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ry pipes. It's coming. So this is a real thing. It's already being built. Elon Musk has confirmed that his xAI, which would be Grok 4, he says it's the smartest AI in the world and also it's going to be built into Optimus humanoid robots. But my question is this. How in the world is a large language model going to be safe to put in a robot? If the biggest problem with AI is hallucination, how doe…

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oid robot that had seen enough video of the real world that it could navigate your house? It would just walk in your house and you'd say, "Robot, make me a sandwich," and the robot would know what your refrigerator looks like and where you keep the condiments and stuff. It would just figure it out. I don't know.

I feel like that problem of hallucinating is unsolved and maybe unsolvable with any large language model. So I'm going to be a skeptic in saying that Optimus will be successful with just the large language model AI. They would have to have some other kind of AI or some other kind of programming on top of it. There's no way that you can just put some large language model AI in there and your robot will come to life. I don't think so, but I'd love to be wrong.

Anyway, I do think we'll get there. You know, I think humanoid robots will be big and Musk believes that the value of that robot business will be 1

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0 trillion dollars, bigger than the iPhone. Here's a persuasion lesson courtesy of President Trump, who was speculating in front of reporters yesterday. Who had the lower IQ? Was it AOC or Jasmine Crockett? So the press is listening to Trump. He's like, you know, I don't know who's dumber. We have to give an IQ test to AOC because she's really dumb, but maybe Jasmine Crockett is dumber. So we sho…

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