Travis Kalanick: How AI Will Transform the Physical World

Travis Kalanick: The real question is, can you make a meal that's prepared and delivered to you so efficient that it approaches the cost of going to the grocery store? ... It means that your manufacturing has to be automated. So, we have robotics that basically do the production of food. Let's call that between six and eight between six and $8 per meal. ... You roboticize production. You roboticize the logistics and transportation of of of food, but you still need a space to do it. This goes back to that sort of atoms-based computer, right? You still need real estate, industrial real estate where that robotic production happens and where the robotic logistics occurs. That's our food computer.

Travis Kalanick: When we talk about mining, we're talking about, you know, we go to gold mine CEOs and we're like, would you like 20% more gold per year? We haven't heard no. Uh but they say prove it. And that's kind of the fun part. Um, but it means your opex is lower and it means by the way these mines are pretty damn unsafe. And so making these places way safer is also part of the purpose of what we're doing.

Travis Kalanick: If you're not doing humanoids, right, humanoids are like low scale, do low-scale tasks in human environments. If you're doing high-scale tasks, industrial scale tasks, you are going to make specialized machines that move and act in the physical world. The key part is move. If they're moving, they got to have wheels. if they have wheels, you gotta you got to make the autonomy for those machines, those specialized robotics which are transforming that industry. Um, and if you depend on only one or two companies that exist, you're not going very far. Um, so autonomy is sort of like a critical part or critical platform you have to first make for yourself.

Travis Kalanick: Look, I think probably one of the coolest things and this is part of why I'm out versus not before uh is that the media landscape has completely changed. the media landscape 10 years ago, 90% of what was said was very negative. ... So the media landscape is like, yeah, you don't have to talk to those guys and you can go and talk to a David Senra. You can go and talk to uh Joe Rogan or name your guy and it's you can say what you need to say in a in an environment that's not like a struggle session in Mau China, right? So that's a big freaking change.