It's an honor to be here tonight.

How many of you have used chat GPT at least once?

Oh, wow.

Okay.

That's the most I've seen in one crowd.

That's great.

That's good, because I don't have time to explain chat GPT tonight.

It is a delight.

I want to open tonight with a quotation from Elon Musk on the state of artificial intelligence, quote,

the rate of improvement of AI is faster than any technology I've ever seen by far.

The good future of AI is one of immense prosperity in an age of abundance.

No shortage of goods and services.

Everyone can have whatever they want, except for the things we artificially defined to be scarce, like special artwork.

But with the advent of AI plus robotics, any manufactured good or provided service will trend to zero cost.

I'm not saying it will actually become zero, but everyone will be able to have anything they want.

That's the good future.

In my view, that's probably 80% likely,

and only 20% probability of human annihilation.

Elon is a realist.

Frankly, I do have to engage in some degree of deliberate suspension of disbelief

with respect to AI to sleep well, because I think

the actual issue, the big issue, the most likely issue, is how to find meaning in a world where

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