Verdon: Operational AI Leverage Will Cause Deflation in Real-World Construction Costs
Guillaume Verdon · Ep 76: Accelerate or Die! Guillaume Verdon and the e/acc Movement · Joe Lonsdale · Jan 31, 2024 · at 39:06
Guillaume Verdon explains how translating AI into the physical realm via robotics will drive down real-world manufacturing and construction costs.
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“You have intellectual leverage now with Chan GPT, but eventually you'll have operational leverage, and that's where we're gonna see serious progress in the world of atoms. We're gonna see deflation and the cost of building things in the real world”
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