Back to episode — Episode 2597 CWSA 09/14/24
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it should be different or what people should be doing with their life. I don't have any advice. I'm just saying that we've evolved into essentially a harem civilization. But at least it's fair. Men and women have their own harems, just differently. Well, here's some news from AI. Google's DeepMind taught a robot how to tie a shoelace. Now if you don't think that sounds impressive, consider that…
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So if you can get your robot to do two-handed coordination, the time between now and the time that you will have a full robot tennis partner, literally a tennis partner, a robot who can serve and hit the ball back, is probably five years. Yeah, it might have more to do with battery life and a little mechanical stuff to make sure the robot doesn't fall over. But they're pretty much there. So if it's coordinated with two hands and has vision, I'm pretty sure that a robot can play tennis, like legitimately play tennis. You hit every ball back in less than five years. But it could be a year. We might be one year away from a tennis-playing robot. I'm going to get one.
Well, we've been hearing for years that geothermal energy could be the big thing, but it never is. So geothermal is basically a two- or three-mile hole in the ground where if yo
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u go deep enough the Earth is super hot. The water down there is super hot and you can use that super hot water to create energy or warm your house or whatever. But it's very expensive to drill a two-mile deep hole or three miles. However, it turns out that at least one company, Fervo Energy, it's a Texas startup or upstart, I don't know, maybe it's been around a while, but they're using fracking.…
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