This Week in AI: NVIDIA’s Most Powerful Chip, Robotics Reach a New Milestone & AGI by 2026 w/ Salim Ismail, Emad Mostaque & Eric Pulier | EP #202

Peter Diamandis (0:00)

We're still amongst the AI chip wars. It's accelerating. It's not slowing down. Nvidia unveiled the first Blackwell chip wafer that's made here in the US, and it's a big deal.

Emad Mostaque (0:12)

Supply chain domination is going to be the key here.

Peter Diamandis (0:15)

Figure 3 has come online, and it is providing real-time speech.

Eric Pulier (0:21)

Even the most optimistic folks, which I think we probably count as that, believe that there's going to be a time period where we're not ready, it's happening too fast.

Peter Diamandis (0:31)

AGI could be achieved by 2026 The scientific breakthroughs needed for AGI have already been achieved. One of my biggest concerns is that we do not have television program, movie programming that gives our families, our kids, our society, a positive vision of the future. We need to develop the programming that gives people a vision of the future, right? The old adage, without a vision, the people will perish.

Now, that's the Moonshot, ladies and gentlemen. Everybody, welcome to Moonshots. We have a special episode here of WTF from Los Angeles, Malibu. We're here at X Prize Visionary 2025 I'm here with my Moonshot mates, Emad Mostaque, Eric Pulier, and Salim Ismail. Good to see you guys.

Let's give it up. We have an incredible audience of visionaries. We're here talking about solving the world's biggest problems. We're hearing pitches from teams that are looking to reinvent grand challenge problems. We're here to talk about what's just happened in the last week. Like WTF just happened in technology because the pace is incredibly fast. Salim, any thoughts on visioneering you want to share with us?

Salim Ismail (1:52)

The pace of change is so fast that visioneering will soon become a lifestyle rather than a breakthrough thing.

Peter Diamandis (1:59)

Eric?

Eric Pulier (2:00)

The pace of change is fast, but the main thing that does not change and is eternal is that the most value you get to change the future is interacting with each other. There's nowhere better than XPRIZE to do that and to create a spark of imagination and inspiration than this gathering.

Peter Diamandis (2:17)

Yeah. It's going to be amazing. Then the four of us are going to be flying from here straight to Saudi for FII, which will be a blast. Emad, thanks for coming over from London.

Emad Mostaque (2:28)

It's a pleasure.

Peter Diamandis (2:29)

Yeah. I'm going to be counting on you. You're my AWG here on this episode. A shout out to Dave Blunden and Alex Weiser-Gross, our two other Moonshot mates back in Boston who, for very good reasons, can't be here. But I want to jump in. As always, it's been a crazy week.

Let's begin with the fact that we're still amongst the AI chip wars. It's accelerating. It's not slowing down. Again, we're over a billion dollars a day being invested into this field, and accelerating. The estimate is by 2030, we'll be at over three billion dollars a day being invested. It's a great sucking sound that's pulling capital out of every other field. What we're seeing in the world right now is this incredible battle between Elon and Sam and Google and Thropic, and they're all trying to outdo each other constantly.

Salim Ismail (3:25)

Good news is the consumer wins in all of that.

Peter Diamandis (3:27)

Well, the consumer wins if you...

Salim Ismail (3:29)

And then loses.

Peter Diamandis (3:31)

Well, first of all, one of the conversations to have is, I don't believe there's any such thing as privacy. I think privacy is a quaint idea from many decades ago. Do you guys agree or disagree?

Salim Ismail (3:42)

Completely agree. This is a big deal because the Fourth Amendment is essentially gone. A fundamental pillar of American society has disappeared with no public conversation about it, which is a big deal. I'm Canadian, I don't expect privacy anyway, but if you're American, this is not a great place.

Peter Diamandis (3:59)

I mean, AI can read your lips from 100 meters away. I can shake your hand, grab a few skin cells and sequence you.

Salim Ismail (4:06)

The best framing I've seen is we live in a global airport. In an airport, you know you're being surveilled and that your rights can be taken away at any time. The same thing is happening with us now with everything that we do.

Peter Diamandis (4:18)

All right. Next article that comes up is AGI could be achieved by 2026 This is a quote from Alexander Madry, who says the scientific breakthroughs needed for AGI have already been achieved. By the end of 2026, we might declare AGI as AI will significantly begin to permeate various sectors of the economy. Of course, AWG thinks we've had AGI now for the last at least five years. Emad, where do you come out on this?