IN 2011 ONE OF THE FOUNDING FATHERS OF AI STOOD AT AN MIT BOARD AND EXPLAINED WHY A MIND IS NOT ONE SMART THING -- IT'S A CROWD OF TINY DUMB PARTS THAT DON'T KNOW ANYTHING
A lecture from Marvin Minsky, the man who helped invent artificial intelligence, on his life's idea: the Society of Mind.
-> The idea that lands: there is no single "You" inside your head. Just hundreds of simple processes, each almost mindless, working together until thinking appears.
No magic. No spark. Intelligence is what happens when enough dumb parts are wired the right way.
Forty years later that's exactly what an AI model is: billions of tiny switches, none of them smart, somehow producing something that looks like it thinks.
Being amazed by intelligence was never the point -> understanding how it's assembled is.
Most people think a mind is a mystery. The ones who watched this see the machinery underneath.
Bookmark & Watch it. This one's a legend ↓
Mijns inziens is dit een van de beste use cases voor AI-videocontent op dit moment. Een AI-influencer reist terug in de tijd naar 1536 om te vloggen over haar ervaringen in Tudor-Londen.
.@BernieSanders , it is a time to celebrate. @elonmusk has created enormous value for society by building @SpaceX, driving down the cost of rocket launches and creating a global satellite communication network that has brought high speed, low-cost internet and communication access to hundreds of millions and eventually billions of people along with critical advantages for our military and our nation’s defense.
SpaceX and its technologies will cause an acceleration in the growth of wages and wealth creation globally, including in some of the poorest communities in the U.S. and around the world.
Access to low-cost, high speed communications everywhere will allow children around the world to be educated, families to build businesses, and life-saving medical knowledge and care to be available everywhere.
SpaceX will materially bring down the cost of compute, advancing AI and humanity.
Meanwhile, 4,000 SpaceX employees yesterday became millionaires, including hourly wage employees who you claim you are trying to help.
The Elon Musks of the world drive growth, global GDP, and provide access to goods and services at lower cost that would otherwise not exist.
Elon’s nominal trillionaire status is due to his ownership of SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, the Boring Company and his other initiatives that have brought new technologies that improve our everyday lives.
Elon is not sitting on a trillion dollar pile of cash, jewelry and gold. He is using his controlling stakes in his companies to advance mankind. Elon’s companies don’t pay dividends. They reinvest all of their capital to accelerate innovation and value creation.
Elon is working 24/7 for all of us. He deserves respect and appreciation, not smears.
Bernie, your socialism would never allow a SpaceX to be built. Socialism has only proven to impoverish mankind and lead to death and destruction.
We need to create the conditions for more SpaceXs to be built, not attack the great entrepreneurs who are helping to advance our country.
Incroyable ! Elon Musk, considéré comme "fou" par les "experts" de l'industrie, rafle tout. Encore une fois. GOOGLE signe et demande à ELON MUSK d'utiliser Colossus pour faire tourner son IA pour 1 milliard de $ par mois.
Cette annonce fait suite à Anthropic, créateur de l'IA Claude, qui annonçait devoir faire la même chose pour survivre.
"Never bet against Musk", c'est dingue à quel point c'est vrai de tout temps. Laissez-moi vous expliquer :
Il y a un an, Elon Musk construisait un datacenter de 220 000 GPU dans un champ à Memphis. Tout le monde s'est moqué. "C'est n'importe quoi." "Ça marchera jamais." "Il est devenu fou."
Personne ne comprenait pourquoi un mec qui envoie des fusées dans l'espace se mettait à empiler des GPU Nvidia dans un hangar.
Puis le mois dernier, on apprend qu'Anthropic, le créateur de Claude, signe pour TOUTE la capacité de Colossus 1. Prix : 1,25 milliard de dollars par mois. Sur 3 ans. Soit 45 milliards de dollars.
Le concurrent direct de Grok paye Musk pour faire tourner son propre modèle par manque de puissance de calcul.
Et là, cette nuit, coup de tonnerre : Google signe aussi. 920 millions de dollars par mois. 110 000 GPU. Jusqu'en 2029.
Google. La boîte qui possède le plus de puissance de calcul IA au monde. Qui fabrique ses propres puces TPU. Qui a investi 180 milliards cette année en infrastructure.
Même Google n'a pas assez de GPU. Alors Google paye Musk. Total des contrats compute de SpaceX : +70 milliards de dollars.
Et la semaine prochaine ? IPO de SpaceX !
Je m'en souviens très bien, car j'y avais dédié plusieurs vidéos il y a 1-2 ans. Pendant que tout le monde débattait de savoir si l'IA était une bulle, Musk a construit l'infrastructure comme un affamé. Il a poussé ses équipes pour réaliser une prouesse de vitesse de construction. Et maintenant, bulle ou pas bulle, tout le monde lui paye un loyer.
This is WILD!
Anthropic just became the most valuable AI company on earth and what Chamath said months ago explains exactly why this moment matters (Save this).
Anthropic closed a $65 billion Series H round at a $965 billion post-money valuation surpassing OpenAI's $852 billion valuation from March and making Anthropic the highest-valued private company in history.
Just three months ago, in February, Anthropic had raised $30 billion at a $380 billion valuation meaning the company nearly tripled in value in a single quarter.
Claude's run rate revenue crossed $47 billion today, up from $30 billion in April, up from $9 billion at the end of 2025, a pace of revenue growth that has no comparable precedent in business history.
Now go back and watch what Chamath said, because he called the entire arc of this.
"I've never seen a business like this. And I'd say the same thing about Anthropic. Nobody in the history of the world has ever seen two businesses like this at this scale. These are trillion dollar companies. They both are. And they both deserve to be."
He said that before the $965 billion number.
@chamath also said something that most people skipped over, that OpenAI and Anthropic need to get public as fast as humanly possible because of what happens after.
Chamath laid out a specific sequencing thesis, SpaceX goes public first and does great, the next company does good to great, then appetite runs out, because the market simply cannot absorb trillions of dollars of new demand in rapid succession.
Today, Anthropic's $65 billion round may be precisely the move that locks in its position before that window narrows fortifying the balance sheet before the public markets get crowded.
But Chamath's deeper warning cuts through the celebration, once SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic are all public, the AI technology baked into all three will cannibalize the moats of every other tech company, compressing tech sector P/E ratios toward non-tech levels and making the software businesses of the last decade obsolete.
"It will eliminate and it will cannibalize and it will erode most of the moats that support this differential trading," he said directly.
"I'll buy the first five or six years of this story, but I'm not buying year 15 of this anymore because these three guys are going to build something."
The companies getting valued at near-$1 trillion today are not just winning but rather are the instruments by which everything else eventually gets repriced.
BREAKING: AI can now build financial models like Morgan Stanley analysts (for free).
Here are 12 Claude prompts that replace $200K+/year investment banking jobs
(bookmark this thread 🧵)
BREAKING: AI can now analyze any stock like a Wall Street analyst (for free).
Here are 10 insane Grok prompts that replace $2,000/month Bloomberg terminals: (Save for later):
I spent the past 24 hours setting up OpenClaw and making it useful.
- AI assistant lives on my Mac and connects to iMessage, a web browser, and phone calls
- Set up automated voice calling — calls restaurants using OpenAI's realtime voice API through Twilio, sounds like a real person, and hangs up on voicemails (this took a very long time to get working well)
- Had it call 80+ Korean and Pho restaurants across 5 cities (Dallas, Houston, Phoenix, Seattle, Sacramento) asking about MSG and real bone broth
- Set up monitors that check scan Elon's tweets for Tesla-relevant posts, and track the Dallas Open tennis schedule — all alerting me via text
- Generated 100+ detailed PDF guides — restaurants, activities, tennis courts, trading strategies, even a video games catalog
- Had it call Dick's Sporting Goods asking about 3-star table tennis balls and call arcades asking about DanceRush Stardom
- Had it build a photo-rich PDF system that screenshots Google Maps, grabs satellite views, embeds real photos, and creates guides better than a web search
- Integrated ElevenLabs music generation — it made my son a custom table tennis hip hop anthem on demand
All running on a MacBook Air with zero cloud infrastructure beyond API keys.
My conclusion: surprisingly very, very useful. The future is going to be wild. There’s still major limitations and shortcomings of the AI models and it still makes mistakes which can be frustrating. But it’s a game-changer having an AI agent able to schedule tasks, send communication, and keep memory local. Also, very neat to have it save files on my desktop.
XPeng IRON humanoid robot debuts in Shenzhen with a mysterious black outfit 🔥
When @elonmusk said the only rivals to Tesla Optimus come from China, it’s clear that he is dead serious 😱