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Well, it looks like everything's working, the sound, etc. I've been tinkering with my setup, so you never know what could happen.
Here's a text story that I don't know if I believe. It looks like a prank. But allegedly there's a company called Alter Ego that's a little wearable that you put around like sort of like headphones except it doesn't cover your ears. Sort of like the kind that just wrap around the back of your head. Anyway, they allege that that thing can read your thoughts well enough to know what you would like to be sending to a screen with almost perfect precision and it happens kind of quickly. And they showed this demo of a guy who was wearing one and he was writing an email by thinking what he wants in the email.
Now, how in the world can they pick out the words in your head that you want to send from the words in your head that you don't want to send? And I thought to myself, how does that work with people who have a conversation in your head all the time? The way I organize my thoughts to make sure that they make sense is I put them in sentences and I think of them as full spoken sentences and I'll keep rearranging them until they make sense when I hear them because it's sort of like I'm listening to myself talk.
How in the world? And they allege that they can detect the thoughts, if I can say it right. I'm probably not saying it right, but something like just when you're going to verbalize a thought. So they get it when you've decided to verbalize it, but they won't get it prior to you deciding to verbalize it. But in this case you don't actually verbalize it. It just picks up your intention to verbalize it.
Do you believe that there's a thing that can attach to the outside of your head, you know, like little headphone things, little sensors that would be currently sensitive enough and smart enough to determine what you intend to say? Does that sound even a little bit likely that that's true? I would love to know that it is true. That'd be kind of cool. But I'm going to go with nope. Let's grade that one. Nope. But like I say, yeah, I would love to be wrong. So if that's a real thing, really cool, but nope.
Allegedly OpenAI is planning to make a feature-length animated movie that would debut at the Cannes Film Festival and would be done in nine months on a budget of $30 million. Do you believe that they'll be able to do that? And if they can do it, does that mean that the tool would allow you to do it? Because it seems like there's going to be a massive storage element. You know, we're asked to store what it's already done to make sure that what it does next is compatible with all that. Do you think that will be available to the average person? Or are they going to demonstrate that if you want the studio model, oh that's the studio model, it's $10 million a year because you're going to make so much money making movies.
Maybe. I am skeptical that you'll be able to use the off-the-shelf OpenAI to make yourself a movie anytime soon. Someday, but no time soon. So we'll see. That's pretty ambitious. I like it.
Elon Musk has decided to make the code on X for recommending what it recommends to you open source. So people who know how to look at code can look at it and say, "Hey, now I know why it doesn't show me James Woods or whatever it's allegedly hiding from people, and why it doesn't show me other things." So I love that. That is a solid Elon Musk play that feels sort of uniquely him. You know, something you wouldn't expect from other people and I like it.
Speaking of Tesla, yesterday they had a big announcement about what's called the megapack, which is their big battery structures that they sell into power utility grids. So it becomes part of an existing grid and it would store power when it was cheap to make or possible to make and use it when it was needed later. So apparently, I didn't know this, but apparently they're making billions of dollars on this line
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of business and that's part of Tesla. I remember hearing or seeing Adam Townsend. He did a post several years back in which he said that Tesla was actually an energy company in disguise as a car company. And I don't know if I buy that 100% or that he even meant it 100%. But how big could that business be? I mean, if they're the top or even number two in the business of putting in enormous battery…
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