Episode 2787 CWSA 03/23/25
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What is the highlight of human civilization?
Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and you've never had a better time. But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains... All you need is a cup or mug or a glass of deck, tank or chalice or stein, a canteen jug or flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better, except my talking. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens now. Go. So good. You needed that. It's a good Sunday morning, and we should enjoy it. Well, let's see what's what. You know Mark Benioff?
He's the founder of Salesforce. Very smart, very futurist-looking kind of a guy. He was reposting on X a video of a company showing off their robot, and he said that if you take DeepSeek, which is that Chinese AI that costs just pennies to use, and you combine it with Unitree, which is basically a cheap humanoid-looking robot. It goes for about $16,000. I think there might be an expensive version, too. He said that it's not a science fiction anymore, so we're right on the verge of AI plus robots, except... I'm pretty sure that the video he sent around was CGI. I don't think we're close. I don't think that the current version of AI, no matter what you do, you're not going to make a robot be able to generally do stuff.
I think it's always either CGI, where they find one robot doing one thing, and then they show it to you and you go, ooh. Look at that robot removing glasses from the dishwasher. And then you realize that's sort of all it can do. If you tried to do something else, we would forget how to do the dishwasher thing. So I don't think we're even close. But it'll sneak up on us really quickly. There is, however, according to Hamza Abbas, a new kind of AI technology. So the current ones are large language models where all they do is predict what the next word will be, but they don't really understand anything. They just predict what the next word will be. But there's a new kind of AI called an LCM, a large concept model.
How can AI and robots change the future?
So instead of looking at words and just predicting what word comes next, they somehow can predict can master concepts. And then they put these concepts together and then they're supposed to be smarter. But apparently Meta is doing this. And I think I'm going to wait on this because, again, I'm very skeptical that this would give you enough AI to put in a robot and make you feel good about it. I do think we'll get to the point where there's AI and robots, but I don't think we're as close as any of the smart people are saying. It just doesn't look like the technology can do it. Anyway, the TikTok, as you know, either has to be bought or go out of business in the United States. But Perplexity, the company that does that cool little Perplexity app, which I highly recommend, it's awesome.
So they've got a pretty good bid. Or at least they've got a good concept for a bid. They want to buy TikTok. And they would sort of integrate it in some ways with the perplexity. So one of the things you could do is if you did a search, one of the things that might come up with would be a TikTok video. But that's only if they buy it. They would rebuild TikTok's algorithm from scratch. They put it in American data centers. They'd make the recommendation system transparent and open source. And they'd upgrade the AI infrastructure using NVIDIA's technology and a bunch of other stuff. But they're not the only ones who want to buy it. You've also got a bunch of investors led by somebody named Frank McCourt. He must be very rich.
And I think Microsoft and Oracle, yeah, they're part of it too. So there's a lot of people who want to buy it, but I don't think China wants to sell it. So they may just decide to go into business in the U.S. We'll see. there's a study out of Northwestern that showed that ordinary people can persuade people on political topics. Do you believe that?
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the highlight of human civilization?
0:08–3:06
2
How can AI and robots change the future?
3:06–13:04
3
What does the new study say about political persuasion?
13:04–23:14
4
Is the U.S. considering joining the British Commonwealth?
23:14–40:09
5
What are the implications of the Democrats' popularity decline?
40:09–1:08:37
Speakers
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