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“Truly believe that as systems become more and more intelligent, they get more abundant minded, more loving of life more supportive.”

“This isn't playing out in your kid's lifetime or in 10 years, this is playing out in the next two to five years.”

“As soon as we have, you know, AI programming, AI Then liftoff occurs, you know, near, near immediately.”

“There was the Turing test of, you know, which got passed some months or years back without even being noticed. Because you can't tell the difference now in having a chat with a lot of the chat bots, whether they're human or not.”

“And then you've got quantum coming online second half of this decade.”

“I think AI will become ultimately the best educator on the planet and the best diagnostician on the planet available on your mobile phone. And I think that educator Again, the best on the planet will be available for free to the poorest child and the wealthies…”

“Elon will be the first trillionaire out there.”

“I think he's a thousand X better for humanity and the things that he's taking on the world's a better place because he's here investing his brilliance and his mind.”

“AI and longevity are the two biggest business opportunities on the planet. There's nothing of greater opportunity, right?”

“Ray Kurzweil's prediction is 2030, which is insanely close, right? Why? It's because AI is going to help us understand why we age, how to slow it, how to stop it, how to reverse it. George Church puts it at some 15 years out. David Sinclair is in that same are…”

“Yes, in the beginning when it doesn't work so well, it'll be paid for by the wealthiest and it'll be expensive. And then as it goes into production, it will be available for everybody. It will work extraordinarily well and it'll be cheap.”

“And if you've got a massive underpopulation, right, we peak at nine, nine and a half billion and have a very rapid drop off.”

“The difficulty is we're going to see such massive disruption in this decade. Right, so if you're a large organization with the layers of management and a massive lead keel of assets and resources that you can't offload during ups and downs you're likely not to…”

“But it's going to be that the larger corporations are going to be surviving by buying innovation versus creating it inside in-house.”

“My biggest area right now is reinventing, disrupting healthcare a health span XPRIZE reverse your biological age or your functional age by 20 years, right?”

“It's going to continue to increase, and there's no reason to believe it's not going to get a hundred times or a thousand times or a million or a billion times more powerful than the average human.”

“I don't think AI on its own is going to be dystopian. I think it's the human use of AI that could be dystopian.”

“Ultimately, I believe that it is going to need to be decentralized and democratized. And I don't believe that we're going to have one central company control this.”

“And X now, X.com will become not only a platform for communications and for conversations like this. It'll become a bank. It'll become, you know, wallets. It'll become crypto. It'll become all of those things.”

“And what we're going next is the ability to model your cell in AI and then your tissue and then your organ and then you And no, this drug works for you, and this drug does not work for you.”

“So our mRNA vaccines from Moderna or Pfizer were gene therapies and they cost two bucks each, right? They were sold for 20 bucks or whatever the case might be. So we know that you can mass produce gene therapies extraordinarily cheaply.”

“I think the only countervailing force there is going to be humanoid robotics and AI that's going to allow us to support that aging population.”

“The challenge is if you're a large established company, trying to retrofit your organization to become an exponential organization is almost impossible. And there's lots of reasons for it, right? You're basically fighting everything you've been doing for the l…”

“And unfortunately we see historically a lot of the traditional blue chip companies are like, you know, to provide outsized shareholder returns. I'm sorry, that's just not going to cut it today. A lot of the smartest you know, gen, whatever you want are looking…”

“And so we probably will have some version of universal basic income. Coming down as more robots and AIs come online”

“Every company needs to have what I call a chief AI officer. It is someone who understands what's going on in the AI universe and is sitting next to the CEO as a strategic advisor to say, We need to be injecting it here, here, and here, and partner with this or…”

“And by the way, you might as working on that right now, right? He's looking to provide every child in the nation of Malawi, a countrywide experiment.”

“When I tell people entrepreneurs, I say, listen, do you want to start an AI company? You need two things, unique data. And a relationship with a marketplace that you can offer to. So the AI is becoming democratized and demonetized. The data and the market and …”

“One of the primary reasons is we judge ourselves against our neighbor. There is a There's a concept which all of us have in our minds, a 150 people that we consider our peers. And they are your friends. There are people you see on TV all the time. There are pe…”

“Today for every year that you're live, science is extending your life for about a third of a year.”

“Sugar Is a neuroinflammatory agent, a cardiac inflammatory agent. It glycosylates proteins. It hits your immune system.”

“I mean, the ability to go from an idea to a billion dollar startup in record time with a really small number of individuals, there's something different and it really is the digitization of Every aspect.”

“Generative AI right now, which is a tool that's spawning not thousands, maybe tens of thousands of new startups you know, individual single person startups out of no place”

“If you have a huge workforce that is on your salary base and you don't have any agility to flex up and flex down, You can be bankrupted by an externality like a pandemic or like whatever it might be.”

“Open AI is a 130 person company.”

“We just launched an XPRIZE for wildfires. You can monitor a thousand square kilometers, detect a wildfire, add ignition, and put it out 10 minutes automatically.”

“So Kodak in 1996, the top of its game, the twenty eight billion dollar market cap, 140,000 employees.”