Episode 2787 CWSA 03⧸23⧸25
Episode Stats
Length
1 hour and 10 minutes
Words per Minute
137.7066
Summary
In this episode of the highlight of human civilization, Scott Adams talks about a new kind of AI, TikTok, AI in robots, and the future of AI in the 21st century, and a new type of AI that might be coming soon.
Transcript
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good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of human civilization it's called
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so good you needed that it's a good Sunday morning and we should enjoy it
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well let's see what's what you know Mark Benioff he's the founder of Salesforce very smart very
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futurist looking kind of a guy he was reposting on X a video of a company showing off the robot
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and he said that if you take deep seek which is that Chinese AI that costs just pennies to use
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and you combine it with unitary which is basically a cheap humanoid looking robot it goes for about
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$16,000 I think there might be an expensive version too he said that it's not a science fiction anymore
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so we're right on the verge of AI plus robots except I'm pretty sure that the video he sent around was CGI
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I don't think we're close I don't think that the current version of AI no matter what you do
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you're not going to make a robot be able to generally do stuff I think it's always either CGI
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where they find one robot doing one thing and then they show it to you go oh look at that robot
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removing glasses from the dishwasher and then you realize that's sort of all it can do
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if you tried to do something else we would forget how to do the dishwasher thing so I don't think
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we're even close but it'll sneak up on us really quickly there is however according to Hamza Abbas
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a new kind of AI so the current ones are large language models where all they do is predict what the
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next word will be but they don't really understand anything they just predict what the next word will be
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but there's a new kind of AI called an LCM a large concept model so instead of looking at words and just predicting what word comes next
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they somehow can can master concepts and then they put these concepts together and then they're supposed to be smarter
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but apparently Meta is doing this and I think I'm going to wait on this because again I'm very skeptical
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that this would give you enough AI to put in a robot and make you feel good about it
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I do think we'll get to the point where there's AI in robots but I don't think we're as close as any of the smart people are saying
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it just doesn't look like the technology can do it
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anyway the TikTok as you know either has to be bought or go out of business in the United States
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but perplexity the company that does that cool little perplexity app which I highly recommend it's awesome
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so they've got a pretty good bid they want or at least they've got a good concept for a bid
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they want to buy TikTok and they would sort of integrate it in some ways with the perplexity
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so one of the things you could do is if you did a search
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one of the things that might come up with would be a TikTok video
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they would rebuild TikTok's algorithm from scratch
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they'd make the recommendation system transparent and open source
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and they'd upgrade the AI infrastructure using NVIDIA's technology
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but they're not the only ones who want to buy it
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you've also got a bunch of investors led by somebody named Frank McCourt
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so they may just decide to go into business in the US
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and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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before you give them a little extra information