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Dwarkesh Podcast
Elon Musk - "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space”

Even for Xbox, that's outsourced.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Elon Musk - "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space”

Again, their output is digital.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Elon Musk - "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space”

Meta's output is digital.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Elon Musk - "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space”

Google's output is digital.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Elon Musk - "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space”

So if you have a human emulator, you can basically create one of the most valuable companies in the world overnight, and you would have access to trillions of dollars of revenue.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Elon Musk - "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space”

It's not like a small amount.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Elon Musk - "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space”

I mean, if you take something as simple as, say, a customer service, if you have to integrate with the APIs of existing corporations, many of which don't even have an API, so you've got to make one.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Elon Musk - "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space”

and you've got to wade through legacy software, that's extremely slow.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Elon Musk - "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space”

However, if AI can simply take whatever is given to the outsourced customer service company that they already use,

Dwarkesh Podcast
Elon Musk - "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space”

and do customer service using the apps that they already use, then you can make tremendous headway in customer service, which is, I think, 1% of the world economy, something like that.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Elon Musk - "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space”

It's close to a trillion dollars all in for customer service.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Elon Musk - "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space”

And there's no barriers to entry.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Elon Musk - "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space”

You can just immediately say, we'll outsource it for a fraction of the cost.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Elon Musk - "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space”

And there's no integration needed.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Elon Musk - "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space”

I was just using a customer service as something that's a very significant revenue stream, but one that is probably not super difficult to solve for.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Elon Musk - "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space”

So if you can emulate a human at a desktop, that's just literally what customer service is.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Elon Musk - "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space”

It's people of average intelligence.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Elon Musk - "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space”

It's not like you don't need somebody who's spent many years.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Elon Musk - "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space”

You don't need several Sigma good engineers for that.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Elon Musk - "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space”

But obviously, as you make that work, once you have computers working, effectively digital optimists working,