EM: AI means love.

"I think that the biggest problem the world will face in 20 years is population collapse." Elon Musk

JM: That's absolutely right. So that is why the world—if AI can bring love, which I called in the past, if you have the successful person, you have to have EQ and IQ, right? In the future, if you want to survive in this world, you have to be the LQ— the Q of love, that's important too. Otherwise cannot survive in that deficient. Talent is time.

EM: I agree, love is the answer. There are many songs about that.

JM: So you want to talk about machines, life? Or do you want to talk about your cars, autonomy? What do you want to talk?

EM: This feels like one of those steps in a video game where you've got like pick a path. I choose life.

JM: OK, life. So how much longer do you think people can live with the help of AI? Can AI help with environment sustainability?

EM: Well I think first of all, I think humans will solve environmental sustainability, I do not mean to suggest complacency. Or that we just take it easy. In fact, this is a self fulfilling or unfulfilling prophecy. We must take immediate and dramatic action. And continue the momentum towards environmental sustainability. And China is actually the world leader in this. In fact, I'm not sure how well it is known outside of China, just how much China is a world leader in environmental sustainability. It’s extremely impressive. I mean, I think half of all the electric cars in the world were made in China last year, or something like that. So you know, so I don't mean to suggest complacency. But I do think humans can and will solve sustainability.

"It's great human beings make mistakes. It's great human beings learn from mistakes. It's great to die." Jack Ma

If we can, if we can do the Neuralink essentially, age will not matter that much. You can simply save your state and restore your state. Just like a saved game, essentially, something very close to that. I do think we can we can solve biological aging, if we really wanted to, you'd have to make DNA changes, but we’re obviously just on a on a clock, all organisms are. I mean, you could take a fruit fly, for example. And you could have it do daily yoga, and have a very healthy diet and is still going to live for three weeks, maybe four weeks. So environmental factors are relatively minor for extending life, you have to change the DNA. So the question is, like, will people be OK with changing the DNA? that's the thing about extending life, you know, and probably people are a little bit reluctant about that. But that's essentially the thing that needs to occur to extend life. or you've got to stop the DNA clock somehow. I don't know if we should work on this or not. I think, frankly, you know, it's probably a good thing that we do eventually die. You know, there's a saying, like, in physics, like even physicists, which are generally quite objective, is like, there’s a saying that all physicists don't change their mind, they just die. So, maybe, you know, it's good to have this life cycle.

JM: I think AI can definitely help the environment sustainability. And when human beings know themselves better, human beings will be smarter and will be wiser. The difference between clever people, and smart people or wise people: smart people knows what he wants, and how he can get it. wise people know what he doesn't want. So when human beings use artificial intelligence, they will understand themselves better. And I think there will be millions of ways people will live in a healthy Earth, and protect the healthy Earth. The reason why I want to stay in this Earth, I want to work on this Earth, I want to do anything I can to help this Earth to better because going to the space is great, but if we can spend our resources, just to focus on helping pick up the garbage from the oceans, that thing is more difficult than going to Mars. But artificial intelligence can help us achieve that, and solve the problems. And the second human being can live better, can live longer. But what we need is not only to live longer, we want to live healthier. How can we live healthier, is to understand us better. Most of the disease is caused by our behavior. So I'm 100 percent sure people will live longer, people will live healthier, but may not necessarily live happier. If you want to be happier, human beings are focused on value, the vision and the mission, and always have dreams. And I don't want people love technology and put their dreams on the technology. I think that technology should be with dreams. It's not technology that changes the world, it’s the dreams behind the technologies that change the world. So my hope is that anything we can do to improve this world, to helping 7.4 billion people live better, live healthier. And this is all about our world. And I think what will be working very happily because I love your product, Tesla. You know making world cleaner, and no noise and such great technology. I'm happy you have the factory in China. And I think we need to do more things to improve this Earth, improve this world, and make sure that that people are happier, and people care about the family, people care about the health. That's all we should do. And trust us, trust a human beings, and trust young people. Let's take responsibility for today. But let's not take away all the solutions for tomorrow. It's great human beings make mistakes. It's great human beings learn from mistakes. It's great to die.

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