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James McHugh

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James Reed: all about business
How to spot the next billion dollar opportunity before everyone else | James McHugh

Correct.

James Reed: all about business
How to spot the next billion dollar opportunity before everyone else | James McHugh

And then on the other side, we're close to having sentient AI that will be able to evolve rapidly under its own tutelage.

James Reed: all about business
How to spot the next billion dollar opportunity before everyone else | James McHugh

I sat in a ballpark in San Francisco many years ago.

James Reed: all about business
How to spot the next billion dollar opportunity before everyone else | James McHugh

A friend of mine had developed some game where he was, you could own a, it was a silly game.

James Reed: all about business
How to spot the next billion dollar opportunity before everyone else | James McHugh

You could own this dog and my dog and your dog could decide to have a little dog together and get some of the features.

James Reed: all about business
How to spot the next billion dollar opportunity before everyone else | James McHugh

Dogs do that?

James Reed: all about business
How to spot the next billion dollar opportunity before everyone else | James McHugh

Yeah.

James Reed: all about business
How to spot the next billion dollar opportunity before everyone else | James McHugh

It was a digital dog, right?

James Reed: all about business
How to spot the next billion dollar opportunity before everyone else | James McHugh

It was a digital dog.

James Reed: all about business
How to spot the next billion dollar opportunity before everyone else | James McHugh

So my digital dog and your digital dog and the red ears would get carried forward.

James Reed: all about business
How to spot the next billion dollar opportunity before everyone else | James McHugh

It was a silly game.

James Reed: all about business
How to spot the next billion dollar opportunity before everyone else | James McHugh

And Chris says to me, look, I can speed this up.

James Reed: all about business
How to spot the next billion dollar opportunity before everyone else | James McHugh

And he then went four generations, five generations, six generations on the click of a button.

James Reed: all about business
How to spot the next billion dollar opportunity before everyone else | James McHugh

And while it was a silly game, what that suddenly helped me realize is when computers are ready to evolve from themselves, make a better version of themselves,

James Reed: all about business
How to spot the next billion dollar opportunity before everyone else | James McHugh

It takes you and I 20 odd years to try and achieve that.

James Reed: all about business
How to spot the next billion dollar opportunity before everyone else | James McHugh

They will do that in nanoseconds, right?

James Reed: all about business
How to spot the next billion dollar opportunity before everyone else | James McHugh

And if you then put that with quantum computing where you've got infinite compute power, the outcome of this thing is terrifying.

James Reed: all about business
How to spot the next billion dollar opportunity before everyone else | James McHugh

Its capacity to evolve and understand every possible outcome.

James Reed: all about business
How to spot the next billion dollar opportunity before everyone else | James McHugh

Yeah.

James Reed: all about business
How to spot the next billion dollar opportunity before everyone else | James McHugh

So if you are willing to accept the reality that there was a big bang 13 billion years ago, that the earth formed three, four billion years ago, life happened 200 million years after that and humans kind of evolved over the last several hundred thousand years and ultimately 70,000 years since our ancestors were living in caves.