Demis Hassabis on AGI, Robots Scale Production, and Elon’s $1T Mars-Shot Comp | EP 253
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Demis Hassabis argues AGI emerged in 2020 via GPT-3's knowledge compression, needing no major breakthroughs, while humanoid robotics scales exponentially—Figure AI targeting 100k robots by 2030, 1X 100k in 2027, and predictions of 10B by 2040 for elder care and human environments. Elon Musk's $1T SpaceX comp ties to Mars colony and space compute milestones, exemplifying moonshot incentives amid OpenAI trial drama and China's AI employment protections. AI drives scientific superintelligence, longevity drugs like retatrutide (37lb loss, reversing liver damage), de-extinction (blue buck 2028), and mid-2028 ambient consumer AI via wearables, digital twins, and AR, amid compute shortages and abundance economy shifts.
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Demis Hassabis, CEO of DeepMind, says AGI may not need a major breakthrough. Argument that AGI was achieved in summer 2020. Figure AI increased production from one robot per day to one robot per hour, targeting 100,000 robots between now and 2030. 1X Technologies production goal is 10,000 robots this year, 100,000 in 2027. Predictions from Elon Musk and Brad Adcock of up to 10 billion humanoid robots by 2040. "It's probably right. What I think is perhaps even more interesting is what does a post-humanoid robot form factor look like. These are the kinds of conversations and imaginations that one can have in this exponential singularity that we're living in."
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Host expresses gratitude. Introduces Dave Brendan (DB2), guru on exponential investing, partner at Link Ventures, MIT roommate along with Mike Saylor from MicroStrategy. Introduces Alex Quasar Gross (AWG), MIT alum, Link Exponential Ventures team member. Introduces Salim Ismail (Salem Ismail, Hugsies), godfather to host's boys, co-conspirator, co-author, co-founder of Singularity University. Special guest Steven Kotler, three-time Pulitzer Prize nominated author of 17 books, co-author of Abundance, Bold, The Future Is Faster Than You Think, and We Are Gods.
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