Qasar Younis: prediction

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…You're basically building a lot of the future that we're going to be living in and people may not even realize this. And there's two sides to this. On the one side, let me ask you this question. If things go really well, what does the next couple years look like for people with the emergence of AI with physical AI? What's a vision of the future? Let me take the broader AI point and then the more specific one on physical AI. Macro, think about this like the Industrial Revolution. So if you are sitting, let's say in the late 1800s, we can focus on a lot of bad things that happen because of Industrial Revolution. You have child labor and you have monopolies emerging and you have abuse of... Wars end up happening. But there's also, it's an almost unimaginable present without the values and without the kind of benefits we got of the Industrial Revolution, which is broader access to healthcare like we've never seen before. Access to goods, material goods, things like we take for granted, like heating and cooling your home. There's this great YouTube channel that focuses on POW letters from Germans who are seeing America in the early '40s, and they're writing letters back to Germany about what they're seeing as they're basically prisoners of war. And they're kind of blown away that the towns that they roll by in these trains as they're going to their POW camps are all lit up or that there's cars everywhere. 80% of German towns in World War II did not have electricity. And that's kind of a mind bending kind of thing because we just assume all this stuff, all this technology is equally distributed. So the positive version is these things that we, let's say folks who are wealthy or folks who have access to technology, these things everybody has access to. The fact like simply having somebody who's a coach to you and having that coach very specifically to you, not a generic ChatGPT that's giving fairly generic answers, that's a very powerful thing. I think us solving some of these impossible problems like cancer are directly going to be related to this AI boom. So I think net suffering in humanity, I think just like the Industrial Revolution overall should go down and should go down significantly. And I'm a fundamental optimist in that view that technology will bring that positivity. In physical AI specifically, again, when you have things like you have your own car and you have the ability, you have your limbs, and you have your senses, and you can drive, you take these kind of things for granted. You jump in your car and you go to the store. For somebody who maybe is disabled or somebody who doesn't have the money to afford a vehicle, access to mobility that's nearly free or is free is a big deal. And that simple example of making self-driving cars free for everybody and how that would change the planet, you live in Rwanda and you are two hours from the nearest hospital, that matters. That's in a very, very true way. And so I think a lot of, let's say, the negativity around AI comes from people who frankly speaking are living in a very, very good existence. And when you live on the other edge of society, yes, and I'm not like some naive person who thinks that there's no downsides of technology, we can discuss that, but I just see there's a lot more positive. when you live on the other edge of society, yes, and I'm not like some naive person who thinks that there's no downsides of technology, we can discuss that, but I just see there's a lot more positive. So when you ask that question, what's the next... Forget 3 to 5 years, what's the next 20 years? These things that we take for granted that are bad suddenly are not there. And I think certain diseases, certain inaccessibility to basic services suddenly start going away. One last example of that is you take just the fact that you can message people basically for free. For people old enough, this is not the norm. We came from Pakistan. We couldn't even communicate back to Pakistan because the long distance was so expensive and so it was handwritten letters. Today, you can basically contact anybody on the planet basically for free. There's obvious downsides for that, but there's lots of upsides for that, which is being in touch with people that you care about and you love basically for free. And so I think AI has the ability to bring this abundance to many, many more people at a near free cost.…

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