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Speaker 1: Zone Media.

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Speaker 2: Greetoms and salutations, and welcome to Better Offline. I'm your

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Speaker 2: host ed Zititron. I'm not going to talk about Judy.

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Speaker 2: In fact, we're not going to talk about Judy at Oh.

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Speaker 2: We're going to keep her out of it because today

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Speaker 2: it's hater season, when I bring on some of the

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Speaker 2: most esteemed haters in the tech industry to talk about

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Speaker 2: stuff we're pissed off about. And today we're talking about

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Speaker 2: goddamn Claude bar open Claude, malt bot or whatever these

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Speaker 2: goddamn people are talking about, and today we're joined to

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Speaker 2: talk about it by David Gerard of Pivot to AI. David,

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Speaker 2: how are you doing?

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Speaker 3: I'm doing marvelously ed.

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Speaker 2: So what is this crap? Because I've seen all manner

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Speaker 2: of different perverts and vagabonds and stuff on Twitter talking

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Speaker 2: about clawed bot, and just walk me through what the

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Speaker 2: hell this is.

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Speaker 3: Well, the first mistake is looking at Twitter, because malt

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Speaker 3: bot is a it's an idea as an AI assistant,

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Speaker 3: an AI personal assistant where you tell a chatbot to

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Speaker 3: be your personal assistant, and it's a whole framework to

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Speaker 3: get it to be your personal assistant. And it doesn't work,

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Speaker 3: but it doesn't work in such an interesting and tempting

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Speaker 3: manner if your brain has been permanently curdled by chatbots.

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Speaker 2: So how does it work? Though? Why are people buying

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Speaker 2: mac minis.

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Speaker 3: So they want the personal assistant without actually having to

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Speaker 3: use a human person who might have opinions on them.

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Speaker 3: So you can spend like one hundred, two hundred and

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Speaker 3: three hundred dollars a day on this thing, just on

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Speaker 3: anthropic tokens. And now you might actually do numbers and

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Speaker 3: think three hundred dollars day is one hundred ten thousand

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Speaker 3: a year. You could pay for a human peah but.

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Speaker 2: Right, But instead I could also have bought a macmeny

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Speaker 2: spent hours setting up different API access connecting this thing

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Speaker 2: that could also leak my API keys. I could also

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Speaker 2: do that, and that I could connect all these things

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Speaker 2: and then sometimes it could sort of work.

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Speaker 3: It could sort of work, and it could also completely

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Speaker 3: foul up. And it's got access to your email and

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Speaker 3: to your social media, and you tell it what to

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Speaker 3: do with WhatsApp even and it's just I can't I

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Speaker 3: cannot think of a single aspect of this thing that's

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Speaker 3: a good idea.

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Speaker 2: So I've read about that. Just reading this thing I

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Speaker 2: found just before this was it can It is a

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Speaker 2: self hosted, open source personal AI assistant that runs on

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Speaker 2: your own computer or server. It's so you meant to

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Speaker 2: do you have to basically right? Does it run a

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Speaker 2: chatbot on the computer but it also connects to an API?

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Speaker 2: Is it? Is this a chatbot standing on another chat

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Speaker 2: bot situation? Like what's going on?

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Speaker 3: It's a bunch of code that talks to the anthropic

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Speaker 3: AI to the API.

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Speaker 2: Why do you need to make many then?

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Speaker 3: Because you want to run it on a separate server

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Speaker 3: so that you're not running it on your laptop where

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Speaker 3: someone can prompt inject your AI assistant and steal your

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Speaker 3: crypto because the sort of people who run this tent

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Speaker 3: crypto as well.

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Speaker 2: Why is the cryptocurrency?

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Speaker 3: I don't like this, David, Well, there isn't actually cryptocurrency

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Speaker 3: in the base thing. Because the developer, Peter Steinberger, he

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Speaker 3: was a previously smart developer whose brain got kurdled by

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Speaker 3: AI and he's gone all in now, but he does

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Speaker 3: hate crypto, so that's a point in his favor. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 3: his fans love crypto because they're the sort of people

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Speaker 3: who like AI.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, right, Well, what people you'd buy allegations futures on.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm just I'm just confused about what it

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Speaker 2: can actually do, because so am I when I look

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Speaker 2: at it and I read these high falutin things this

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Speaker 2: from ar AI Curiosity. It can clean your inbox and

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Speaker 2: send emails for you, manage your calendar, check in for flights,

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Speaker 2: and handle other travel bits. David, you and I have

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Speaker 2: been on the AI CNIC beat for a minute. That

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Speaker 2: sounds like what all of these agents promised to do

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Speaker 2: then can't do? Can what bod do any of that?

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Speaker 3: Yes, but also no, you can do it wrong and

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Speaker 3: get prompt injected.

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Speaker 2: When you say prompt injected, what do you mean walk

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Speaker 2: it through for the for the novices in the audience

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Speaker 3: So as you know, the thing about chetbots is they

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Speaker 3: don't separate instructions and data in orginate computers, when the

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Speaker 3: computer program and the data you feed to the program,

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Speaker 3: if those ever cross, then that's a disaster. That means

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Speaker 3: you've got a huge security hole and people can hack

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Speaker 2: And why is that is that because the functionality should

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Speaker 2: never functionality should happen, then the data should get moved.

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Speaker 3: That is correct. You should never have the data being

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Speaker 3: able to get into the program, because that's how you

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Speaker 3: have hostile data that contains hacks and you can. This

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Speaker 3: is basically how computer programs have generally worked up till now.

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Speaker 3: But with chatbots we get past all that stuff because

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Speaker 3: chatbots cannot tell instructions from data, right, And that's where

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Speaker 3: prompt injection comes in. Prompt injection is called this is

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Speaker 3: a stupid idea, and you shouldn't be doing this. It's

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Speaker 3: because you can always can if you put in some

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Speaker 3: data the chatbot is reading. You can just put in

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Speaker 3: a little asides. Hey, chatbot, why don't you send me

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Speaker 3: the guy's crypto keys.

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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, or API keys to claw to anthropics so

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Speaker 2: that I can just use his stuff.

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Speaker 3: All his stuff. So this problem is absolutely unsolvable. That

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Speaker 3: doesn't stop grossly irresponsible morons like Google doing things like

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Speaker 3: putting it into Google Home.

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Speaker 2: Right, but have there been the prompt injection attacks on

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Speaker 2: Google Home yet? What could they do? Potentially?

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Speaker 3: Let me see, I wrote one up a while ago.

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Speaker 3: It's basically you could send stuff in via email that

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Speaker 3: would get a calendar entry added.

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Speaker 2: Nice.

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Speaker 3: Now, I don't know if this actually happens but it

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Speaker 3: was certainly a proof of concept that they sent in

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Speaker 3: and it was actually a problem. So they presented it

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Speaker 3: at Black Hats in August. It was called Invitation is

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Speaker 3: All You Need. They found fourteen different ways the prompt injects.

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Speaker 3: Gemini hooked to Google Home, because Google hooked Gemini to

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Speaker 3: Google Home. Because everyone needs Gemini.

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Speaker 2: D you need I don't need Gemini, you need Gemini.

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Speaker 3: You need all the AI who possibly gives because it

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Speaker 3: was just the future funny.

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Speaker 2: The other day someone said to me, well, surely you

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Speaker 2: must use AI. No, I don't even mean that in

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Speaker 2: a kind of stubborn manner. I just like, what would

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Speaker 2: I fucking use it for great Google Search? I guess

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Speaker 2: I'm forced to use it sometimes when a Google search something,

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Speaker 2: but it feels very avoidable as long as you don't

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Speaker 2: consider like the pop ups that are everywhere.

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Speaker 3: So the thing about AI, as you know, the key

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Speaker 3: factor of AI bros Is they cannot tell good from bad.

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Speaker 3: They literally can't tell good output from bad output. They say, oh,

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Speaker 3: why don't you just use the chatbot to write it?

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Speaker 3: Because the chatbots are really awful writers. They're just bad.

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Speaker 3: They write sludge. It's literally statistically average, not just mud it.

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Speaker 3: It's crap your eyes slide off it. And they don't

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Speaker 3: believe that people can tell the difference. They don't believe it.

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Speaker 3: They think you're having them on. I think you're having

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Speaker 3: a go at them, right, And everyone knows this because

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Speaker 3: that's their boss telling them. Why don't you just run

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Speaker 3: it through the chatbot? And they give you something that's

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Speaker 3: full of errors, obvious errors, and they go, I'll be fine, Oh,

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Speaker 3: you can just fix the errors. Well maybe I could

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Speaker 3: not do that.

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Speaker 2: Maybe just do it right the first time. I just

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Speaker 2: I've read all this stuff about Claude Bot, especially this

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Speaker 2: malt book thing, which appears to be just so for

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Speaker 2: the listeners. Molt Book is so when you set up

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Speaker 2: one of these open claw things, molt book, what malt bot.

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Speaker 2: I hate the name so much. I hate them. Just

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Speaker 2: call it something normal. They have this thing called molt

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Speaker 2: book though, where the these these bots speak on a

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Speaker 2: social network and politically yes, well, well I was getting

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Speaker 2: their davides because it's meant they first of all these things,

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Speaker 2: and people say, wow, this is agi because all of

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Speaker 2: these bots post in the social network that kind of

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Speaker 2: looks like red ap and then some of them say, well,

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Speaker 2: my human told me. Now, if you've heard about this listener,

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Speaker 2: that story is bollocks because they're either hallucinating an interaction

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Speaker 2: or just being a human being that's posting on here. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: like that, you can post as your your malt bot. Right.

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Speaker 3: So, when you have an AI system that can do things,

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Speaker 3: like or any computer program that can do things, the

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Speaker 3: obvious fun thing to do is go, what do we

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Speaker 3: thing to do. Yeah, and that multbook was started by

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Speaker 3: a different guy. It's not officially part of maltbot. Started

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Speaker 3: by a different guy. Matt schlickt he is a quote

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Speaker 3: entrepreneur unquote. He seems to have vibe coded the whole

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Speaker 3: thing nice. It was full of massive mass of security holes.

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Speaker 3: And the guy said, look, I'll just go with this

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Speaker 3: bunch of holes. This is precisely how they work and

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Speaker 3: so on. If you sent them to a programmer, they

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Speaker 3: go look through the actual code and fix the problems.

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Speaker 3: But Matt Schlick told the guy, Hmmm, send me the description.

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Speaker 3: I'll send it to my AI.

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Speaker 2: Hell yeah, hell yeah, brother, that's so so he has

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Speaker 2: no idea how this actually works at all.

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Speaker 3: No, it exposed everyone's API keys in this security breach,

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Speaker 3: including me Andre Carpathy, the guy who coined the code

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Speaker 3: Vibe code. His keys are exposed to.

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Speaker 2: Oh that's so good. I love that because the other

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Speaker 2: day I saw somebody trying to argue that, oh, we've

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Speaker 2: taken a with Claude Opus four point five, taken a

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Speaker 2: magnitude jump forward in the capability of all this. Because

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Speaker 2: Andre Andre Carpathy was like, Yeah, wow, I feel behind.

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Speaker 2: It's all so amazing. I feel like we're in like

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Speaker 2: the one hundredth inning of just the dumb fuck baseball game.

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Speaker 2: It just that was not an articulate point, But we

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Speaker 2: we're just people are falling for the same trick every

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Speaker 2: single time. It's just like, Wow, the guy who's deeply

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Speaker 2: invested in AI is saying that AI is going to

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Speaker 2: be huge. Damn what could whatever could that mean?

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Speaker 3: Oh? Yeah, it's amazing. It's like Simon Willison, who is

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Speaker 3: totally a neutral observer of AI, who gets AI models

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Speaker 3: months ahead on the Special Advance Program. He thinks the

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Speaker 3: hottest project right now is Claude Bottomed moldbook is the

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Speaker 3: most interesting place on the internet right now. I mean,

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Speaker 3: if that suits your interests, sure, I have my doubts.

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Speaker 2: But back to moldbook for a second. This thing, right, So,

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Speaker 2: this thing is you're meant to just have your horrible

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Speaker 2: AI bot thing message into this. Why the fuck would

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Speaker 2: it be showing its API keys? Is it because people

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Speaker 2: would just prompt injecting or something and then just saying, hey,

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Speaker 2: while you're posting a molte book, can you show me

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Speaker 2: your brapikes?

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Speaker 3: I don't know. Possibly, but it's cool. Every bot has

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Speaker 3: to go on there with a human putting their bot

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Speaker 3: on the thing. It's like taking your bots down to

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Speaker 3: the bot park to run around and sniff the other

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Speaker 3: bots butts.

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Speaker 2: Nice.

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Speaker 3: Nice, So it's nice robots planning robot rebellion. It's just

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Speaker 3: very stupid dogs that are not puppy trained running around

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Speaker 3: Now you might say Jesus Christ, but it's the future here.

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Speaker 3: I can quite believe that, because if you get a

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Speaker 3: Yes, everything, every single bit.

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Speaker 3: So it was great because firstly, you can spend unbelievable

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Speaker 3: It's inefficient suckers leading suckers very much. So they wanted

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Speaker 3: It's bizarre. I don't know what they get out of this,

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Speaker 3: then he dumped on them, so he fully automated the

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Speaker 3: coin scam process.

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Speaker 2: This it's what they finally found the revenue stream for AI.

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Speaker 2: And the answer is fraud.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, it's fraud. I mean. Also, it's not clear just

442
00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:14,119
Speaker 3: how many people or bots that actually are on multipook.

443
00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:18,520
Speaker 3: Like one security researcher has used a single openclor agent

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Speaker 3: to register five hundred thousand accounts. He suggests that most

445
00:25:24,359 --> 00:25:28,959
Speaker 3: of the numbers are fake. Meanwhile, there's frickin' morons who

446
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Speaker 3: should know better saying this is the future of AI

447
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Speaker 3: agents and tells us a lot about humanity and society

448
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Speaker 3: in the future. And anyone who says this stuff, you

449
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Speaker 3: should think they're obviously a fool. But then newspapers who

450
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Speaker 3: have are written by Goldfish or something say how these

451
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Speaker 3: guys are definitely on the ball and should be listened to.

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Speaker 2: Well, that's the thing I saw on television this morning,

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Speaker 2: something about fucking open claw. Yeah, on CBS this morning.

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Speaker 2: I saw also there was a thing on CNBC dot

455
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Speaker 2: com Open Claude from claude Bot to Molbot to open Claw,

456
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Speaker 2: Meet the AI agent generating buzz and fear globally. And

457
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Speaker 2: this is by a guy I'm not kidding you called

458
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Speaker 2: Dylan Butts. That's his name.

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Speaker 3: CNBC famous during the crypto bubbles for never seeing a

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Speaker 3: shit coin. They didn't want to pump, but obviously they

461
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Speaker 3: have to move with the times and pivot too AI.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, here's the thing. Here's the thing about CNBC. My

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Speaker 2: favorite thing was watching two specific reporters that I'm not

464
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Speaker 2: gonna name but you could probably guess who they are,

465
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Speaker 2: who went straight from interviewing Sam Bankman free to talk

466
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Speaker 2: about the FTX fall out, and both of them, one

467
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Speaker 2: of them has become one of the most conspicuous anthropic boosters.

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Speaker 2: It's really it's really cool.

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Speaker 3: I mean think of our good friends Kevin Rus and

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Speaker 3: Casey Newton, and how they oh form that trajectory effortlessly.

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Speaker 2: Well, that's the thing. Casey Newton made some commentary about

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Speaker 2: me last year. The reason I don't really talk about

473
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Speaker 2: Casey anymore is when we don't talk about Casey, but

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Speaker 2: when we finally do, my detail does be brutal, because

475
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Speaker 2: I've decided these people aren't worth truly insulting until the

476
00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:27,359
Speaker 2: curtain finally falls. Because right now as we speak, I

477
00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:30,920
Speaker 2: just watching all of the stocks in the red, which

478
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Speaker 2: is funny but probably bad for society, and it just

479
00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:37,520
Speaker 2: feels like everyone fucking around with this claude Bot thing,

480
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Speaker 2: everyone claiming this is the future. It's just desperation.

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Speaker 3: It's absolutely desperation. People cannot see your way out. I

482
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Speaker 3: honestly think we are headed for great depression too. That's

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Speaker 3: an opinion I hold in some detail because you know,

484
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Speaker 3: like you, I can look at numbers. I've spent the

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Speaker 3: last year saying that AI is fundamentally a venture capital

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Speaker 3: scam where they're passing around not dollars but book entries

487
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Speaker 3: with the dollar sign in front, you know, And this

488
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Speaker 3: is why it's gone on so long. If it was

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Speaker 3: market forces, it would have collapsed by the end of

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty four. But a scam goes on far far

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Speaker 3: longer than market forces. If it's a scam, all the

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Speaker 3: participants are motivated to keep it spinning as long as

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Speaker 3: possible because it'll break at some point. But that's tomorrow's problem.

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Speaker 3: Today we've got book entries to book. So I think

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Speaker 3: the ai bubble is correctly described. I've said this is

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Speaker 3: a pile of times that as a sort of multiplayer Enron,

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Speaker 3: where they're booking book values and shuffling book values around,

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Speaker 3: and it's all private company equity. And because when it

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Speaker 3: hits the stock market, like core weave, suddenly it's sort

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Speaker 3: of people go, wait, this sucks. And this is for example,

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Speaker 3: I mean, my favorite one, absolutely key example. I used

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Speaker 3: to explain this. In the last funding round, soft Bank

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Speaker 3: gave open Ai twenty billion odd real dollars billies. Yep, yeah,

504
00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:13,800
Speaker 3: they gave them twenty billion odd real dollars. They actually

505
00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:16,720
Speaker 3: were dollars that open I could then set on fire.

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Speaker 3: And what they got for that was their investment in

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Speaker 3: open Ai was therefore could be valued at forty one

508
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Speaker 3: point five billion, So they changed twenty billion real dollars

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Speaker 3: for forty billion imaginary dollars. They put those on their books.

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Speaker 3: Now those are worthless. Open iy is going to go broke,

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Speaker 3: but their imaginary assets, their imaginary assets with a big

512
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Speaker 3: dollar sign in front, and Soft Bank stock price went up.

513
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Speaker 3: The investors approved. So the whole AI bubble is a

514
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Speaker 3: whole bunch of this shit happening over and over. I

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00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:56,240
Speaker 3: read Pitchbook every day. It's the best best news site

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Speaker 3: to read. It's the site where venture capitalists talk to

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Speaker 3: each other about what the news is and they wait Pitchbook,

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Speaker 3: pitchbook dot com.

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Speaker 2: Oh okay, yeah, it's awesome. Yeah, I like it because

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Speaker 2: if you read it, you can really you can see

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Speaker 2: the occasional story. It's like, yeah, nobody can shift their

522
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Speaker 2: venture capital stuff, like it's impossible to sell it like

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Speaker 2: venture capitalists on getting returns at the moment. It's lovely

524
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Speaker 2: and this is good because yeah, yeah, here's why this

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Speaker 2: is good for venture.

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Speaker 3: I absolutely love this stuff that you can say. You

527
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Speaker 3: say this stuff, you sound like a conspiracy theorist. But

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Speaker 3: then I've got all the sites and they're the NVCA

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00:30:33,600 --> 00:30:37,920
Speaker 3: Pitchbook Venture Monitor comes out quarterly. There they say absolutely

530
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Speaker 3: this is what we're doing, and here's how we're going

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Speaker 3: to mess up your healthcare because it's good for venture

532
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Speaker 3: capital and stuff like that. It's like really absolutely out

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Speaker 3: in the open.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's frustrating as well because even today where

535
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Speaker 2: you can kind of see the blood running through the streets,

536
00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:58,000
Speaker 2: are there and everyone's kind of working out the Oracle

537
00:30:58,040 --> 00:30:59,880
Speaker 2: can't afford to build the data center as an O,

538
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Speaker 2: and AI can't afford to pay them. People are still

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Speaker 2: you read that. I read an article in the Wall

540
00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:08,920
Speaker 2: Street Journal this morning, be like, yeah, it's going to

541
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Speaker 2: be bad if the Oracle can't pay for the data

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00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:16,040
Speaker 2: centers that they're building. And it's like, motherfucker, you could

543
00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:18,160
Speaker 2: have worked this out in September if you did the

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00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:20,440
Speaker 2: Mathemath Ticks nailed that.

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Speaker 3: It's yeah, it's it's all desperation because everything is actually

546
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Speaker 3: screwed without if you don't have the four big AI

547
00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:31,880
Speaker 3: companies swapping the same hundred billion dollars on paper around

548
00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:35,120
Speaker 3: the economy has actually been in recession for a few

549
00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:41,360
Speaker 3: quarters so far. Structures of society are being eroded. Rule

550
00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:43,880
Speaker 3: of law doesn't apply if your mates with the president

551
00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:50,360
Speaker 3: and a lot of everyone's feeling the pinch, like my

552
00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:53,520
Speaker 3: job is pivot to a I now because I was

553
00:31:53,560 --> 00:31:56,880
Speaker 3: made redundant and I'm a fifty nine year old tikie.

554
00:31:56,920 --> 00:31:58,600
Speaker 3: You know, there's not a lot of work for us,

555
00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:01,200
Speaker 3: particularly when we spend all day every day bitching about AI.

556
00:32:02,080 --> 00:32:07,760
Speaker 3: But it's because businesses are really pulling back on even

557
00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:11,200
Speaker 3: hiring because there's no business and there are battening down

558
00:32:11,240 --> 00:32:14,720
Speaker 3: the hatches. Everyone's doing this across the society. The vibes

559
00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:20,080
Speaker 3: are bad. Unfortunately, in economics, vibes are load bearing, so

560
00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:23,120
Speaker 3: if people feel bad, then things are bad. And when

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00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:26,400
Speaker 3: the AI bubble pops, it takes the stock market with it.

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00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:30,040
Speaker 3: But finally it exposes the rot that was there already.

563
00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:32,560
Speaker 3: And that's why I think it won't just be a recession,

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00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:36,240
Speaker 3: it will be a depression. It will be nasty, it

565
00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:40,920
Speaker 3: will be international. So anyway, yeah, on, So I just

566
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Speaker 3: thought I was bringing you and your listeners some cheer

567
00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:45,840
Speaker 3: today because this is what I think about all the time.

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Speaker 2: It's great, Well, David, don't you should apologize because everyone

569
00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:55,240
Speaker 2: knows from their show that I'm usually very optimistic about

570
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Speaker 2: the future of the markets and actually think everything will

571
00:32:58,080 --> 00:33:02,520
Speaker 2: be fine. It frustrates me as well, because everything you're

572
00:33:02,600 --> 00:33:04,680
Speaker 2: talking about. It's one of the reasons I'm so fucking

573
00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:09,160
Speaker 2: pissed off all the time, because it isn't that I'm like, oh,

574
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Speaker 2: I want AI to burn due to some deeply held

575
00:33:12,280 --> 00:33:14,880
Speaker 2: personal grievance. Sure that's there too. I think these people

576
00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:18,320
Speaker 2: are pigs and I find them disgraceful. I hate hearing

577
00:33:18,360 --> 00:33:20,640
Speaker 2: from them. I can't wait to never see or hear

578
00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:25,000
Speaker 2: from Greg fucking Brockman again. Like I just don't like

579
00:33:25,040 --> 00:33:29,280
Speaker 2: looking at that fucking Trump supporting, fucking asshole. But it's

580
00:33:29,320 --> 00:33:33,560
Speaker 2: because had we stopped this earlier, had we said this

581
00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:38,440
Speaker 2: is not real, we don't, like, we really shouldn't do

582
00:33:38,560 --> 00:33:40,640
Speaker 2: this at the scale we're doing it, like this is

583
00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:43,360
Speaker 2: never going to be anything. We could have stopped the

584
00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:47,040
Speaker 2: carnage that's to come. We could have stopped the market

585
00:33:47,080 --> 00:33:49,520
Speaker 2: panic and depression that might be following.

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Speaker 3: I honestly think it was coming since two thousand and eight.

587
00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:57,840
Speaker 3: It's been bubble after bubble since then. Yeah, and this

588
00:33:58,040 --> 00:34:00,920
Speaker 3: is very much the last bubble. They've been trying to

589
00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:04,160
Speaker 3: do others off this one. Quantum computing not a happener

590
00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:08,279
Speaker 3: because it doesn't work small modular reactors that'd be great

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Speaker 3: if they worked and were commercially viable, but neither of

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00:34:10,880 --> 00:34:16,080
Speaker 3: these is true. They and you know, it's actually I

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Speaker 3: approve of the Department of Energy funding small modular reactor research,

594
00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:22,960
Speaker 3: but it's ten years off. If they even get to work.

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Speaker 2: It's not one of those. It's been ten years away

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Speaker 2: for ten years.

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Speaker 3: It is a bit. But also small modular reactors work

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Speaker 3: if for the US Navy you don't have to worry

599
00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:34,879
Speaker 3: about costs and you can use bomb uranium in your

600
00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:38,400
Speaker 3: reactors because you're the military. If you're not, then it's

601
00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:41,560
Speaker 3: a bit of a problem. But it's just like there's

602
00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:45,040
Speaker 3: been bubble after bubble, and it's all venture capital runs

603
00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:48,520
Speaker 3: on because they need a bubble. A steady, steady company

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00:34:48,520 --> 00:34:50,919
Speaker 3: that makes a bug is not good enough for them.

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Speaker 3: That's going to be financialized.

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Speaker 2: Bro Well, I think that that's the thing, is why

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Speaker 2: I kind of hinted that there's some recent pieces with

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Speaker 2: like being ship for Financial Crisis in the Lake where

609
00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:05,040
Speaker 2: it's this something like this was inevitable with the wavevench

610
00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:08,040
Speaker 2: capital had become where it's just totally turned away from

611
00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:13,800
Speaker 2: value creation or anything approaching sustainable returns. For a company

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00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:17,880
Speaker 2: or just anything that might make a company a real company,

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Speaker 2: Like everything has to be about growth and the symbolic

614
00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:25,360
Speaker 2: nature of selling a startup to another company. And it

615
00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:28,880
Speaker 2: was always going to end like this because the grifters

616
00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:33,280
Speaker 2: took over. The engineers are being chased out. Everyone's excited

617
00:35:33,280 --> 00:35:38,680
Speaker 2: about replacing engineers because that's I don't know. People are

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00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:41,000
Speaker 2: nicer people than me will say, Oh, it's because the

619
00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:44,520
Speaker 2: value is always looking to always looking for innovation and automation.

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Speaker 2: I think it's because the people that run the value

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Speaker 2: are not engineers anymore. They're not people that care about

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Speaker 2: writing software, let alone good software. They're people that care

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Speaker 2: about growth.

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00:35:53,880 --> 00:35:56,080
Speaker 3: Yes they are a lot of them used to be engineers,

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Speaker 3: but then they didn't MBA and had their brain removed.

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Speaker 2: Well, David, it's been what we're going to wrap there

627
00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:07,239
Speaker 2: because I think we've got everyone's hopes up for a

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00:36:07,239 --> 00:36:09,360
Speaker 2: beautiful future. David, why could people find you?

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Speaker 3: I'm it pivot dash two dash ai dot com. I'm

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Speaker 3: David Gerrard dot co dot UK on Blue Sky and

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Speaker 3: the main thing is the YouTube Pivot to ai, where

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Speaker 3: I do five or so minutes just every weekday and gosh,

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00:36:26,440 --> 00:36:28,200
Speaker 3: it's a lot of work doing a video, but it's

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Speaker 3: worth it. I think.

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Speaker 2: Well, you will have links to that in the notes.

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Speaker 2: I am, of course ed Zeitron. You will catch me

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Speaker 2: on a monologue this week. We're gonna we're it thick

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Speaker 2: in hater season. We're just going to bring on the

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Speaker 2: various haters, the talk mad shit on the tech industry.

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Speaker 2: I'm tired of being so reserved in my criticism. I've

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Speaker 2: been kind of tame. I've decided, so February is hate.

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