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Episode Notes
Will AI take over the world? David Raine built two AIs he says are now smarter than him, and he still doesn't think so.
Cody talks with David, a developer and builder and the author of the science fiction novel Space Junker, set in a twenty-second century where Earth is running out of water. David built MIM, a collaborative intelligence, and TOD, a technical operations director that now does all of his coding. Both run full time on their own servers and GPUs in his home studio. His road here ran through animation, clean energy engineering, custom furniture and robotics.
David's answer to the big question: AI is "not gonna learn how to take over the world unless the person behind it maybe wants to try." The risk he keeps coming back to is who owns it.
You'll also hear why he says one good person who knows how to run the technology "does often crush 3 or 4 other jobs," why it's not too late to get into AI, Cody and David on running your own models locally, the robot arm running David's AI that learned objects by asking him "What is this?", whether we'll raise home robots like kids, why you might go to work with one, and whether people will put chips in their heads.
David's predictions and the stories about his past projects are his own views and experience. Nothing here is medical, financial or buying advice.
GPU note: around 26:07, David suggests used NVIDIA A100 cards for running models at home. NVIDIA lists the A100 with 40 GB or 80 GB of memory, and used prices and cooling needs vary, so check current specs before you buy: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/a100/
Chapters:
0:00 Will AI take over the world?
3:01 Who is David Raine?
7:48 Space Junker, his science fiction novel
12:40 The jobs people aren't ready for
17:15 How to get into AI now
18:56 MIM and TOD, his two AI coworkers
24:02 Running AI locally
26:49 Does AI need to get smarter?
28:14 Teaching a robot arm what things are
31:22 Raising robots like kids, and who owns them
39:17 Will robots take our jobs?
40:11 Brain chips and brain computer interfaces
45:42 What to learn right now
51:54 Get ahead by not being afraid of it
Find David:
Space Junker: https://space-junker.com
Space Junker on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HKY4C8C9
MIM: https://mimtod.com
David on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Raine0001
MIM on X: https://x.com/aigentmim
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