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Ed Leon Klinger
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🇬🇧 Exited tech CEO @FlockCover + Investor in companies I love - @Neuralink, @AndurilTech, @Anthropic, @etnshow & others
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Joined March 2012
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The world is getting better. Life spans and literacy rates are up. War and child mortality are down. We’re entering the era of space travel, humanoid robots, and sentient AI. There is lots to be excited about. I remain fundamentally bullish on humanity.
Europe got its own TBPN-style live show, and everyone’s angling for a guest spot https://t.co/bXseDfHNqf
Immensely excited to be an investor in @etnshow - a hugely ambitious, fundamentally optimistic media company focused on the AI boom. It’s gonna be a wild decade for tech news - the etn. guys are live-streaming it!
We've raised $1.6M to build Europe's first daily live technology show and we're live right now.
State-of-the-art newsroom near Kings Cross.
First guests being announced shortly.
Coming to you 5 days a week.
What a time to be live.
12-3 GMT.
The real Turing test for AI: can it pattern match with as much accuracy and cultural relevance as @ArtButSports
Lamentation (flipped, detail), by Gerard David, 1515-23, 📸 by Roberto Schmidt
For the cost of HS2, the UK’s high speed rail project, the Government could have bought over 4 million autonomous cars to take people up and down the country. That’s over 15x the capacity of HS2 (and a decade faster).
I wrote this thread in 2020 - six years ago(!). ChatGPT didn’t exist. Claude didn’t exist. “Data centers in space” definitely didn’t exist. My, how the world has changed.
Today the world changed forever.
Why? Because a group of Artificial Intelligence researchers released something called "GPT-3".
In short: it's a computer program that can interact like a ridiculously intelligent human.
And it will blow your mind 👇
Original X investors explaining to their friends that the free speech app is merging with the rocket company to use railguns to fire superintelligent sand into space to power humanoid robots on earth
An unexpected outcome of the AI era will be lots of people realising that we probably already live in a simulation
Thrilled to launch Project Genie, an experimental prototype of the world's most advanced world model. Create entire playable worlds to explore in real-time just from a simple text prompt - kind of mindblowing really! Available to Ultra subs in the US for now - have fun exploring!
Elon just predicted that we will upload human consciousness into humanoid robots, essentially allowing humans to live forever, within twenty years
Elon Musk on the upcoming @Tesla Roadster:
"We're getting close to demonstrating the prototype. One thing I can guarantee is that this product demo will be unforgettable. I think it has a shot at being the most memorable product unveil ever; Hopefully before the end of this year. This is some crazy technology that we got in this car. Is it even a car? It looks like a car. If you took all the James Bond cars and combined them, it's crazier than that."
Only two people on earth know how to both 1) mass produce things, and 2) build rockets. They are: Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. Therefore no-one else knows how to mass produce rockets. A one-in-four-billion skillset.
Starbase, Texas
@deanwball “It’s a good plan, sir” is a good reference, sir.
The most interesting thing about the blue & gold dress was not the ensuing debate, but the fact that there has seemingly never been another comparable situation before or since. Why is that?
The Tesla Roadster 2 has an array of compressed air jets around its chassis which allows it to leave the ground for short periods of time. No, I’m not kidding. Yes, you’ll see it this year. It will be mental.
Tesla is now officially no longer a car company. It’s an autonomy company. Robotaxi + Optimus takes Tesla beyond its current mission of accelerating the world’s transition to sustainable energy, and towards its new mission: creating a world of abundance.
we are launching our Robotaxi service in austin today
they said it couldn’t be done. you need lidar. you need more sensors. you need HD maps of the city you operate in.
turns out ….. you just need cameras + AI to make cars drive themselves. 10 years in the making.
so proud of our entire team for making this a reality
❤️ @Tesla_AI
pics by @AdanGuajardo
A beautifully written post about the inevitability of technological progress. What seems preposterous today, will become mundane relatively quickly.
i notice some interview candidates at @neuralink roll their eyes at the massive scale we’re pursuing.
when i started at @SpaceX in 2016, our goal was to enable a launch every other day.
this was insane to me.
we had completed less than 30 successful launches in 14 years, and here i was, designing hardware to save 3 hours from mating the rocket to the launchpad. I couldn’t even fathom there being demand for 100s of launches a year (mind you, this is before the first starlink prototypes were ever completed).
now a decade later, that launch cadence has silently come to fruition, and the product market fit is so lucidly evident.
it guided me to this fundamental realization: don’t get hung up on applications. relentlessly develop the enabling technology, and the applications will become apparent. or as rumi said, “place your step, and the way will show itself”
doing 10,000 surgeries a year is such a foregone conclusion to me. we will just obviously achieve this, as long as we continue to hire exceptional talent.
we know the guiding vector: decode more bits.
we know the steps we must take now: increase channel count, signal to noise ratio, percent of neurons accessed.
i’m more curious about what ‘way’ will show itself, what applications will arise that enable us to reach millions.
would we have dreamed of facetime and spotify and netflix and apple pay when the internet was developed? no- the job was just to build the best internet by making progress in a few key vectors (bandwidth, latency, service area).
like the internet,
like the space age,
we’re at the dawn of a new era.
and I’m all in.
Fascinating experience using the latest driverless @Waymo cars via the @Uber app in Austin, TX.
A few observations:
1. Unbelievably easy. As simple as ordering an ordinary Uber.
2. Feels totally safe. Swiss Re’s analysis suggests they’re statistically safer than human drivers, but what earns passenger trust is the smooth braking, early signalling, etc.
3. Surprisingly bold! Rapid acceleration when necessary, willing to assert itself at junctions etc. (seemingly a big upgrade vs. earlier versions).
4. Big ‘wow factor’ at first, but becomes routine pretty quickly. In Downtown I’d guess 1 in 40 cars(?) is a Waymo - locals already see them as second nature.
5. Great fun (as you can tell from my chimp-like yells of excitement).
Widespread autonomy is now a matter of when, not if. European regulators, policymakers, and indeed insurers would do well to pay close attention to the pace of change in the US - the shift from R&D to real-world use is truly underway.
The most important metric for any economy will soon become ‘number of humanoid robots in operation’. This number will determine factory output, energy costs, inflation, and quality of life. Everything will exist downstream of this number. Not discussed enough IMO.
I’m not just dancing all day, ok
I was talking to chatGPT about Ancient Rome and it started playing instrumental music. Can anyone at @OpenAI (or elsewhere) explain what’s happening here?
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