Humanity's First Star Probe, Architect Labs Beats NVIDIA 3.4x, Musk Wants Satellites to Cool Earth | EP #285

**Dr. Alexander Wissner-Gross** (0:00)
The first interstellar mission to Alpha Centauri. Philip and Matt are here to join the Moonshot mates.

**Matt Pines** (0:07)
Are we the first kid on the block, or are we now auditioning for membership in a Cosmic Club, and the ticket to entry is, can you handle that?

**Philip Johnston** (0:14)
By the time we arrive, for 15,000 years, there will already have been a colony at Alpha Centauri.

**Peter H. Diamandis** (0:20)
A Palo Alto startup called Architect Labs just announced the world's first fully AI-designed chip called Redwood, zero bugs on first silicon, and 3.4 times the performance per watt of Nvidia's Jetson.

**Dave Blundin** (0:35)
Is this an incredible threat to Nvidia? Yeah, absolutely.

**Dr. Alexander Wissner-Gross** (0:38)
I think I know how this game ends.

**Peter H. Diamandis** (0:40)
It ends with extremely severe extinction events happen every 100 million years or so, and just switching to sustainable energy will not be enough to stop them. His solution, satellites in space that control temperature and massive geoengineering will be needed before it's game over.

**Dr. Alexander Wissner-Gross** (0:57)
I completely buy that with global AI weather models and enough points of actuation, that's a recipe for global weather engineering, and I think we're going to get it.

**Dave Blundin** (1:09)
Now that's the Moonshot, ladies and gentlemen.

**Peter H. Diamandis** (1:14)
Welcome to Moonshots, everyone, your number one podcast on all things AI and exponential, your front row seat to the accelerating singularity. I'm here with my Moonshot mates. We're going to have the fantastic four. We've got the tremendous three right now, Dave Blundin, Alex Wissner-Gross, myself, Peter Diamandis. Of course, where Salim, he's held up in TSA.
A funny joke, if you watched our last pod, he'll be joining us shortly.

**Dave Blundin** (1:42)
Do we even know what continent?

**Peter H. Diamandis** (1:44)
I have no idea where Salim is.

**Dave Blundin** (1:46)
Okay, it'll be fun to find out.

**Peter H. Diamandis** (1:47)
He's a probability function, but he'll be joining us in a little bit. So our mission on this podcast is simple, future proof you for the coming supersonic tsunami and keep you optimistic about this extraordinary decade ahead. We're lucky enough to be living during the greatest period of transformation in human history and we want you to understand it and not fear it. So every week, twice a week on this show, we work to show you the future before it arrives.
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**Dave Blundin** (3:15)
Better believe it. I mean, what do you do in the morning? Just stretch and get ready?

**Dr. Alexander Wissner-Gross** (3:19)
I don't know.

**Dave Blundin** (3:20)
Read a few journals? I don't know.

**Dr. Alexander Wissner-Gross** (3:22)
Peter, can I preemptively choose question number three?

**Peter H. Diamandis** (3:27)
Of course.

**Dave Blundin** (3:28)
These are coming in in real time, right? Completely unexpected.

**Peter H. Diamandis** (3:31)
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