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2/2: #AI: Nvidia accelerates into robotics. Brandon Weichert, National Interest.

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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🗓️ 7 January 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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2/2: #AI: Nvidia accelerates into robotics. Brandon Weichert, National Interest.
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0:00.0

This is CBSI on the world.

0:05.8

I'm John Dutch with Brendan Weikert.

0:07.3

We've established the utopian version of robotics and Nvidia's profit motive to change from merely artificial intelligence to artificial intelligence that works, works at an Amazon warehouse,

0:23.4

works in a robot taxi, works in a unit that flies to Earth orbit, deposits its cargo

0:31.5

into another object that flies to Earth-Moon Orphet or Earth-Mars orbit and delivers it at the surface of Mars.

0:43.7

Elon Musk has a vision.

0:46.4

The vision is to colonize Mars in his lifetime.

0:49.9

He's 55.

0:51.5

I do not know if he'll make it, but it's an ambition he's had since he invented SpaceX.

0:56.7

It's not about profit for him.

0:58.8

It's about putting a colony on Mars, not two or three people who walk across with footprints,

1:04.5

but live there, a self-sustainable colony.

1:07.5

That requires robotics.

1:10.3

The question here is there are critics in the American version and the

1:16.5

British version who have an opinion that robotics is sinister. How so, Brandon? Well, I mean,

1:24.9

I too am a natural skeptic of many things. And so I too also worry about the downside

1:30.0

risk here. The downside risk is things like disrupting, the way they are talking about basically

1:36.3

having the AI do so many different things across multiple industries, it could potentially,

1:43.1

if it's as successful as the dreamers are saying,

1:46.2

it could be so disruptive that it renders millions of people permanently unemployed.

1:51.7

Imagine what happened with the travel agencies of the 80s and the 90s when things like,

1:56.6

you know, Expedia.com took over.

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