Elon says the world is heading to prosperity cause of AI. Is this realistic?
Elon says the world is heading to prosperity cause of AI. Is this realistic?
Description
This video examines if Elon Musk's claims regarding AI and future global prosperity are realistic
Transcript
No, I'm going to preface this by just saying often you hear people say that Elon Musk is an idiot. You hear people say that Elon is an idiot, right? He doesn't, he doesn't know what he's talking about. He's detached from reality. And I just before I, before I even go into my, you know, my breakdown of that analysis, I do want to preface it by saying that you can call him what you like, but Elon is not an idiot. You're talking about a guy who's repeatedly solved the most global, globally significant problems on earth, right? You know, internet payments at the time was an enormous huge trillion dollar problem. You know, less pollutive vehicles and transport was again another huge globally significant problem. He's now using that engineering capability as a golden thread to think about space travel. So we're talking about and the abundance of energy more importantly as well. So, you're talking about someone who is solving, you know, globally significant problems. And I know people who have worked at Tesla and I've genuinely said that the way he operates as a problem solver, even that as the CEO and founder, is that he will be the person that comes in each week and goes to speak to people around the business to figure out what is the most important problem within this business. And if they've been spending weeks or months on it, he will be the person to get in the workshop and figure out and solve it in half an hour to an hour. He's genuinely that type of guy. So, so let's just have it right in terms of who we're talking about, the intellectual capability and the hunger to get things done. That's it. When I saw that podcast, I thought it was absolutely absurd

