This is CBS, I on the World.

I'm John Batchel.

Artificial intelligence, robotics.

I welcome Brandon Wyckhardt, who is a senior fellow at the Center for National Interest,

as well as a contributor to popular mechanics.

And he's a national security editor for national interest.

All these things come together in the presentation most recently at the Las Vegas

Electronics Show by Jensen Wong, the CEO of Envidia, a firm that has all of a sudden

become the center of the future of American

industrial output because it is not only manufacturing the very highest end microchips that are

necessary for artificial intelligence and the data centers we hear popping up everywhere,

but also now, according to Mr. Waugh, it is going into robotics.

That's right.

AI plus robotics.

In other words, the Battlestar Galactica vision of the Cylons rampaging against the humans

for having invented them, that is coming true. No rampage,

just the possibility of SILONs within the lifetime of people listening to me now.

Brandon, a very good evening to you. The headline at Barron's on another subject, but they all come

together. Tesla's robot business is closer than you think.

Subhead, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, thinks people want their own C3PO's,

and then Barron's agrees with him in the opening graph.

Tesla's using artificial intelligence to build self-driving cars and humanoid robots. Wall Street assumes

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