AI & Robotics Revolution: Reinforcement Learning’s Impact on Employment

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3:45In the marketplace, there was tons of robots. We put it on Instagram as far as the dog, the guy that was doing. Shout out to Alex Good Energy. On the check-in. The guy that was picking up the stuff in the factories. So there was two things that Jensen was really big on. Robotics. And the other key takeaway that I got was the rational aspect of artificial intelligence. That's the new wave. I forget the exact technical. Argentic. Argentic AI. So, all right. Like, artificial intelligence as we know it today, right? Let's take ChadGBT. You ask it questions and it gives you answers, right? But if you ask it, like, two complex questions, it'll say, I can't answer that question or that's debatable.

4:40Or it kind of stares away from asking. Like, if you say, okay, what's the best religion in the world? They'll say, like, that's a debatable, which it is debatable, right? But if I ask a person that, based on their personal beliefs, based on their rational thinking, based on their upbringing, they'll tell me it's Christianity. They'll tell me it's Islam, it's Buddhism. That's their personal opinion. And that's how conversations happen with real people, right? But AI doesn't work like that right now. But the next iteration of AI is a rational thought process where it's actually thinking in real time, it's rationalizing situations in its algorithm, and it's giving you answers based off of not only its intelligence, but also its rational mind.

5:24That's what's kind of separating humans from AI right now because they already have intelligence, but they don't have the emotional intelligence, the rational, how to talk, how to figure things out. that's the next iteration of ai so if you think about it like what what that's going to do is lower the value of education because like let's say like right now lawyers get paid from a scarcity of knowledge that only a select few people in the world have like if you if you have a law degree you're in a select few group of people in the total sum of the world right and that knowledge that you've acquired over eight years and then working, that's made your education scarce and that's made your knowledge scarce, which makes your value high.

6:10Absolutely. Now, if everybody has that same knowledge and that same rational thought to be able to not only say this contract is good or bad, but no, this is what we need. This is how we need to negotiate this contract. Well, now the value of a lawyer is really nothing because I'm a lawyer. You're a lawyer. Ian's a lawyer. Everybody's a lawyer if we have the artificial intelligence lawyer right here. So he gave the example as far as going to dinner at Thanksgiving. And it's like now it's like, okay, if I'm going to have my spouse there, it's like, okay, I got eight people. Sit me at a table. Right now it'll just give you a random seating chart.

6:45But the new version will think about all scenarios. It'll ask you questions and it'll seat people accordingly based on their opinion. Seating is important. Seating is important. Deep rationale. And y 'all stop breaking protocol, man. Stop breaking protocol. Look, keep going. Keep going. Keep going. We'll go with that later. We'll do that later. We'll do that later. So that was a big, big thing that he really pushed. And you could talk about the technical side as far as how he's going to make it. It's smarter and it's using more gigs and the whole nine. But for me, those are the two things that really stuck out to me because it was like, everybody's going to have a robot.

7:30the number one job in the world for men put in chat what's the number one job that was a joke that was a joke what's the number one job in the world for men as far as that employs the most men globally what's the number one job in the world and alex you could appreciate this what's the number one job in the world that employs the most men globally let's see if anybody gets that that was one of those like you learn something new every day which brought me to my point of what i took away and how scary that is yeah i'm i'll chime in and then you can chime in on yeah no let them do this the number one job in the world for men is drivers cab drivers uber eats truck drivers anywhere in the world you think about it like you don't need a skill set to be a driver you just need a car right and you could go to south africa you can go to india you there's always a cab drive there's always like that's the number one job for men globally yep that's going to be a race pretty soon autonomous driving autonomous drives nothing they they have their partnership with gm autonomous driving is is going to take hundreds of millions of jobs so imagine all of those people this is the number one employer for men is a driver.

8:48And if we don't need a driver because we have autonomous driving, what does that do to all the number one job for men in the world? Yeah. I think, and just to interject just briefly, the autonomous piece that they displayed was completely different than what we saw like in a Tesla where you get in a car and it's kind of scanning your surroundings to make sure that there's a car is not too close to you on your right or your left or there's somebody walking, there's a dog, there's a sidewalk. This was something completely different what we saw this actually was understanding the physical environment based on any scenario right and so it would scan the area and then it would tell you based on the weather perception what how you should how it should drive if it snowed how it drives to a sleet if it would it studied the weather patterns and so now it's prepared to drive in any condition whereas an average human there's going to be human error this is preparing for the human error before it even happens right so like that piece of understanding the physical world this is a game i'm not sure you finish you want me to you want me to go yeah yeah so like i this is literally in my notes so agentic ai what was that piece you were talking about and i saw some people put in the chat it's that reasoning piece right so able to ask a question but it's also able to solve complex problems on its own which is we're not at that space right now right but that is the first thing the physical ai like you said the robotics i think the piece that he said is that that physical ai with reinforcement learning and so that's when the machine starts to learn and make decisions in the environment right to maximize the reward so like this machine is now doing these things and it's like oh that's how i'm supposed to do it trial and error this is how i'm supposed to do it that's how i'm not supposed to do it it was like when we had we thought of robotics if they held a ball in their hand and they dropped it it wasn't like where did the ball go the ball was just no longer there the reinforced learning is like oh the ball dropped it must have fell down i have to now find it right so imagine like it's that type of robotics the interesting thing that he said is like yes pbts are important right agents are going to be important he said the biggest piece and the biggest opportunity left in the ai puzzle is when physical ai and reinforcement learning are combined which is when he introduced the robotics that would come inside your home so we were just i mean we were just sitting there thinking to each other like wait hold up what we're talking about big you over here and like they're putting robots in people's homes and they're trying to rent these robots and they already got the price points so that was the first piece and then we got to go into the exhibit hall and just like you said from a technical standpoint go watch we so like people talk about blackwell like we actually saw it like in front of us right on the table like we got to pick and look at it and like shout out we saw what it looked like and so obviously then the mind starts turning right like i'm like there's a few times in life where you feel validated right and like the information felt validated and so i'm asking questions i'm just trying to pry from engineers and i'm like what's that what's that what's that knowing what i'm looking for the answer um in mind and i was like okay here go the racks who's making these racks okay got my answer all right if that's the gpu and this is liquid cooling who's providing the liquid cooling for this all right bet if that's the gpu who's doing the storage for that oh bet going to vendor market you see all the players all the players are there so if i'm talking about micron micron's there if i'm talking about vertive in terms of liquid cooling vertib is there if we're talking about super micro super micro's there all these you're starting to see all these players and it's like oh this makes sense and so when we talk about yes uncertainty is key to how the market moves ai is still the story and even when he spoke about deep seek and he was like look you guys got this thing 100 wrong just because they had it and they found they're still going to need compute and it's still going to take a large amount of money to start to get in these compute these gpus out i'm like damn then the last piece was like how are people going to even compete at this level this not only are they saying hey here's our product for 2025 here's our product for 2026 with blackwell ultra here's our product for 2020 the second half of 2026 with ruben here's our product for 2027 ruben ultra yo here's our product for 2028 28 min he's already three years ahead in the products right with people are just trying to make a product to computer gpus that are three times ahead of their nearest competitor he's three years ahead i'm talking to the people i'm like how's this work they were like yo we're in the mindset where the audience is like hey it's every year he said when we're here it's every six months we're trying to create new products every six months on your head top an illegal alien from Guatemala charged with raping a child in Massachusetts.

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