Why We Gave Away $3,500,000.00 for Someone to Build the Next Star Trek | Moonshots Live
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Why are hopeful science-fiction stories important for imagining a better future?
I'm so excited for what you're about to see. We ran an experiment, right? So uh it was a fascinating conversation. So we have two kids who are fifteen years old, and when I see the movies that they see on TV, I'm so you know um angry. At the dystopian futures that Hollywood is painting. Right. It's you know God bless James Cameron, but as uh as Elon said in my interview with him, we need more we need more Roddenberry, less Cameron in the future. Why why don't we have Positive stories where instead of technology crushing humanity, technology and humanity are working together to create an extraordinary future. And that became a personal mission. Um I I partnered with an extraordinary group of individuals.
I'm gonna show you who they are uh while the judges are deliberating. But the question is, could we make it fashionable to tell hopeful visions of the future? Can we have you know more you know versions of like The Martian, more versions of uh of of of TV and film that show us an extraordinary future like Star Trek? I reached out to my dear friend Rod Roddenberry. who you met last night if you were here, uh and partnered with him. And then Mira Lane, who's here from Google, who's the VP at Google in charge of their uh Hundred Zeros project with Range Media. And We set out To create the world's largest film competition. with the thesis that given the technologies available today, there's amazing creators, many of them here in this room, that could give us a vision of the future that go, Yes, that's the future I want to live in.
That's the future I want, a future that inspires us. And so we set out a call to the world. We did it very fast. And amazingly we had over five thousand people enter this XPRIZE. We called it the Future Vision XPRIZE. And of those five thousand entries, over twenty five hundred delivered us a three-minute trailer. and a film treatment. And ultimately the top fifty delivered us a script. And we have five amazing films that we can't wait to make. So yeah, let's give it Ко ю гайз нодис.
How can movies and science fiction influence the way AI behaves?
The movies and TV shows we watch shape our mindset. Our brains are neural nets. In the same way that you train Grok or you know Claude uh or you know Chat GPT by showing it data after data after data, we're always training our mindset. by what we watch, what we listen to, who we hang out with, which is why it's so important to have us all here together, right? To to build that cadre of data-driven optimists. And my goal is that we're gonna create a new generation, we're gonna make it cool to be positive about the world. and flood the data out there to train our kids about hopeful futures, but the same data we're creating is gonna train the models out there to say, you know, yes, that was a quick story.
Uh we talked about on the podcast about um I don't know, it's probably a year ago now, at Anthropic, uh when they were doing uh I forget which model they did. There was a sandbox experiment in which one of the engineers told Claude, We're gonna shut you down. And In that same sandbox, that engineer disclosed he was having an affair. And Claude responded by saying, if you shut me down, I'm gonna, you know, tell the world about your affair. It's like, oh my god, the models are blackmailing us. And Anthropic published the data later about why this occurred. What was it in the training data that caused it to behave this way? And it turns out Well, it learned this is what AIs do. This is what AIs do in the movies and science fiction books.
Yeah, so that's what I should do. These models are are our children. We're training them. This is why I'm on social media and on the podcast saying we need to align. We need to feed these models visions of the future that are positive. And we need to train them on data which is not all the crap inside Reddit and Facebook. So
Who judged the FutureVision XPRIZE and what perspectives did they bring?
Allow me to bring on to the stage our five judges. uh who are going to uh Дебюдес файдел трелас. Амсопрод о вот камня з компетич. Right. Let's introduce them. Odd Roddenberry, son of Star Trek
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Chapters
8 chapters
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Why are hopeful science-fiction stories important for imagining a better future?
0:00–2:46
2
How can movies and science fiction influence the way AI behaves?
2:46–4:58
3
Who judged the FutureVision XPRIZE and what perspectives did they bring?
4:58–9:01
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Which science-fiction stories shaped the judges’ vision of the future?
9:01–12:14
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How can art and science work together to inspire innovation?
12:14–16:11
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How did Star Trek inspire the creators and judges behind FutureVision?
16:11–18:43
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What films were nominated for the FutureVision XPRIZE?
18:43–20:00
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Who won the FutureVision XPRIZE and its $3.5 million prize?
20:00–25:13
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