Dr. Alexander Wissner-Gross
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Do you remember the scene, guys, in the Johnny Depp movie, Transcendence, where the solar panels are being grown by nanorobots?
Do you remember that scene?
I don't, but I like it.
Split that in, man.
It's an important, yeah.
I don't know if that's possible to include just that scene where solar panels are being grown by nanorobots.
I'd love to live in that near-term future.
If folks have ideas for how to grow solar panels in real time with nanorobots, send them my way.
It would be ironic.
I mean, maybe this is too cute by half, but given the earlier discussion of OpenAI starting as a not-for-profit and then converting to a PBC and all the lawsuits that ensued, it would be ironic if the OpenAI Foundation, which is the new nonprofit carved off of the old for-profit, carved off of the old new profit, ended up being so profitable due to curing Alzheimer's and solving all these other problems that the cycle repeats itself and the OpenAI Foundation has to become a for-profit.
I do think it's worth considering what happens if and when the OpenAI Foundation succeeds and cures Alzheimer's and that will be a blockbuster drug, maybe create its own Eli Lilly scale trillion dollar pharma company.
Does OpenAI take a stake in that?
Does OpenAI see a rev share?
Questions need to be answered.
Salim, thank you for promoting Solve Everything.
That's an amazing promo, Salim, for Solve Everything.
Much appreciated.
Boom.
I think also for everyone who was hand-wringing, do you remember a few months ago, there was so much hand-wringing about a circular economy forming and NVIDIA self-dealing loans to other companies to buy NVIDIA chips and concern that this AI boom was fictitious and just the product of self-dealing circular transactions and
and other financial engineering.