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Leah Feiger: Speaking about him. Yeah. Completely.

Brian Barrett: Yeah. It is simply this net. It fills out this net.

Leah Feiger: Larry Web page, Sergey Brin, Mark Zuckerberg, Eric Schmidt, these are the tech titans.

Brian Barrett: Yeah. Up till as just lately as 2019, I believe a few of these individuals have been actively in contact.

Leah Feiger: Wow. So talking of Elon, he was additionally within the information this week for a wholly totally different factor, aka rolling xAI into SpaceX, formally creating the world’s most beneficial non-public firm. We’ve received to speak about that.

Brian Barrett: Yeah. And I do know that you simply love … This combines your two favourite issues.

Leah Feiger: Oh, sure. Completely.

Brian Barrett: AI and Elon Musk.

Leah Feiger: Uh-huh.

Brian Barrett: Leah, might I additionally curiosity you in a possible third favourite factor?

Leah Feiger: Oh, hit me, Brian.

Brian Barrett: Can I curiosity you in knowledge facilities in area?

Leah Feiger: So that is what he is promising, proper?

Brian Barrett: Yeah.

Leah Feiger: I am really very keen on knowledge facilities.

Brian Barrett: Oh, good.

Leah Feiger: Molly Taft, our fantastic local weather reporter on the science desk, has solely turned me round on how essential it’s to have interaction with them. I hate them, however I’m very keen on them. So he desires to construct a knowledge heart in area. What does that imply? What’s a terrestrial resolution? Please clarify all of these items.

Brian Barrett: Nicely, principally, yeah. So Elon Musk’s pitch for combining SpaceX and xAI. And simply to again up a second, SpaceX is Elon Musk’s most mainstream, noncontroversial firm, in all probability.

Leah Feiger: It is his rocket firm.

Brian Barrett: Yeah. It is his rocket firm. They principally have privatized NASA, partly as a result of NASA gave up. Anyway …

Leah Feiger: No.

Brian Barrett: The US area future actually is determined by SpaceX in so some ways.

Leah Feiger: If Jeff Bezos is listening to this podcast, he is having only a true—

Brian Barrett: Sorry, Blue Origin. Yeah. Oh, gosh.

Leah Feiger: Inner.

Brian Barrett: Horrible day. Blue Origin additionally there. So on the one hand, you have received this type of way forward for US area journey, and on the opposite aspect you have received xAI, which is Elon Musk’s AI firm that retains undressing girls nonconsensually.

Leah Feiger: And can be X, previously referred to as Twitter.

Brian Barrett: Sure. And now they’re all going to be the identical factor.

Leah Feiger: Former Twitter workers, did they make some huge cash from this? What’s taking place? How are all of those firms now the identical factor? None of this has relations to one another aside from Elon Musk.

Brian Barrett: So he would argue in a different way. And so the case that he would make is that to ensure that AI to get the place it must be, wherever that’s—quicker undressing of extra girls—for it to get there, there’s actually not sufficient power on Earth to make that occur. So what you have to do is you have to exit in area and harness the power of the solar to energy AI. And who is basically good at going out into area and harnessing issues? SpaceX.