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And Ever's worked with over a thousand startups already. That's the kind of knowhow and experience you can rely on. So head over to every.io and stop wasting time on the stuff that isn't growing your company. That's e v y.io. >> Just like the precursors to making methamphetamine made famous on >> right. Well, that's cuz that's but that's my point. Like that's pseudafed. Like you can distill like that's what they're doing on Breaking Bad. Like you could go buy a bunch of pseudafed. That's what we can't seem to sort of limit. So I'm wondering >> we can actually we we can do a much better job limiting the precursors. >> Okay, >> that's absolutely the case. And so if we do think that this is going to get out of hand, it's an inconvenience, it's bad for those businesses. If you put up friction and you require people to show their driver's license and you limit the number they can order or they got to fill out a form and coming back 48 hours later, that'll decrease the sales of precursors, whether it's for drugs, bombs, weapons, etc. But it is a much better solution. And by the way, fertilizer went through the same exact hand ringing before uh Oklahoma City, the bombing that occurred there, which was a giant fertilizer bombing, a UPS kind of style truck, >> you could just buy fertilizer. And then after that, they started tagging fertilizer. They started monitoring the people purchasing. They put all these things in. So this is uh something I'll give him credit for. He's not just saying this stuff is terrible. He's saying there's easy solutions to this. Then he makes another point about cyber and if you look at his cyber section um and hacking he's basically like you know what AI applied to hacking and you can pull up the quote there from it is um we're going to be living very quickly in a world where the code is made rock solid by uh AI. So this is a transient issue. In other words, [snorts] he he believes the ability to hack systems is going to go down greatly because of these tools. Therefore, the two things that people are very concerned about, hacking and cyber hacking, combined with biological weapons, he's just saying he's taking them headon. Whether you agree with his position or not, you might disagree with it. Um my point is he's giving thoughtful feedback on very granular issues and saying I don't think you need to worry about it and this is what I think the right approach should be. This is a very different approach that he's taken. >> Mhm. >> And he's doing this ahead of time. So I don't know if you have that quote. >> I do. Uh over time I expect that widely deployed AI models with strong cyber security capabilities will lead to systems that are more secure not less. This will be definitively true once super intelligence enables most of the world's code to be verifiably secure. The long-term answer isn't to withhold capabilities, but to establish a balance of power where super intelligence is broadly distributed. >> My point here is now Zuckerberg is anticipating problems, taking um those problems, thinking from first principles about possible solutions. This would have been amazing before he launched Instagram, made it super addicting and caused young girls on the platform to experience body dysphoria and self harm and anorexia and any number of diseases. And if he had a thoughtful approach to hey agegating and what age people should have. This is the big paradigm shift I see in Zuckerberg. Just by one example, he's now anticipating problems and taking a leadership position. I'm saying here's how the world should work. Does that make sense, Lon? >> It does. Yeah. >> Probably the best insight height he had in this whole thing was about um AI and jobs. He admits, hey, there could be job loss. This is something to worry about. But if we withhold the technology and we don't make it available to everybody, that's worse than giving it to everybody for free for eternity, unlimited, etc. giving access to it because he believes the job displacement will occur. But if people are learning these tools and sharpening their blade and learning how to apply them, they'll stay ahead of the job loss. >> Right? Which is exactly what Jensen said in a quip that became very famous. You're not going to be replaced by AI. You're going to be replaced by somebody using AI. Let's read how he phrases it. I think it was very well written. Here's the Zuck quote. Recent statistics suggest it may be more likely that individuals capability growth could match or outpace automation in which case people will gain the ability to do many new things before their current jobs change. >> Right? So if you think about that just in our firm we've been deploying AI. I've been talking about hey who are the AI natives inside of our venture firm? Some people are taking to it like fish to water. Other people are like, you know, not don't want to dip their toe. Some people are up to their ankles. Some people are waiting in, right? And the quicker you adopt it, the more valuable you become, which then the organization finds more opportunities and it grows. So that rang true to me and I thought it was a really good framing for the job loss argument and job displacement. Yes, jobs will go away, but can you stay ahead of that? He also telegraphed new products coming which I thought was really interesting. Now he doesn't have a problem launching a lot of products and he's had a ton of um failed products. People forget Poke that was his Snapchat clone 2020. Slingshot was another disappearing message 2014. Livestage this is a a video app aimed at teens uh to >> you know go after Snapchat. uh and Bolt that was a Snapchat style messaging app um that they tested in some like foreign markets. Those were four different ways he tried to attack Snapchat. Then he just put all Snapchat's features into Instagram. He also did Facebook home if you remember that. >> Sure. >> You remember he had uh also the the metaverse >> frame for photos that wholeverse metaverse. Then there was Facebook gifting. There was Facebook credits for uh virtual games. It was a long line of things, but he mentions here what they're building, and we should go through each one of those. >> The first one, a personal AI agent for everyone. I have a little quote here. Everyone will have an exceptionally capable personal agent that understands you, your goals, and everything you care about. Your agent will work 24/7 on your behalf to improve your relationships, health, career, finances, home management, hobbies, and more. It's gonna free up the time is what he's saying. I predict Facebook is going to launch an open claw Hermes agent claude coowork competitor. >> It's going to be, you know, Facebook, you know, assistant or Instagram assistant, whatever he brands it as. One of those brands would probably be smarter. And what it's going to do is study your social media activity. If it sees that you are booking tickets or you're liking content about a certain movie in IMAX that everybody's going to see right now, the Odyssey, it's going to say, "Would you like me to find you tickets to the Odyssey in IMAX, and uh I can go do that for you?" And then it's going to go do it for you. It's going to say, "Hey, your birthday's coming up. Last year you did a birthday party. Uh do you want me to book a reservation for you?" So it has all of that context on your life. >> They are in a really really great position to take the skunk works patchwork of personal agents that we're all building in the technology community and give those to your auntie. You know, your aunt who was never on MySpace or Friendster or, you know, other wonky social networks, but they were on Facebook and they got addicted to it because it was so simple. They could do that for your auntie, for your cousin who's addicted to Instagram or whatever it is. So, that's one product that I think could be very successful then. >> I mean, I I I'm sort of very divided here because on one hand, it does sound very useful like an agent that's built into so many of the apps you've already got running on your phone that's intelligent about all that that you don't need to connect any of them. I I think people could get a lot of use out of that. But there's so much resistance among the consumer app audience for AI. I feel like you've got that's a big thing to overcome. He's going to have to really sell people on the utility here so that they're not like, "Oh, more slop. Get it off of my phone." >> So he doesn't have to introduce it as AI at all. It can just organically exist in your feed. And I think that's what will make this so compelling. >> You won't have to say I want to install AI. It will just very subtly start prompting you, hey, I see um you have 17 restaurants that you've bookmarked here. Um would you like me to I I put them into a list for you of restaurants in Japan? >> Yes. >> As an example, I do use a lot of bookmarks in Instagram. So when I go to Japan or I go to Paris, I have already bookmarked a bunch of restaurants, a bunch of shopping, a bunch of hotels, whatever it is. It could very easily close that gap for me and do intelligent agent-like things without me asking. In fact, travel and food and fashion are things that it already knows a lot about you. So, it could just start saying, "Hey, uh, I'm uh your Instagram agent wanted to let you know that I've kept a catalog of all of the >> um men's clothing that you've liked, Lon. Here they are." And uh I've monitored the prices on them and where you can get them and here are places that make a similar item. >> No, I think that's a good I think it would be very subtle. >> That's very astute. I think that if you and I and I think that's actually what a lot of these companies should have been doing all along with these AI is you don't need to brand everything AI. You just make it really useful and then people will start using it regardless of how they feel about the technology. I think that makes a lot of sense.