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- Mark Zuckerberg says Apple haven't invented anything great in a while: "Steve Jobs invented the iPhone and now they're just sitting on it 20 years later... so how are they making more money as a company? They do it by squeezing people"
- Mark Zuckerberg says you can't just separate intelligence from consciousness and upload a mind to the cloud, because there's so much more that makes up a person
- Meta's neural interface works by electromyography (EMG), which tracks signals from the brain that pass through the wrist
- Geoffrey Hinton says he is particularly proud that one of his students fired Sam Altman because Sam is much less concerned with AI safety than with profits
- Satya Nadella says Windows PCs will have a photographic memory feature called Recall that will remember and understand everything you do on your computer by taking constant screenshots
- Jensen Huang shows off the NVIDIA GB200 NVL72: a data center superchip with 72 Blackwell GPUs, 1.4 exaFLOPS of compute and 130 trillion transistors
- Bryan Johnson: "My biggest risk in life is irony. I'm the Don't Die guy so it means, inevitably, I'm going to die by the most ridiculous means possible... So when I die by a bus or choking on broccoli, I give you permission to laugh"
- Peter Thiel: we have 100 times as many PhDs as we did in 1924 but scientific progress has slowed or stayed the same, so a PhD today is 99% less productive
- Marc Andreessen says that transitioning from a nonprofit to a for-profit like OpenAI is seeking to do is usually constrained by federal tax law and other legal regimes and historically when you appropriate a non-profit for personal wealth, you go to jail. Transitions of this
- Elon Musk says it is important that we try to accomplish great goals like becoming a space-faring civilization and a multi-planet species to inspire us and for kids to get fired up about
