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in now. Is the study wrong? I wouldn't know. Would you? Maybe the people who say the study's wrong are the ones that are wrong. But my point is sometimes the studies or the data will be correct but it's never going to be credible. So you still can't use it or you still can't trust it. You can use it but you can't trust it. Here's some more data that is fake. The data might be real but the interpr…

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s sort of a mentor.

Now again I want to be really clear that I'm making no allegations and I'm not aware of any allegations against Clive Davis. But when you see it in the context it really looks different. But I'll tell you the two creepiest things. There were two references to grooming in the documentary but both references were in reference to grooming musicians. So he would find people who were talented but not famous and he would groom them. And that was the actual word they used. So they used the word groom twice in that documentary. How many documentaries have the word groom in it twice? It's a weird thing.

So again I'm not making any kind of accusations and I'm not aware of any that anybody else was making. But wow does this look different when you put the context of what you think you know about the Diddy story that who knows how much is true.

Well Walter Isaacson says that the script will get flipped next week on October 10th when Elon introduces RoboTaxi and things that operate in the real world. So we've got AI and AI is the subject of several of our biggest companies. So Elon Musk has his version of AI and Google has theirs and Microsoft and OpenAI have theirs etc.

So I didn't realize this but maybe I knew it, that Musk is making his version of AI which is called xAI. He makes it open source whenever he releases the new version. So when he releases the new version he makes the version just before that open source for competitive reasons. Maybe he wants to not make the new one open but then he reveals it.

So here's my observation. So you're Elon Musk and you are really good at business models and making stuff work. He's making his model open source. What's that going to do to AI as a valuable commodity in the future? Shouldn't it bring it down to a commodity? Are we building the world's most expensive new technology with these multi-billion dollar chip-based data centers and building nuclear power plants just to power them? And that when you're done, because there's a version of the same thing you just made with all of your billions of dollars, there's a free one over here that's open source. Don't they all become worth nothing because the competition is free? Well here's a free one.

So I suspect that you need all the billions of dollars to build the thing but once you've built it how much smarter is it ever going to get? In other words when you reach the point where it can't get much smarter and it's already absorbed the total knowledge and language patterns of all conversations that happened before and then it can also search the internet and maybe update itself once in a while, aren't you done? Like there's some point where there's nothing left to train it on and then it becomes a commodity, doesn't it?

But suppose you're Elon Musk and you know that the AI is not just going to be on your phone, it's also going to be in your robot and it's going to be in your RoboTaxi that will drive itself when you call it. And here's the thing. If Musk can through making the previous versions open source, if

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any of that turns out to make AI by itself a commodity, meaning that's the economic word for meaning it's not worth much, you wouldn't pay much for it, but he also is the best American manufacturer of complicated things. So he can make a car, he can I guess they could make their satellites wherever they make them, and he can make a robot. So if he makes a RoboTaxi and robots, nobody who's also ma…

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