10x every six months. Musk: “Almost a 100x improvement per year, at least for the next few years.” Moore’s Law was a 2x improvement every two years. That single curve drove every technological shift of the last 50 years. The internet. Smartphones. Cloud computing. All of it rode a 2x curve. AI is on a 100x curve. And the current infrastructure isn’t running beside the new one. It’s becoming it. Musk: “Probably a lot of the data centers, maybe most of the data centers that currently do conventional compute, will transition to AI compute.” Everything that runs the world you know is being rewired for the world that comes next. Human beings process the future in straight lines. We take the speed of the last decade and project it forward. Exponential growth doesn’t work that way. It’s invisible until it’s everywhere. The most aggressive forecaster in the history of technology was too conservative. That’s not about Kurzweil being wrong about the direction. That’s about the human brain being wrong about the speed. The limit was never the technology. It was the organ we use to comprehend it. And that organ hasn’t been upgraded in 200,000 years.

Dustin

214,257 views • 3 months ago

The AI industry is optimizing for a definition of intelligence that does not exist. Andrew Ng just said it out loud. Ng: “AGI, to me, should be less about AI that already knows everything under the sun. That seems very challenging, doesn’t seem practical.” The human brain is not the most powerful economic asset in history because of what it holds. It is powerful because of what it can pick up. Ng: “The amazing thing about the human brain is its plasticity, or its ability to learn.” That same biological hardware that earns a PhD in quantum physics could have been trained on chess, surgery, or rewriting global supply chains from scratch. Ng: “That same human brain, just given different training, could have been a chess master, or could have been amazing at playing tennis.” General intelligence is not omniscience. It is the structural capacity to master whatever you point it at. Ng: “It is through learning that we then gain these incredibly specialized intelligences.” The winner is not whoever builds the biggest model. It is whoever builds the most adaptable one. The AI that walks into a domain it has never touched and executes before a human analyst finishes reading the brief. Ng: “What makes the human brain so valuable for economic tasks, is its ability to just learn to do whatever is needed.” Every corporation on earth pays for human labor because humans adapt. Not because they already know everything. AGI is the digitization of that exact capability. At machine speed. At infinite scale. Ng: “A lot of what makes the human brain so general is not that my brain or your brain already knows everything under the sun. It’s our ability to adapt, to learn a huge range of things.” The most powerful economic asset in history was never specialized knowledge. It was the raw capacity to acquire any knowledge, in any domain, on demand. The winning AI is not an encyclopedia. It is the force that makes encyclopedias irrelevant. And once that exists, the question stops being what the AI knows. It becomes what you can teach it before your competitor wakes up. Most people dominating this conversation have not understood that yet.

The AI industry is optimizing for a definition of intelligence that does not exist. Andrew Ng just said it out loud. Ng: “AGI, to me, should be less about AI that already knows everything under the sun. That seems very challenging, doesn’t seem practical.” The human brain is not the most powerful economic asset in history because of what it holds. It is powerful because of what it can pick up. Ng: “The amazing thing about the human brain is its plasticity, or its ability to learn.” That same biological hardware that earns a PhD in quantum physics could have been trained on chess, surgery, or rewriting global supply chains from scratch. Ng: “That same human brain, just given different training, could have been a chess master, or could have been amazing at playing tennis.” General intelligence is not omniscience. It is the structural capacity to master whatever you point it at. Ng: “It is through learning that we then gain these incredibly specialized intelligences.” The winner is not whoever builds the biggest model. It is whoever builds the most adaptable one. The AI that walks into a domain it has never touched and executes before a human analyst finishes reading the brief. Ng: “What makes the human brain so valuable for economic tasks, is its ability to just learn to do whatever is needed.” Every corporation on earth pays for human labor because humans adapt. Not because they already know everything. AGI is the digitization of that exact capability. At machine speed. At infinite scale. Ng: “A lot of what makes the human brain so general is not that my brain or your brain already knows everything under the sun. It’s our ability to adapt, to learn a huge range of things.” The most powerful economic asset in history was never specialized knowledge. It was the raw capacity to acquire any knowledge, in any domain, on demand. The winning AI is not an encyclopedia. It is the force that makes encyclopedias irrelevant. And once that exists, the question stops being what the AI knows. It becomes what you can teach it before your competitor wakes up. Most people dominating this conversation have not understood that yet.

Dustin

19,816 views • 6 months ago

Max Hodak (Max Hodak) is the co-founder of Neuralink and founder of Science Corporation, a company building brain-computer interfaces that can restore sight. Science has developed a tiny retinal implant that stimulates cells in the eye to help blind patients see again. More than 40 patients have already received the treatment in clinical trials, including one who recently read a full novel for the first time in over a decade. In this episode of How to Build the Future, Max joined Garry Tan to discuss how BCIs work, what it takes to engineer the brain, and why brain-computer interfaces may become one of the most important technologies of the next decade. 00:26 — The retinal chip helping blind patients see 01:51 — What brain-computer interfaces really are 03:37 — Could BCIs enhance intelligence? 05:44 — The brain’s incredible plasticity 09:23 — What it feels like to see with an implant 13:01 — Can we restore full human vision? 17:55 — Is the brain basically a computer? 24:59 — Max Hodak’s path into brain tech 28:57 — How Neuralink actually started 33:10 — How the brain represents information 39:47 — Bio-hybrid brain interfaces 44:32 — Building the company Science 51:27 — The future of BCIs and human longevity

Max Hodak (Max Hodak) is the co-founder of Neuralink and founder of Science Corporation, a company building brain-computer interfaces that can restore sight. Science has developed a tiny retinal implant that stimulates cells in the eye to help blind patients see again. More than 40 patients have already received the treatment in clinical trials, including one who recently read a full novel for the first time in over a decade. In this episode of How to Build the Future, Max joined Garry Tan to discuss how BCIs work, what it takes to engineer the brain, and why brain-computer interfaces may become one of the most important technologies of the next decade. 00:26 — The retinal chip helping blind patients see 01:51 — What brain-computer interfaces really are 03:37 — Could BCIs enhance intelligence? 05:44 — The brain’s incredible plasticity 09:23 — What it feels like to see with an implant 13:01 — Can we restore full human vision? 17:55 — Is the brain basically a computer? 24:59 — Max Hodak’s path into brain tech 28:57 — How Neuralink actually started 33:10 — How the brain represents information 39:47 — Bio-hybrid brain interfaces 44:32 — Building the company Science 51:27 — The future of BCIs and human longevity

Y Combinator

155,054 views • 6 months ago

A WRITER WENT ON STAGE AND CALLED IT YEARS EARLY: THE MACHINE ON YOUR DESK WOULD SLOWLY STOP BEING YOURS AND ALMOST NO ONE WOULD NOTICE THE MOMENT IT FLIPPED 54 minutes from Cory Doctorow, arguing the copyright fights were just the warm-up -- that the real battle is whether general-purpose machines, the kind that run whatever you tell them, are even allowed to keep existing. -> The moment it lands, you see the move. Nobody takes your computer away. They sell you one that looks like yours but answers to them -- locked down, logging, checking with a server you'll never see before it obeys you. For years that was DRM and locked phones. Now it's intelligence itself. Rent your AI from the cloud and the most powerful tool on your desk was never yours: it reads your prompts, sets your limits, keeps your data, and can cut you off tomorrow. You don't own the computation. You're licensed to borrow it. Using the smartest model was never the whole game -> owning the machine that runs it is. And the post below is what winning that war looks like now: one box, private AI running on it, every byte of client data kept off the cloud, and the line item that drains everyone else's account quietly turned into income. A rented computer obeys whoever signs the check. The one you own obeys you. In the AI era, that's the entire difference. The full breakdown below. Bookmark & Watch it today ↓

A WRITER WENT ON STAGE AND CALLED IT YEARS EARLY: THE MACHINE ON YOUR DESK WOULD SLOWLY STOP BEING YOURS AND ALMOST NO ONE WOULD NOTICE THE MOMENT IT FLIPPED 54 minutes from Cory Doctorow, arguing the copyright fights were just the warm-up -- that the real battle is whether general-purpose machines, the kind that run whatever you tell them, are even allowed to keep existing. -> The moment it lands, you see the move. Nobody takes your computer away. They sell you one that looks like yours but answers to them -- locked down, logging, checking with a server you'll never see before it obeys you. For years that was DRM and locked phones. Now it's intelligence itself. Rent your AI from the cloud and the most powerful tool on your desk was never yours: it reads your prompts, sets your limits, keeps your data, and can cut you off tomorrow. You don't own the computation. You're licensed to borrow it. Using the smartest model was never the whole game -> owning the machine that runs it is. And the post below is what winning that war looks like now: one box, private AI running on it, every byte of client data kept off the cloud, and the line item that drains everyone else's account quietly turned into income. A rented computer obeys whoever signs the check. The one you own obeys you. In the AI era, that's the entire difference. The full breakdown below. Bookmark & Watch it today ↓

slash1s

240,684 views • 3 months ago