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ption lowers your risk of osteoporosis? Did you notice when you sipped that your osteoporosis seemed a little bit better? Yeah, good science. Well, Elon Musk has raised almost a billion dollars in new equity for X. And here's the fun part: that would value X at about $32 billion, and that would be close to what he bought it for. So basically the outrageous price that he paid for X has already pai…
← Previous segment →o make sure he can do some new stuff. But it looks like his purchase of X was a good investment. Of all the things in the world, it was one of the very few things his critics had to cling to. Oh yeah, well, okay, maybe SpaceX is kind of cool and yeah, Tesla was doing all right, but Starlink was good and Neuralink seems like it's changing the world, but he definitely overpaid for X. Can't say that anymore. All right, that's fun.
Apparently a bunch of Hollywood celebrities, according to Breitbart News, they got together, wrote a letter to the president begging him to help with their copyright protection. So the same people who were the biggest critics of Trump are now begging for help to protect them from AI. I don't think this is going to work too well. But here's what I think.
Do you remember when AI could first make pictures and very short videos, you know, like just a few seconds? And then you thought, oh, if I can do that I can maybe make a movie just by saying, okay, start with that, change this, add another character. But it
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could never do anything that took up from where the last image ended. It would just be a brand new image, so you couldn't do anything with continuity. But the continuity has been fixed recently, at least by a few apps. So I'm going to guess that we're one year away from anybody being able to create a feature-length movie by just talking to the app. Now you'd still have to be good at it. The app is…
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