“I guess I’d sort of agree with Geoff Hinton that maybe it’s a 10 to 20% chance of annihilation. But look on the bright side that’s 80 to 90% probability of a great outcome… I can’t emphasize this enough, a rigorous adherence to truth is the most important thing for AI safety and obviously empathy for humanity and life as we know it… We’re aiming to make Grok the maximally truth seeking AI and I think that’s a very important thing. Hopefully we can understand the nature of the universe.” — Elon Musk
A fireside with Elon Musk at AI Startup School in San Francisco. Before rockets and robots, Elon Musk was drilling holes through his office floor to borrow internet. In this candid talk, he walks through the early days of Zip2, the Falcon 1 launches that nearly ended SpaceX, and the “miracle” of Tesla surviving 2008. He shares the thinking that guided him—building from first principles, doing useful things, and the belief that we’re in the middle of an intelligence big bang. 00:00 – Intro 01:25 – His origin story 02:00 – Dream to help build the internet 04:40 – Zip2 and lessons learned 08:00 – PayPal 14:30 – Origin of SpaceX 18:30 – Building rockets from first principles 23:50 – Lessons in leadership 27:10 – Building up xAI 39:00 – Super intelligence and synthetic data 39:30 – Multi-planetary future 43:00 – Nueralink, AI safety and the singularity 48:10 – Message for the Next Generation of Builders
Evolution of Machine intelligence
Development of Job Automation
First Do No Harm.
