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Beyond the Blockchain 8-6-24 the crew talk about the humanoid face of robotics in services, and the Conjuring
Welcome back to Beyond the Blockchain with Scott Tindall. If folks welcome into Beyond the Blockchain here on a Tuesday night. I'm your host Scott Tindall here with Johnny Quinn, the Johnny Quinn, JG here in studio with us. And we've got Sierra Catalina joining us from the New Jersey studios. Sierra, how are you tonight? I am wonderful. Happy Tuesday. Happy Tuesday. Thank you for being with us this week. Yeah, I know. This is a great experience for everybody. And Philip, we're appreciative to have you on the boards here with us. Keep us in track. Between the white and yellow. Between the white and the yellow, as we like to say. I'm going on tonight. There's a time we could cover. I was on the morning show here on this station with Dan Brennan this morning talking about the stock market crash and my crypto people do not care because crypto moves 20% up or down any day. It's like, you're worried about something going down 3%. Oh my gosh, this is amateur hour compared to you. Yeah, you knew. This is amateur hour. I told him this morning I said, unless you're cashing out your 401k tomorrow. Yeah, don't look at it. Or a second mortgage on the house. Yeah, if you don't need this money tomorrow, then why are you even sweating what it looks like? Because odds are, the math tells you the American public keeps putting money in the 401ks that money has to keep going in the stock market. They will keep artificially inflating these assets. So, you know, why are you all worried about it? So, Fidelity, BlackRock, all these other hedge funds, and all these big companies are buying. They got very cheap. They bought it at a 20% discount. And then you sent me something a day that said, BlackRock, MicroStrategy, all these guys, you had the Bitcoin dip, none of them sold. Oh no, they're all just buying. Yes, they're just buying. I mean, again, the idea is they know what the, the only thing I would say would be the EMP that takes out the internet would be the only thing that I would say that says would derail what is going on. And I heard some weird guys that's going to derail a lot of stuff. Yes, and then we have much bigger problems, and you have much bigger problems at that point than your portfolio. But I heard some guys, actually, well, I was reading on X that they were using, again, I couldn't get into the idea of it because it was on X for the very, it wasn't an article. And they were talking about trading Bitcoin over radio, over, you know, ham radio. Like CB radio. Don't understand how that's even possible. But they were talking about it. I don't know, but I can do it over a lower one. Well, that's what it is. That's what it is. I've been watching Longmire and they do a lot over CB radio. You ever seen the show Longmire? You just come on. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. About the share. Well, there was no cell coverage out in the middle of Montana or over the show. It's like, it's like the precursor to Yellowstone. It's like the folks that made Yellowstone watch this and they were like, "How do we amp this up 30% and make it more violent and more controversial to put it on?" They also had the neutral citizen. They also, it was a sovereign citizen. A sovereign citizen, a whole season of sovereign citizens, which I find fascinating. There's so much going on with the Native American tribe and the reservation there and their use of peyote. It's called Longmire on Netflix. There's a million things we could unpack on Longmire on Netflix. Great show. Yeah, by the way. See here, we got way off track. Real funny. This is what happens though, when Johnny and I left our own devices. So, you know, we're not that upset about it either. So, it's okay. I tell people when they want to listen to this show, I'm like, "Hey man, you may learn a little about cryptocurrency. You may just learn about some things you've always been interested in. You just don't know what it is." It's been an interesting week and to watch all the dip and then all the rise today and then all the dip and then all the time. I just don't pay attention. Well, the trick is you, I think we've said this since any time we had a chance of telling everybody, you don't put anything in there that you can't afford to lose because you're probably going to lose it anyway. I think I've told you this story before and I think I've told it on air before, but somebody taught me one time. Sierra, it may have been one of the people we met in Austin and they said, "Here's the way you need to think about your crypto portfolio. If you look at your portfolio and you're not immediately willing to sell and/or buy, do 50 push-ups. And that will cure you from looking at your portfolio." I like it. I like it. It's like, "All right, if you're not willing to sell or buy, why are you looking at it? Do 50 push-ups?" I like that. Well, it would definitely work. It would definitely work. There's nothing that should be strong. I have to say, I did force myself not to buy some discounted stuff yesterday. Yeah, I did the same. I feel guilty for not doing it. I did not. I didn't either. I'm sitting on cash. Yeah, I'm holding some gunpowder right now, but I will say. Same. All right, folks. When we come back, I'm going to be on the blockchain. I'm going to get in with Johnny and Sierra. We're going to talk about some things that might actually interest you instead of just us having a good time with ourselves. When we come back, I'm going to be on the blockchain. We're having to get down yourself. That's what I'm doing. Welcome back to Beyond the Blockchain with Scott Tindall. Hey, folks. Welcome back into the show. You're listening to Beyond the Blockchain, where you are unburdened from what has been. We are talking about blockchain technology cryptocurrency. Now it matters to you. Here in the New Jersey studios, we've got Sierra Catalina, Sierra. There's some really interesting updates going on with AI and some emerging technologies. That's really gotten hot this week. Do you want to give us a little bit of an update on that? Yeah, absolutely. So we had a really exciting new humanoid robot unveil today. Or not new, but updated. Figure two was released. So we saw figure one humanoid bot a few months ago and they've partnered with open AI and chat GPT for the language model element of the bot. But today, figure two, which has been fully redesigned and revamped, was launched and demoed. And it has some really exciting new features. So they've increased the camera amount from two to six. So it has an onboard vision system. The new hands have 16 degrees of freedom and human equivalent strength, which is both scary and impressive. They've doubled the battery pack power. So there's 50% more energy available. And the onboard. And this version is relatively off the heels of the last version, right? So we're not talking about a number of years since the last release. Is that correct? Yeah. A couple of months. I think four months ago was the figure one demo. Do we expect, I guess, based on Turing's law, we should expect this rate to continue to increase, right? Absolutely. I think we're going to continue to see new humanoid bots pop up on the market less than right over the next year or so. Now I'm anxious to see optimist's next demo. Yeah. Yeah. The article said they've, I'm guessing figure one was deployed in the BMW plant in South Carolina to test if it could learn and it had no problem. It's already being used in an industrial. Oh, it doesn't surprise me. Yeah. They have a partnership with BMW and they did demo today, figure two, doing some useful work in what looked like a vehicle manufacturing factory, though there was no BMW branding visible. These bots, because they kind of move slow and clunky, but they get the job done. They weren't slow and cloky now. That's what I'm saying. But once they keep iterating over and over and they get fast. So I made this joke earlier this week on X, Sierra posted about this bot that was making sandwiches. Right. And it made a sandwich great, but it took too long. And I was like, he's going to have to move faster to replace the line cook. You know, I did this like meme from the bear. But once those bots, they can already get the job done. Once they start moving faster, it's game over, baby. Like it is game over for manual labor. They will make that sandwich faster and you could ever believe they will create that car faster and you could ever imagine. And we're all just going to look and figure out what the end of the world looks like. Dude, I thought a Commodore 64 was bad. Amazing. Now, I mean, come on. When I had prodigy in 1997, I thought the world was over. Friendster. I actually was pretty impressed with figure two's speed. So they already are starting to pick up speed a bit, but you're absolutely right. Most of the humanoid robots that we've seen so far move at the pace of like the grandfather. Yeah, but that's just a matter of time, really. It's just time. Once they figure out the movements, then we're just living on months worth of time. And not years to your point earlier. It's only going to be months until these things are moving as fast or faster than humans. Well, those dancing robots were really fast and fluid. I mean, even however it's- That's unit-free, yeah. What kind of club you've been going to, Philip? I haven't seen those dancing robots on YouTube. It's just on YouTube? Oh, okay. I didn't know if there was a dancing robot club. Yeah, unit-free is the brand unit-free robotics. They make robot dogs to really advance robot dogs, and they're very affordable, but they're humanoid bots, which is a little scary-looking because it doesn't actually have a space. And what I mean by that is not that it's faceless because Optimus and the new figure bot and Atlas, which is Boston Dynamics humanoid robot, none of them have faces. They have digital screens that have LED lights that kind of do stuff. But the unit-free robot literally has a hole in the head where our face should be. It's a little- Disconcerting. Dystopian. I'll always put scrap- I will say the aesthetics of Figure 1 to Figure 2 is really sleek. Like they have sleeked that thing up. Look, one of my favorite lines from Westworld, I've told you on the show before. The robotic humanoid on Westworld, the guy asked her, "Are you real?" And she says, "If you can't tell, does it matter?" Right. Yeah. Like that's the world we're headed toward. This is also why the population is going to continue to plummet. Flaz is going to crawl into our heads. Oh, you're talking about sex bots. Yeah. The populations continue to plummet. Remember the flies that crawled into their heads and reprogrammed the people? Yeah, the bots. Yeah. What do they call the... I know what you're talking about. No. Johnny, I think that's a real thing. Oh, no, look. It's something we have to be very concerned about. I'm not saying we need regulation against it. For media. But the first camera, I think the second picture was a naked person. Of course it was. And then, of course, you have beta and VHS. Well, you know the only reason VHS won over beta? Sony picked VHS. Well, maybe so. But I was always told that... Yeah, the porn industry... Yeah, the porn industry. Yeah, correct. Beta wouldn't get into porn. VHS would get into porn. And that was... Way off the rails. That was the beta. We're still talking about beta technology. Beta technology. But you're right. And military. So you have a certain form of entertainment that will pay for it and have the money. And then we'll see what the military does with. I'm sure the military is looking at these things going, "Oh, we have a problem with recruiting people?" Well, that won't be a problem in 10 years. Yeah. I don't know. It's going to be a weird world. We already live in a weird world. The world is getting weirder by the minute. Correct. It is. It's every... We're by the minute. That's right. Not even by the day. By the minute. By the minute. Yeah. If you're not listening to "be on the blockchain," you don't even know how weird the world is getting. You're just living oblivious out there just thinking life is just the way it's always been. It is not. I wish I don't know. Yeah. Sometimes I wish I didn't. No, too, Phil. That same company that did the robots, they also had the other kind of robots. They're kind of more like the dogs, but they were moving in a warehouse. They were moving huge boxes fast, like moving them across. And then they just put a machine gun on their back or a flamethrower and send them all out into the frontier and get them with them when they get done. It's a natural evolution. I hate to say it. Well, they did show the army dogs. They did show them. They did show those too. Well, look. Here's the deal. Is that the same company as figure? I don't know. But any army dog, any robot dog, any military weapon that we know exists, you've got to understand the federal government probably has something seven generations past that. I don't know, man. Come on. You see, they've been keeping secrets from a long time. Look at you thinking we know all their secrets? They're really down on our institutions right now. Yeah. I don't know. Yeah, but you're not down then keeping secrets. All these myths that I thought were kind of true have all been proved to be so unproof. I like the secret service. I like the secret services. Right. Oh, they're fantastic. Yeah. Oh, yes. Oh, they're the best. They're like super humans. They are Keystone cops, man. I mean, only Molly. Yeah. We're on the list. Sierra, you just got to put on all the lists. Now, Israel might have it. There's a guy that's got stuff. It's probably on all the lists just based on my browser history of looking at these robots. Because I spend a lot of time researching to the best of my ability where exactly. The military is at and militaries of the globe too with these technologies. So we did vet you before we let you on the show. So we already knew you were on all the list. That's how you were qualified to be on the show. That's right. We wouldn't watch if you weren't on the list. Can't be on the show if you're not on all the list. We don't want the show to make you be the reason. No, no. You have to be on the list before you get on the show. If you ain't on the list, baby, you don't have a chance to get on the list. You don't have a chance to get on the show. I have been told by some very scary people. I don't matter. It doesn't matter. I'm so little that you think you're nothing. Yeah. You're so unimportant. You can do whatever you want. You're so not a threat. You're on the list, but you're so far down the list. No one cares. We laugh at you. We don't even laugh at you. No. We put you on the list because so I made us. Right. We had a quota. You checked a box. We had to put you on the list. But on our scale of are we worried about you? Eh. Eh. We're not real worried about you. But you'll still be on that list for the rest of your time. I was having one of my existential meanings of why the hell do I do what I do every day. Just one of those days where I'm like, "Why do I do podcast editing and producing when I've just had enough of it?" Which, for the days I love and some days I just ponder. And I started looking at robotic schools. Oh. But I'm 53. It's too late for me. I'm done. I'm over and done with. I'm over and done with. I don't think that's true. My math skills are very poor. Well, based on modern scientific technology, you just keep staying healthy for another 20 years. And you may live for another 70 years. That's my goal. Yeah, yeah. That's true. You're saying 70. I can live another 70 years. 140 years. You'll be in here. I think I am. Moses? No. I'm saying scientific tech. If you can stay alive another 20 years. Scientific technology. Well, I'm not saying it's CRISPR. I'm just saying whatever's wrong with you, we'll just replace it with a new version of whatever it is. Need a new kidney? Okay. I need a new liver. There's no doubt. There ain't no doubt that in 20 years it's going to be like 10 and needs a new liver. They better start growing it now. Well, they're growing eyeballs. They started talking about those pig livers. It was a big deal. Or whatever kidneys they were this year. And they're like, "It took them that long to figure out pig kidneys." Come on. But it's back to the Turing model, man. You got it wrong. It's not Turing. It's something else. It is. It's how you tell if you're wrong. Turing is how to tell you if you're wrong. Yeah. So the Turing test. Yeah. That's if you're human. What is the model? The Turing test. The Turing. The Turing. The Turing model. And then explain how I'm using it wrong. Yeah. Here isn't it a bit wrong, but I don't know. No. Quite a bit wrong. So the Turing test is whether or not an AI is indistinguishable. From a human. So for instance, on a chatbot level, if you're interacting with, let's say, you know, I like to reference my customer service chatbots because I love them. If you're interacting with a customer service chatbot and you think that there is, in fact, another person on the other end of that messenger, then that bot has passed the Turing test. So that is what the Turing test means. It is how indistinguishable from a human the technology is. And that is a great segue into the other product that launched in the last week that I want to talk about, or finally was made accessible to the public exam out a while ago, which is a chat GPT's new voice model. And let me tell you, it passes the Turing test. BPT's new voice model. You can interact with it directly through speech. And in previous, you might be thinking, well, we've had this before. I talk to my phone all the time. I talk to Siri or Google or whomever. But the way that it has worked in previous technologies is we talk, and our speech is then on the back end, generated into text. That text is handed off as a query to the model, the model responds, and then the same thing happens on the receiving end. So it's made it quite slow. And it is taking our speech and generating text from it. It's not actually understanding audio, but GPT's new voice model does actually process audio in real time. And it can speak with different emotions behind it. It answers at the rate of if you were talking to another human. I saw a demo where this guy told it to act like it was running from a lion while responding to a certain query. And it kept the guy would interrupt and say, all right, it's getting closer now. It's getting closer. And the model's voice would change and it's more scarce and more breathless. That's very interesting, very fascinating, very frightening. We come back on Beyond the Blockchain. We're going to talk about more about AI technology, how it's going to impact our lives. Maybe talk about a little bit about hospitality and tourism. How we vacation with AI, how we vacation with AI, or how we will. Welcome back to Beyond the Blockchain with Scott Tindall. Hey folks, welcome back into the show. You're listening to Beyond the Blockchain. I'm your host, Scott Tindall, here with Johnny Gwen, here with Sierra Catalina, here with Phillip, keep him in between the white and the yellows. If you missed us during the break, we were talking about ghost stories, which is largely irrelevant to where we left off the show. But it's highly irrelevant to where the rest of the show may go. Sierra, you were telling us a little bit about some robots. I think you had another robot story to tell us, didn't you, before we went into the break? Oh, just another kind of AI news update worth mentioning in video has gotten themselves into a lot of trouble and has admitted to strafing at a lifetime's worth of video data from YouTube per day, a lifetime's worth per day. Thanks. It's heartbreaking. That's interesting math. I don't know how to interplay, yeah, I don't know how to interplay a lifetime's worth per day, but it seems like a lot to me. Yeah, it's definitely just an egregious amount of data scraping. What do you think NVIDIA is doing with this data, or are we scared to even ask? I'm sure they're training vision models. Some kind of large machine learning model. Training data, yeah, for sure, NVIDIA is pretty well divested in the bot landscape. They're not putting their eggs in any one basket, so they're partnering with a few different robotics companies, and I guess-- Don't you think it's likely they probably have their own robotics team that's underground and they're just using everybody else's some guinea pigs? I mean, they're such a big company, such a giant market cap. I just would be surprised to find that any of these giant tech companies are not already delving in to their own AI and robotics teams. It would just-- It's definitely a powerful path, but NVIDIA has a monopoly on the compute, so it makes sense to me that they're kind of equally divested in all of the robotics projects being built using their chips desk, because they're providing arguably the most important part, which is the compute. If I understand correctly, almost all of these chips are being built overseas, right? Taiwan. Absolutely. Yes. Primarily in Taiwan, so Taiwan, for those of our listeners who are maybe not aware, Taiwan is equally important to the entire world in that they produce 90% of the global semiconductor chip supply. 90%-- It seems like a big number. And it's a massive number. I'm not real good at math, but-- I'm not a Japan. It seems like it matters. Yeah, it's pretty important, that is why the United States has invested interest in protecting the likes of Taiwan, and why we should all care a little bit more about Taiwan. I agree. It also makes me think that, you know, unless we're being silly, we should start working on creating these microchips here in the States as well. Just as a backup. Just as a potentials, not be silly. Maybe this is a good backup plan, AMD is American, right? There are plans to bring the first domestic semiconductor chip supply or producer to the United States. However, Taiwan really does have a very unique corner on that market. The lithography involved in creating these chipsets, there are eight major factories in Taiwan with the capability of producing them in two in Japan. And the sheer size of the factories alone and also the CNC and like laser devices required to build these chipsets are tremendously expensive. And beyond that, Taiwan has been successfully producing semiconductor chips for so long that they really kind of have the knowledge on how to do so locked down. They've been very protective over the years of not allowing international interest to come in and observe their factories or the chips that they're produced. This is the life a lot of Taiwan, right? It's what they produce. I'm certainly not trying to interrupt with their ability to create these semiconductor chips, but they're also 30 miles off the mainland of China. And if the Chinese decide that they're going to do something about it, then we're going to have to decide to do something about a new year in World War II. I may be wrong. I think I read or saw something where they were talking about the inside of one of these manufacturing plants, and they have like a kill switch that says, if they are invaded, it will self-destruct. Wow. That would hurt everybody, right? Well, the idea is they're not like, as Sierra said, they're very secretive about not giving away their secrets. Yeah. The idea is like, well, if we can't have it, then nobody can have the... Yeah, then the Chinese don't have the semiconductor's here. No, that's it. Well, I do know that the knowledge of how to do it is something that they keep very close to the chest. Like, they don't have training manuals for new employees and such. They train through word of mouth and channeling. This sounds like a job for Jack Reacher. What? Well, Jack Reacher needs to go and learn how to create these... Well, I'm just guessing they didn't use chat GPT to proofread their manuals. Not yet. That's coming soon. That's coming soon. That would have gone out to work. That would be the next version. Well, again, I thought our government spent something like $800 million for some chip bill. Are we looking at another 10 years for it? Well... And single chip will get made. Well, hold on. We spent $23 billion on our... Oh, I've been, Bill. But it has not had anybody... $46 million? Robin. $46 million for rural internet, and no one got internet. Yeah. That literally just happened. And the other one was... Yeah, this was $29 billion. And they made seven charging stations for Teslas. Oh, well, you'll also be happy to know that the Pentagon... They don't work. The Pentagon released today that they've given over $230 million to the Taliban because they could not accurately keep up with where their grants were going. No accounting. Yeah. Oh. Again, I live in a world that's... This is how we end up on our list. This is how we end up on all the list. I'm waiting here. Here we are just trying to talk about having fun and movies. President, President Optimus, y'all decide on the language and the system. I am ready for president to Optimus AI. AI president. AI president. I'm done with it. I'm done with the campaign. I think you should start a campaign. You know you were thinking about doing a campaign for president? You should do a campaign for AI. Well, that mayor is already doing it in that little small city. Yeah, behind you. That's right. Behind you. And then this ain't the president. Hold on. I'm not doing it. I'm still trying to keep the damn business up. I'm looking for president and I'm filing with FEC again. I'm not old enough, unfortunately. Yeah. It's going to be 9/12/20/28. Listen to this child. I'm not old enough to run. Oh. God bless you. Everybody's got an excuse for why they can't solve all the world's problems. Sierra says, I'm not old enough. Oh my gosh. But you're old enough to start a cult. Yeah. Not old enough to run the nation. I'm old enough to join your cult. Let's go. I will pick up and move to Maine. We only need 25 more people to go with. People don't know that story. Let's go. That's right. That's a good trick right to it. I don't know. It's a good trick right to it. Go way on to the cult. I found out, hey, I'd like to look at different Zillow properties and stuff and every now and then they send me push notifications and I got a push notification to straight up by a colony in Maine and that was the word used on a colony of 28 homes for $5 million. And this colony is complete with 28 homes, a massive amount of acreage. It's on its own power grid, has its own water and sewer supply. It's right on the water. It's a really beautiful historic looking area, solid wood homes with original millwork, excellent condition. There's even a church on the property and some stables for horses and some farmland. So I, gopingly, proposed to a group of my friends like, hey, you know, kind of an excellent time to start a cult. But there was ever time to start a cult. It'd be now. Seems like now. Yeah, no, sincerely. Preppers. So about $5 million to 28 homes and they're like, they're not like studio home. They're like four and five bedroom, two and two and a half bathroom home on this property in Maine. But as we got to talking, like why though, so all the houses are vacant, they're in really great condition. There's nothing visibly wrong with the property area, like I was expecting maybe some sort of environmental damage or something needing environmental remediation, like a toxin or something. Because why would 28 families just up and leave their, their well camped home? So upon further investigation, no, only $5 million, my dream cult property appears to have been the inspiration behind the original countering movie and subsequent turns out of her second and third. And I've never seen those because they look terrifying to me. But apparently I guess the property is haunted enough so that 28 families and I'm honest, this thing's gonna have to be real haunted for Maine. I just did the math. That's $178,000 per four or five bedroom home. I put together a group of folks and be like, we'll take on the, we'll take on the ghost. There ain't that big of a deal. There's a movie right there. It's not the conjuring, it's the getting back. Yeah, it's like the takeover. No, you don't get all this for that cheat. Get out. All right. When we come behind the black chain, we're gonna talk more about the ghost and conjuring and you know, we probably are not going to talk about AI and how it ends with hospitality. I'll be on the black chain. Welcome back to Beyond the Blockchain with Scott Tindall. If folks welcome back into the show, listen to Beyond the Blockchain. I'm your host Scott Tindall here with Phillip on the board, the Johnny Gwen and our favorite New Jersey friends here, Catalina out of the New Jersey studios here. We were just talking about something fun and interesting and completely off the rails, which is what we like to do around here. We got a little bit of minute here in the last segment. I kind of want to keep going that direction, but Johnny, you asked me, he said, "Do you want to get Beyond Beyond the Blockchain?" I do. Can we go there? I do. Let's go Beyond Beyond. You got the mic there. No. You said, "Do you want to go Beyond Beyond?" Oh, I don't want to do it. The story I thought was new is five years old. Oh. Maybe that's not the same thing. But it is interesting. It is interesting. So this thing comes up and it's about Ancestry.com. Is that what you were talking about? Well, it's what you were talking about. Yeah. Ancestry.com. It's not Black Rock. It's called Black Stone. Okay. It's a very large investment firm hedge fund company. God, they were originally part of the same company together. Okay. Well, so they bought Ancestry.com, this company that has been, these types of companies have not been known to be very. It's just, they're a little nefarious, right? If they bought Ancestry.com, they bought all the data of all the millions of people who have run their DNA through that service. It's like a 23andMe kind of thing. And so my question is, we always talk about Nazar biometrics, which I'm guessing, right? Yeah, of course. Yeah. Biometrics. Okay. We freely give that information when we send the whatever swab, right? Because we want to know where we came from. What can a Lex Luthor-type company, right? What would they do with the DNA? What is this thing that's so darn scary about a company that might be nefarious to have your biometrics? The first thing that comes to mind is a bio-weapon. Like, they're making a bio-weapon and using that as source material. Well, if I could create a bio-weapon that only targets some... Oh, like my Neanderthal blood that I have, or if you look at the boys, you know, this show on FS, they're trying to create a bio-weapon that only targets the suits, right? Yeah. So I think you're looking at that. Sierra, go ahead. I think you had something to say. I'm going to play a devil's advocate here, which I don't usually do, but assuming the world is a better place than we know it to be. Some potential, we're not nefarious things that one might want with that much DNA data is maybe a designer drug that... Mm-hmm. Oh, I got you. Yeah, that target different genetic mutations and things in our genealogy, or perhaps work better for certain users than others. Also, just a massive amount of DNA data could be used to train AI models, not just similar to Google's Alpha Fold 3, which is able to predict the DNA structures of nearly all living beings on Earth, which is really cool. So like, that's mine. So I don't really... It's my silver line. I don't really understand that. That's a great silver line, not born yet. It's a great silver lining, and to Philip's question, he's asking about people that aren't born yet. I don't understand any of that. Can you tell me more about Alpha Fold 3, because that is a new concept to me? Yeah, so Alpha Fold 3 is a product of Google DeepMind. And they have designed an AI that is able to predict the protein structure of all living beings with really, really high accuracy rates. So it's been able to model what human DNA looks like and other various living beings, but they're using Alpha Fold 3 for drug discovery. So it'll... Oh, good. That makes me feel a lot better. Yeah, it's really a really promising initiative for drug discovery, and it's advanced tremendously from Alpha Fold 2, which was unable to predict certain types of protein structures and kind of relied on other specific types of data input. But Alpha Fold 3 could be potentially what helps us cure cancer or other genetic diseases. I think that's what we all hope from AI and machine learning is I like to be optimistic. I want to be hopeful. I want to believe that these technologies are going to take us into a new landscape. The pessimist in me, the skeptic in me, sometimes takes control because history shows us that technology is not often used for it. It's the match. For the greater good? It's the match theory. Right. But yeah, a match can light a fire, a match can burn down a house. Like you can save your life with it, you can destroy it. It's what the user uses with it. So you hope that it's going to go that direction, but history has not shown us as humans to be very good at modulating this technology and using it for its highest and best partners. We're big dumb monkeys. That's a good point. We're big dumb monkeys. I mean, look what we did with the power of the atom. Look what we did with it. Yeah. I mean, you know, we did make some things like the power plants were interesting, and then we shut it all down. I mean, there's some generation for fusion reactors right now. They're amazing. We can't get built. But I mean, yes, I want to believe like, look, for every Superman, there's a Lex Luthor. Right. It just is. Is that right? Do I have my right? Do you have the right comic book with the right? Comic book mythology. Okay. Yes. You have the right here and the right villain. It's very Asian for us to say for every Superman. There's a Lex Luthor. Ah, but you know what? There's a lot of wisdom in the yin and the yang. Of course. Wherever you go, there's a bad man. Actually, I think most Asian theology say you have to have both. Well, if you have one without the other, there's imbalance. It doesn't work. It doesn't work. It doesn't work. Chaos. And a little bit of both. And again, a little bit of both. And nevermind. I don't like it. It's the graphic. This has been the most kindergarten level theology conversation. Yes. It's kind of like when one of our wonderful politicians explained space defeat. Yeah. It's big. And all around us. And the cloud. It's above us. And the cloud. It's above us. It lives above us. I never said I was smart, Scott. Neither did I. That's what makes the show. Or enlightened. Well, part of the show is at no point have we ever told people to listen to what we have to say and take it as advice. Joe Rogan did a stand-up special this weekend. Yeah, yeah. And one of the things that stuck with me, he said, if you listen to me for advice, that's on you. Right. And he never told you to listen to me for advice. That's kind of how I feel about the show sometimes. Well, look, if someone can get some entertainment and some education. Some value. I mean, we bring Sierra on there to educate people. Wow. Thank God for that. You know, we just sit around and like make cheap shots to think. Yeah. You know. We're just a bunch of dumb animals throwing sticks at each other. Right. And I really agree with that. We're very relatable. Yeah. Yeah. And we're everyday people. Next week, we can talk about one of my new favorite things is the strange monoliths popping up all over the country. Oh, I don't. You're going to have some information on that. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I think it's a hoax. But it's interesting. I love the fact that someone makes these things and puts them out in the middle of nowhere. Someone may find them. Man, I got a hope. May find them. Kind of hope it's not a hoax. What do you think the motivation behind that? Autistic children. Autistic people who grew up that thinks it's hilarious. Nothing wrong with autism. I know lots of people on the spectrum, including myself. Right. It is. I think it's the idea of like the ultimate troll. Yeah. Yeah. That's a good troll. Yeah. All right, folks. Or maybe what's the sound of one monolith in the woods or whatever? I don't know. If it falls and no one hears it. Right. What the monolith falls and no one hears it. I don't know. Yeah. All right. Next week folks. Some of the other blockchain. If a monolith falls, it doesn't make a sound to see about here. [laughter] (upbeat music) .