In short
Moonshots Podcast Episode Notes
Episode Title
AI Panel Discussion Pt. 2
Podcast
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Episode Description
In this episode, recorded during the 2024 Abundance360 Summit, a distinguished panel of AI experts discusses the future of AI, its implications in Hollywood, and its impact on the job market.
Guests
- Emad Mostaque - Founder, Stability AI
- Salim Ismail - OpenExO
- Benjamin Plummer - CEO, Invisible
- Francis Pedraza - Founder, Invisible
- Steve Brown - Chief AI Officer, PHD Ventures
- Guillaume Verdon - Founder, Extropic
- David Blundin - Founder, DataStage
- Ramin Hasani - Founder, Liquid AI
- Alexander Amini - Founder, Liquid AI
Key Topics Discussed
The Future of AI
- Automation Revolution: The panel discusses how AI will automate various sectors, particularly creative industries like Hollywood.
- Job Market Impact: Experts speculate on the potential for job displacement versus the creation of new opportunities as automation increases.
AI in Creative Industries
- AI and Film Production: Emad Mostaque predicts that within two years, AI may enable users to turn a favorite book into a movie, though the process will not be real-time.
- Artistic Constraints: Discussion on the challenges of automating the editing and creative aspects of filmmaking, emphasizing that while the creation of clips may be automated, the art of storytelling remains complex.
Investment and Growth in AI
- Opportunities in AI: David Blundin emphasizes the importance of investing in groups of individuals ready to leverage AI for business creation, especially in regions like India.
- Evolving Business Models: The conversation touches on the idea of one-person companies leveraging AI to create significant business value without a large workforce.
Corporate Structure and Workforce Dynamics
- AI and Workforce Optimization: The panelists suggest that as AI takes over routine tasks, it will liberate human talent to focus on more creative and strategic work, thus leading to new job opportunities rather than unemployment.
- Future of Corporations: Discussion about the potential for corporations to become increasingly AI-driven, with predictions of a shift to a workforce composed of 80% AI and 20% human employees.
Decentralization and AI
- Decentralized AI Systems: One panelist raises concerns about a few companies potentially monopolizing AI technologies and the need for decentralized systems akin to blockchain.
- Open Source Models: There’s a mention of platforms like Hugging Face where numerous open-source models exist, highlighting that innovation is happening outside of traditional tech giants.
Closing Thoughts
- Abundance Mindset: The panel emphasizes the importance of an abundance mindset, recognizing that AI and automation will open up numerous new avenues for business and creativity rather than solely replacing existing roles.
- Call to Action for Entrepreneurs: The discussion encourages aspiring entrepreneurs to take advantage of AI tools and communities to build innovative solutions and create meaningful businesses.
Key Takeaways
- AI’s Role in Film: Prediction of AI's ability to automate aspects of film production within two years.
- Investment Potential: Future investments in AI-driven companies are crucial, particularly in emerging markets.
- Workforce Transformation: Automation will not eliminate jobs but will transform the nature of work, focusing more on creativity and strategy.
- Decentralization Importance: The need for a balance in AI development to avoid monopolies and encourage diverse innovation.
Resources
- Learn More about Abundance360: [Abundance360 Summit](https://www.abundance360.com/summit)
- Follow Peter Diamandis: [Peter on X](https://x.com/PeterDiamandis)
---
This document serves as a comprehensive summary of the discussions held during the podcast episode, highlighting the essential conversations and insights from the panel of AI experts.
Written by AI. May contain mistakes. Listen to the episode to check what was said.
Transcript
Automatic transcript. May contain errors.0:00I'm NFL Lineback at Tijayawatt and this is my personal best. YPB by Abercrombie is the active wearer I'm always wearing. That's why I reached out to co -design their latest drop. I work with designers to create high -performance active wear that holds up to my toughest workouts. Shop YPB by Abercrombie in -store online and in the app. Because your personal best is greater than anything.
0:31When did making plans get this complicated? It's time to streamline with WhatsApp. The secure messaging app that brings the whole group together, use polls to settle dinner plans, send event invites and pin messages so no one forgets mom's 60th and never miss a meme or milestone. All protected with end -to -end encryption. It's time for WhatsApp. Message privately with everyone. Learn more at WhatsApp .com. We're building a super computer with Intel and we just released some results showing that the next generation at StableDefusion3 runs faster on Intel chips than Nvidia chips. All those companies will succeed in parallel.
1:09There's no worry about competition whatsoever. It's leveraging talent, not replacing talent. It's unleashing the creativity of talent instead of bogging down in it. So, I mean, nobody here feels like we're putting ourselves out of business. We're like, we feel like we've got more things we want to do than ever. could one person buy themselves with no in -house team, no W2 employees build a company worth of billion dollars. I don't know what you think. I think it's possible. As we automate more and more of our economy, we're just going to aim higher and go for bigger wins. Every room we walk into, there's all of these adjacencies we never knew existed before.
1:45And these are opening up before us. They're literally materializing. Please, sir. The next from London. I wanted to find out from invincible. I mean, perhaps you already know this, and I'm sure you do. But it's a marketing opportunity. All of us here are CEOs of our companies or have enough money to start companies. If you could make us as individuals, AI savvy in whatever we do, We can then transpose that information onto our boards, onto our companies, and that might give you a lot more business. That's a great observation. What's the question? The question is, can you sort me out my life? Yes, I love that.
2:42So that I can use AI more efficiently in my... That's why we're here. That's why we're here. We have an app for that. Yeah, please come meet with our team. We're here at the booth, and we'd love to get to know you and build a relationship. We're a very relationship driven business. And this is, you know, it's not just a today thing. In the last 12 months, think about how much innovation has happened in the next 12 months or will be more innovation. So just like Lord of the Rings, there's not one ring to rule them all in AI. There's going to be so many different apps and models. The question is how do you integrate them into your business and that's an evolutionary thing?
3:22Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna default to like 22nd answers. Let's go to Gulkum on zoom Last year you were talking about building up country models. Have you have you proceeded with that? I think it's so with result Yeah, so we've done Japan about to release Spain and about a dozen others and the plan is to go to probably a hundred cultural models by this time next year and then open data sets for all of them so you can take them and remix them with all the other models that everyone else has as well. Thank you. Go on a Robert on Mike one. Yeah, hey, this is for IMAD. Just following up on you you're showing yesterday the hundred cats per second and how good we're getting at that.
4:06How long is super simple? How long till I can take my favorite book or novel and just feed it into the computer and have the computer and make it a movie or a Netflix series. It's a very big computer in the cloud about two years. Two years until we can do that. Yeah, it won't be real time, but I'd say two years, because movies are made up of lots of short scenes, and we can really do short scenes, and that's all about how we bring it together. Does anybody on here disagree with that? How long tell a good movie? Well, not much to say about that. Just making a bunch of clips has not what a movie is.
4:40I would argue, I have a counterpoint, which is the editing of stitching scenes together is a very deep art form. I would guess that that's the longest to be automated. Could you read? Yeah, that's why it's two years, not one year. All right, it's got a yash. I'd like to hear. I have a question for Dave. Dave, I come from India. I'm a venture in growth. I could invest in that. What an india is relatively of a nation landscape for AI. What would be the first three investments that you would make whether it will be infrastructure oriented if you have to start investing with harnessing artificial intelligence of that.
5:20That's really, really easy actually because the first question we had is the answer to your question. If I were in India where millions of people have taken Alexander Minis classes on stage yesterday, huge educated AI ready population. Meanwhile, companies like you just heard are saying how unearthed am I going to act on anything I'm seeing today? So if you connect those two dots, what they should be doing is investing at the seed stage in groups of 10 or 20 people that you Assemble and then you say okay, but then you be the first customer for what we just created and guarantee me my first five million of revenue Your company will skyrocket in value.
5:56You can do it 30 times in a row They'll actually get the delivery they need on everything you're hearing in this in this session and well that'd be different from Invisible with the landscape and And does it need to be customized for India, or can something like an invisible only come and do this? Will it end up competing in something like an end? It doesn't matter. It's almost exactly what happened when the relational database was first invented, and every company needed one all of a sudden. And there must have been 50 or 80 successful companies that were delivering in all the different vertical sectors.
6:29And it wasn't until five or ten years later that they all aggregated an Oracle bot a bunch of them. But you don't have to worry about that for years. What matters right now is that there's never been a technological shift this quickly and this globally impactful before in the analogy to the relational database is a joke. It's like, this is hundreds or thousands or millions of times bigger than that and it's much more urgent. So all those companies will succeed in parallel. There's no worry about competition whatsoever. Over the years, I've experimented with many intermittent fasting programs. The truth is, I've given up on intermittent fasting as I've seen no real benefit when it comes to longevity.
7:08But this changed when I discovered something called Prolon's 5 -Day Fasting Nutrition Program. In harnesses the process of autophagy. This is a cellular recycling process that revitalizes your body at a molecular level. And just one cycle of the 5 -Day Prolon Fasting Nutrition Program can support healthy aging. fat -focused weight loss, improved energy levels and more. It's a painless process, and I've been doing it twice a year for the last year. You can get a 15 % off on your order when you go to my special URL. Go to prolonlife .com, p -r -o -l -o -n -l -i -f -e .com, backslash moonshot. Get started on your longevity journey with Prolon today.
7:52Now back to the episode. Hi, I'm Caitlin Krauss and my MTP is to empower meaningful human connection through imagination, wonder, and awe. And my question is about digital well -being because we want to use AI and we want to use it mindfully and it's a time when there's a lot of noise in the world. So what advice do you have about people who are interested in wonder and awe like me using them in spatial immersive environments? how to do that without increasing the noise factor and all of the static. I mean one of I think the challenges we're going to face is just like with our use of GPS, if we're not careful it can erode our ability to navigate.
8:35Like me, I can't figure out which way is, I know up and down that's about it. Yeah, and so interestingly enough, actually this is going to be a little controversial perhaps, But I can I've started to be able to tell who uses chat GPT for their thinking like for their for the thinking the people They use chat GPT all the time they actually start to think in a sort of they sort of feel a little bit like a Gaussian blur of the internet And so I think as we think about What it is to create well -being we need to be thinking about how do you create a Developmentally aware set of a eyes so that you know at any time where a human being is and what is the the next possible place they can move, such that it removes the dependence on the sort of teaching authority AI versus like creating greater dependency.
9:25Amazing. Let's go to Charles on Zoom. Charles. I thank you all. So, Liam, I'm going to start with you. Okay. I'm trying to build an exponential organization. And so one of the first requirements is staff on demand. So, why don't you debate and visible about how you would use them and even bring in, say, a lot of marketing campaign and then bring in Steve Brown and Brittany as to how you would do the investor relations for this business. Thank you. I think you just answered the question. So the obvious thing to do is in an EXO you want a small resource footprint as possible and partner wherever possible, right?
10:09So, a partnership is something like invisible is fantastic because you just go help me sort that out. What I love about the model is they're helping you build that muscle and over time it's going to be really important to have as much musculature inside your organization to be applying some of these tools. Then you can maximize leverage and impact from that. And if you want Brittney to do your earnings calls, she's available. It's going to David here on Mike 3. David. I'm curious about using AI to make myself the best person I can be and just open to the forum. Are there any recommendations you have?
10:48Should I be uploading all the emails I've ever written, all of my journal entries? Is there a way to get myself into AI so that I can learn more about myself? Is that a worthwhile effort and should I document my thoughts every day? my inner psychosis. Yeah, just curious about that. The AI's are doing it already, so don't worry about that. Just start talking to it. Yeah, I think a lot of people that are users and creators on top of the AI stack are worried that they're not deep in the foundation of it. But when Snapchat went public, $20 billion valuation, it was 5 ,400 lines of code. It's just tiny, tiny little thing on top of all the tech.
11:34What you're seeing in media right now is, you know, the question earlier was, how long to we can create a feature -length movie just by voice prompting it. But that's not the target. What's taking over is short -form, TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, short -form. So with AI on top of this, there's going to be media that's billions and billions of dollars that's long before a feature -length movie. That's the wrong target. So I think anyone who jumps in is going to find that you can build micro communities around any topic You know if you have anything interesting to say in the world at all you'll find followers And you can use the AI right now as a force multiplier for yourself no matter what your your mission is So whatever you're good at and whoever is interested in what you're doing you can immediately act on it You don't have to worry about being you know where ramen is you know very very few people are Where he is in this world many more people are on top of it.
12:25There's huge opportunity there
12:30I would like to know if you have an idea about how it will have an impact on IT infrastructure, mostly data centers. Where will you put those infrastructure? If there will be larger or smaller, I don't know.
12:50I mean, the trend is to go larger data centers, bigger clusters, GPU dominant, right, at the moment GPUs are the best type of computer to run these AI algorithms and hire bandwidth, right, because you're trying to achieve data parallelism, do some model parallelism even, because the models are too big to fit in any one memory. And so faster interconnect, bigger clusters, more power, that's the trend so far, right? Unless something comes and disrupts that. Yeah, most data centers historically have tried to be close to the customer and the user to keep the latency down. You don't have to worry about that.
13:26You want to be close to the power supply. Okay. That's a big difference. Yeah, fascinating. There's also a whole bunch of models where you can use crypto tokens for AI Cloud Compute. Those are getting very interesting, so check those out. Okay, let's go to Blake on Zoom. Hi everyone. Thank you guys for sharing with us today. It's been amazing. I'm just wondering as we get better at the automation and consolidation of all of these tasks, what is the end goal that we see as far as the number of companies that we are all going to have the opportunity to build is and then the the lack of need for people within those companies.
14:07It seems like markets could get oversaturated. So I think for the invisible team specifically, where do you guys see the corporate space in five years? Us all running companies that we don't necessarily have to put time and to run. I love this question. Sam Altman talked about the one person unicorn. Could one person buy themselves with no in -house team, no W2 employees build a company worth a billion dollars? I don't know what you think. I think it's possible. As a matter of fact, it's not a new idea. About 100 years ago, there was an economist named Ronald Kose, and he realized that it was possible in the future to have more and more of your team be outsourced.
14:51Do you know that only 5 % to 10 % of knowledge work is outsourced today? By 2050, do we think it's going to be a higher number? Maybe 25 % to 50%. Maybe that one person unicorn has 99 % of their team on invisible and that's exactly the future that we're pairing now But I don't believe that we're going to get to 90 % unemployment I think that if the nature of the firm shrinks Because of technological capabilities. There's just going to be a wave of entrepreneurship all this talent gets liberated to do new stuff There will still be things that humans can do the computers who can't so thank you for that question Just, just, after that Peter and I did a whole podcast about we needed three people, a three person team could create a billion dollar company, a vision guy, a product guy and a builder.
15:40And Sam of course went to one. But think about the idea if you go down where Steve is going, where you essentially get to fully autonomous AI building its own companies. Right, now things get really weird. And I think navigating this is going to be pretty much dominating the business landscape for the next decade or so. Which actually brings up the next really important point, which is right now there is an incredible amount of money going into figuring out how do you make AI's aligned? How do we make sure they do what we say they're going to do? But if an AI is wielded by a corporation that isn't aligned with all of our best interests, it's not really an aligned AI.
16:19So I think a major opportunity for everyone here to start thinking about is what are E -VALs, the thing that evaluates an AI, what are E -VALs for corporations? Because when the corporation's punts, they can punch a hole in the Amazon if they're just out there operating autonomously, that's incredibly dangerous. I would say, you know, we've had ways to line corporations for many decades now, I think that applies to having AI workers within your workforce. To me, the future is not necessarily unemployment. It's actually corporations maybe being 80 % AI's 20 % humans, but we have way more corporations and we're far more ambitious with what we do, right?
17:02Ultimately if you think you know like a physicist the system will grow and try to unlock More for energy. So does that mean colonizing Mars because there's a lot of opportunity out there potentially, right? There's a lot of upside, but it's behind a lot of challenges and so I think like as we automate more and more of our economy, we're just going to aim higher and go for bigger wins. Yeah, Gil brings in a really important, it's the abundance mindset, right? It really is, we are, every room we walk into, there's all of these adjacencies, we never knew existed before, and these are opening up before us, they're literally materializing, the adjacencies.
17:40Everybody want to take a short break from our episode to talk about a company that's very important to me and could actually save your life or the life of someone that you love. Companies called Fountain Life and it's company I started years ago with Tony Robbins and a group of very talented physicians. You know most of us don't actually know what's going on inside our body. We're all optimists until that day when you have a pain in your side you go to the physician and they burn into your room and they say listen I'm sorry to tell you this but you have this stage three or four going on. And, you know, it didn't start that morning.
18:15It probably was a problem that's been going on for some time. But because we never look, we don't find out. So what we built at Fountain Life was the world's most advanced diagnostic centers. We have four across the US today and we're building 20 around the world. These centers give you a full body MRI, a brain, a brain vascular, and AI -nabled coronary CT looking for soft plaque, dexascan, a grail blood cancer test, a full executive blood workup. It's the most advanced workup you'll ever receive. 150 gigabytes of data that then go to our AIs and our physicians to find any disease at the very beginning when it's solvable.
18:59You're going to find out eventually. Mice will find out when you can take action. Found Life also has an entire side of therapeutics. We look around the world for the most advanced therapeutics that can add 10, 20 healthy years to your life. And we provide them to you at our centers. So if this is of interest to you, please go and check it out. Go to fountainlife .com, backslashpeter. When Tony and I wrote our New York Times bestseller, Life Force, we had 30 ,000 people reached out to us for Found Life memberships. If you go to fountainlife .com, Backslash Peter will put you to the top of the list.
19:37Really it's something that is for me one of the most important things I offer my entire family, the CEOs of my companies, my friends. It's a chance to really add decades onto our healthy life spans. Go to fountainlife .com, Backslash Peter. It's one of the most important things I can offer to you as one of my listeners. Alright, let's go back to our episode. My question in common has to do with ownership and power, right? So there's five or six companies that right now are setting themselves up to pretty much own everything. And what I don't hear about are decentralized systems, decentralized LLMs that could work like Bitcoin or Ethereum can work where no one actually owns the network, but there's incentives to contribute, use, provide, CPU, GPU power, etc.
20:27etc. and it seems to me that this would be society's golden opportunity to have no one necessarily own these networks just like in the future I think no one is going to own decentralized finance and I'm curious if you have an opinion as to why we're not hearing more about this. I just read about Project Morpheus which I think looks really interesting but I'm not really reading a lot about any kind of big movement in this direction. Go to huggingface .co and look at the number of models that are there that are open source. It's something like 600 ,000 now. That means there's probably a couple million entrepreneurs at least because I don't think everybody has their own model.
21:09But there's a lot of entrepreneurs doing a lot of things decentralized and that are super empowered now. You hear about the big tech thing and you look at their demos and half the time they're they don't work, but all the cool stuff is being done by these small startups and super -powered entrepreneurs. So I think the actual opposite is happening. A year ago I was exactly where you were, I thought, oh my gosh, it's a winner -take -all -thing. Microsoft OpenAI is going to take everything. Now it's like, oh my gosh, that's a commodity. It's thousands and thousands of flowers blooming right now. When I set up stability originally it was meant to be a Dow of Dow's and decentralized, I realized there wasn't much intelligence in Web 3, so I had to build it first.
21:49So yesterday I just joined the Board of Render for example, and we're going to use hundreds of thousands of GPUs to create synthetic data sets for media. And there's more coming along those lines, like we've had 330 million downloads of our models on Hockingface already. And the next step is how do we decentralize it, give ownership to everyone. So with the national example, for example, we're talking to governments. Can we give ownership of the governance of the data to every citizen in every country? Because I think this will actually become less about the models as a basic base models They're like graduates and more about who controls and earns the data And those data sets are on hugging face too and I really just want to apply it You know what you're what you're building and doing it's a beautiful vision Let's go to zoom and re you oh Go check out a token called hypercycle which is trying to do this, democratizing AI compute in the cloud and people can build their own models and just bring in computers they needed.
22:46So there's some amazing stuff happening in the decentralized web through you. Onto Zoom, Andre you. Thank you Peter. You could go a bit wrong both my kids are still awake and my wife is on business trip. Love it. They paid attention for sure the question is how can they buy the Google classes? But let me ask my question to the yesterday, yesterday, maybe the, we've seen Nvidia share go from, I don't know, increased to $885, right? Raise more than $600 as they increase their power on AI computation. My question is a bit too old. One is, did you guys see this kind that the company could grow so much within a year?
23:28And the second one is, do you guys see any other company following that could bring good tech to respond this. That's a great question. I'm sure your kids asked you that question too. So I saw Gil you're nodding. Yeah, I mean, Nvidia was, you know, what was at a year, a year and a half ago, the price was irrational. Everybody who's a practitioner knew that Nvidia is so dominant in the AI space because of their their compilers and their hardware. What doesn't make sense to me at this point is why AMD is not really on their tails. And it has to do with software, with community, with open source.
24:12Friend of mine, George Hots is working on the compiler for AMD. So if something happens there, and he has a lot of influence, that could catch up. So that's kind of like public companies. Obviously in the private space, we're trying to be the next in video, obviously, for all of us in a certain sense. with a fundamental paradigm shift, and that's the only way as a very small player disrupt an incumbent. But overall, I would keep my eye in the public markets on AMD first, and then potentially Intel as kind of next up. Eventually, the advantage has to be eroded to some example. I'm curious, who's thinking about Intel right now in its ability?
24:52Yeah, so we're building a super computer with Intel, and we just released some results showing that the next generation at Stable Diffusion 3 runs faster on Intel chips than Nvidia chips. All right, and the Gaudi 3 chip is the same as the B100 in speed pretty much on a price performance basis. But everything will commoditize there, and it's about the entire sector going huge. This is one of the biggest infrastructure investments ever. So you can play the beta to the sector from AMD to Intel, and Nvidia probably still isn't done. It's still in new 34 times earnings. Stacey, are you in the room here?
25:24This is one of our patrons who's a senior VP at Intel. Let's go to Pete. Hi guys, I'm the data center guy. So, Gil, I need to find the venture capital firm that I could put money into because I want to invest in it today and not tomorrow. I want to help you get there. But my question is, besides the data center guy, I got a killer software app that I need help growing. And so for the invisible guys, do you do, I want to get it right from the beginning. So will you help us start up? Yeah, we work across the complete spectrum. We work with companies with 5, 10 people just getting started all the way up to the biggest companies in the world.
26:00And so we have customers spending $1 ,000, $2 ,000 a month. We have customers spending millions of dollars a month. And so, everywhere across that spectrum, we'd love to bring you on that journey. Helping companies grow and create amazing value is what really drives us. Did you know that your microbiome is composed of trillions of bacteria, viruses, and microbes, and that they play a critical role in your health? Research has increasingly shown that microbiomes impact not just digestion, but a wide range of health conditions, including digestive disorders from IBS to Crohn's disease, metabolic disorders from obesity to type 2 diabetes, autoimmune disease like rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis, mental health conditions like depression and anxiety.
Read the full transcript
26:45and cardiovascular disease. Vium has a product I've been using for years called full body intelligence, which collects just a few drops of your blood, saliva, and stool, and can tell you so much about your health. They've tested over 700 ,000 individuals and used their AI models to deliver key critical guidelines and insights about their members' health. Like what foods you should eat, what foods you shouldn't eat, what supplements or probiotics to take, as well as your biological age and other deep health insights. And as a result of the recommendations that Vialn is made to their members, the results have been stellar.
27:24As reported in the American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine, after just six months, members reported the following, a 36 % reduction in depression, a 40 % reduction in anxiety, a 30 % reduction in diabetes, and a 48 % reduction in IBS. Listen, I've been using VioM for three years. I know that my oral and gut health is absolutely critical to me. It's one of my personal top areas of focus. Best of all, VioM is affordable, which is part of my mission to democratize health care. If you want to join me on this journey and get 20 % off the full body intelligence test, go to VioM .com slash Peter. When it comes to your health, knowledge is power.
28:08Again, that's VioM .com slash Peter. Lars. Hey, some Lars from Stockholm originally living in San Diego now where I met Francis, what was it, 12 years ago something. And we had there, we talked about the role, the co -sphere in them why corporations exist. One of the reasons is to internalize all the uncertainties and organize labor force. And I'm so impressed by both what you have created, you and the whole invisible team, but also Peter, this is awesome. What a great conference. It's totally stimulating and so much talent not only on the stage, but also in the whole room here. There's lots of entrepreneurs and builders who are creating new businesses every day.
28:53And it's very much about talent. We have talent here on this stage. And I mean the talent industry myself holistically, building recruiting companies, is matching companies and similar things. I think at the core, everything will also be about talent here. I mean, we have had this wonderful debate about the future of AR and the long term, if it's a threat or is it an abundance, is it a blessing? I think everybody can obviously agree though that it's going to replace talent, people out there. And of course, it's a paradox that some of the best new non -biological talent in the world is created by great biological talent as yourselves.
29:38Gentlemen, we're the women, by the way. On the stage right now, seriously. Where is it going on the stage? Where'd Caroline go? But on that point, you are a wonderful individual, biological talent, and we're creating solutions now to replace biological talent out there in order to reallocate resources, of course, the future, so people can do even more what they want. And I do think that's a blessing. But in the meantime, for the next five, 10 years, we know things are gonna go fast. What do you think about the future of talent, the future of the workforce? because that is something we can all agree to that.
30:15There needs to be some kind of fixes there because it's going to go fast. And you don't want to have a major social unrest in the world when those hundred billion people are replacing the biological talent. And what's the future of education, too? What are kids going to train themselves into? It's like 15 years. I know. It's amazing. Go ahead. So let me address the future of work side first because we've done a lot of thinking about this and we've watched this over decades now. It turns out when you look through human history, when there's a major automation of something. The instant reaction is, oh my god, we're gonna have millions of people out of work.
30:50What actually happens is we create a ton more work ideas to get done. I'll give you a specific example. In the 1970s when we created bank ATM machines, there was a halt just over hand waving going, oh my god, millions of bank tellers, what will we do with them, etc. What actually happened was the cost of running a branch dropped by 10 times. the banks created 10 times more branches and the number of bank dollars has not changed at all. Same thing with truck drivers. As we automate truck drivers, go to any trucking company and they're like, we can't wait for autonomous trucks because we have a, we would hire a thousand truck drivers if we could find them right now.
31:25We have an under employment problem today, not an unemployment problem. Can we say what happens to the talent though? Well, as you automate, they say... Terence Southern should be up here to answer this question. Where are you? Are you out there? Terence, she said the most beautiful thing is to say, she described how this is affected her. It used to be 90 % process, 10 % creativity. Now it's 90 % creativity, 10 % process. So it's leveraging talent, not replacing talent. It's unleashing the creativity of talent instead of bogging down in it. So nobody here feels like we're putting ourselves out of business.
32:03We're like, we feel like we've got more things we want to do than ever. We'll just write 10 times more code 100 times more code done Yeah guys, I'm trying to revive Europe by creating well 21 ,000 people who are those on the ProNERS that can be a unicorn one -man show and I get asked all the time okay, where do I start because so much stuff is happening and I was wondering now that I have you on stage What is the one thing of the last 12 months that you handed over to an AI or the one task that would say for anyone becoming this one person unicorn, where do you start? What's the first skill that they should acquire after they got their mindset right?
32:42Well, the first thing you need is an MTP or your massive transformative per what fundamental problem do you want to solve and then everything cascades from there. Okay, so if you go read the EXO book, the Peter and I wrote, there's whole chapter on how you build one with steps in it. So it's pretty clear and we now have a community of 35 ,000 people that are just building EXOs non -stop. That's what I meant if they have to mindset right so I assume they have to MTP what's the first skill that they then acquire? So it's not about skills. Today it's just about getting out there and doing right? So step one is your MTP.
33:15Let's say it's curing cancer. Okay. Step two is go find communities that are doing that or join communities or create communities that are interested in that. Step three you create your founding team of one people, three people, whatever the small number is. Step four you find a breakthrough product or idea that will deliver at least 10X better than the marketplace in one specific domain around that. If you're 10 % better, the market will ignore you. If you're 10 times better, you can't be ignored. And then you follow Lean Startup Thinking, get to an MVP and you're cascading downline. And we've watched this process be copied and used now for 10 years with staggering results.
33:52So just go do it. It's about execution, not skill acquisition. Please. I have a very simple question. Which page are we in the copyright? Books, papers. What do you think? This is exactly what happened when Google was growing like crazy. It wasn't clear at all that scraping the internet and indexing it was legal under copyright law. And Google grew through it and then said, hey, you know, just put a tag on your website if you don't want to subscribe to it, but everybody didn't put the tag on because everybody wants to be searchable on Google. This is growing so quickly that the same thing will happen.
34:30People are going to use the AI as billions of dollars the revenue is going to flow. People like Reddit are saying, hey, you can't use our content without paying us a fee. That'll blow over in a minute because at the end of the day there's so much capital flowing in. Nobody's going to be wanting to be left out of it. So it's literally not going to be an issue. If you don't contribute your content, there's equal content out there anyway. So it's literally not going to be a problem. It is a threat to everyone who has copyright, but there's no stopping at this point. Thanks. Where is the best way to find world -class capital partners if you're an AI startup?
35:06It's so easy right now. If you go to any of the venture studio models, any of the demo days, and work backward from who's attending the demo days, those are your targets. Or if you get a pitch book account, I don't know if you use pitch book, it's a little pricey. It shows you every deal that's happening in the country. and you can work backward if you're looking for that idea where three, four, five people are worth a billion. You can easily sort, find it, and look at what they did, and that answers the prior question about Europe as well.
35:45And Doug, here we have the Lemo Emu in its natural habitat helping people customize their core insurance and save hundreds with liberty mutual. Fascinating, it's accompanied by his natural ally Doug. Uh, Lemoo? Is that guy with the binoculars watching us? Cut the camera! They see us! Only pay for what you need at LibertyMutual .com. Liberty Liberty Liberty Liberty Liberty Liberty Savings very underwritten by Liberty Mutual Insurance Company and affiliate excludes Massachusetts.
From the publisher
In this episode, recorded during the 2024 Abundance360 Summit, A360 AI faculty discuss the future of AI, when it will take over Hollywood, and the job market.
Present in this panel: Emad Mostaque (Founder, Stability AI), Salim Ismail (OpenExO), Benjamin Plummer (CEO, Invisible), Francis Pedraza (Founder, Invisible), Steve Brown (Chief AI Officer, PHD Ventures), Guillaume Verdon (Founder, Extropic), David Blundin (Founder, DataStage), Ramin Hasani (Founder, Liquid AI), and Alexander Amini (Founder, Liquid AI)
Learn more about Abundance360: https://www.abundance360.com/summit
____________
I only endorse products and services I personally use. To see what they are, please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
Get started with Fountain Life and become the CEO of your health: https://fountainlife.com/peter/
AI-powered precision diagnosis you NEED for a healthy gut: https://www.viome.com/peter
_ProLon is the first Nutri-technology company to apply breakthrough science to optimize human longevity and optimize longevity and support a healthy life. Get started today with 15% off here: https://prolonlife.com/MOONSHOT
____________
I send weekly emails with the latest insights and trends on today’s and tomorrow’s exponential technologies. Stay ahead of the curve, and sign up now: Tech Blog
Get my new Longevity Practices book for free: https://www.diamandis.com/longevity
My new book with Salim Ismail, Exponential Organizations 2.0: The New Playbook for 10x Growth and Impact, is now available on Amazon: https://bit.ly/3P3j54J
_____________
Connect With Peter:
Twitter
Instagram
Youtube
Moonshots
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices




