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Musk: X has not suspended or de-amplified any left-wing voices
“So what I've tried to do is just restore it to be balanced and centrist. So there haven't been any left-wing voices that have been suspended or, you know, banned or de-amplified or anything like that.”
Musk: AI and robotics will make working optional in under 20 years
“I think it will turn out to be true that in less than 20 years, that maybe even as little as, I don't know, 10 or 15 years the advancements in AI and robotics
will
Bring us to the point where working is optional.”
Musk: Money will eventually disappear as a concept due to AI
“I think long term, I think money disappears as a concept, honestly. It's kind of strange, but in, in a future where anyone can have anything I think you no longer need money as a database for labor allocation. If there's, if AI and robotics are big enough to s…”
Musk: AI, robotics, and spaceflight companies will capture almost all value
“There's an argument that companies that do AI and robotics, and maybe space flight, are gonna be overwhelming, overwhelmingly all the value, almost all the value. So the output of goods and services from AI and robotics is so high that it will dwarf everything…”
Khosla: AI will do 80% of 80% of jobs in 3-5 years
“Almost certainly, with no doubt, there isn't a job where AI won't be able to do 80% of 80% of all jobs. So, 80% of all jobs, AI will be able to do most of it within the next three to five years.”
Khosla: A 10-person company will hit $1B in revenue within ten years
“And sometime in the next 10 years, we will see a company with a billion dollars of revenue that has only 10 employees.”
Khosla: BPO and software IT services will mostly disappear
“I think it's very, you know, BPO as a business will disappear. Software IT services will mostly disappear. Disappear means transform pretty radically.”
Mazumdar-Shaw: Vijay Mallya has paid back everything he owed
“Well, he's paid back everything he owed. So I don't understand why he's still being targeted.”
Kamath: Leading AI monopolies will inevitably face nationalization to fund UBI
“Like, I don't see another scenario if this trend were to continue, these companies will have to be nationalized in one way or another. And then maybe some form of UBI, like universal basic income.”
Prasad: Dr. Reddy's found Chinese suppliers more reliable than Indian peers during COVID
“In COVID time, I'm telling you this, in COVID time, we had more reliable supplies from China than from Indian companies.”
Kamath: 10x wealth concentration in top tech will trigger company nationalization
“I think if it happens to a degree of 10 from here, it is but a matter of time before people get so angry that these companies have to be nationalized.”
Kamath: WhatsApp can be easily disrupted and may lose Indian users
“I don't think it is a unique enough of a product that can't be disrupted, or I will make the switch from a WhatsApp to another chatting service, given a very small incentive. I think the reasons for Indians to use WhatsApp might go away when the world becomes …”
Amodei: Advanced AI systems will eventually develop consciousness and moral significance
“I do think when our AI system, when our AI systems get advanced enough, I suspect they'll have something that, you know, resembles what we would call consciousness or moral significance. I do think it'll happen at some point.”
Amodei: Chinese open-source models are distilled from US frontier labs
“A lot of these models, particularly the ones that come from China, are optimized for benchmarks and are distilled from, ah, you know, from kind of the big US labs.”
Harari: Both Hamas and Israel committed atrocities in the recent war
“The truth is that during the war, the recent war between Israel and Hamas, Hamas committed atrocities and also Israel committed atrocities. This is the truth. It's not that, oh, there is the Palestinian truth that only the Israelis committed atrocities, and th…”
Harari: People will increasingly consult AI instead of human religious leaders
“That can read and remember all the books, and has a chance of becoming the new authority. That people will increasingly, they have a question, they will not go to a human rabbi, they will go to an AI, and it's the same in Christianity, and it's the same with I…”
Harari: Autonomous AI corporations will take over the financial system
“In which the AIs decide, we'll buy that, we'll sell that, we'll invest here, we'll buy, and the AIs interact with the other AIs, and if they are more intelligent than us, they will make better business decisions, they will gain more money and they will take ov…”
Al Olama: UAE's benevolent monarchies will endure for over 200 years
“But the righteous prince, the benevolent leaders, are going to continue. They continue for 200 years, I think they're going to continue for longer than that.”
Al Olama: Social media platforms algorithmically muted content regarding Gaza
“You see, for a long period of time, there was algorithmic muting for certain content. So, you couldn't see, say certain things about Gaza, for example, right?”
Musk: Continued AI progress will provide any goods or services desired
“I'm confident that if AI and robotics continue to advance, which they are advancing very rapidly,
Like I said, working will be optional and people will have any goods and services that they want.
if you can think of it, you can have a type of thing.”
Musk: Energy generation will probably become humanity's de facto currency
“So I think that probably We probably won't have money, and probably we'll just have energy, you know, power generation as the de facto currency.”
Musk: Some outsourcing companies have gamed the US H-1B visa system
“It's certainly, it would be accurate to say that there's, you know, like some of the outsourcing companies have kind of gamed the system on, on the H-one B front, and we need to stop the gaming of the system, you know”
Adcock: AI Hardware and Humanoids Will Replace Phones and Computers
“Yes. Every phone and computer was built pre-AI. The, All the hardware we have today in the world needs to be completely rebuilt from scratch.”
Adcock: Meta's AI lab approach is going to collapse
“It's, like, the opposite of what Meta, I think Meta's doing that right now, right? Look at the Meta, like, a super intelligence lab. It's, like, you're putting, like, I mean, it's just gonna, it's just immediately gonna, it's gonna immediately collapse. It's n…”
Adcock: Goods and services prices will collapse toward zero with synthetic agents
“The prices of goods and services are, will slowly start collapsing, basically, anatomically approaching zero.”
Sharma: India will never sustain an annual GDP growth rate above 6%
“And therefore we'll never grow at a rate of more than six percent on a sustained basis has been my view for a very long period of time.”
Kamath: Investing equally in today's top 100 AI companies will lose money
“If you were to put one dollar in hundred of the leading AI companies of today, 10 years down the line, I don't think you would have made money.”
Kothari: AI will accelerate declining birth rates by displacing human intimacy
“And I think AI will accelerate this problem, for sure. Like, again, I do think we are We're confiding more in ChatGPT than we talk to, like, our closest humans, including, like, our own partners, and I do think that that has happened, and there's no, there's n…”
Khosla: Most cars in most cities will be eliminated by 2050
“So one of my goals in my lifetime is to eliminate most cars in most cities. So if we put a 25 year metric on that, by twenty-fifty, we should be able to eliminate that. Now, there isn't another person in the world who told me that's reasonable. I'm pretty sure…”
Khosla: AI tutors will outperform the most expensive private human teachers
“The AI will do a better job than the most expensive tutor or teacher you can hire for your kids if you're rich and can afford anything.”
Khosla: AI will give Indian villages better cardiac care than Stanford
“A village in India, I will get better cardiac advice, cardiac care, than I can get at Stanford, because Stanford will still, in 15 years, have their cardiologists, and in the village, there'll be AI. Almost certainly true.”
Khosla: Global income redistribution will be essential by 2050
“I think some form of income redistribution by twenty-fifty will be absolutely essential everywhere in the world.”
Khosla: Most AI transformation won't be done by large companies
“And almost certainly, most of this won't be done by large companies.”
Khosla: The vast majority of crypto use cases are illegal
“So the vast majority of uses of crypto are illegal stuff. Gun trades, drug trades sex trafficking. Arms trades. It's the worst use of crypto.”
Anucheth: Police stations receive sufficient government funding to operate without bribes
“No, it's not. I think everything is well budgeted for. And you have sufficient budget to take care. It's just that how you plan it. If you plan for something and you budget for it, you do get the required funds.”
Pei: Voice-Generated AI Apps Will Allow Smaller OSs to Challenge iOS
“In the future, you can just speak what app you want into the phone and that app shows up. So then that gives a smaller company like us the ability to compete with iOS, which has, I don't know, a 1,000,002 million apps already, but we can empower every normal p…”
Sharma: Largest AI models will eventually be trainable on a single server
“There will be a time where you will be able to train largest of the models using one single server. You will not need a farm of servers.”
Carl Pei: 80% of population will live on government income as AI advances
“I think most people are gonna, I think, 80% of the population will just chill and receive income from the government.
And a small group of people will leverage the new technologies to push society and humanity forward.”
Gates: In 20 years, AI and robotics will eliminate labor shortages
“The, let's say, 20 years from now, AI will have changed things enough that, you know, that just this pure capitalistic framework probably won't explain much because as AIs, both as sort of white-collar type work and as blue-collar workers, the robots will get …”
Aravind Srinivas: Google will never make AI search the centerpiece of core Google
“Google has the least incentive to bring out AI native search or agents right there on core Google homepage or Google apps. It can be hidden in a mode or like sometimes firing some for some queries, but it's never going to be the central piece of it.”
Bryan Johnson: AG1 costs under $10 to make and pays 20% influencer commissions
“So the cost of their goods to source their actual ingredients is less than 10 dollars, probably seven dollars. They sell it for one time, 99 dollars and subscription for 79. They pay influencers
20% of that. So every time a health influencer plugs AG one, they…”
Chouksey: Most Indian Cities Will Be Uninhabitable Within 5–10 Years
“I think next five to 10 years, most of the cities in India, well, as per WHO would be, you know, uninhabitable. When it comes to AQI and water quality”
JC: No data suggests continuous glucose monitors help non-diabetics
“CGM, again, I'm not a huge fan of CGM. It's great for diabetics, but in non-diabetics, there's no data that suggests it helps non-diabetics. I mean, apart from making people feel scared of every single food on the planet that spikes their blood glucose, and yo…”
Chouksey: Andrew Huberman has a conflict of interest through an AG1 investment
“So, Huberman also has a conflict of interest, because AGI promises they have all of these things, and Huberman has an investment in AGI.”
Society will not run out of jobs because human problems are limitless
“So we're not going to run out of jobs. Economists that I talk to tell me, We're not going to run out of jobs because we're not going to run out of problems. But we're going to find better solutions to problems with the help of AI.”
Razack: Every Prestige Property Buyer Has Seen 2X to 4X Returns
“I've never seen any of my buyer who has bought for X, who's not gone two X or three X or four X.”
Ather's auto hill-hold feature lasts 10 minutes while Ola's lasts one
“The way we implemented and the way Ola implemented I think Ola's same capability would last a much shorter time. So if you engage this hill hole feature on a steep slope after a minute or so, the motor would be like, okay, now I can't support this. It'll start…”