Revolutionizing Copyrights: Japan's Open-Source Move - Matthew Iversen

26 Feb 2024 · 52 min

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Episode Overview Title: Revolutionizing Copyrights: Japan's Open-Source Move Host: Jaden Schaefer Guest: Matthew Iversen, CEO of AppRabbit and PromptVox Description: The episode explores Japan's groundbreaking decision to eliminate copyrights for AI-generated content and its implications on creativity, innovation, and the global intellectual property landscape.

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Key Topics Discussed

  1. Japan's Copyright Decision
  2. Overview: Japan announced it will not enforce copyright on data used for AI training.
  3. Implications:
  4. AI can utilize any content (text, images, videos) without copyright restrictions.
  5. Artists express concerns about the potential loss of ownership and recognition for their work.
  6. Matthew's Perspective:
  7. While he sympathizes with artists, he sees the move as beneficial for AI innovation and competitiveness.
  8. Japan aims to position itself as a leader in AI technology without the hindrance of copyright issues.
  1. Reactions from the Creative Community
  2. Artists are concerned about their work being used without compensation or credit.
  3. The discussion highlights the tension between innovation and artistic ownership.
  4. Participants reflect on how IP ownership varies across industries, with entrepreneurship often encouraging imitation.
  1. Global AI Landscape
  2. Comparative Analysis: The U.S. is perceived as unlikely to adopt similar copyright measures as Japan.
  3. Countries are racing to enhance their AI capabilities, fearing they might fall behind industry leaders like OpenAI and Google.
  1. Open Source AI Developments
  2. UAE's Falcon 40B Model:
  3. Recently open-sourced and becoming a leading AI model on platforms like Hugging Face.
  4. The model was trained on 1 trillion tokens, which sets a new standard in AI training datasets.
  5. Speculation on Motivations:
  6. Some suggest companies might use open sourcing as a strategy to gain market share or outmaneuver competitors.
  1. AI in Consumer Applications
  2. Discussion on Instacart's new AI shopping assistant.
  3. Integrates AI to provide personalized shopping recommendations.
  4. Skepticism exists regarding the effectiveness of AI-generated recipes and their accuracy.
  1. AI and Healthcare Innovations
  2. Research Breakthrough: AI has been utilized to discover a new antibiotic capable of combating antibiotic-resistant superbugs.
  3. Discussion on Future Potential:
  4. AI's role in medicine could lead to revolutionary treatments and faster drug discovery.
  1. Neuralink and Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs)
  2. Recent Developments: Human trials for Neuralink's brain chip technology.
  3. Ethical Concerns:
  4. Risks associated with hacking and privacy if brain chips are connected to the internet.
  5. Potential for manipulation of emotions and thoughts through electrical stimulation.
  1. Speculative Future Scenarios
  2. The dangers of government or corporate control over individual thoughts through BCIs.
  3. Potential for using BCIs to manipulate public opinion or behaviors by inducing specific emotional responses.

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Key Takeaways

  • Creativity vs. Innovation: The balance between protecting artists' rights and fostering AI innovation is delicate and contentious.
  • Global Competitiveness: Countries are making strategic decisions to enhance their AI capabilities, which may redefine the tech landscape.
  • Healthcare Transformations: AI's potential to revolutionize medicine through faster research and innovative treatments is promising yet raises ethical questions.
  • Ethical Implications of BCIs: The technology behind brain-computer interfaces opens a Pandora's box of ethical dilemmas surrounding privacy, consent, and manipulation.

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Conclusion This episode of "AI Today" dives deep into the complex interplay of AI advancements and their implications on various sectors, particularly focusing on legal, ethical, and creative aspects. The discussion around Japan's copyright decision serves as a pivotal case study on how nations can influence the future of technology through policy.

Listeners are encouraged to reflect on the challenges and opportunities presented by AI, especially as they relate to intellectual property and the medical field, while also considering the far-reaching implications of emerging brain-computer interface technologies.

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0:04Welcome to the chat GPT podcast. I'm your host Jaden Schaefer on the podcast with me today We are joined by Matthew Iverson, the CEO of AppRabbit, and also PromptVox, the AI prompt saving company. Today on the podcast, we are going to be talking about what is happening in AI today, some big news out of Japan, some big legal decisions they've made, a$1 trillion token model just got open sourced, the biggest yet, and the implications that's going to have. So a lot of really cool stuff. And thanks for jumping on the podcast with us today, Matt. Yeah, of course. I'm pumped. What's going on in Japan?

0:39Yeah, so I think one of the biggest pieces of news that we're seeing is that Japan, and actually, I know this is going to be controversial for a lot of people in a lot of industries. I think this was a good play. But essentially what's happening is in Japan, they made a rather surprising move where essentially they said they're not going to enforce any copyright data on anything that is used in AI training. aka AI in Japan can go and grab any content, any images, any video and make whatever they want. And there's no copyright issue there. So of course, the number one people that are complaining about this are like artists.

1:17And I mean, it's understandable, right? You like go and spend like 10 years making a portfolio of art, AI sucks it up and then can reproduce it. So those people are obviously complaining. What's your take on it? Yeah, I understand the whole artist thing. uh it's it kind of sucks for them because it's like it's like their entire belief system and like who they are is kind of rooted in in that and then ai just comes like literally twists it i see a lot of that in like discord like hey you can't use that that's my art or even as um when i was trying to get influencers to promote prompt box a lot of them would have like problems with like i'm like hey show them like a cool prompt they're like i can't i can't like do this picture or that prompt because like it doesn't belong to me and like that type of ownership just is totally foreign to me i'm like in because as an entrepreneur i see a good ad i literally screenshot it and i send it to my designer and i say copy this right or like if i see like good copy writing i like copy the email i'm like chat gpt just like write this but for me it's like copying is like and stealing is like kind of the name of the game in entrepreneurship i think a lot in science.

2:24And so in art, it's, it's like frowned upon and like disgraceful. So I get it. It's definitely like that with software too. I know, you know, having done a number of software projects, and it sounds bad to say stealing, but literally, it's like, okay, we got to design an account page. I'm like, okay, what is like Google do for their account page? What is like, I go look at like 10 other software, like, what do they do for their account page? And then like screenshot them and I make some sort of like similar thing. I'm like, you know, this looks like industry standard. But it's interesting because like a lot of slides of different software I have, like this page looks very similar to this software.

2:57This page looks very similar to that software. And I kind of like pick the best. And I think the whole industry does that, right? It's like, oh man, these guys have some good designs. It becomes trendy. And then everyone kind of rolls out something similar, even though your software might be doing something completely different. And so I think that's getting carried over into AI as well in that mentality. So the big reason I think that Japan decided to do that is because essentially they don't want to get bogged down. They want to be number one in AI and they're worried that the copyright is going to slow them down.

3:28As is, we already have, you know, we already have OpenAI who's taken the lead in America. We have Google Bard who's taken the lead in America. I think that a lot of countries, you know, they don't want to miss out on this bandwagon. And so like they're making a move that, you know, I I highly doubt the US would make this same copyright move, but they want, they're doing it so that they can be number one. And it's interesting because they called out two things in like, in specific that they said they're like worried about in this whole case. And that is anime and visual media. So they're worried like the anime industry of Japan was going to like hamper AI's, you know, progress and slow it down or whatever.

4:05So I thought that was kind of interesting. But in any case, yeah, it's out. and I think that it's going to be interesting to see if AI excels there. I guess the quality of the outputs of AI, you can just have, you just have more data that you can suck in and you know, you're not going to get sued. So I wonder if people will like move their AI companies to be located in Japan because they know they're not going to have the copyright issues that you might have in America and not the lawsuits and legislation. Oh, interesting. Yeah. There'll be like the like the bahama banks it'll be like the you know the no copyright japan it's like oh yeah he's totally got a shell company in japan yeah that runs like the ai model like like what happens like a open ai like it's like okay we're about to get litigated for a billion dollars or we just sell all of our we sell our model and all of our licenses to our japan shell company and it's totally legal over there and it runs out of there i don't know it'd be interesting to see what what happens in that space.

5:03Okay. So the other thing that is pretty interesting that just happened is the fact that the UAE's open source AI model just became royalty free. So essentially what happened is the technology innovation Institute, TII, they have this model called the Falcon 40 B and it's essentially their, their top AI model. And they just open sourced it. They put it on Hugging Faces. It's now the number one used model on Hugging Faces. It's beating things like Meta's Llama and also Stability AI's Stable LM. So like it is now the biggest one. And this is the craziest part. It was trained on 1 trillion tokens.

5:43Holy crap. Yeah. So I mean, it's interesting because even OpenAI, I think they announced the number for chat GPT, how many tokens was in there, but they still haven't come out and said how many tokens are in GPT-4. And I could be completely off, but I know it's somewhere in the billions for chat GPT. They never announced GPT-4. There's a couple of reasons why I think they might have done that. But this is the first time I've actually heard someone publicly come out and say like a trillion tokens in an AI model. So like, obviously, this thing is a very big, very aggressive. Why do you think these people would be open sourcing something like this instead of keeping it private?

6:23i don't know uh what are they called again uh falcon 40b okay and then how do they get how did they get access to all they just got access from hugging face or that's just where they're hosting it on right so they're hosting the model on hugging faces they got the data independently and trained it off of that um so some people are saying that it essentially well they're saying that it's going to let the public and private people benefit from faster project starts right Cause you have this massive, like it's open source model. And I think it's, it's interesting. I feel like a lot of these people are releasing stuff for goodwill.

6:59There's a lot of different things. I know Facebook has released a lot of models and I would speculate like, aside from just getting like the goodwill around their brand name from releasing a model like this, I feel like maybe Facebook will release like their own chips in the future to compete with NVIDIA. And then they're going to say like, Hey, if you want, like, you know, if this model that's really popular and open source if you want to run the best you got to run it on our chips they said they're going to be uh producing chips advocating them by 2025 so i wonder uh if these other players have similar strategies or i i guess what their angle is uh perhaps just making the world a better place but it is pretty insane so it should be a pretty uh pretty big advancement having this be completely open source so they just uh the falcon 40b model they just changed the name of apparently to apache 2 which is nice because the uh that name was kind of crazy which means that this model is now free for any usage including commercial use wow yeah i i wonder like you know we've heard the memo come out of um google where they said like we don't have a moat and neither does uh open ai uh on all of this stuff it's gonna be interesting i feel like on the one hand i was like, well, the moat is like all the data that you've gathered.

8:15Because right now we have people like Reddit that say, no, we're gonna start charging. We have people like Twitter that just shut off all API access to open AI to, you know, gather their data and put it in. We have people like Stack Overflow stuff they're charging. Everyone like realized their, like data is the new oil. I recently heard a VC say, and so people are shutting down or locking out their data so they can sell it. And so I was like, okay, awesome. Like chat GPT, Google Bard, that's their moat, right? But when you have someone like this, that just like kind of comes on the sidelines, like, oh, by the way, we have a trillion token model, we just trained and here it's open source.

8:49Like, I feel like that digs into that moat pretty, pretty hard. Yeah, it's, it's kind of like the, you know, like the, the new model that a lot of influencers are taking, like give everything away for free, and then like live off the traffic. It's kind of like, if you're giving it all away. That's a pretty, it's pretty hardcore. Do you know who's doing it is just like a bunch of random developers uh the technology innovation institute which i it comes out of the united arab emirates um and i'm not sure if that's from their sovereign wealth fund so like if it's like the country that created it or if that's uh just one of their institutions there but it's interesting because it's not in the states and i feel like i'm starting to see right with this news from japan uh with this move out of the uae we're starting to see like other countries that are actually creating some of this really powerful technology.

9:42And I know that this might sound crazy, but think about this for a second. Let's say you're a competitor to, I could see Google and Microsoft doing this perhaps, but like, let's say you're a competitor to one of those companies and you see like all the market share that OpenAI and Microsoft are pulling up. Like, wouldn't you imagine if you had the ability, so maybe this is Facebook's play. facebook just released their lambda uh for free it's open source maybe they see all of the like traffic headlines and uh progress and money that microsoft and google are making from bard and open ai and maybe they're releasing theirs for free almost as like a slap in the face to those guys they're not necessarily competing in that arena but they're like oh you guys are going to charge like an arm and a leg for this okay here it is open source free for everyone and it almost like Like, it's like instead of building something productive for their own company, it's almost just like tearing down their competitor.

10:37You know what I mean? It's just like, oh, that's a good revenue source. Okay, it's free. So take that off your billion dollar valuation. Yeah. I wouldn't put it past Zuck or some of these other guys to pull moves like that explicitly for that reason. Wouldn't that be crazy? And then all the people back them and they're like, this is how it's supposed to be. It's supposed to be free. Right. Right, exactly. It'd be interesting to build a company that like just rips another one down and then the other company just has to like pretty much buy you. That'd be like an infinite money glitch though because you could just do it again and again.

11:12Yeah, you know, it's interesting. I mean, we've definitely seen it in software before. And then there's also the whole model where a big one, like for example, Facebook might release something completely free. It's hard. Once you do an open source, you can't get it back. It's out in the public, so it's gone. But I mean, you see things like Amazon, for example, got sued for antitrust reasons because they dropped the price of diapers to super cheap. I guess it was back in the days when diapers.com was their big competitor. Diapers.com goes out of business because they can't compete with the super cheap prices of diapers on Amazon.

11:42And then Amazon just puts it back to normal prices because they can afford it. So anti-competitive practices like that, it'd be interesting to see if that's happening in the software. But with open source, it's kind of hard to make that claim because they really did give it away for free. It's like, it'd be the equivalent of, you know, giving away an unlimited free diaper subscription. Like you just, they just get it. It's just free. So aside from hosting or whatever. Yeah. It's kind of interesting. That is crazy. Okay. So something else that recently came out, and this is something I personally have been skeptical about, but maybe it's just me.

12:16Instacart recently, they just released an AI, what they call AI shopping buddy. And if you know Instacart, they've been kind of like on the cutting edge, I guess, or they've had some pretty deep partnerships with OpenAI from like the very beginning. I believe they're like one of the first plugins that launched on GPT-4. And even before that, I think they actually got access to GPT-4 before anybody else on their app to help with like shopping. For you, have you ever, well, first off, are you a customer of Instacart? Have you ever used a product like that for like shopping or anything? so my wife does yeah and we order pretty much everything like we hardly go to the store at all for anything okay at this point so instacart they plug into like a bunch of different stores right yeah yeah i think it's kind of like the uber for shopping so do you use instacart or do you use something else i think we use instacart unless unless like for example if you order something from like walmart or target is that instacart or is that like their own in-house thing?

13:14That's a good question. So I know we use the Walmart Plus or whatever. We do all our shopping online mostly, unless there's like some random thing we got to get it. Like, honestly, like it saves us so much time. Like every time, every time my wife gives me a list of like, you know, 10 things to go get from the grocery store for like a party or like a dinner that we're having. The amount of time it takes me to walk around the aisles of this super Walmart from one side to the other to find like 10 items. I'm like, please just order this on the app, like shows up at your door. So I know that for Walmart, they have in-store shoppers that are Walmart associates gathering it, but I think the delivery, they still might have outsourced to Instacart or other platforms because the way that they like ask for a tip and they do things that are like that, I think that they're, they might be outsourcing the delivery.

14:00So I think it possibly is still Instacart fulfilling that while it might be Walmart inside anyways. But the thing that they've just integrated inside of uh instacart itself is a new ai search tool called ask instacart it's just chat gpt pretty much um and pretty much what it is doing is it is helping customers by providing personalized recommendations for their shopping questions um which means product recommendation um info on food prep dietary considerations that kind of stuff here's my thing and maybe GPT-4 solved this. But like when chat GPT first came out, there was like this whole thing where it was like, oh yeah, like get it to like write you a recipe for anything you want.

14:43And then it was like, oh my gosh, wouldn't that be crazy if that was integrated into Instacart, you like get a recipe and then it plugs in and then it goes buys all the stuff for you. Right. So we were testing it out and I was like, yay, give me a recipe for cookies. And like, if you made the recipes it gave you, it was like horrible. Like it was just wrong. It was just like completely wrong. And so possibly, you know, possibly GPT-4 solved this, but I'm still skeptical of like AI, specifically of food prep, when it's asking you about like product recommendations and all that kind of stuff. Maybe product recommendations are, would be better or shopping questions.

15:16So maybe just like a chat bot thing that they have in there would be better. But like when it comes to the specific recipes and that integration, which I feel like they've been trying to do with a lot of the Inscart stuff, I feel like it's really sketchy. And I've seen like blogs and stuff where people are making the food and it's like bad, but maybe got fixed in GPT-4. So I don't know. I just downloaded the Instacart plugin. It's funny. They finally, this is new. I think today, I think, or at least I just got it. The plugin store finally has a search bar. Oh my gosh. Thank goodness. Yeah. I was so sick of like scrolling through 17 pages on the chat GPT plugin store.

15:50It's like, how could you even tell someone to go use your plugin? like you couldn't even do it i'm uh i'm page 72 so just click the arrow over till you get there it's crazy so with the plug-in of that the crazy thing still about plugins too is that basically you enable the plug-in and then it doesn't like give you prompts or anything you just have to start typing right that's pretty that's pretty nuts um dude i think that instacart i think that's i think it's clever to be like hey where can i find this at this store and it'd be like, yeah, you can find it here at this store. Like, do you want to order it?

16:22And you say, yeah. And that just does it. That's cool. So Instacart actually is, and I think that this AI, this new ask Instacart AI feature plays into this, but they actually recently made some headlines because in today's economy or whatever, I guess their revenue was slipping. And so what they did is they introduced like in-app ads, like they would advertise Coca-Cola or a specific brand of bread over another one. And they made like, I think over a billion dollars in a quarter off of those ads. So they actually significantly like helped their revenue from this ad thing. I was looking at it, I feel like it might've been like 30 % revenue increase or something from this.

17:03So I believe if they're doing this AI tool, it would be interesting to see, you know, how you can like prompt inject and like get a prompt. Let's see what the prompt is. It'd be interesting if it's OpenAI's ChatGPT, if you could prompt inject, you know, like their product recommendation and see if they're adding any like, and make sure if they ask for soda, you recommend Pepsi instead of Coca Cola, or make sure you like recommend X, Y, and Z. It'd be interesting if they did that on like the prompt level. I highly doubt they would do that. That'd be pretty, well, first off, it's man, it'd be pretty manual for, you know, having to change that if you got a different sponsorship from a different product, but also pretty sketchy, people could figure it out.

17:42So it's probably on more like a software level or whatever but that'd be pretty hilarious that would be cool i just asked it to buy me some sugar sure you can purchase sugar here's your instacart shopping link and then it gives me like a little picture and then i click on it and then it takes me to instacart.com and it has a cart and it has me oh it says available at your zip code and then it says costco delivery by 11 14 so it says i could be here in half an hour okay so it does seem like instacart is plugged into like walmart and costco and all the other things for like the fulfillment aspect of it we have costco safeway natural grocers yeah a bunch of stuff and so basically all i have to do is say yes i have to log in i think but yeah put it in a cart for me so that's cool it didn't really give me an option i guess i probably could have been more specific but it's like cane sugar, like a 10 pound bag of cane sugar.

18:42So that's cool. Interesting. Would I, would I use this? Would I actually use this to shop? I don't do any of the shopping here, but like, what, like, what I like, maybe, I don't know, maybe if it, it would have to like put together an ingredient list or something though, but it would have to be one that's like legit. Like maybe you'd have to be like super healthy recipe for this, like using these ingredients, like dairy free, like put some parameters in place and maybe it could do it for you then. I think two things number one I feel like more uh more effective than having this built into instacart maybe having it built into like a specific like costco shopping or walmart shopping or like the grocery store that you're actually planning on going to because I know for me like what I put a list in and they're like okay these five ingredients are available at walmart these seven are available here these are here here here and then like I gotta like pay different things and there's like I don't know that just seems like too convoluted so I think I'd probably be more likely to go to like Walmart.

19:37I know my, my wife does this, right? She picks like, uh, seven meals that we're doing for dinner this week. And, um, she like goes and finds a recipe online for them. And then she goes on Walmart and like finds that stuff. It'd be pretty cool if she could do that same process, but just copy and paste the whole list, plug it into like a Walmart thing, where it's like, I need like this recipe list and these ingredients. And then it just, it just pulls them all up into your cart. Um, I don't even know if you need AI to do that though. It's like the interesting thing, but maybe if you are more, maybe if you're more conversational with it and uh you just said hey i would like these like seven different dinners and then maybe walmart integrates with like a recipe that's the thing it's just ai and recipes is sketchy and i think that's where people are using it i think you just have to integrate integrate with like allrecipes.com like why don't you just integrate with allrecipes.com and find the top pancake recipe for pancakes and the top like chili recipe for chili and then just pull off of that i just I'm skeptical about food and AI.

20:33Right. I know that I was listening to another podcast where the guy goes to, it's my first million and the guy goes to like this billion dollar dinner and the kind of like the cool thing about this dinner, billionaires were there. Yeah. And they'd gotten the whole recipe. They'd gotten the whole food layout, like done by AI. And so they had like given it to a chef after the fact and like he went and like built all these things. I guess the food was good, but yeah, that does sound. I mean, I'm sure if you give it to a chef and he looks at the recipe and he's like, no, that's kind of awful. I'll tweak it.

21:02I wonder how closely he followed it. Yeah. That's pretty funny. Dude, so what is your take on NVIDIA passing a$1 trillion market cap with all of their new AI software they've pulled out? They're above Tesla. These guys are cruising right now in a very small group. Everyone thought that Elon would be the guy to bring a company past a trillion, right? But they're not there yet, right? What are they? So Google, Microsoft, a lot of these guys have already passed a trillion. I guess, right, like look at inflation nowadays. So I think it might've been easier than people suspected five years ago. But so they briefly passed a trillion dollar market cap, and then they went back down there in the 900 billions right now.

21:50But I mean, it's not inconceivable to think they'll get there. Right, right. Yeah, I guess I meant the next company. Yeah. Apple's already at 2.8 trillion. Yeah, Apple is absolutely crushing it. You know, it's pretty interesting. Apple gets a lot of flack for like not being very innovative in this AI space, not having like a lot of AI tools come out like with everybody else. What's Microsoft at right now? Looking. So I'm looking at all company so apple is first microsoft's at 2.4 okay then alphabet's at 1.5 amazon's at 1.2 and then nvidia is at 0.93 so nvidia is the next on the list it's getting close yeah and it's interesting because it's not a company that five years ago if you would have asked people like what would be the next trillion dollar company i guarantee nvidia was not gonna make that list it It was just like, and this is the other interesting thing.

22:47People literally said NVIDIA was in trouble circa like six months ago because right at the end of the pandemic, people stopped buying as many gaming PCs because, you know, during the pandemic, everyone was just going crazy on tech. Everyone was cooped up, right? So like gaming stuff was going crazy. NVIDIA tech was just like selling out for gamers. So anyways, after the pandemic, that slowed down. And then also NVIDIA made a ton of money during the whole crypto boom because all the crypto miners were running on NVIDIA tech and all their GPUs and all that. So with like crypto winter and the pandemic being over, so less gaming stuff, people literally were like, and actually the CEO of NVIDIA said like, we overproduced GPUs.

23:30We're going to have to sell them at like, he might've said like lower cost or below cost. It wasn't good. Like the situation for NVIDIA wasn't looking good. and uh then all of a sudden we have ai come up and it literally saved them because in that in that first quarter this year um where they were supposed to kind of take a bit of a dump they just got lit on fire by everyone buying their gpus for ai model training yeah nvidia has always been a little bit ahead of the curve i learned about them from well a couple stuff and i a couple podcasts i also looked them up after the fact but like nvidia they've always kind of planned for like the long game and they've kind of like as soon as competition starts coming up onto them they kind of like leave the thing they were focused on they move on to like something that'll be future-proof like i know the ai stuff the fact that they're able to embrace it so easily was like due to like some hardcore strategy that they implemented yeah um yeah yeah yeah very forward thinking company i think and uh that is an interesting that is an interesting strategy So here's what I'm seeing though, is a lot of other people like see this gold rush for AI and for AI chips in general and are like, okay, sweet, we're going to build the chips.

24:44I feel like NVIDIA has a pretty solid lead. I wonder if it, how long it will last though. But the thing is like Facebook announced they're going to come up with their chips in 2025, but like they got to go build a manufacturing hub. Like that's 2025. That's in like a year and a half, right? Or maybe more, maybe two years. So like two years of like AI explosive growth, everything being built on nvidia it's gonna be hard for someone like even facebook to catch up to that um like that that's gonna be insane that's no you know you know you know what's gonna put uh nvidia in trouble uh there's there's one thing there's one glaring thing that could really sink their ship oh no like if china decides that uh it's time uh you know for the island to go down that's what is that where they're all based are they headquartered out of taiwan yeah they're like 100 taiwan so and like that's so contentious so if taiwan goes down uh pretty much it's it's like equivalent to like the u.s not having oil anymore like we can't build computers we can't build phones like we can't but like we can't do anything and uh the the thing about that is it's not very far-fetched because we just passed an act where we're not giving them certain like silicone chips and stuff so so what they're like okay sweet we'll just seize the nvidia factories and now we own the trillion dollar company and like are we gonna stop buying nvidia gpus that are the most highly contested thing at the at the pinnacle of this like ai gold rush oof that's gonna be a tough decision there's so much money involved like so much money involved the ukraine like after seeing what's going on with the ukraine it's like you know how easy it'd be for like some conspirators like in different countries to like send people over to like destroy taiwan and then blame it on china or maybe china actually does it or russia or we do it because they did something to us or like whatever like it could easily be like knocked down and uh it's been like in the news so much like china circling with boats and planes and we're like yeah that could be massive i wonder what sort of a blip that an invasion on taiwan would have on like the entire AI industry in general.

26:58That would be insane. One thing I will say that is interesting is, of course, the U.S. recently passed the Chips Act to start manufacturing chips here in the U.S. I think that's a pretty like one thing people have like credited the Biden administration is doing well. And I think what's interesting is even here in Arizona where I live, I know we're kind of like a chip place. We're not big on like software tech companies, but we have a lot of chip manufacturing. Intel's been here for like 20 years, I think. And Taiwan Semiconductor Company, TSI, wait, whatever, is building a bunch of, I think they have one headquarters and they're building another one here in Arizona.

27:37And so like a ton of people I know are working for like chip manufacturing and within, with Taiwan Semiconductors and also with Intel, more so when I lived back in Mesa. But yeah, it is a popular thing. So I do know that like we are starting to onshore some stuff here to the US. I think that's going to be pretty critical moving forward. And so I wonder if we're going to see a move like that from NVIDIA. I think they'd be foolish not to like start thinking of those options. Yeah. Isn't, I don't know Larry is doing something where he's bringing factories here. Was it for chips? I forget. I'm not sure.

28:16I think under the past administration, under the Trump administration, they were more focused on like just bringing manufacturing from China or other places to the U S. And now maybe it's more just like chip fabrications and that kind of stuff. So yeah, I'd be curious on that as well. He wants to do a semiconductors. Oh, there you go. So yeah, he sees the gold rush. Yeah. He's trying to like bring that to the U S and yeah, maybe he counts on Taiwan, not being around forever. Who knows? Yeah. It's, it's hard. I mean, I, that I feel like is, I wouldn't, I mean, China's official stance is that they own Taiwan and I don't see them backing down unless something, I don't know, drastic happened and they really needed international support, which I don't view their economy as needing anytime soon.

29:00Okay, one other interesting thing I want to bring up with you, and I'd love to get your feedback on where you see this, how you see this impacting the industry as a whole. So recently, an AI was used, an AI model was trained and used to discover a new antibiotic that kills, like a superbug that previously they had no like remedy for. So I believe like 80 % of people that caught this superbug died from it. And so there was no cure for it. It had superbugs, essentially, like there's an antibiotic and the superbug then becomes resilient to the antibiotic. So this superbug was found in hospitals. One of the things that was really detrimental about it is that it could live on a surface for a very long time.

29:43So if it's sitting there and if someone didn't disinfect the table correctly, like a week later, you touch the table, you got the superbug. and it can also live it could live with inside of you without showing symptoms um but if someone had some sort of open wound or something and you touched them now they got it and they're most likely to die so it's kind of gnarly what they ended up doing is they trained an ai where they gave it like a giant list of like chemical compounds and it's like and and its responses to like antibiotics and then also like i think some like uh some things with some super bugs and like what they were resilient to.

30:17They fed like all of this data and they trained a model. And in any case, they made a model that they felt like they could, they could adequately do this. And so they go and they feed in 68 ,000, no 6 ,800 compounds into this AI model. And they say, which of these is going to have the most likely chance of like being a good antibiotic for this super bug. And so the AI model ran through 6 ,800 and it came up with a list of about 200 that said, these are highly likely. They took those 200 to the lab, tested them, found nine of them that were, um, nine of them that were seen pretty viable, used one of the, use them on a mouse that they like injected with the super bug or whatever.

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31:02And I think most of them, most of those nine actually worked, but one of them in particular worked super well. So that's like the new one they're going to use, but it is like, it was like apparently the way that this new compound affects um this superbug is in a way that was not previously understood to science like it wasn't like it wasn't the common way we create antibiotics for superbugs and that's what they were so surprised about by it um anyways what are your yeah what are your thoughts on where you see this going in in medicine well i think that uh you know maybe i'm a little bit of a conspiracy nut when it comes to like the pharmaceutical companies but i think i think there's so much like withheld from the public especially like surrounding cancer and like all that kind of stuff and so i think a lot of people are probably tempted to be like ai is gonna like solve cancer and i would be tempted to say that kind of thing too where it's like ai just gonna solve like you know this is like part of like living in utopia like when ai hits the singularity and like we all have you know like perfect health because we have AI hooked up to like our glucose monitors, like in our skin.

32:06And it's like telling us what we should and shouldn't eat. And like, we live forever. I think the problem is there's so much corruption and censorship around like that area that I don't, I don't like, for example, I think if we did have the cure for like certain diseases, I almost wonder if like a company like OpenAI or even the internet in general has like enough censored material on it where you wouldn't be able to like, you know, it seems like it would be something that's relatively easy for ai to find out the cure for cancer if if it like had the information available to it that's why i love these open source projects a lot of potential there so yeah i think that's an interesting that's an interesting concept because i do think it's like conspiracy theory or not obviously pharmaceutical companies are motivated by profit and so if they find it's interesting because i think what here's an optimistic take on this because you're 100 % right.

33:02Pharmaceutical companies motivated by profit. If they feel like it's going to decrease their profit, why would they do it now? And I think like withholding information, all that kind of stuff, like don't put it past them because obviously there's been pharmaceutical companies and pharmaceutical executives that have gone to prison. Oh yeah, sued into the billions. Yeah, for all sorts of things. I mean, Johnson & Johnson knew that their baby powder was giving babies cancer and continued to sell it because it made a lot of money. And now they're one of the top, they were one of the top COVID vaccines.

33:28So Pfizer has one of the largest lawsuits in the world. Yeah. Draw your own conclusion. It's not a conspiracy theory. It's just like legal matters. And so anyways, here's an optimistic spin on it though. Google previously had the technology that chat GPT and open AI has and did not release it on like what's now BART or their Google search because it would cannibalize their search industry. They've had, they've been sitting on this thing for two years. They wrote the transformer model paper that open AI used and launched it. And it wasn't until OpenAI launched ChatGPT, got all of their investors in a frenzy and forced them to create Google Bard that they actually launched it.

34:05And so I think with especially like you're talking with these open source models and with this technology and with something like, you know, this like antibiotic that kills superbugs. When some of these smaller therapeutic companies are coming up with these solutions, the big guys are number one going to try to buy them up. But also, if they don't, it's going to force them to use the same methods and release the same product. So I actually think that even though I do believe a lot of pharmaceutical companies are corrupt, I think that with open source models and with the amount of like advancements we can make, they will be forced to toe the line and to make products that cannibalize other, you know, like, you know, the radiation treatments for cancer and all of that chemotherapy makes insane amounts of money.

34:52Of course, I have family members directly impacted by this through my whole life. And I have family members that have used different alternative solutions to chemotherapy that have seen success. And so I do believe there's a lot out there that people are not seeing. But I do believe that with open source models, even corrupt organizations will be forced to come up with some of these products, cannibalize their own business. I think so, too. I think they're going to have to, it's kind of like gas, the gas industry kind of has to like embrace electric. Like they kind of have to, you know, as far as cars go.

35:30It's like they're kind of forcing their hands. They kind of have to get like ahead of the curve. Exactly. Exactly. So this is the exact same thing we've seen with Tesla, right? Like in the 90s, there was electric car companies. In fact, one of like one of the early electric car models, it was essentially like a golf cart because cars were slow back then. but in like the, I think the thirties, there was an electric car that like came out. So electric car technology, isn't something that was like incredibly new, but a lot of patents, a lot of electric car companies were just literally bought out by gas powered car companies.

36:03They would just shelve it. They would just like lock down the patents so no one could use it. And it wasn't until Tesla came out with a very viable product that started to get some mass market interest that every gas powered car company that previously was, you know, shutting the stuff down or even doing corrupt things, right? Like there's corruption. We, and like undisputable, not conspiracy theory, look at Volkswagen and their whole like diesel gate, right? They literally built a device into their car to trick regulators. So when they put it on the emissions testing machine, it gave a different amount of emissions than when it was driving, like just blatant fraud.

36:35And of course it was a rogue engineer that did that, that made their company billions of dollars. What a kind rogue engineer. But, um, but like, obviously there's corruption there when there's money to be made. But when a company came out with the actual product, they were that cannibalized perhaps their car sales, because now they have to upscale and change their factories and change how they do everything and spend a ton of money on R &D, which they don't want to do. But as soon as Tesla did that, every single electric car company or every single car company now is announcing electric cars and coming out with electric car options.

37:06Volkswagen's like, we're going to be 100 % electric in a certain amount of years. So it's going to be the same thing with, I believe with pharmaceuticals and other industries as well. Yep. Yeah. And AI hopefully just like kicks the crap out of all these big guys and, and let's like the, the smaller companies like disrupt as they should. Disruption is so good. It's so healthy. Like get the monopolies out and get, get these small guys curing cancer. Let's do it. Yeah. It'd be incredible. Okay. So of course that's one area that we see it like positively impacting, I say medicine, but there's another area in health that I want to, I want to pick your brain about.

37:42And I want to see, I want to get what your, your opinion is on this. Cause I know we've talked about like Neuralink and a bunch of different like things like that. And like what the potential they could have in the future is. But there is a company that recently, or a research, some researchers that recently came out with like an active prototype in like a human trial. And they solved the problem. Essentially, there's a man that's paralyzed from the waist down. He got in a motorcycle accident, had damage to his spine, paralyzed from the waist down for the last 20 years. So this isn't something new.

38:14And they invented or they got a device embedded in his brain using AI and he can now walk again with a walker, like walk, his feet walk. I'll explain how it works, but I'd love to get your feedback on this. So essentially what they do is, I think it was out of switzerland and i believe the patient is from france but essentially they put a chip in his brain the same as neural link right same tech and there's a few different types of technologies for this but anyways chip in the brain measures his um the brain pulses when he thinks a thought they run that through an ai that like if you really got to go listen to our uh people got to go listen to our um ai mind reading podcast episode that dives into more detail with this but like if you don't know ai can read your mind they put your brain under an fmri scanner while you read something, they feed the transcript of what you read and your brain signals from the FAMRI scanner into an AI.

39:07And then it trains a model that knows like when your brain does this, this is the literal word you are reading. So now it can read words out of your mind. So it's going to do this. It's the same technology for this guy except in his mind, he's thinking right, left, like right step, left step, right, left step, left step. He's thinking like how he's moving his legs. And it has that transmitting to, he has to wear a backpack with a full computer running the AI model on there that's transcoding this. And then, so the signal goes from that to the AI model in his backpack. Cyborg. Yep. Which goes to, and that backpack transmits to a device that is placed on his spine below the damage that is sending an electrical pulse to part of his spine that tells that part of his body to move, AKA the muscles in his leg to like move.

39:52To fire. To fire. And it pulses it in the right way that does like the walking motion. So in any case, absolute insanity, but like without any devices and just with his mind, right? Like theoretically you could have invented a device like this without AI that was a joystick that maybe you like pushed up your right button, push your left button. And it was like firing that thing. That's like moving your leg. They have that by the way, they have that for like rats and stuff. Okay. Yeah. So, so you could have, you could have something like that, but now we've taken it completely out and it's just purely your mind, which is like what we're doing every day.

40:23And people are like, oh, well, he's got to think about every single step. It's like, yeah, technically we had to think about every step until it just became automated And it's like, so, so you just have these motor skills you do without thinking about them. And it's going to be the, it's going to become the exact same thing. Here's the crazy thing. They took him off the device and he can still shuffle. Ooh, like it's, it's like bringing his like muscles and his body, like back and his muscle memory back. Not as good as with on the device. But anyways, what's your take on, uh, on what's your take on things like Neuralink?

40:53Are you going to get one of these chips in your brain? Yes, I'm going to get one and I'm going to give, you know, I'm going to be able to to charge people to take a controller and be able to like run me around with a GoPro on my head. Is it weird that my mind just went there? Like people are going to like sign up for like this twisted, like a TV show. Like it'll be on Netflix and it'll be like, you know, the human video game and you'll just be able to like run a dude around. You know how they do it with animals is they put chips and mice. And basically, you know, when you're falling forward and you like take a step to like stop yourself from falling because you get like that vertigo feeling that's basically what they tell the brain of these animals today so they they initiate the feeling of them falling forward so they take steps in that direction and that's how they control these animals so they do it with moths i think and they'd also do it with uh with uh which like how do you get a chip that small than i think about it but they do it with rats so if you're falling to the left or falling to the right you step in that direction And so that's how they control it.

41:57Essentially like a video game. So that's crazy. So that's crazy. I don't think it's crazy that your mind goes there because I think it brings up a very important issue, which is if these things are connected to the internet, right? If they have to do like software updates, I would assume they're going to be, then that means they're hackable. Like what happens when there's a zero day exploit on a Neuralink chip? And this is, I think this is relevant because Neuralink just got FDA approval to have human trials. So like, yeah, it's happening. It's not going to not happen. Like what happens when there is a zero day exploit on everyone's Neuralink chip and it's now hackable?

42:34Like, what could you do? What could you really do? Because Neuralink isn't necessarily having that electrical pulser in your spine that like makes you walk or move your arm or something. Right. Yeah. What would that do? you could you could perhaps capture someone's thoughts like record a transcript of their thoughts or maybe you could talk maybe this is a new way of communication maybe they could talk to them directly um i guess it's only i guess you're thinking is read only though right like for the most yeah read only yeah i would assume yeah yeah so like the marketing stuff right i think you mentioned before that like facebook has these like in their headsets in their vr stuff if they're putting these scanners that can read your brain waves and then like that'd be that'll make the algorithms better you know live real-time feedback of what you're thinking as you watch something i mean that's insane or or think about this think about um a company like or a country like china and i mean like come on i'm sure the u.s government's got all sorts of agencies that love to get their fingers in everyone's brains too but like let's think of a company like a country like china gets everyone on neural link and just has a live feed of every thought you're thinking every day dude that's crazy so this is like the hive mind um and dude what if they actually uh as babies they put like these chips on them and then they like switch them out when they're they're older and stuff so it just like becomes like almost like regular like vaccines uh became and then you can control them and then one day uh this turns into like a movie one day everyone just like stands up and like walks outside and like gets on board the planes to like invade America, you know, they all have AI, like supercomputers controlling them perfectly.

44:14And they become super, super soldiers. Basically everyone from China is Captain America. And they come over here and they kick the crap out of us. Okay. Something that's funny, but something you said, I did bring up an interesting concept in my mind. And that is right now, all of these chips that they're doing is they're doing, and they're integrating AI, they're read only, right? Like they've transcoded your thoughts and they can read that, but they can't write thoughts into your brain. But you brought something up interesting with the moths and the rats that is making me think about like, what does that look like?

44:52And how do they write into your brain? And I think one of those things is not literal words. It's not a spoken voice perhaps in your ear or like your subconscious mind pops up with something. but maybe it's a feeling. So if they can make you, they can make you feel like vertigo or like dizzy for like firing in your brain. I don't have any doubt that that would work. So what if China has chips in everybody? I'm trying to think of like a realistic thing. Like this isn't, this isn't far-fetched. China has chips in everyone's brain, reads every thought, but every time you think like freedom is good, it gives you a sense of vertigo.

45:28You just start feeling sick and you're like, ugh. Like, that would be a very easy way to do right into people's brains. That'd be a very, like, easy way to, it's just, like, the feeling. Like, you feel sick. You're gonna have negative associations. I know, like, this is a, this is such a funny story. When I was a kid, I read some sort of book, and it was about, like, the Amazon and the gum tree, and I, I don't know if they eat the gum from the gum tree, or that was just in my mind. I heard that. Anyway, so all of a sudden, I had this idea that, like, out in my backyard, there's all these pine trees, and there's this tons of sap that just like pours down them.

46:00And I'm like, Oh, the sap from these pine trees is like gum. So I read this book about a gum tree. Anyways, so like I like took a huge gob of sap and I started chewing on it. It got stuck in like all over all of my teeth was not the glamorous gum tree experience I was expecting. I wonder how old I was at this point. Anyways, I like couldn't get this this like sap out of my teeth. I tried eating like cornbread couldn't get it out of my teeth. And I don't know if I had the flu. But later that night, I threw up anyways, to this day, Like I love the smell of pine trees and everything. But like when I smell pine sap, it just reminds me of like barfing because I barfed that night and I barfed out a ton of pine sap.

46:37It's probably bad for you. Like it probably was my body, you know, rejecting that. But in any case, like I have this association with the smell of pine sap to like having it stuck in my teeth and throwing up. And so like that sick feeling. And I think sick feelings are like an incredible memory thing, right? We have these memories attached to smells or to sounds or to places. And I think it would be a very easy way to manipulate public opinion about topics if you could read their mind. And when they thought a certain thing, you give them a sick feeling. Totally. That's an interesting idea. One that hasn't been told before.

47:11Have you heard of the book Brave New World? Yeah. So that one, isn't that the one? I'm trying to remember if this is the right book, but they issue propaganda through radio waves. it's like subliminal messaging um oh maybe that's not the one the one i'm thinking of it's like that's like you hear like radio but it's like regular radio but like in the background and like the white noise of the radio it's like uh it's like just propaganda messages of like fear and stuff like that or i think that's telling everybody 84 what's that i think that might be 1984 by orwell did they make it into a movie uh yeah i think so is it by is it like does have kids i haven't seen the movie um no the one with kids in it i think was braving world that one's like where everyone's doped up on drugs kind of and yeah they're they're just suggesting things via this propaganda and they're like they're saying like mass you know like everyone goes and buys a hat on a certain day and it's gonna drive people listening to this crazy that we're not referencing the right title.

48:13But anyways, the point is, yeah, if you can make people feel, even if you put on the news that this thing is happening and then you just made everyone feel fear, they would naturally associate that fear with the thing that they're seeing. To be inside their head, though, is even crazier to know when they're thinking the thing and then make them feel a certain way if they could write that into their mind. Yeah, I think I'll probably have to do more research on this said, I'm sure a lot of people are looking into this right now anyways, but I'm just curious to see what the capabilities of writing into your brain are through electrical pulses, how you can make people feel.

48:53Obviously, dizzy or vertigo makes sense. Maybe you can make them feel bad, like electrical pulses on certain parts of their brain. I wonder if there's a... The ultimate, though is if they find a way to like stimulate like pleasure or happiness or something like that like dopamine if they can stimulate dopamine with electrical pulse and like sick or vertigo or sickness with electrical pulse it's game over it's like you will everyone will just literally be classically trained to like and dislike certain things because of how they feel around those things so that could be absolutely terrifying dude all the biohackers are going to be like awesome like whenever i like get up and do a cold plunge i like automatically make my brain like feel dopamine and like whenever i go to bed whenever i go to bed early like i get dopamine from that like yeah i've like rewired my mind yeah this nerling thing is epic and like i uh that's the terrible thing is like you know people will do that so like that's how it starts and is it terrible i don't know but like yeah you'll literally be able to rewire your mind right and like me coming from a background of like positive affirmations and psychology and all that kind of stuff my last software company um like rewiring your mind is a big thing but this will be like literal physical rewiring of your mind and maybe you'll get a good program like this is the schedule i would like to follow this is the outcome i'd like to see so when these things happen positive when these things happen negative classical training and then you just like set yourself up like programmed that way um yeah it'd be like buy my new like buy my new program on like on like positivity but like instead of a program where you read it you just like upload it to your neural link and it just like it's like yeah now from now on like when you do these certain things like you're gonna feel a certain way like that's crazy dude it's gonna be like how all of the instagram influencers they sell like uh presets for your photos yeah you're gonna buy like a psychology preset it's like this is like Alec Hermosi's mentality preset where like he has his brain tuned to be just like this.

50:54And this is how he's achieving his results. And you're like, click download. And then you like expect to achieve the same results. Yeah. You start growing like long black hair and looking at the camera, getting jacked. Everyone's building a hundred million dollar businesses all of a sudden. It's like, what? Yeah, that'll be crazy. Okay, Matt. Well, thank you so much for coming on the podcast. We better wrap this thing up, but as always, super insightful conversations. If people want to follow Matt, go check out Promptbox and check out AppRabbit if you're looking to build your own custom app. I am Jaden Schaefer.

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