OpenAI Pauses Frontier Training, Elon's 100X Prediction Lands, Robot Beats Usain Bolt with Emad Mostaque | EP#282

**Peter Diamandis** (0:00)
OpenAI announced it is voluntarily pausing some of the frontier reinforcement learning training that it's doing. What have they paused, and is it really significant, and do you think the other frontier labs are going to do the same thing?

**Alexander Wissner-Gross** (0:13)
They're so powerful, even we can't trust them, so we have to throttle back. It's marketing.

**Peter Diamandis** (0:20)
Elon Musk's January 6th Moonshots podcast, prediction of 100X gains, was at the edge of plausibility when he made it. Now, it's simply a fact.

**Dave Blundin** (0:28)
Imagine I gave you 10,000 employees tonight. Oh my god, if I had that, I'd do something amazing. Okay, what? Start thinking about it, because it's coming imminently. And it's actually not an easy problem to figure out how to turn it toward creating good.

**Peter Diamandis** (0:39)
Unitree's newest humanoid robot broke every human standing jump and speed record, a top speed of 12.66 meters per second, beating the human record set by Usain Bolt.

**Emad Mostaque** (0:51)
You don't want to have superhuman robots on the street because you'll have accidents, you'll have issues just like cars. And I think that these types of robots will be banned.

**Dave Blundin** (1:02)
Now, that's the Moonshot, ladies and gentlemen.

**Peter Diamandis** (1:07)
Welcome to Moonshots, everyone. Your number one podcast on all things AI and exponentials. The news that matters, the news that's changing your life, your front row seat to the accelerating singularity. I'm here once again with my magnificent Moonshot quintet. Yes, they're all five of us are back. AWG, Dave Blundin, Salim and Emad. I'm Peter Diamandis, your host, your abundance whisperer.
And we've got a lot this week. Gentlemen, good to see you all.

**Dave Blundin** (1:35)
Good morning. Howdy. Good morning.

**Peter Diamandis** (1:37)
Good afternoon in London. It's like everybody's in their normal haunt except for me. I'm up in a sleepy town in the Pacific Northwest trying desperately to take a little bit of time off to think.

**Dave Blundin** (1:48)
Taking shelter from the singularity.

**Peter Diamandis** (1:50)
Yeah, except I got up at 5 a.m. this morning to be with you guys, so what the heck. But I hate the old saying, go sleep when you're dead, because you just don't want to die and sleep is still so important, but hey, what can I tell you?

**Emad Mostaque** (2:04)
We'll all sleep soon, don't worry.

**Alexander Wissner-Gross** (2:06)
Yeah, no, and death. I think like death is counterindicated at this point.

**Peter Diamandis** (2:12)
You know, as always everybody, our mission is to help you understand what just happened and what it means for you. And most important, to keep you optimistic about the future.
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**Dave Blundin** (2:59)
You know what I'm getting a lot of is what we podcast out is so different from other podcasts. But if you go back to shows from six months ago and a year ago, people are like, what the hell? They were saying that back then and now it's here. And they don't get that on any other channel. So they're really appreciating the ability to plan around what we're saying.
So we got to be accurate, guys.

**Peter Diamandis** (3:19)
How about you?

**Salim Ismail** (3:21)
Can I be Eeyore for a second?

**Peter Diamandis** (3:22)
Sure.

**Salim Ismail** (3:24)
I am getting acceleration fatigue.
Like, I mean, Jesus, can we pause for a week, right? Every morning it's like our model is 100X better, our robot is running faster than Usain Bolt, like AI is designing proteins. Like drones are doing a million deliveries a day. It's like, you know, and it's tough because we've spent like half our careers, Peter, you know, talking about exponential technologies. We love this stuff, but I'm tired. Like, we've gone from, well, look what happened like this year to what happens since Tuesday.

**Alexander Wissner-Gross** (3:59)
So, Salim, you've looked all the way around.

**Alexander Wissner-Gross** (4:01)
We're supposed to be accelerationists here. You're tired already? Like we're only finding the way through the singularity, and this is making you tired. It's just the first inning.