All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg - E124: AutoGPT's massive potential and risk, AI regulation, Bob Lee/SF update

Episode Date: April 14, 2023

(0:00) Bestie intros! (1:49) Understanding AutoGPTs (23:57) Generative AI's rapid impact on art, images, video, and eventually Hollywood (37:38) How to regulate AI? (1:12:35) Bob Lee update, recent SF... chaos Follow the besties: https://twitter.com/chamath https://linktr.ee/calacanis https://twitter.com/DavidSacks https://twitter.com/friedberg Follow the pod: https://twitter.com/theallinpod https://linktr.ee/allinpodcast Intro Music Credit: https://rb.gy/tppkzl https://twitter.com/yung_spielburg Intro Video Credit: https://twitter.com/TheZachEffect Referenced in the show: https://www.allinmeetups.io/ep125 https://github.com/Torantulino/Auto-GPT https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.03442.pdf https://twitter.com/chamath/status/1645848531280998400 https://bootcamp.uxdesign.cc/i-made-a-flappy-bird-clone-with-gpt4-and-midjourney-inunder-an-hour-and-you-can-do-it-too-7847bc509431 https://twitter.com/ammaar/status/1645934107304787968 https://runwayml.com/customers/how-director-and-editor-evan-halleck-uses-runway-for-films-music-videos-and-commercials https://research.runwayml.com/gen2 https://twitter.com/wonderdynamics/status/1633627396971827200 https://twitter.com/DavidShowalter_/status/1645150966511988742 https://twitter.com/aloezeus/status/1645141925157060608 https://the-decoder.com/chaosgpt-is-the-first-public-attempt-to-destroy-humanity-with-ai https://twitter.com/mckaywrigley/status/1646596881420783619 https://www.wsj.com/articles/bitcoin-blockchain-hacking-arrests-93a4cb29 https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/video-shows-ex-sf-fire-commissioner-assaulted-with-pipe-in-marina-district https://twitter.com/activeasian/status/1644547881519681537 https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/11/business/san-francisco-whole-foods-closure/index.html https://sfstandard.com/business/downtown-san-francisco-whole-foods-market-closing https://twitter.com/davidsacks/status/1645969773153636352 https://twitter.com/AaronPeskin/status/1645896541893439489 https://sfchamber.com/citybeat-2022-press-release https://sf.gov/news/mayor-london-breed-proposes-27-million-funding-address-police-staffing-shortages https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/bayarea/heatherknight/article/sf-police-crime-16931399.php

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Welcome to episode 124 of the all in podcast my understanding is there's going to be a bunch of global. Fan meetups for episode 125 if you go to Twitter and you search for. All in fan meetups you might be able to find the link to speak clear we're not there not official all in this there fans itself organized. Which is pretty mind blowing but we can't vouch for any particular. Organization right nobody knows what's going to happen at these things you can get robbed it could be a setup i don't know but i reach we did anyway because there are thirty one cities where you lunatics are getting together to celebrate the world's number one business technology podcast it is pretty crazy you know what this reminds me of is in the early 90s when Russia limbal became a phenomenon. There used to be these things called russrooms where like
Starting point is 00:00:50 restaurants and bars would literally broadcast rush over their speakers during, I don't know, like for the morning through lunch broadcast and people would go to these russrooms and listen together. What was it like, Saks, when you were about 16, 17 years old at the time? What was it like when you hosted this? It was about 16, 17 years old at the time, what was it like when you hosted this? It was a phenomenon, but I mean, it's kind of crazy. We've got like a phenomenon going here where people are self-organizing. You've said phenomenon three times instead of phenomenon, he said it's phenomenon. Phenomenal.
Starting point is 00:01:18 Why Sacks in a good mooch map? What's going on? There's a specific secret tote tap that you do under the bathroom stalls when you go to a rush room. You can already off the rails. There's a specific secret tote tap that you do under the bathroom stalls when you go to a rush room I think you're getting confused about a different event you went to And it said we open source it to the fans and they just go crazy. I love you, Wes. Queen of kilowatt.
Starting point is 00:01:47 I'm going to leave. There's a lot of actual news in the world. And Generative AI is taking over the dialogue. And it's moving at a pace that none of us have ever seen in the technology industry. I think we'd all agree. The number of companies releasing product, and the compounding effect of this technology is phenomenal, I think we would all agree.
Starting point is 00:02:12 A product came out this week called AutoGPT, and people are losing their mind over it. Basically, what this does is it lets different GPPs talk to each other and so you can have agents working in the background and we've talked about this on previous podcasts, but they could be talking to each other essentially and then completing tasks without much intervention. So if let's say you had a sales team and you said to the sales team, hey, look for leads that have these characteristics for our sales software, put them into our database, find out if they're already in the database, alert a sales person to it, compose a message based
Starting point is 00:02:56 on that person's profile on LinkedIn or Twitter or wherever, and then compose an email, send it to them if they reply, offer them to do a demo demo and then put that demo on the calendar of the sales person, thus eliminating a bunch of jobs and you could run these, what would essentially be cron jobs in the background forever? And they can interact with other LLMs in real time. Sachs, I've just gave but one example here. But when you see this happening,
Starting point is 00:03:20 give us your perspective on what this tipping point means. Let me take a shot at explaining it in a slightly different way. Not that your explanation was wrong, but I just think that maybe explained it in terms of something more tangible. Sure. So I had a friend whose developer who's been playing with auto GPT. By the way, so you can see it's on GitHub. It's kind of an open source project.
Starting point is 00:03:42 It was sort of a hobby project. It looks like that somebody put up there. It's kind of an open source project. It was sort of a hobby project. It looks like that somebody put up there. It's been out for about two weeks. It's already got 45,000 stars on GitHub, which is a huge number. Explain what GitHub is for the audience. It's just a code repository and you can create reposive code for open source projects. That's where all the developers check in their code. So for open source projects like this, anyone can go see it and play with it.
Starting point is 00:04:04 It's like PornHub, but for developed. It would be more like amateur PornHub because you're contributing your scenes as it were, your coatings. But yes, continue. But, hey, event, this thing has a ton of stars. And apparently just last night I got another 10,000 stars overnight. This thing is like exploding in terms of popularity. But, hey, event, what you do is you give it an assignment. And what auto GPT can do, that's different,
Starting point is 00:04:29 is it can string together prompts. So if you go to chat GPT, you prompt it one at a time. And what the human does is you get your answer and then you think of your next prompt, and then you kind of go from there, and you end up in a long conversation that gets you to where you wanna go. So the question is, what if the AI could
Starting point is 00:04:45 basically prompt itself, then you've got the basis for autonomy. And that's what this project is designed to do. So what you'll do is when my friend did it, he said, okay, you're an event planner, AI. And what I would like you to do is plan a trip for me for a wine tasting in Kiel'sburg this weekend. And I want you to find like the best place I should go, and it's got to be kid friendly, not everyone's going to drink, we're going to have kids there, and I'd like to be able to have other people there. And so I'd like you to plan this for me. And so what AutoGPT did is it broke that down into a task list, and every time I completed
Starting point is 00:05:23 a task, it would add a new task to the bottom of that list. And so the output of this is that it searched a bunch of different wine tasting venues. It found a venue that had a botchyball and lawn area for kids. It came up with a schedule. It created a budget. It created a checklist for an event planner. It did all these things. My friend says he's actually in a book to venue this a checklist for an event planner. It did all these things, and my friend says
Starting point is 00:05:46 he's actually in a book to venue this, we can't use it. So we're going beyond the ability just for a human to just prompt the AI. We're now, the AI can take on complicated tasks, and again, it can recursively update its task list based on what it learns from its own previous prompt. So what you're seeing now is the basis for a personal digital assistant. This is really where it's all headed, is that you can just tell the AI to do something
Starting point is 00:06:12 for you pretty complicated and it will be able to do it. It will be able to create its own taskless and get the job done and quite complicated jobs. So that's why everyone's losing their shit over this. Freeberg your thoughts on automating these tasks and having them run and add tasks to the list. This does seem like a sort of seminal moment in time that this is actually working. I think we've been seeing seminal moments over the last couple of weeks and months, kind of continuously. Every time we chat about stuff or every day, there's new releases that are paradigm shifting
Starting point is 00:06:51 and kind of reveal new applications and perhaps concepts structurally that we didn't really have a good grasp of before some demonstration came across. ChatGPT was kind of the seat of that, and then all of this evolution since, has really, I think, changed the landscape for really how we think about our interaction with the digital world, and where the digital world can go, and how it can interact with the physical world. It's just really profound.
Starting point is 00:07:19 One of the interesting aspects that I think I saw with some of the applications of AutoGPT were these almost like autonomous characters in like a game simulation that could interact with each other or these autonomous characters that would speak back and forth to one another where each instance has its own kind of predefined role and then it explores some set of discovery or application or prompt back and forth with the other agent. And that the recursive outcomes with this agent to agent interaction model, and perhaps multi-agent interaction model.
Starting point is 00:07:56 Again, reveals an entirely new paradigm for how things can be done, simulation-wise, discovery-wise, engagement-wise, where one agent, each agent can be a different character in a room, and you can almost see how a team might resolve to create a new product collaboratively by telling each of those agents to have a different character background or different set of data
Starting point is 00:08:17 or a different set of experiences or a different set of personality traits. And the evolution of that multi-agent system outputs something that's very novel that perhaps any of the agents operating independently personality traits and the evolution of those multi-agent system outputs, you know, something that's very novel that perhaps any of the agents operating independently were not able to kind of reveal themselves. So again, like another kind of dimension of interaction with these models. And it, again, like every week it's a whole nother layer to the onion, it's super exciting
Starting point is 00:08:42 and compelling. And the rate of change and the pace of kind of new paths being defined here really I think makes it difficult to catch up. And particularly it highlights why it's going to be so difficult I think for regulators to come in and try and set a set of standards and a set of rules at this stage because we don't even know what we have here yet. And it's going to be very hard to kind of put the genie back in the box. Yeah, and you're also referring, I think, to the Stanford and Google paper that was published this week. They did a research paper where they created essentially the Sims, if you remember
Starting point is 00:09:18 that video game, put a bunch of, you might consider NPCs non playable characters, you know, the merchant or the whoever in a in a video game and they said Each of these agents should talk to each other put them in a simulation one of them decided to have a birthday party They decided to invite other people and then they have memories and so then over time They would generate responses like I can't go to your birthday party but happy birthday and then they would follow up with each player and seemingly emergent behaviors came out of this sort of simulation which of course now has everybody thinking well of course we as humans and this is simulation there are living in a simulation we've all just been put into this.
Starting point is 00:10:00 Tremont is what we're experiencing right now, how impressive this technology is, or is it, oh wow, human cognition maybe we thought was incredibly special, but we can actually simulate a significant portion of what we do as humans, so we're kind of taking the shine off of consciousness. I'm not sure it's that, but I would make two comments. I think this is a really important week, because it starts to show how fast the recursion
Starting point is 00:10:30 is with AI. So in other technologies and in other breakthroughs, the recursive iterations took years. If you think about how long did we wait from iPhone 1 to iPhone 2? It was a year, right? We'd waited two years for the App Store. Everything was measured in years, maybe things when they were really, really aggressive and really disruptive were measured in months, except now these incredibly innovative breakthroughs are being measured in days and weeks. That's incredibly profound. And I think it has some really important implications to like the three
Starting point is 00:11:11 big actors in this play, right? So it has, I think huge implications to these companies. It's not clear to me how you start accompanying anymore. I don't understand why you would have a 40 or 50 person company to try to get to an MVP. I think you can do that with three or four people. And that has huge implications then to the second actor in this play, which are the investors and venture capitalists that typically fund this stuff because all of our capital allocation models were always around writing 10 and 15 and 20 million dollar checks and 100 million dollar checks, then 500 million dollar checks into these businesses that absorbed tons of
Starting point is 00:11:54 money. But the reality is like, you know, you're looking at things like mid-journey and others that can scale to enormous size with very little capital, many of which can now be bootstrapped. So it takes really, really small amounts of money. And so I think that's a huge implication. So for me personally, I am looking at company formation being done in a totally different way. Our capital allocation model is totally wrong size. Look, fun for for me, it was $1 billion. Does that make sense? For the next three or four years? No, the right number may actually be $50 million invested
Starting point is 00:12:32 over the next four years. I think the VC job is changing. I think companies start up for changing. I want to remind you guys of one quick thing as a tangent. I had this meeting with Andre Carpathy. I talked about this on the pod where I said I challenged him. I said listen the real goal Should be to go and disrupt existing businesses using these tools Cutting out all the sales and marketing right and just delivering something and I use the example of Stripe
Starting point is 00:12:57 Disrupting Stripe by going to market with an equivalent product with one tenth the number of employees at one tenth the cost What's incredible is that this auto GPT is the answer to that exact problem. Why? Because now if you are a young industrial entrepreneur, if you look at any bloated organization that's building enterprise class software, you can string together a bunch of agents that will auto construct everything you need to build a much, much cheaper product that then you can deploy for other agents to consume. So you don't even need a sales team anymore.
Starting point is 00:13:34 This is what I mean by this crazy recursion that's possible. Yeah. So I'm really curious to see how this actually affects like all of these, you know, it's a continuous product company. Yeah. I mean, it's you know, single product companies. I mean, it's a continuation, Chimoff. And then the last thing I just wanna say is related to my tweet, I think this is exactly
Starting point is 00:13:51 the moment where we now have to have a real conversation about regulation. And I think it has to happen otherwise, it's gonna be a shit show. Let's put a pin in that for a second, but I wanna get Sax's response to some of this. So, Sax, we saw this before, it used to take two or three million dollars to commercialize a web-based software product app, and then it went down
Starting point is 00:14:08 to 500K, then 250. I don't know if you saw this story, but if you remember the hit game on your iPhone, Flappy Birds, Flappy Birds, you know, was a phenomenon at, you know, hundreds of millions of people played this game over some period of time. Somebody made it by talking to ChatGPT4 and mid-Journey in an hour. So the perfect example, and listen, it's a game, so it's something silly, but I was talking to two developers this weekend, and one of them was, an okay developer, and the other one was an actual 10X
Starting point is 00:14:41 developer who's built very significant companies, and they were coding together last week. And because of how fast chat GPT and other services were writing code for them, he looked over at her and said, you know, you're basically a 10X developer now, my superpower is gone. So where does this lead you to believe company formation is going to go? Is this going to be massively deflationary companies like Stripe are going to have a hundred competitors in a very short period of time or are we just going to go down the long tail of ideas and solve everything with software? How is this going to play out in the start up space,
Starting point is 00:15:23 David Sachacks? Well, I think it's true that developers and especially junior developers get a lot more leverage on their time. And so it is going to be easier for small teams to get to an MVP, which is something they always should have done anyway with their seed round. You shouldn't have needed, you know, 50 developers to build your V1. It should be the founders really. So that I think is already happening and that trend will continue. I think we're still a ways away from startups being able to replace entire teams of people. I think right now we're at the case of this.
Starting point is 00:16:04 Find a ways months, years, decade. Well, it's in the years, I think for sure. We don't know how many years. And the reason I say that, it's just very hard to replace a hundred percent of what any of these particular job functions do. A hundred percent of what a sales rep does, a hundred percent of what a marketing rep does, or even what a coder does. So right now, I think we're still at the phase of this
Starting point is 00:16:27 where it's a tool that gives a human leverage. And I think we're still a ways away from the human being completely out of the loop. I think right now, I see it mostly as a force for good as opposed to something that's creating a ton of dislocation. Friedberg, your thoughts. If we follow the trend line, you know, to make that video game that you shared, took
Starting point is 00:16:50 probably a few hundred human years, then a few dozen human years, then, you know, with other toolkits coming out, maybe a few human months, and now this person did it in one human day using this tooling. So if you think about the implication for that, I mentioned this probably last year, I really do believe that at some point, the whole concept of publishers and publishing maybe goes away, where much like we saw so much of the content on the internet today
Starting point is 00:17:18 being user-generated, most of the content is made by individuals posted on YouTube or Twitter, that's most of what we consume nowadays or Instagram or TikTok in terms of video content. We could see the same in terms of software itself, where you no longer need a software startup or a software company to render or generate a set of tools for a particular user, but that the user may be able to define to their agent, their AI agent, the set of tools that they would individually like to use or to create for them to do something interesting. And so the idea of buying or subscribing to software, or even buying or subscribing to a video game, or to a movie, or to some other form of content, starts to diminish as the
Starting point is 00:18:03 leverage goes up with these tools. The accessibility goes up. You no longer need a computer engineering degree or computer science degree to be able to harness them or use them. And individuals may be able to speak in simple and plain English that they would like a book or a movie that does that looks and feels like the following or a video game that feels like the following. And so when I open up my iPhone, maybe it's not a screen with dozens of video games, but
Starting point is 00:18:26 it's one interface. And the interface says, what do you feel like playing today? And then I can very clearly and succinctly state what I feel like playing. And it can render that game, render the code, render the engine, render the graphics, and everything on the fly for me. And I can use that. And so, you know, I kind of think about this as being a bit of a leveling up, that the idea that all technology, again,
Starting point is 00:18:45 starts central and moves to kind of the edge of the network over time, that may be what's going on with computer programming itself now, where the toolkit to actually use computers to generate stuff for us is no longer a toolkit that's harnessed and controlled and utilized by a set of centralized publishers, but it becomes distributed and used to be edge of the network by users like anyone. And then the edge of the network technology can render the software for you.
Starting point is 00:19:12 And it really creates a profound change in the entire business landscape of software and the Internet. And I think it's really like, we're just starting to kind of have our heads unravel around this notion. And we're sort of trying to link it to the old paradigm, which is all the startups are going to get cheaper, smaller teams, but it may be that you don't even need startups for a lot of this stuff anymore. You don't even need teams and you don't even need companies to generate and render software
Starting point is 00:19:36 to do stuff for you anymore. Shemoff, when we look at this, it's kind of a pattern of augmentation as we've been talking about here, we're augmenting human intelligence, then replacing this replication or this automation, I guess might be a nice way to say it's his augmentation, then automation, and then perhaps deprecation. Where do you sit on this? It seems like SACS, Pills is take years. And a free break thinks, hey, maybe start up and content are over. What do you sit on this augmentation, automation, deprecation journey we're on?
Starting point is 00:20:12 I think that humans have judgment and I think it's gonna take decades for agents to replace good judgment. And I think that's where we have some defense background. And I'm gonna say something controversial. I don't think developers anymore have good judgment. Developers get to the answer, or they don't get to the answer.
Starting point is 00:20:31 And that's what agents have done. Because the 10X engineer had better judgment than the 1X engineer. But by making everybody a 10X engineer, you're taking judgment away. You're taking code paths that are now obvious and making it available to everybody. It's effectively like what you did in chess.
Starting point is 00:20:49 An AI created a solver, so everybody understood the most efficient path in every single spot to do the most EV positive thing, the most expected value positive thing. Coding is very similar that way. You can reduce it and view it very, very reductively. So there is no differentiation in code. And so I think freeberg is right.
Starting point is 00:21:08 So for example, let's say you're going to start a company today. Why do you even care what database you use? Why do you even care which cloud your built on? To freeberg's point, why do any of these things matter? They don't matter. They were decisions that used to matter when people had a job to do. And you paid them for their judgment. Oh, while we think GCP is better for this specific workload, and we think that this database architecture is better for that specific workload, and we're
Starting point is 00:21:38 going to run this on AWS, but that on New Zured. And do you think an agent cares? If you tell an agent, find me the cheapest way to execute this thing. And if it ever gets not cheaper to go someplace else, do that for me as well. And, you know, ETL, all the data, and put it in the other thing. And I don't really care. So you're saying it will swap out, Stripe, for adN, or it doesn't. No, for Amazon Web Services. It's going to be ruthless. It's going to be ruthless. It's going to be ruthless.
Starting point is 00:22:05 And I think that the point of that and that's the exact perfect word Jason. AI is ruthless because it's emotionless. It was not taken to a stake dinner. It was not brought to a basketball game. It was not sold into a CEO. It's an agent that looked at a bunch of API endpoints figured out how to write code to it to get done the job at hand that was passed to it Within a budget, right? The other thing that's important is these agents Execute within budgets. So another good example was and this is a much simpler one, but a guy said I would like seven Days worth of meals here are my constraints from a dietary perspective, here are also my budgetary constraints.
Starting point is 00:22:51 And then what this agent did was figured out how to go and use the Instacarp plugin at the time and then these other things and execute within the budget. How is that different when you're a person that raises $500,000 and says, I need a full stack solution that does X, Y person that raises $500,000 and says, I need a full-stack solution that does X, Y, and C for $200,000? It's the exact same problem. So I think it's just the matter of time until we start to cannibalize these extremely expensive, ossified large organizations that have relied on a very complicated go-to-market and sales
Starting point is 00:23:22 and marketing motion. I don't think you needed any more in a world of agents and auto-GPTs. And I think that, to me, is quite interesting because A, it creates an obvious set of public company shorts. And then B, you actually want to arm the rebels. And arming the rebels to use the Toby Lutki analogy here would mean to seed hundreds of one-person teams, hundreds, and just say go and build this entire stack all over again using a bunch of agents.
Starting point is 00:23:51 Yeah, and I think, recursively, you'll get to that answer in less than a year. Interestingly, when you talk about the emotion of making these decisions, if you look at Hollywood, I just interviewed on my other podcast, the founder of, you have another podcast? I do. It's cool. It's my start. Thank you. It's a success episode. You've been on it four times. Please, please, Doug, I'm going to excuse to plug it. I'm not going to plug this weekend. Startups available on Spotify and iTunes and YouTube.com slash this weekend. Runway is the name of this company I interviewed. And what's fascinating about this is he told me on everything everywhere all at once, the award winning film, they had seven visual effects people on it and they were using his software. The late
Starting point is 00:24:36 night shows like Colbert and stuff like that are using it. They are ruthless in terms of creating crazy visual effects now without and you can do text prompt to get video output. And it is quite reasonable what's coming out of it, but you can also train it on existing data sets. So they're gonna be able to take something, sax, like the Simpsons, or South Park, or Star Wars, or Marvel, take the entire corpus of the comic books
Starting point is 00:25:03 and the movies and the TV shows, and then have people type in, have Iron Man do this, have Luke Skywalker do that, and it's going to output stuff. And I said, hey, when would this reach the level that the Mandalorian TV show is? And he said within two years, now he's talking his own book, but it's quite possible that all these visual effects people from industrial light magic on down are going to be replaced with director sacks who are currently using this technology to do. What do they call the images like that go with the script storyboards storyboards. Thank you. They're doing storyboards in this right now. The difference between the storyboard
Starting point is 00:25:42 sacks and the output is closing in the next 30 months, I would say. I mean, maybe you could speak to a little bit about the pace here, because that is the perfect ruthless example of ruthless AI. I mean, you could have the entire team at industrialite magics or Pixar be unnecessary this decade. Well, I mean, you see a bunch of the pieces already there. So you have stable diffusion. You have the ability to type in the image that you want, and it spits out a version of it, or 10 different versions of it, and you can pick which one you want to go with. You have the ability to create characters.
Starting point is 00:26:14 You have the ability to create voices. You have the ability to replicate a celebrity voice. The only thing that's not there yet, as far as I know, is the ability to take static images and string them together into a motion picture. But that seems like it's coming really soon. So yeah, in theory, you should be able to train the model where you just give it a screenplay and it outputs essentially an animated movie.
Starting point is 00:26:38 And then you should be able to fine tune it by choosing the voices that you want and the characters that you want and that kind of stuff. So yeah, I think we're close to it. Now, I think the question though is, every nine, let's call it a reliability, is a big advancement. So yeah, it might be easy to get to 90% within two years, but it might take another two years to go from 90 to 99%. And then it might take another two years to get to 99.9 and so on.
Starting point is 00:27:07 And so to actually get to the point where you're at this stage where you can release the theatrical quality movie, I'm sure it will take a lot longer than two years. Well, but look at this, Zach, I'm just gonna show you one image. This is the input was Arial drone footage of a mountain range. And this is what it came up with.
Starting point is 00:27:22 Now, if you were watching TV in the 80s or 90s on a non-HD TV, this would look indistinguishable from anything you've seen. And so this is at a pace that's kind of crazy. There's also opportunity here, right, Friedberg? I mean, if we were to look at something like the Simpsons, which has gone on for 30 years, if young people watching the Simpsons could create their own scenarios or with auto-GPT. Imagine you told the Simpsons stable diffusion instance, read what's happening in the news, have Bart Simpson respond to it, have the South Park characters parody, whatever happened in the news today.
Starting point is 00:28:01 You could have automated real-time episodes of South Park just being published onto some website. Before you move on, did you see the Wonder Studio demo? We can pull this one up. It's really cool. Yeah, please. This is a startup that's using this type of technology and the way it works is you film a live action scene with a regular actor, but then you can just drag and drop an animated
Starting point is 00:28:26 character onto it. And it then converts that scene into a movie with that character. Like Planet of the Apes or Lord of the Rings, right? Yeah, exactly. So Decus, you see the person who kept winning all the Oscars. So there it goes after the robot has replaced the human. Wow. You can imagine like every piece of this just eventually gets swapped out with AI, right? Like you should be able to tell the AI, give me a picture of a human leaving a building, like a Victorian era building in New York.
Starting point is 00:29:01 And certainly it can give you a static image of that. So it's not that far, then give you a video of that, right? And so, yeah, I think we're pretty close for, let's call it hobbyist or amateur is built to create pretty nice looking movies using these types of tools. But again, I think there's a jump to get to the point where you're disall together replacing. One of the things I'll say on this is we still keep trying to relate it back to the way media narrative has been explored and written by humans in the past. Very kind of linear storytelling.
Starting point is 00:29:36 It's a two hour movie, 30 minute TV segment, 8 minute YouTube clip, 30 second Instagram clip, whatever. But one of the enabling capabilities with this set of tools is that these stories, the way that they're rendered and the way that they're explored by individuals, can be fairly dynamic. You could watch a movie with the same story. All four of us could watch a movie with the same story, but from totally different vantage points and some of us could watch it in an 18 minute
Starting point is 00:30:08 version or a two hour version or a three season episode, episodic version, where the way that this opens up the potential for creators and all. So now I'm kind of saying, before I was saying, hey, individuals can make their own movies and videos, that's gonna be incredible. There's a separate, I think, creative output here, which is the leveling up that happens with creators that maybe wasn't possible to them before.
Starting point is 00:30:34 So perhaps a creator writes a short book, a short story, and then that short story gets rendered into a system that can allow each one of us to explore it and enjoy it in different ways. And I, as the creator, can define those different vantage points. I, as the creator, can say, here's a little bit of this personality, this character trait. And so what I can now do as a creator is stuff that I never imagined I could do before. Think about old-school photographers doing black and white photography with pinhole cameras. And then they come across Adobe Photoshop.
Starting point is 00:31:04 What they can do with a doby Photoshop was stuff that they could never conceptualize of in those old days. I think what's gonna happen for creators going forward, and this is going back to that point that we had last week or two weeks ago about the guy that was like, hey, I'm out of a job, I actually think that the opportunity
Starting point is 00:31:18 for creating new stuff in new ways is so profoundly expanding. That individuals can now write entire universes that can then be enjoyed by millions of people from completely different lengths and viewpoints and models, they can be interactive, they can be static, they can be dynamic, and that the tool is personalized. Personalized. But the tooling that you as a creator now have, you could choose which characters you want to define, you could choose which content you want to define, you could choose which content you want to write, you could choose which content you want the AI to fill in for you,
Starting point is 00:31:49 and say, hey, create 50 other characters in the village, and then when the viewer reads the book or watches the movie, let them explore or have a different interaction with a set of those villagers in that village, or you could say, hey, here's the one character everyone has to meet. Here's what I want them to say, and you can define the dialogue. And so the way the creators can start to kind of harness their creative chops and create new kinds of modalities for content and for exploration. I think it's going to be so beautiful and incredible. I mean, free bird. Yeah, you can choose the limits
Starting point is 00:32:20 of how much you want the individual to enjoy from your content versus how narrowly you want to define it. And my guess is that the creators that are going to win are going to be the ones that are going to create more dynamic range and meet creative output. And then individuals are going to kind of be stuck, they're going to be more into that than they will with the static. Everyone watches the same thing over and over. So there will be a whole new world of creators that, you know, maybe have a different set of tools that then just just to build on what you're saying for you. So things incredibly insightful. Just think about the controversy around two aspects of a franchise like James Bond. Number one, who's your favorite bond? We grew up with
Starting point is 00:32:57 Roger Moore. We leaned towards that. Then we discovered Sean Connery and then all of a sudden, you see, you know, the latest one, he's just extraordinary. And Daniel Craig, you're like, you know what, that's the one that I love most. Well, what if you could take any of the films, you could say, let me get, you know, give me the spy who loved me, but put Daniel Craig in it, et cetera. And that would be available to you. And then think about the next controversy,
Starting point is 00:33:16 which is, oh my God, does Daniel, does James Bond need to be a white guy from the UK? Of course not. You can elicit around the world, and each reaching could get their own celebrity, their number one celebrity to play the lead and controversy over. You know the old story, the epic of Gilgamesh, right? So like that story was retold in dozens of different languages and it was told through the oral tradition. It was like, you know, spoken by Bards around a fire pit and whatnot. And all of those stories were told with different characters
Starting point is 00:33:43 and different names and different experiences. Some of them were 10 minutes long, some of them were multi-hour sagas explained through the story. But ultimately, the morality of the story, the storyline, the intentionality of the original creator of that story came through. The Bible is another good example of this, where much of the underlying morality and ethics in the Bible comes through in different stories read by different people in different languages. And I think that may be where we go. Like, my kids want to have a 10-minute bedtime story.
Starting point is 00:34:10 Well, let me give them Peter Pan a 10 minutes. I want to do, you know, a chapter or a night for my older daughter for a week long of Peter Pan. Now I can do that. And so the way that I can kind of consume content becomes different. So I guess what I'm saying is there's two aspects to the way that I think the entire content, the realm of content can be rewritten through AI. The first is like individual personalized creation of content where I as a user can render content
Starting point is 00:34:35 of my liking and my interest. The second is that I can engage with content that is being created that is so much more multi-dimensional than anything we conceive of today. Where current centralized content creators now have a whole set of tools. Now from a business model perspective, I don't think the platforms are going to be the play and the platform tooling that enables the individuals to do this stuff and the platform tooling that enables the content creators to do this stuff are definitely entirely new
Starting point is 00:35:02 industries and models that can create multi-hundred billion dollar outcomes. Let me hand this off to SACS because there has been the dream for everybody, especially in the Bay Area, of a hero coming and saving Gotham City. And this has finally been realized. David SACS, I did my own little Twitter AI hashtag and I said to Twitter AI if only please generate a picture of David Sacks His Batman crouch down on the peak thing a bridge the amount of creativity sacks that came from this and this is Something that you know if we were talking about just five years ago This would be like a $10,000 image you could create
Starting point is 00:35:43 know, if we were talking about just five years ago, this would be like a $10,000 image you could create. I'm sure it's a birthday for us. These were not professional, quote unquote, artists. These were individuals, individuals that were able to harness a set of platform tools to generate this incredible new content. And I think it speaks to the opportunity ahead. And by the way, we're in ining one, right? So, you know, you see yourself as Batman.
Starting point is 00:36:01 Do you ever think you should take your enormous wealth and resources and put it towards building a cave under your Mansion that lets you out underneath the golden gate bridge and you could go fight crimes so good sex. Do you want to go fight this crime in Gotham? I think in San Francisco has a lot of Gotham like qualities. I think the villains are more real than the heroes Unfortunately, we don't have a lot of heroes, but yeah, we got a lot of jokers are more real than the heroes and fortunately we don't have a lot of heroes but yeah we've got a lot of jokers yeah that's a whole separate topic I'm sure we'll get to it at some point today you guys are talking about all this stupid bullshit like there are trillions of dollars of software companies that could disrupt and you're talking about making fucking children's books and fat pictures of sex it's so dumb no sex conversation the point is entertainment industry doing a great
Starting point is 00:36:44 job no nobody cares about entertainment anymore because it's so really good No, it's a conversation. But the boy is entertainment industry. You are doing a great job. No, nobody cares about entertainment anymore because it's so ridiculous. Okay, so one of the biggest industries that I've explored on the map is, why don't you teach people where there's going to be actual economic destruction and this is going to be an amazing economic destruction and opportunity. It's got a point. You spend all this time on the most stupidest fucking topics. Listen, it's an illustrative example.
Starting point is 00:37:03 No, it's an elitist example that you fucking shirk your self-serve. No, it's not. It's not. Nobody cares about movies. Let's bring nobody. Nobody can tweet over everybody. That is a good point.
Starting point is 00:37:14 I mean, I think US box office is something like 20 billion a year. I remember when they back up to like 100 billion a year of payment volume. And now it's like hundreds of billions. So, add in and strike. We're going to process two trillion dollars almost want you to talk about that disruption you nitty market size of US median entertainment industry 717 billion. Okay, it's it's not insignificant. Video games are nearly half a
Starting point is 00:37:34 trillion a year. Yeah, I mean, this is number in significant. But let's pull up Chimaltz tweet. Of course, the dictator wants to dictate here. All this incredible innovation is being made. And a new hero has been born, Shamath Polly Haapatia, a tweet that went viral over 1.2 million views already, a reager tweet for the audience. If you invent a novel drug,
Starting point is 00:37:57 you need the government to vet and approve it. FDA, before you can commercialize it. If you invent a new mode of air travel, you need the government to vet and approve it. FAA, I'm just going to edit this down a little bit. If you create new security, you need the government to vet and improve it. SEC, more generally, when you create things with broad societal impact, positive and negative, the government creates a layer to review and improve it. AI will need such an oversight body. The FDA approval
Starting point is 00:38:19 process seems the most credible and adaptable into a framework to understand how a model behaves and its counterfactual. Our political leaders need to get in front of this sooner rather than later and create some oversight before the eventual big avoidable mistakes happen and genius are led out of the bottle. Tremont, you really want the government to come in and then when people build these tools, they have to submit them to the government to approve them. That's what you're saying here. And you want that to start now.
Starting point is 00:38:49 Here's the alternative. The alternative is going to be the debacle that we know as Section 230. So if you try to write a brittle piece of legislation or try to use old legislation to deal with something new, it's not going to do a good job because technology advances way too quickly. And so if you look at the section 230 example, where have we left ourselves? The politicians have a complete inability to pass a new framework to deal with social media, to deal with misinformation. And so now we're all kind of guessing what a bunch of 70 and 80-year-old
Starting point is 00:39:27 Supreme Court justices will do in trying to rewrite technology law when they have to apply in on section 230. So the point of that tweet was to lay the alternatives. There is no world in which this will be unregulated. And so I think the question to ask ourselves is, do we want a chance for a new body? So the FDA is a perfect example. Why? Even though the FDA commissioner is appointed by the president, this is a quasi organization. It still arms length away. It has subject matter experts that they hire and they have many pathways to approval.
Starting point is 00:40:06 Some pathways take days, some pathways are months and years, some pathways are for breakthrough innovations, some pathways are for devices. So they have a broad spectrum of ways of arbitrating. What can be commercialized and what cannot? Otherwise my prediction is we will have a very brittle law that will not work. It will be like the Commerce Department and the FTC trying to gerrymand or some old piece of legislation. And then what will happen is it will get escalated to the Supreme Court.
Starting point is 00:40:38 And I think they are the last group of people who should be deciding on this incredibly important topic for society. So what I have been advocating our leaders and I will continue to do so is, don't try to ram this into an existing body. It is so important, it is worth creating a new organization like the FDA and having a framework that allows you to look at a model and look at the counterfactual judge how good, how important, how disruptive it is, and then release it in the wild appropriately.
Starting point is 00:41:13 Otherwise, I think you'll have these chaos GPT things scale infinitely because, again, as Freeberg said and as SAC said, you're talking about one person that can create this chaos. Multiply that by every person that is an anarchist or every person that just wants to sow seeds of chaos and I think it's going to be all avoidable. I think regulating what software people can write is a near impossible task. Number one, I think you can probably put rules and restrictions around commerce, right? That's certainly feasible in terms of how people can monetize. But in terms of writing and utilizing software, it's going to be as challenged as trying to monitor and demand
Starting point is 00:41:53 oversight and regulation around how people write and use tools for genome and biology exploration. Certainly, if you want to take a product to market and sell a drug to people that can influence their body, you have to go get that approved. But in terms of doing your work in a lab, it's very difficult. I think the other challenge here is software can be written anywhere.
Starting point is 00:42:18 It can be executed anywhere. And so if the US does try to regulate or does try to put the brakes on the development of tools, where the US can have kind of a great economic benefit and a great economic interest, there will be advances made elsewhere without a doubt. And those markets and those those places will benefit in an extraordinarily out of pace way. As we just mentioned, there's such extraordinary kind of economic gain to be realized here that if the United States is not leading the world, we are going to be following and we are going to get disrupted, we are going to lose an incredible amount of value and talent.
Starting point is 00:43:00 And so any attempt at regulation or slowing down or telling people that they cannot do things when they can easily hop on a plane and go do it elsewhere, I think is fraught with peril. So you don't agree with regulation? Sacks. Are you on board with the Chimath plan? Are you on board with the free bird plan? I'll say, I think just like with computer hacking, it's illegal to break into someone else's computer. It is illegal to steal someone's personal information. There are laws that are absolutely simple and obvious and, you know, no nonsense laws. Those laws are illegal to get rid of 100,000 jobs by making a piece of software, though.
Starting point is 00:43:35 That's right. And so I think trying to intentionalize how we do things versus intentionalizing the things that we want to prohibit happening as an outcome. We can certainly try and prohibit the things that we want to happen up as outcome and pass laws and institute governing bodies with authority to oversee those laws with respect to things like stealing data. But you can jump on a plane and go do it in Mexico, Canada or whatever region you got to. Sax, where do you stand on this to be? No, I'm saying like there are ways to protect people. There's ways to protect society about passing laws that make it illegal to do things as the output
Starting point is 00:44:08 as the outcome. What law do you pass on chaos GPD? Explain chaos GPD, giving example, please. Yeah, do you want to talk about it real quick? It's a recursive agent that basically is trying to destroy itself. Trying to destroy humanity. Yeah, but I guess by first becoming all powerful and destroying humanity and then destroying itself.
Starting point is 00:44:25 Yeah, it's a tongue in cheek auto GPT. But it's not it's not a tongue in cheek auto GPT. The guy that created it, you know, put it out there and said like he's trying to show everyone to your point what intentionality could arise here, which is negative intentionality. I think it's very naive for anybody to think that this is not equivalent to something
Starting point is 00:44:47 that could cause harm to you. So for example, if the prompt is, hey, here is a security leak that we figured out in Windows. And so why don't you exploit it? So look, a hacker now has to be very technical. Today with these auto GPTs, a hacker does not need to be technical at all. Exploite the zero-day exploit in Windows, hack into this plane and bring it down. Okay, the GPT will do it.
Starting point is 00:45:12 So who's going to tell you that those things are not allowed? Who's going to actually vet that that wasn't allowed to be released in the wild? So for example, if you worked with Amazon and Google and Microsoft and said, you're going to have to run these things in a sandbox and we're going to have to observe the output before we allow it to run on actual bare metal in the wild. Again, that seems like a reasonable thing. And it's a super naive for people to think,
Starting point is 00:45:36 it's a free market, so we should just be able to do what we want. This will end badly quickly. And when the first plane goes down and when the first fucking thing gets blown up, all of you guys will be like, oh, sorry, tax, uh, pretty compelling example here by Jamoth. Somebody puts out into the wild. KS GPT, you can go to Google search for it and says, Hey, what are the vulnerabilities to the electrical grid? Compile those and automate a series of attacks and write some code to probe those
Starting point is 00:46:04 until we and success in this mission, you get a hundred points and stars. Every time you do this, it's such a beautiful example, but it's even more nefarious. It is, hey, this is an enemy that's trying to hack our system, so you need to hack theirs and bring it down. You know, like you can easily trick these GPs, right? Yes, they have no judgment. They have no judgment. And as you know, like you can easily trick these GPs. Right. Yes, they have no judgment. They have no judgment. And as you said, they're ruthless in getting to the outcome. Right.
Starting point is 00:46:31 So why do we think all of a sudden this is not going to happen? I mean, it's literally the science fiction example. You say, hey, listen, make sure no humans get cancer. And like, okay, well, the logical way to make sure no humans get cancer is to kill all the humans. But, Timoff, can you just address the point? So what do you think you're regulating? Are you regulating the code that people are allowing to write?
Starting point is 00:46:48 If you look at the FDA, no. You are allowed to make any chemical drug you want, but if you want to commercialize it, you need to run a series of trials with highly qualified measurable data and you submit it to like-minded experts that are trained as you are to evaluate the viability of that. But there are pathways that allow you to get that done in days under emergency use, and
Starting point is 00:47:12 then there are pathways that can take years, depending on how gargantuan the task is at hand. And all I'm suggesting is having some amount of oversight is not bad in this specific example. I get what you're saying, but I'm asking tactically, what are you overseeing? amount of oversight is not bad in this specific example. I get what you're saying, but I'm asking tactically, what are you overseeing? You're overseeing chat GPT, you're overseeing the model. You're doing exactly what that chips.
Starting point is 00:47:34 Okay, look, I used to run the Facebook platform. We used to create sandboxes. If you submit code to us, we would run it into sandbox, we would observe it, we would figure out what it was trying to do, and we would tell you, this is allowed to run in the wild. There's a version of that that Apple does when you submit an app for review and approval. Google does it as well. In this case, all the bare metal providers, all the people that provide GPUs, will be forced by the government, in my opinion, to implement something. And all I'm suggesting is that it should be a new kind of body that essentially observes
Starting point is 00:48:09 that has PhDs, that has people who are trained in this stuff to develop the kind of testing and the output that you need to figure out whether it should even be allowed to run in the wild on bare metal. Sorry, but you're saying that the model, sorry, I'm just trying to understand some of the most points. You're saying that the models need to be reviewed by this body and those models, if they're run on a third party set of servers, if they run in the wild, right? So if they're running open computers on the open internet, freebergue. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:48:37 You cannot run an app on your computer. You know that, right? It needs to be connected to the internet, right? Like if you wanted to run an auto GPT, it actually crawls the internet. It actually touches other APIs. It tries to then basically send a push request, sees what it gets back, parses the JSON, figures out what it needs to do. All of that is allowed because it's hosted by somebody, right? That code is running not locally, but it's running. So the host becomes, sure, if you want to run it locally, you can do whatever you want to do. But evil agents are going to do that, right? So if I'm an evil agent,
Starting point is 00:49:08 I'm not going to go use AWS to run my evil agent. I'm going to set up a bunch of servers and connect to the internet. How? I could use VPNs. The internet is open. There's open packets of data that's where you're in another road country.
Starting point is 00:49:20 They can do it everyone. I think that what you're going to see is that if you, for example, try to VPN and run it out of like, to jika stand back to the United States, it's not going to take years for us to figure out that we need to IP block rando shit coming in, push and pull requests from all kinds of IPs that we don't trust anymore because we don't now trust the regulatory oversight that they have for code that's running from those IPs that are not US domestic. Let me steal me steal, man, Tremoth's position for a second.
Starting point is 00:49:46 Jason, hold on. I think the ultimate, if what Tremoth is saying is the point of view of Congress, and if Tremoth has this point of view, then there will certainly be people in Congress that will adopt this point of view, the only way to ultimately do that degree of regulation and restriction is gonna be to restrict the open internet.
Starting point is 00:50:04 It is gonna be to have monitoring and firewalls and safety protocols across the open internet because you can have a set of models running on any set of servers sitting in any physical location. And as long as they can move data packets around, they're going to be able to get up to their nefarious activities. Let me still man that for you, Freiburg. I think, yes, you're correct. The internet has existed in a very open way,
Starting point is 00:50:25 but there are organizations and there are places like the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. If I were to steal Manchants position, if you want to manufacture a car and you want to make one in your backyard and put it on your track and on your land up in Napa somewhere, and you don't want to have breaks on the car and you don't want to have speed limiter or airbags or seatbelts and you want to drive on the hood of the car. You can do that, but once you want it to go on the open road, the open internet, you need to get, you need to submit it for some safety standards like NHTSA, like Tesla has to or Ford has to.
Starting point is 00:50:59 Susax, where do you sit on this? Let's assume that people are going to do very bad things with very powerful models that are becoming available. Amazon today said they'll be switched to them. They're going to put a bunch of LLMs and other models available on AWS, Bloomberg's LLM, Facebook, Google BARD, and of course, Chancci PT opening AI and Bing, all the stuff's available. To have access to that, do you need to have some regulation of who has access to those at scale powerful tools? Should there be some FDA or NHTSA? I don't think we know how to regulate it yet. I think it's too early. And I think the harms that we're speculating about, we're making the AI more powerful than it is.
Starting point is 00:51:40 And I believe it will be that powerful, but I think that it's premature to be talking about regulating something that doesn't really exist yet. Take the chaos GPT scenario. The way that would play out would be you've got some future incarnation of auto GPT. And somebody says, OK, auto GPT, I want you to be WMD AI and figure out how to cause like a mass destruction event. And then it creates like a planning checklist and that kind of stuff. So that's basically the type of scenario
Starting point is 00:52:11 we're talking about. We're not anywhere close to that yet. I mean, the Chaos GPT is kind of a joke. It doesn't produce a checklist of anything. I can give an example. That would actually be completely plausible. One of the first things on the Chaos GPPD's checklist was to stay within the boundaries of the law because it didn't want to get prosecuted.
Starting point is 00:52:30 Got it. So the person who did that had some sort of good intent, but I can give you an example right now that could be done by Chan GPD and auto GPD. That could take down large swaths of society and cause massive destruction. I'm almost reticent to say it here. Say it. Well, I'll say iticent to say it here. Say it. Well, I'll say it and then maybe we'll have to delete this. But if somebody created this and they said,
Starting point is 00:52:49 figure out a way to compromise as many powerful people's and as many systems passwords, then go in there and delete all their files and turn off as many systems as you can. Chatship and AutoGPT could very easily create phishing accounts, create billions of websites to create billions of logins, have people log into them, get their passwords, log into whatever they do, and then delete everything in their accounts, which would cause chaos. And it could be done today. I don't think we've done today.
Starting point is 00:53:17 Simple as this. How about you phishing website? Yeah, pieces of it can be created today, but you're you're accelerating the progress. Yeah, but you can auto me. I work fishing days, 30 days. Yeah, exactly. And by the way, I'm accelerating it in weeks. Why don't you just spoof the bank accounts and just steal the money? Like that's even simpler. Like people will do the stuff because they're trying to do it today. Holy cow. Now they just have a more efficient way to solve the problem. Think about bank accounts. So, so number one, this is a tool. And if people use a tool in nefarious ways, you prosecute them. Number two, the platforms that are commercializing these tools do have trust and safety teams. Now in the past, trust and safety has been a euphemism for censorship, which it shouldn't
Starting point is 00:53:58 be. But you know, OpenAI has a safety team and they try to detect when people are using their tech in a nefarious way and they try to prevent it. Do you trust that key? Well, not on censorship, but I think that they're probably... People are using traffic. I think they're policing it. Are you willing to abdicate your or societal responsibility to open AI to do the trust
Starting point is 00:54:21 and safety? What I'm saying is I'd like to see how far we get in terms of the system. Yeah, so you're, yeah, do you say you want to see the mistakes? You want to see where the mistakes are and how bad the mistakes are. I'm saying it's still very early to be imposing regulation. We don't even know what to regulate.
Starting point is 00:54:36 So I think we have to keep tracking this to develop some understanding of how it might be misused, how the industry is going to develop safety guardrails. Okay. And then you can talk about regulation. Look, you create some new FDA right now. Okay. First of all, we know what would happen. Look at the drug process. As soon as the FDA got involved, it slowed down massively. Now it takes years. Many years to get a drug approved. Appropriately so.
Starting point is 00:55:01 Yes, but at least with a drug drug we know what the gold standard is you run a double blind study To see whether it causes harm or whether it's beneficial We don't know what that standard is for AI yet. We have no idea What no, we don't see that somebody review the code you have two instances in a single use of code to do what no sex Auto GPT. It's benign. I mean, my friend used it to book a wine tasting.
Starting point is 00:55:32 So who's going to review that code and then speculate and say, oh, well, 99.9% of cases, it's perfectly benevolent and fine and innocuous. But I can fantasize about some case that someone might do. Hold on, how do you stress to resolve that? Very simple. There are two types of regulation that I concur in any industry. You can do what the movie industry did, which is they self-regulate and they came up with their own rating system, or you can do what happens with the FDA and what happens with
Starting point is 00:55:59 cars, which is an external government-based body. I think now is the time for self-regulation so that we avoid the massive heavy hand of government having to come in here. But these tools can be used today to create massive farm. They're moving at a pace. We just said in the first half of the show that none of us have ever seen. Every 48 hours something drops,
Starting point is 00:56:18 that is mind blowing. That's never happened before. And you can take these tools and in the one example that Chimath and I came up with a top of our head in 30 seconds, you can create phishing sites, compromise people's bank accounts, take all the money out,
Starting point is 00:56:33 delete all the files, and cause chaos on a scale that has never been possible by a series of Russian hackers or Chinese hackers working in a boiler room. This can scale, and that is the fundamental difference here. And I didn't think I would be sitting here still manning Tramot's argument.
Starting point is 00:56:49 I think humans have a cerebral ability to compound. I think people do not understand compound interest. And this is a perfect example, where when you start to compound technology at the rate of 24 hours, or 48 hours, which we've never really had to acknowledge, most people's brains break, and they don't understand what six months from now looks like.
Starting point is 00:57:06 And six months from now, when you're compounding at 48 or 72 hours, is like 10 to 12 years in other technology solutions. This is compounding. This is different because of the compounding. I agree with that. The pace of evolution is very fast. We are on a bullet train to something. And we don't know exactly what it is and that's disconcerting. However, let me tell you what would happen if we create a new regulatory body like the FDA to regulate this.
Starting point is 00:57:30 They would have no idea how to arbitrate whether a technology should be approved or not. Development will basically slow to a crawl, just like drug development. There is no double blind standard. I agree. What's off regulation? What's off regulation committed? There is no double blind standard in AI that everyone can agree on right now to know whether something should be approved. And what's going to happen is the thing that's made software development so magical and
Starting point is 00:57:53 allowed all this innovation over the last 25 years is permissionless innovation. Any developer, any dropout from a university can go create their own project, which turns into a company, and that is what has driven all the innovation and progress in our economy over the last 25 years. So you're going to replace permissionless innovation with going to Washington to go through some approval process, and it will be the politically connected, it'll be the big donors who get their projects approved, and the next Mark Zuckerberg who's trying to do his little project in the dormant somewhere will not know how to do that will not know how to compete in that highly political process. I think you're mixing a bunch of things together. So first of all,
Starting point is 00:58:33 permissionless innovation happens today in biotech as well. It's just that it's what Jason said. When you want to put it on the rails of society and make it available to everybody, you actually have to go and do something substantive. In the rails of society and make it available to everybody, you actually have to go and do something substantive. In the negotiation of these drug approvals, it's not some standardized thing. You actually sit with the FDA and you have to decide what are our endpoints, what is the mechanism of action, and how will we measure the efficacy of this thing? The idea that you can't do this today in AI is laughable.
Starting point is 00:59:01 Yes, you can. I think that smart people, so for example, if you pit deep minds team versus open AI's team to both agree that a model is good and correct, I bet you they would find a systematic way to test that it's fine. I just want to point down. Okay, so basically in order to do what you're saying,
Starting point is 00:59:19 okay, this entrepreneur who just dropped out of college to do their project, they're gonna have to learn how to go sit with regulators, have a conversation with them, go through some complicated approval process, and you're trying to say that that won't turn into a game of political connections. Of course it will.
Starting point is 00:59:35 Of course it will. And then look at the legislation. And hold on, and look at which is self-regulation. Yeah, well let's get to that. Hold on a second. And let's look at the drug approval process. If you wanna create a drug company, you need to raise hundreds of millions of dollars. It's incredibly expensive.
Starting point is 00:59:50 It's incredibly capital intensive. There is no drug company that is two guys in their garage, like many of the biggest companies, like many of the biggest companies in Silicon Valley started. That is because you're talking about taking a chemical or biological compound and injecting into some hundreds or thousands of people who are both racially gender based, age based, highly stratified all around the world or at a minimum all around the country. You're not talking about that here, David. I think that you could have a much simpler and cheaper way where you have a
Starting point is 01:00:25 version of the internet that's running in a huge sandbox someplace that's closed off from the rest of the internet and another version of the internet that's closed off from everything else as well. And you can run on a parallel path as it is with this agent and you can easily, in my opinion, actually figure out whether this agent is good or bad and you can probably do it in weeks. So I actually think the approvals are actually not that complicated and the reason to do it here is because I get that it may cause a little bit more friction for some of these mom and pops. But if you think about what's
Starting point is 01:00:58 the societal and consequences of letting the worst case outcomes happen, the AGI type outcomes happen, I think those are so bad. They're worth slowing some folks down. And I think just because you want to buy groceries for $100, you should be able to do it, I get it. But if people don't realize and connect the dots between that and bringing airplanes down, then that's because they don't understand
Starting point is 01:01:23 what this is capable of. I'm not saying we're never gonna need regulation. What I'm saying is, it's way too early. We don't even know what we're regulating. We don't know what the standard would be. And what we will do by racing to create a new FDA is destroying American innovation in the sector. And other countries will not slow down.
Starting point is 01:01:39 They will beat us to the punch here. Got it. I think there's a middle ground here of self-regulation and thoughtfulness on the part of the people who are providing these tools at scale to give just one example here. And this tweet is from five minutes ago. So to look at the pace of this five minutes ago, this tweet came out. A developer who is an AI developer says, AI agents continue to amaze. My GPT-4 coding is doesn't learn how to build apps with authenticated users that can build and design a web app, create a backend,
Starting point is 01:02:08 handle auth logins, upload code to GitHub, and deploy. He literally, while we were talking, is deploying websites. Now, if this website was a phishing app or the one that Chimap is talking about, he could make a gazillion different versions of Banking of America, Wells Fargo, etc. Then find everybody on the internet's email, then start sending different spoofing emails, determine which spoofing emails work, iterate on those, and create a global financial collapse. Now, this sounds insane, but it's happening right
Starting point is 01:02:40 now. People get hacked every day at 1, 2, 3 percent. Sacks. Fraud is occurring right now in the low hacked every day at one, two, three percent. Sax, fraud is occurring right now in the low single digit percentages, identity theft is happening in the low single identity percentages. This technology is moving so fast that bad actors could 10x that relatively easy. And so if 10% of us want to be hacked
Starting point is 01:03:00 and have our credit cards hacked, this could create chaos. I think self-regulation is the solution. I'm the one who brought up self-regulation when I said, I brought up first. I brought up first, I get credit, no go ahead. I'm not sorry, I credit. I'm, no, self-regulation is not
Starting point is 01:03:13 a good choice. I've got to finish my point about it because you interrupt me. We talk for eight minutes. If you have a point to make, you should have got it in the eight minutes. Oh my God, you guys kept interrupting me. Go ahead.
Starting point is 01:03:22 What I said is that there are trust and safety teams at these big AI companies, these big foundation model companies like OpenAI. Like I said, in the past, trust and safety has been a euphemism for censorship, and that's why people don't trust it. But I think it would be appropriate for these platform companies to apply some guardrails on how their tools can be used
Starting point is 01:03:44 and based on everything I know, they're doing that. So, you guys just released websites on the open web with chat GP4 and he's gonna have it do it automated. You're basically postulating capabilities that don't yet exist. I just tweeted the guy's doing it. He's got a video of himself doing it on the web.
Starting point is 01:03:59 What do you think, Freeper? That's a far cry from basically running like some fishing expedition that's going to bring down the entire banking system. A literally a fishing site and a site with OAuth are the same thing. Go ahead, Freeberg. I think that guy is doing something illegal if he's hacking into people's emails and bank accounts.
Starting point is 01:04:21 That's illegal. You're not allowed to do that. And so that action breaks the law, that person can be prosecuted for doing that. The tooling that one might use to do that can be used in a lot of different ways. Just like you could use Microsoft Word to forge letters, just like you could use Microsoft Excel to create fraudulent financial statements, I think that the application of a platform technology needs to be distinguished from the technology itself. And while we all feel extraordinarily fearful because the unbelievable leverage that these AI tools provide, again, I'll remind you that the chat GPT4 or this GPT4 model
Starting point is 01:05:04 by some estimates is call it a few terabytes. You could store it on a hard drive or you could store it on your iPhone. I'll remind you that this chat GPT4 or this GPT4 model, by some estimates, is call it a few terabytes. You could store it on a hard drive or you could store it on your iPhone and you could then go run it on any set of servers that you could go set up physically anywhere. So it's a little bit naive to say we can go ahead and regulate platforms and we can go regulate the tools.
Starting point is 01:05:22 Certainly we should continue to enforce and protect ourselves against nefarious actors using new tools in inappropriate and illegal ways. I also think that there's a moment here that we should all kind of observe just how quickly we want to shut things down when they take away what feels like the control that we all have from one day to the next. And the real sense of fear that seems to be quite contagious for a large number of people that have significant assets or significant things to lose is that tooling that's creating entirely
Starting point is 01:06:09 newly disruptive systems and models for business and economics and opportunity for so many needs to be regulated away to minimize what we claim to be some potential downside when we already have laws that protect us on the other side. So, I just want to also consider that this set of tools creates extraordinary opportunity. We gave one sort of simple example about the opportunity for creators, but we talked about how new business models, new businesses can be started with one or two people. Entirely new tools can be built with a handful of people, entirely new businesses. This is an incredible economic opportunity. And again, if the US tries to regulate it,
Starting point is 01:06:51 or the US tries to come in and stop the application of models in general, or regulate models in general, you're certainly gonna see those models of continue to evolve and continue to be utilized in very powerful ways, they're gonna be advantageous to places outside the US. There's over 180 countries on Earth. They're not all going to regulate together.
Starting point is 01:07:09 It's been hard enough to get any sort of coordination around financial systems, to get coordination around climate change, to get coordination around anything on a global basis, to try and get coordination around the software models that are being developed. I think is pretty naive. You don't want to have a global organization. I think you need to have a domestic organization
Starting point is 01:07:27 that protects U.S. and I think Europe will have their own. Again, FDA versus Emma. Canada has its own, Japan has its own, China has its own, and they have a lot of overlap and a lot of commonality in the guardrails they use. And I think that's what's going to happen here. This will be beneficial only for political insiders who will basically be able to get their projects and their apps approved with a huge day wait loss for the system because innovation will completely slow down. But to many build on Freeberg's point, which is that we have to remember that AI won't just be used by nefarious actors, it will be used by positive actors.
Starting point is 01:08:02 So there will be new tools that law enforcement will be able to use. And if somebody is creating phishing sites at scale, they're going to be probably pretty easy for law enforcement AIs to detect. So let's not forget that there will be co-pilots written for our law enforcement authorities. They'll be able to use that to basically detect and fight crime. And a really good example of this is in the crypto space. We saw this article over the past week that chain analysis has figured out how to basically track illicit Bitcoin transactions.
Starting point is 01:08:32 And there's now a huge number of prosecutions that are happening of illegal use of Bitcoin. And if you go back to when Bitcoin first took off, there was a lot of conversations around Silk Road. And the only thing that Bitcoin was good for was basically illegal transactions, blackmailing, drug trafficking, and therefore we had to stop Bitcoin. Remember, that was the main argument. The counter-argument was that, well, no, Bitcoin, like any technology can be used for good or bad, however, there will be technologies that spring up to combat those nefarious or illicit
Starting point is 01:09:06 use cases. And sure enough, you had a company like Chain Alessas come along and now it's been used by law enforcement to basically crack down on the illicit use of Bitcoin. And if anything, it's cleaned up the Bitcoin community tremendously. And I think it's dispelled this idea that the only thing you'd use Bitcoin for is black market transactions. Quite the contrary, I think you'd be really stupid now to use Bitcoin in that way. It's actually turned Bitcoin is something of a honey pot now, because if you used it for
Starting point is 01:09:34 nefarious transactions, your transactions record in the blockchain forever, it's waiting for chain-alysis to find it. So again, using Bitcoin to do something illegal, we really stupid. I think in a similar way, you're going to see self-regulation by these major AI platform companies combined with new tools that are used, new AI tools, that's spring up to help combat the nefarious uses. And until we let those forces play out, I'm not saying regulate never, I'm just saying we need to let those forces play out before we leap to creating
Starting point is 01:10:06 some new regulatory body that doesn't even understand what its mandate and mission's supposed to be. The Bitcoin story is hilarious, by the way. Oh my gosh. The Wall Street Journal story. It's unbelievable. Pretty epic. It took years, but basically this guy was buying blow on Suk Road and he deposited his
Starting point is 01:10:23 Bitcoin and then when he withdrew it, there was a bug that gave him twice as many Bitcoin. So he kept creating more accounts, putting more money into Silk Road and getting more Bitcoin out. And then years later, the authorities figured this out again with, you know, chain analysis type things. Look at James Zong over there. Look at James Zong.
Starting point is 01:10:41 He accused, uh, had a Lamborghini at Tesla, a late house, and was living his best life, apparently, when the feds knocked on his door and found the digital keys through his crypto fortune in a popcorn gym in his bathroom and in his safe, in his basement floor. So there you have it, folks. Well, the reason I posted this was I was like,
Starting point is 01:11:06 what if this claim that you can have all these anonymous transactions actually fooled an entire market because it looks like that this anonymity has effectively been reverse engineered and there's no anonymity at all. And so what Bitcoin is quickly becoming is like the most singular honey pot of transactional information that's complete and available in public. And I think what this article talks about is how companies like Chain Analysis and others have worked now for years, almost a decade with law enforcement to be able to map all of it. And so now every time money goes from one Bitcoin wall to another, they effectively know the sender and the recipient.
Starting point is 01:11:52 And I just want to make one quick correction here. It wasn't actually exactly popcorn. It was Cheetos spicy flavor popcorn. And there's the tin of it, where you had a motherboard of a computer that held the keys. It's a very chance that this project was actually introduced by the government. Of course. I mean, there's been reports of tour, anonymous or network that the CIA had their hands all
Starting point is 01:12:17 over tour. TOR, if you don't know it, which is an anonymous like multi relay,ay, peer-to-peer, web browsing system, and people believe it's a CIA honey pot, an intentional trap for criminals to get themselves caught up in. All right, as we wrap here, what an amazing discussion, my lord, I never thought I would be. I wanna say one thing. Yes.
Starting point is 01:12:42 We saw that someone was arrested for the murder of Bob Lee. That's what I was about to do this morning. Yeah, which turns out that the report of the SFPD's arrest is that it's someone that he knew that also works in the tech industry, someone that none of us know. So still breaking news, yeah. Yes, possibly. But I want to say two things.
Starting point is 01:13:02 One, obviously based on this arrest and the storyline, it's quite different than what we all assumed it to be, which was some sort of homeless, robbery type moment that has become all too commonplace in SF. It's a commentary for me on two things. One, is how quick we all were to kind of judge and assume that, you know, a homeless, robber type person would do this in SF, which I think speaks to the condition in SF right now, also speaks to our conditioning that we all kind of lacked
Starting point is 01:13:34 or didn't even want to engage in a conversation that maybe this person was murdered by someone that they knew because we wanted to kind of very quickly fill our own narrative about how bad SF is. And that's just something that I really felt when I read this this morning. I was like, man, I didn't even consider the possibility that this guy was murdered by someone that he knew because I am so enthralled right now by this narrative that SF is so bad. And it must be another data point that validates my point of view on SF. So, you know, I kind of want to just acknowledge that and acknowledge that we all kind of do
Starting point is 01:14:03 that right now. But I do think it also does, in fact, unfortunately, speak to how bad things are in SF because we all are We've all have these experiences of feeling like we're in danger and under threat all the time We're walking around in SF in so many parts of San Francisco I should say where things feel like they've gotten really bad. I think both things can be true that we can kind of feel biased and fill our own narrative by kind of latching on to our assumption about what something tells us, but it also tells us quite a lot about what is going on in this.
Starting point is 01:14:35 So I just wanted to make that point. In fairness, and I think it's time for you to make that point. I am extremely vigilant on this program to always say when something is breaking news with whole judgment, whether it's the Trump case or Jesse Smolett or anything in between January 6th, let's wait until we get all the facts. And in fact, quote from SACs, we don't know exactly what happened yet. Correct. Literally SACs started with that. We do that every fucking time on this program. We know when there's breaking news to withhold judgment, but you can also know two things can be true, a tolerance for ambiguity is necessary.
Starting point is 01:15:12 But I didn't even do that. As soon as I heard this, I was like, I was like, oh, almost for the second. That's a fine assumption to, but David, that is a fine assumption to make. That's a fine assumption to make. I think it's a logical assumption. Listen, I've got assumption for you all the protection. We got all these reporters who are basically propagandist, trying to claim that crime is down in San Francisco, that's a fine social action listen you may have a protection
Starting point is 01:15:25 we got all these reporters who are basically propaganda's trying to claim the crime is down in San Francisco they're all basically seeking comment for me this morning sending emails are trying to go on us because we basically talked about the bobby case in that way listen we said that we didn't know what happened but if we were to bet at least what I said is i bet this case it looks like like the briana couple for case We said that we didn't know what happened, but if we were in a bet, at least what I said,
Starting point is 01:15:45 is I bet this case, it looks like the Brianna Cup for case. That was logical. That's not conditioning or bias. That's logic. And you need to look at what else happened that week. Okay, so just the same week that Bob Lee was killed, let me give you three other examples of things that happened in Gotham City, AK, San Francisco. So number one, former fire commissioner, Don Carmaniani was beaten with an insurface life by a group of homeless addicts in the marina. And one of them was interviewed in terms of why it happened. And basically, Don came down from his mother's house and told them to move off his mother's front porch, because they were obstructing her ability to get in and out of her apartment.
Starting point is 01:16:26 They interpreted that as disrespect and they beat him with a tire iron or a metal pipe. And one of the hoodlums who was involved in this apparently admitted this. Yeah, play the video. Somebody over the head like that and attack him. I see this disrespectful. Who was disrespectful? That was a big old, kind of bald-haired old man. Don, don.
Starting point is 01:16:50 So he was being disrespectful, and then, but is that enough to beat him off? Yeah, sometimes. Oh, my lord. I mean. So this is case number one. And apparently, in the reporting on that person who was just interviewed, he's been in the Marina kind of terrorizing people, maybe not physically, but verbally.
Starting point is 01:17:09 So you have bands of homeless people in camped in front of people's houses. Don Carmaniani gets beaten within the intro of his life. You then had the case of the Whole Foods store on Market Street shut down in San Francisco. And this was not a case of shoplifting, like some of the other store closings we've seen, they said they were closing the store because they could not protect their employees. The bathrooms were filled with needles and pipes that were a drug paraphernalia you had, drug addicts going in there using it. They were engaging in altercations with store employees.
Starting point is 01:17:42 And Whole Foods felt like they had to close the store, because again, they cannot protect their employees. Third example, board of supervisors had to disband their own meeting, because their internet connection got vandalized. The fiber for the cable connection to provide their internet got vandalized to basically disband their meeting, Aaron Preskin, was the one who announced this, and you saw in the response to this, yeah, my retweeting him went viral.
Starting point is 01:18:08 There were lots of people who said, yeah, I've got a small business and the fiber, the copper wire, whatever was vandalized. And in a lot of cases, I think it's basically drug addict stealing whatever they can. They steal $10 of copper wire, sell that to get a hit, and it causes $40,000 of property damage. Here's the insincereity, Sachs. Literally, the proper response when there's violence in San Francisco is, hey, we need to make this place less violent. Is there a chance that it could be people who know each other?
Starting point is 01:18:35 Of course, that's inherent in any crime that occurs that there'll be time to investigate it. But literally, the press is now using this as a moment to say there's no crime in San Francisco where that we're reacting and like I just have the New York Times email me during the podcast. Heather Knight from the Chronicle San Francisco Chronicle. In light of the Bob Lee killing appearing to be an interpersonal dispute, she still doesn't know right.
Starting point is 01:18:59 We don't have all the facts with another tech leader. Do you think the tech community jumped to conclusions? Why are so many tech leaders painting San Francisco as a dystopian hellscape with the reality with the reality is more nuanced I think it's a little type of there well yeah yes yes like of course the reality is nuanced of course it's a hellscape walk down the street Heather can I give you a theory please Heather, can I give you a theory? Please. I think it was most evident in the way that Elon dismantled and manhandled the BBC reporter.
Starting point is 01:19:31 Oh my God, that was brutal. This is a small microcosm of what I think media is. So I used to think that media had an agenda. I actually now think that they don't particularly have an agenda other than to be relevant because they see waning relevance. And so I think what happens is whenever there are a bunch of articles that tilt the pendulum into a narrative, they all of a sudden become very focused on refuting that narrative. And even if it means they have to lie, they'll do it.
Starting point is 01:20:09 So I think for months and months, I think people have seen that the quality of the discourse on Twitter became better and better. Elon was doing a lot with bots and all of this stuff, cleaning it up. And this guy had to try to establish the counter-narrative and was willing to lie in order to do it, and he was dismantled. Here, you guys, I don't have a bone to pick so much with San Francisco. I think I've been relatively silent on this topic, but you guys as residents and former residents, I think have invested interest in the quality of that city, and you guys have been very vocal. But I think that you're not the only ones, Michelle Tandler, you know, Shellenburg, there's a bunch of smart, thoughtful people who've been beating this drum, Gary Tann. And so now I think reporters don't want to write the N-plus first article saying that
Starting point is 01:20:56 San Francisco is a hellscape, so they have to take the other side. And so now they're going to go and kick up the counter-narrative and they'll probably dismantle the truth and redirect it in order to do it. So I think that what you're seeing is they'll initially tell a story, but then there's too much of the truth, they'll go to the other side because that's the only way to get clicks and be seen. So I think that that's what you guys are a part of right now. They are in the business of protecting the narrative, but I do think there's a huge
Starting point is 01:21:23 ideological component to the narrative, both in the Elon case where they're trying to claim that there was a huge rise in hate speech on Twitter. The reason they're saying that is because they want Twitter to engage in more censorship. That's the ideological agenda here. The agenda is this radical agenda of decarceration. They actually believe that more and more people should be led out of prison. And so therefore, they have an incentive to deny the existence of crime and San Francisco, and the rise in crime and San Francisco. If you poll most people in San Francisco, large majority of San Francisco believe that crime is on the rise because they can see it, they hear it.
Starting point is 01:22:01 And what I would say is, look, I think there is a pyramid of activity, a pyramid of criminal or anti-social behavior in San Francisco that we can all see. The base level is you've got a level of chaos on the streets where you have open air drug markets, people doing drugs. Sometimes you'll see, you know, a person doing something disgusting, you know, like people defecating on the streets or even worse. Then there's like a level up where they're chasing after you or harassing you, people have experienced that. I've experienced that.
Starting point is 01:22:31 Then there's a level up where there's petty crime, your car gets broken into or something like that. Then there's the level where you get mugged. And then finally, the top of the pyramid is that there's a murder. And it's true that most of the time, the issues don't go all the way to the top of the pyramid is that there's a murder. And it's true that most of the time, the issues don't go all the way to the top of the pyramid where someone is murdered, okay?
Starting point is 01:22:49 But that doesn't mean there's not a vast pyramid underneath that of basically quality of life issues. And I think this term quality of life was originally used as some sort of way to minimize the behavior that was going on, saying that they weren't really crimes. We shouldn't worry about them. But if anything, what we've seen in San Francisco is that when you ignore quality of life crimes, you will actually see a huge diminishment in what it's like to live in these cities, like quality of life is real. And that's the
Starting point is 01:23:20 issue. And I think what they're trying to do now is that say that because Bob Lee wasn't the case that we thought it was that that whole pyramid doesn't exist. Doesn't exist. That pyramid exists. We can all experience it. Oh my God. And that's the insincereity of this. It is insincere. And the existence of that pyramid that we can see and hear and feel and experience every
Starting point is 01:23:40 day is why we're willing to make a bet. We called it a bet that the Bob Lee case was like the Brianna Cuffer case. And in that, with a disclaimer, with a disclaimer, and we always do a disclaimer here. And just to George Hammond from the Financial Times who email me, here's what he asked me, there's a lot of public attention lately on whether San Francisco status has one of the top business and technology hubs in the US is at risk in the aftermath of the pandemic. Da. Obviously it is. I wondered if you had a moment to chat about that and whether there is a danger that negative perceptions about the city will damage its reputation for founders and capitalica is in
Starting point is 01:24:12 the future. So essentially, and it says the obviously a lot of potential for hysteria in this conversation which I'm keen to avoid. And it's like, have you walked down the street and I asked them, have you walked down the street in San Francisco? Jason, the best response is send them the thing that saccent which is the amount of available office Space in San Francisco Companies are voting with their feet so it's already if the quality of life wasn't so poor they stay
Starting point is 01:24:38 This is the essence of gaslighting is what they do is the people who've actually created the situation San Francisco with their policies. Their policies of defunding the police, making it harder for the police to do their job, decriminalizing theft under $950, allowing open-air drug markets. The people who have now created that matrix of policies have created the situation. What they then turn around and do is say, no, the people who create the problem are the ones who are observing this. That's all we're doing is observing and complaining about it. And what they try to do is say well no you're you're running down San Francisco. We're not the ones creating the problem we're observing it. And just this week another data point is that the mayor's office said that they were short more than 500 police
Starting point is 01:25:18 officers in San Francisco. Yeah nobody who who's going to become a police officer here? Are you crazy? Well and there's another article just this week about how there's a lot of speculation rumors are swirling of an unofficial strike in informal strike by police officers who are normally on the force were tired of risking life and limb and then you know they basically risk getting a physical altercation with a homeless person they bring them in and then they're just released again. So there's a lot of quiet quitting that's going on in the job. It's like this learned helplessness because why take a risk? And then the police commission doesn't have your back. It seems like the only time you have prosecutorial zeal by a lot of these prosecutors is when
Starting point is 01:25:58 they can go after a cop, not one of these repeat offenders. And you just saw that by the way in LA. Oh, look, motherboard and New York times just emailed and DMed me and then and then did you guys say that instead of solving these issues the board of supervisors was dealing with our wild parrot what was it? The meeting that was suspended they had or yeah, they had scheduled a meeting to vote on whether the wild parrots are the official animal of the city of San Francisco. So that was the scheduled meeting that got disbanded.
Starting point is 01:26:32 Also, can I just clarify what... Thomas talked about what the Elon interview. A BBC reporter interviewed Elon and said, there is much more race and hate and hate speech in the feeds on Twitter. He said, can you give me an example? And he said well, I don't have an example, but people are saying this is it which people are saying it and the BBC reporter said well Just different groups of people are saying it and you know, I've certainly seen you said okay You saw it and for you he goes no, I stopped looking at for you. He said so give me one example of hate speech that you've seen in your feed Now we without speaking about any inside information,
Starting point is 01:27:06 which I do not have much of, they've been pretty deliberate of removing hate speech from places like for you. And it's a very complicated issue when you have an open platform, but the people may say a word, but it doesn't reach a lot of people. So if you were to say something really nasty,
Starting point is 01:27:20 it doesn't take a genius to block that and not have it reach a bunch of people. This reporter kept insisting to Elon that this was on the rise with no factual basis for it, that other people said it. And then he said, but I don't look at the feed. He said, so you're telling me that there's more hate speech that you've seen, but you just admitted to me that you haven't looked at the four you feed in three months. And it was just like this completely weird thing. I just had mother. And this is thing. If. He caught him in a lie. He caught him in a lie. And this is thing.
Starting point is 01:27:46 If you're a journalist, just cut it down the middle. Come with prepared with facts. I look, listen, and stop taking a position either way. I want to connect one dot, which is that he filled in his own narrative, even though the data wasn't necessarily there. In the same way that we kind of filled in our narrative about San Francisco with the Bob Lee, you know, murder being another example.
Starting point is 01:28:11 No, we put a disclaimer on it. We said we didn't put a disclaimer on it. We didn't, hold on a second. We so we knew we didn't know. And furthermore, we're taking great pains this week to correct the record and explain what we now know. Yeah, we're called to be intellectually honest This is just intellectual honesty Honestly, you're you're you're going soft to your freeberg. You're getting gasslet by all these people Okay, I guess up anyone. I think the guy the guy totally the guy totally had zero data
Starting point is 01:28:41 By the way when you're journalist, you're supposed to report on data and evidence So he's certainly you know, I think completely. Just replacing it with Don Carmaniani. It's the same story. Yeah. This is that Don, Don happened to survive. Guys, I love, I love you, but I gotta go. Goodbye. Here's what Maxwell from Motherfucker's had fun. There's been a lot of discussion about the future of San Francisco and the death has quickly become politicized.
Starting point is 01:29:09 Has that caused any division or disagreement from what you've seen or has that not been the case? The press is gleeful right now. They're gleeful. Oh my god. It's just like the right was gleeful with Jesse Smolette having gotten himself beaten up or you know setting up his own. All right, everybody. Four. The Sultan of science currently conducting experiments on a beach to see exactly how burned he can get with his SPF 200 under an umbrella, wearing a sun shirt and pants. Freeberg, freeberg on the beach was the same outfit astronauts wear with the two spacewalks. walks. Hey stable diffusion make me an image of David Freeberg wearing a full body bathing suit covered in SPF 200 under three umbrellas study beach Oh my god, they're dictater. Chamaugh, polyhopatia creating regulations, creating regulations. And the regular, oh, the regulator, you can call me the regular, the regulator.
Starting point is 01:30:07 See, it's tonight when we'll eat our orchalons, what's left of them. The final four or five orchalons in existence are on a key. Otherwise, I'm putting you on the be list today, if you're looking. I will be there. I'll be there. I promise I promise I promise I can't wait to be there. And the rainman himself, Namaste, didn't even get to putting Ron. Oh, we'll talk about our horses, making that rain. Oh, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, animals give it a real world put something on the dark web to go kill the remaining rhinos and bring them to Chimaz house for
Starting point is 01:30:46 Pokemon I don't think Rhinos would taste good Wasn't that the plava movie was a oh did you guys see is cocaine bear out yet? It was a Matthew Broderick Marlin Brando movie right where they're doing the take-off on the godfather was the fresh Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's like a conspiracy to eat Endangered animals. Yes, the freshman The project came out in 1990 Marlon Brando did it with
Starting point is 01:31:12 Matthew Broderick and like Bruno Kirby. They actually they that was the whole thing. Oh, no Kirby. That's a deep hole actually They were eating endangered animals. What do you think heat to is that gonna be good? They were eating endangered animals. What do you think? Heat too, is that gonna be good? Sax, I know, heats one of your favorite films, me too. My goodness. Is there a sequel coming? They're gonna do heat too.
Starting point is 01:31:29 And the novel's already come out. Adam, it's all the novel. Yeah. He's amazing. Heat is amazing. He's one of those movies where when it comes on, you just can't stop watching. Yeah, so let's do a heat too, Screener. Best bank robbery slash shootout in movie history, you know?
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