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body also who knew a lot today said that you have to be really, really knowledgeable even to catch AI's mistakes and to know how to give it a prompt. So we don't seem really close to getting rid of programmers. It looks like there'll be pockets where AI makes a really big difference, but in general, you're going to need somebody who really knows what they're doing or else it's useless. Well, Elon…
← Previous segment →ere's the best part. This is pure Elon Musk. He just bought, allegedly, although Grok says it's not true, but I think Grok might be a little behind. So I'll take a fact check on this if this turns out to be fake news. But I did see that Elon allegedly bought a billion dollars of Tesla shares on Friday. Now that would be sort of an unusual thing to do. You know, it's not sort of the time when people would buy a billion dollars of their stock. More likely this is the time when people would be pruning their stock and using the money for something else. But he put a billion dollars into Tesla.
Now why would he do that? Well, he said repeatedly that the stock could go up by 10x, 10 times. He obviously believes this is really going to happen, you know, with robots and self-driving cars and stuff. And so his billion dollars probably will make him $10 billion. So he made one trade. It's probably worth $10 billion in
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a few years. So anyway, in case you don't know, I do own some Tesla stock. So when I talk about the stock price and the future of Tesla, you should know that I have a monetary incentive. I don't think it's affecting what I say, but you know, people are biased people. So in all likelihood, it's biasing what I say about Tesla. I saw a post from an X user, Ryan Long, who showed a picture where he t…
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