Episode 2713 CWSA 01/07/25
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What is the highlight of this episode?
All right, let's make this official. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and I don't think you've ever had a better time. But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels where they could never understand it in Greenland and Panama and those other places we're going to conquer, all you need for that is a cup or mug or a glass of tanker chalice, a stein, a canteen, jug or flask, vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. Join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine, the end of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip and it happens now. Excelsior. Well, so I've got lots of tech news and a bunch of political news. I'm going to say most of the tech news too after the political stuff, but there are a couple of cool things.
What are the latest innovations from CES 2025?
CES, the technology show, is happening right now for 2025. And one of the things that's being introduced is a 3D projector. Now, not the kind that projects on a flat screen and it gives it the appearance of being 3D. It actually creates the 3D holograph and can put it on your table and have it dance in front of you. Now, I don't know if they can do it with photorealistic stuff. They did it with an animation. So you look at the table, and sitting on the table, apparently, is a little character that's dancing right in front of you as a 3D object. Kind of amazing. I didn't think that was going to come. Well, I did a little deeper dive on quantum computing. Because I was trying to understand, I've told you this before, when I hear people explain how it works or why it works, it sounds like word salad. And I thought to myself, hmm, I guess maybe it's because I don't have the technology background. But if I did, I'd understand that word salad. And I went deeper and deeper, and I'm quite sure that nobody knows why it works.
I'm fairly positive and you've heard things like I think Joe Rogan said this the other day that quantum computing works because it accesses the infinity of other dimensions nothing like that's happening there's nothing like accessing other dimensions that's not happening we don't know what is happening but there's no indication it's accessing another dimension if there is one, what is it even? So the things they say are things like, well, you know, this probability wave interferes with another one, and between the two of them, they can predict the future without using any logic or any calculation. They just see the future. And that future they see could be like the solution to a difficult problem, like a math problem. And I say to myself... Really?
How does quantum computing really work?
You just interfere a couple of probabilities and then you can see the future. So what quantum computing is alleging to do is literally see the future. Or to peer into the past, I guess, too. None of this is really possible, as far as I know. So I thought to myself, it must be me, right? Just because I don't understand the field. And I've now seen two experts who do understand it. Kind of suggests that nobody understands it, and we don't know if it could ever even be commercial in a big way. I mean, it might have some niche, you know, specific things it can do, but it's never going to be a general computer. So forget about having your own quantum computer. It doesn't look like that's going to happen. But NVIDIA just created a $3,000 personal AI supercomputer.
What are the implications of NVIDIA's new AI supercomputer?
And it's only this little box, which if you wanted to work on AI, if I understand it right, it would be like a data center in a tiny little box. So if you were working with AI, instead of having to access a data center, you can access this little box on your desk. And apparently, you have like full AI capability. So I don't know the ins and outs and the pluses and minuses of doing that versus having access to the actual full data center. But it's got 200 billion parameters, and it looks like a big deal. And then they also have a secret chip that's going to go in humanoid robots. So with all those new introductions, I guess the stock for NVIDIA would be... And it's down.
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Chapters
6 chapters
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What is the highlight of this episode?
0:01–1:01
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What are the latest innovations from CES 2025?
1:01–3:18
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How does quantum computing really work?
3:18–4:15
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What are the implications of NVIDIA's new AI supercomputer?
4:15–23:55
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Why is TikTok suppressing anti-China content?
23:55–34:14
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What is the significance of Trump's tariff negotiations?
34:14–1:17:06
Speakers
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