Steve Levitt
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 31 Jul
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In this episode, we've heard some reasons that space might be a good place to put data centers.
But there's another reason AI and space belong together, and it has nothing to do with electricity or real estate.
It was explained to me by Will Marshall, who I spoke with on the last episode.
He's the co-founder and CEO of Planet, the data company whose satellites photograph the entire Earth every day.
There's a lot of public uneasiness around AI and its growing importance in society.
You've got a vision of a future version of AI that looks very, very different from our current models.
Could you describe where you think AI is going to take us?
Why hasn't it happened before?
I mean, interestingly, before the LLMs, I think people would have said that what we've done with computer vision was actually remarkable and had gotten way ahead of what the LLMs have done in the meantime.
What's the holdup?
Is it the models?
It's not the data.
You've talked about this in a very practical way, but I've also heard you talk in a very wistful, pro-humanity way.
Could you talk about the Fermi paradox and how you think this kind of planetary AI will fit into the future of humanity?
That sounds like a really great science fiction story where you train the AI to value the beauty of Earth and humanness in order to protect our long-term future.
I wanted to end where this whole series began, with Blaise Aguirre-Yarkas, the person who first thought up Project Suncatcher.
You talk about this in terms of a moonshot, but also you're describing it as if this is going to happen for sure.
So I'm curious, in 40 years, say, what do you think the chances are that this will have come to fruition and we will be doing a lot of our AI computing in space?
Like a number.
What's your number on that?
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