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9-30: Did The Gov't Just Get 'Super Intelligent" & What's It Mean For You? · Wicked Radio with Bill Adams

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  Speaker 1: Did you do the same thing I did yesterday? You
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  Speaker 1: kind of saw the news clips. I had this thing
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  Speaker 1: on in the background, and I said, oh, okay, yeah, that's, oh,
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  Speaker 1: there's Marco Rubio. He's talking about it's easier to get
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  Speaker 1: a passport. Well, okay, that's kind of cool. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: listening further, and I'm watching this thing, and I'm going, oh,
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  Speaker 1: they launched a new, okay, so they launched a new
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  Speaker 1: government website for forums and stuff. That's pretty good. That's
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  Speaker 1: a smart move. And then I heard more and more
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  Speaker 1: people talking about this. I saw Elon up there. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: he's involved. Saw other business leaders here, tech leaders, Silicon
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  Speaker 1: Valley people, Tony Robbins.
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 1: What are they launching here? Oh, it's a lot more
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  Speaker 1: than that. Did the government actually get intelligent? Super intelligent?
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  Speaker 1: And that's another thing. I realize totally now why they
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  Speaker 1: started to reframe this. They're not calling it artificial intelligence.
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  Speaker 1: It's super intelligence, which at first I thought was just
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  Speaker 1: kind of like a cheesy, kind of corny, kind of
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  Speaker 1: like play on words on the thing. And they didn't
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  Speaker 1: want artificial because artificial has a negative connotation. I get
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  Speaker 1: it now. I totally understand what they're doing. They just
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  Speaker 1: took 29,000 pages of junk in bureaucracy and government pages
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  Speaker 1: and websites and all this nonsense, and they just, with
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  Speaker 1: finger quotes here, super intelligence, they just organized it. Right
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  Speaker 1: there has a benefit, but is it something more than that?
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  Speaker 1: What's the overall benefit to you and me and everybody
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  Speaker 1: else on this? Because I think this is more than
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  Speaker 1: just launching a website like they did yesterday. This was
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  Speaker 1: pretty big, and if it works, and it's already working apparently,
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  Speaker 1: This could make things a whole lot simpler and more secure.
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  Speaker 1: And that may be the key in our country going forward. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: we'll talk about this. America.gov. Thanks for finding Wicked Radio.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get right to it. This was President Trump yesterday
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  Speaker 1: announcing this thing. And then, of course, they had the
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  Speaker 1: big signing ceremony and they're playing YMCA and, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the pomp and circumstance. But then pay attention to who
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  Speaker 1: was at this thing. Both sides, you know, people like Elon,
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  Speaker 1: Tony Robbins, tech leaders, business leaders, putting together and announcing.
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  Speaker 1: And they did a pretty good job of keeping this
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  Speaker 1: under wraps before they actually unveiled this new America.gov. But
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  Speaker 1: here's Trump talking about exactly what the benefit was and
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  Speaker 1: all this other good stuff. before the speakers actually got
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  Speaker 1: there and started talking about the benefits to average everyday Americans.
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  Speaker 1: What's in it for us? That's the most important question
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  Speaker 1: to always keep in mind.
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  Speaker 3: Instead of forcing citizens to search through the endless maze
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  Speaker 3: of tens of thousands of terrible government websites and rules,
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  Speaker 3: and more than 10,000 forms, you have over 10,000 forms
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  Speaker 3: to do basic acts. You'll now have one front door
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  Speaker 3: for every single question. Everything will be answered easily and quickly.
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  Speaker 3: A digital home built around your time and your life.
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  Speaker 3: You'll save hours and hours, many hours, hundreds of hours
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  Speaker 3: perhaps a year, depending on.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he's not wrong about that, even if you're
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  Speaker 1: not a fan of Trump. I don't know where you're
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  Speaker 1: coming from on this, who you voted for, who you're
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  Speaker 1: going to vote for in the midterms, whatever, how it
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  Speaker 1: shakes down. Find me anybody in your life, anybody. that
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  Speaker 1: has to deal with any federal government agency at some point,
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  Speaker 1: and tell me you don't go through this. You're like, oh, God,
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  Speaker 1: I have to call them. Oh, I have to go
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  Speaker 1: on this. This is going to suck. This is going
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  Speaker 1: to be awful. Everyone dreads dealing with it. So if
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  Speaker 1: this thing actually got more efficient, this is where I
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  Speaker 1: was when I started listening to this thing yesterday. If
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  Speaker 1: it just made that efficient, that's an incredible improvement for
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  Speaker 1: all of our lives, all of America's lives, right? I
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  Speaker 1: think there's something more as you start to delve into
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  Speaker 1: this thing a little bit deeper. I talked about Marco
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  Speaker 1: Rubio there for a second. He was up there. He
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  Speaker 1: was the first one I saw talking about it with
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  Speaker 1: the passports.
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  Speaker 3: Huh.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Passports are, most of us want to travel. You want
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  Speaker 1: to have that. You want to have it for your
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  Speaker 1: kids maybe. That's always been a long involved process. He
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  Speaker 1: was the one who got up there and they had
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  Speaker 1: Marco Rubio. Keep in mind here, Secretary of State talking
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  Speaker 1: about the passports issue. Convenient? Absolutely. Absolutely. Is there something
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  Speaker 1: more to it there? And then we'll get it to
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  Speaker 1: the other people who are speaking about this later. Very possibly.
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  Speaker 1: Here's what he said about it. Real-time status.
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  Speaker 4: So for years, you could track, you know, any delivery,
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  Speaker 4: a pizza, whatever, more precisely than you can track where
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  Speaker 4: your passport.
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  Speaker 1: Is in the mail. Not anymore.
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  Speaker 4: We have an estimated delivery date, so you know it's coming.
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  Speaker 4: And by the end of 2027, our goal is for
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  Speaker 4: the vast majority of Americans to be able to apply
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  Speaker 4: for a passport or a passport card on america.gov. Because
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  Speaker 4: the point of all of this we're doing here today,
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  Speaker 4: and this is simple, make the process more accessible and
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  Speaker 4: easier for Americans.
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  Speaker 1: It's a good selling point. That's what drew me in
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  Speaker 1: to even be interested in this yesterday. Like I said,
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  Speaker 1: I had the news on in the background. I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: Marco's talking about passports. Oh, okay, there's that new site. Great.
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  Speaker 1: It's a good selling point for most people. We love convenience.
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  Speaker 1: Convenience will win over everything. We'll pay a little bit
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  Speaker 1: more or a lot more for convenience. And he makes
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  Speaker 1: a great point about that thing. Think about the technology
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  Speaker 1: we have there that's available to all. He used the
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  Speaker 1: pizza example, which, by the way, is a great persuasive
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  Speaker 1: argument because most people know exactly how that works, or
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  Speaker 1: a tracking thing, or the incredible tracking of Amazon packages.
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  Speaker 1: The technology has been there for years now to track
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  Speaker 1: a home delivery, but dealing with these government websites has
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  Speaker 1: been a freaking nightmare and bogged down into all this
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  Speaker 1: other crap. So convenience is a good selling point. So
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  Speaker 1: that was the main focus of his little talk there
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  Speaker 1: at his time on the stage. But think about what
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  Speaker 1: he's saying and why it was Marco Rubio, current Secretary
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  Speaker 1: of State, talking about the passport thing in this newamerica.gov.
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  Speaker 1: This struck me later on after listening to all of
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  Speaker 1: these people launching this thing yesterday. Oh, hold on a second.
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  Speaker 1: That wasn't the selling point, but that's another big, big
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  Speaker 1: reason behind this. If they can conveniently and transparently get
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  Speaker 1: your passport ready and all this other stuff, they know exactly...
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  Speaker 1: who's allowed to have a passport. See what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 1: This just took a big argument about voter ID away.
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  Speaker 1: And this just kind of secured things transparently. And that's
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  Speaker 1: a big word in this discussion about who, who has
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  Speaker 1: certain access and certain rights here too. That's why they
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  Speaker 1: had Marco talking about the passport thing, but there was
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  Speaker 1: more than that too. So this guy's name is Joe.
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  Speaker 1: I think I have his last name. Correct. Gebbia. I think, um,
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  Speaker 1: Business leader, tech leader, but he's the chief design officer
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  Speaker 1: of this new government website thing. Anyway, this was his
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  Speaker 1: talk about the entire thing. And keep in mind, convenience
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  Speaker 1: is awesome because dealing with the federal government and their
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  Speaker 1: websites was just junk and it's just a freaking nightmare.
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  Speaker 1: That's great. What else can they do, though, if they
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  Speaker 1: get this thing off the ground?
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  Speaker 5: The new online home for the United States of America.
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  Speaker 5: For the first time, there's one place to get everything
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  Speaker 5: done across the entire government. 29,000 websites in one. Enrollments, benefits, renewals.
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  Speaker 5: Finish your list without ever leaving the site. Need to
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  Speaker 5: enroll in Medicare? Check eligibility, compare plans, and apply directly
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  Speaker 5: on America.gov.
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  Speaker 1: Here's what he said. Okay, that's his first part. We'll
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  Speaker 1: go back to him in a second. Okay, all of
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  Speaker 1: that stuff, again, keep in mind, convenience is the selling point.
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  Speaker 1: What's the real reason and what happens? Transparency. We're living
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  Speaker 1: in this age now. We've talked about this. You and
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  Speaker 1: I have talked about this for a long time now.
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  Speaker 1: We're living in this information age, which is great. There's
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  Speaker 1: so much available information because of this right here, digital technology,
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  Speaker 1: where you're not just relying on traditional mainstream news sources,
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  Speaker 1: traditional government websites, all this other stuff. Now you've got
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  Speaker 1: one source of exactly what's going on.
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 1: At least that's the design. But here's what else he said.
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  Speaker 5: One day, this type of convenience and simplicity... will.
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  Speaker 1: Be across every government service.
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  Speaker 5: Buying a national parks pass, setting up a Trump account
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  Speaker 5: for your kids, comparing drug prices, these are the kinds
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  Speaker 5: of things you'll be able to do on America.gov beginning
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  Speaker 5: next year. Under the hood, America.gov is extraordinary use of
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  Speaker 5: AI designed to improve your life. It's trained specifically on
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  Speaker 5: one official source of truth, the United States government.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's where he gets it right there. That's where
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  Speaker 1: everything is going to be coming here. And that's not,
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  Speaker 1: you know, this has already been twisted by some of
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  Speaker 1: the reporters as saying it's official. So this will be
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  Speaker 1: a news site, right? No, get out of that. No,
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  Speaker 1: this is an official source of Americans getting what they
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  Speaker 1: need and not getting bogged down by government. That's a huge,
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  Speaker 1: huge step. I congratulate them for doing this. But again,
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  Speaker 1: it would be easy to look at this and say, well,
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  Speaker 1: this is just this administration and yeah, it's a good
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  Speaker 1: new website and it's this and that.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 1: They were very smart in what they did in putting
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  Speaker 1: together and pulling together a lot of different people. Joe
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  Speaker 1: Gebbia there from the business world. They had other people
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  Speaker 1: from the business world. Elon was there. Tony Robbins was there.
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  Speaker 1: And I was watching this thing too going, why is
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  Speaker 1: Tony Robbins there? Again, to actually launch this thing off
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  Speaker 1: the ground, you're going to need people who can actually
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  Speaker 1: explain it to people and the benefits for everybody. And
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  Speaker 1: they did a good job. And this administration, like other administrations,
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  Speaker 1: doesn't always pull people together. This thing they did because
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  Speaker 1: it is going to benefit everybody. I like what Tony
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  Speaker 1: said here about this thing being totally nonpartisan. It's the
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  Speaker 1: point of making our lives better and more powerful. And
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  Speaker 1: exactly how he said it. Now I understand why Tony
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  Speaker 1: Robbins was there.
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  Speaker 2: And said that complexity is the enemy of execution. And
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  Speaker 2: the complexity of dealing with a government has gotten in
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  Speaker 2: our way. You may say to yourself, well, why is
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  Speaker 2: this happening now? Well, John F. Kennedy was once asked,
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  Speaker 2: how did you become a war hero? He said, simple,
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  Speaker 2: they sunk my boat. So necessity really is the mother
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  Speaker 2: of invention. And that's why this is a nonpartisan issue today.
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  Speaker 2: People on the right, left, and center agree on one thing.
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  Speaker 2: The government's got to do a better job of serving
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  Speaker 2: its people. And look, I'm an independent personally. I've worked
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  Speaker 2: with presidents on both sides of the aisle for more
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  Speaker 2: than 35 years. And this has nothing to do with
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  Speaker 2: politics today. I'm committed to doing things that make a
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  Speaker 2: difference for Americans of all stripes. And I want you
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  Speaker 2: to know, this was built by Americans from every side
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  Speaker 2: of the political perspective But it was built by Americans
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  Speaker 2: for one purpose, built for Americans to change the quality
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  Speaker 2: of your life.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't that it? They brought him in, again, smart design
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  Speaker 1: on this thing about presenting it and selling it to
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  Speaker 1: the American people. Not that they had to sell it,
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  Speaker 1: but to say it improves everybody's lives and it's nonpartisan. Smart.
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  Speaker 1: Really smart. And isn't that about it? Aren't you more
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  Speaker 1: empowered if you can get the information you need like
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  Speaker 1: right now? And again, I go back to Marco Rubio's
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  Speaker 1: pizza example. The more I think about this and talk
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  Speaker 1: about it out loud, it was freaking brilliant. You can
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  Speaker 1: track your pizza delivery to your house before yesterday better
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  Speaker 1: than you could track your passport status. That was freaking insane.
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  Speaker 1: That needed to stop, and they got it done. And
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  Speaker 1: if you're empowered to get the information you need, you're
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  Speaker 1: less dependent on the same government that you're trying to
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  Speaker 1: get information from. That sounds like a win to me.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know about you. But there's another benefit to
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  Speaker 1: this whole thing. I think, and again, this goes back
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  Speaker 1: to that thing I said in the introduction. I understand now.
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was stupid too. I thought it was
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  Speaker 1: cheesy and a little bit corny. Why are they all
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  Speaker 1: calling it super intelligence now? Artificial intelligence was fine. Everybody
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  Speaker 1: writes AI. It's a trending thing. Why super intelligence? I
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  Speaker 1: get it now. I totally get it. And you're going
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  Speaker 1: to understand it most likely when you hear Elon described this.
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  Speaker 1: Elon was the one at the press conference after the
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  Speaker 1: fact facing all the reporter questions. But like most AI,
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  Speaker 1: it's going to take jobs and it's going to ruin America.
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  Speaker 1: Now you've got AI controlling the government website and all
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  Speaker 1: the fear. I think another side benefit of this entire
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  Speaker 1: thing was they just alleviated a lot of fears of
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  Speaker 1: this super intelligence and having computers take this stuff over.
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  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure. They just made a massive argument for
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  Speaker 1: this and what it means by answering these very same questions.
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  Speaker 1: He faced the question, but it's going to take all
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  Speaker 1: these jobs. It's going to evolve jobs. And he made
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  Speaker 1: a great point.
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  Speaker 2: People speak about medical.
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  Speaker 3: Benefits, but maybe it's worth talking a bit.
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  Speaker 2: More about that. When you have robots and you have superintelligence,
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  Speaker 2: it means that everyone in the world can have better
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  Speaker 2: medical care than anyone here, including me. And wouldn't that
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  Speaker 2: be wonderful?
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  Speaker 5: Not if they haven't got a job.
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  Speaker 2: Well, jobs are going to change.
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  Speaker 3: Jobs have always changed.
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  Speaker 1: But being a computer used to be a job.
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  Speaker 2: There used to be buildings full of people doing calculations.
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  Speaker 2: But now digital computers do those tasks. I don't think
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  Speaker 2: anyone is pining to go back and do calculations all
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  Speaker 2: day to do bank interest rates, which is what they
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  Speaker 2: used to do.
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  Speaker 1: The reporter right there, but not if no one has
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  Speaker 1: a job. He said very calmly, well, jobs change. Economies change.
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  Speaker 1: Jobs evolve. That's what it is. And it's actually going
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  Speaker 1: to create what he calls a super abundance. I get
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  Speaker 1: it now. This is why you see this term superintelligence
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  Speaker 1: all over the place now, because it's like artificial intelligence
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  Speaker 1: was the, that was the mainstream word of this technology
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  Speaker 1: we have now. But you compare artificial intelligence to superintelligence.
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  Speaker 1: Now I understand why they're changing the narrative on this.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you think of artificial, you think of bad things.
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  Speaker 1: Artificial food, not good. Artificial inflation, artificial data, artificial plants,
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: artificial turf, right? All bad things. You go over here, super, super, Superman,
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  Speaker 1: Super Bowl, depending on it, you know, super duper, super.
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  Speaker 1: Now I get why the framing started about two weeks
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  Speaker 1: ago to call it super intelligence. They knew that this
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  Speaker 1: thing was going to be launched. Listen, 29,000 pages of
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  Speaker 1: junk and dealing with a federal website and federal agencies, which, again,
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  Speaker 1: I go back to this. You're like, oh, God, I
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  Speaker 1: have to call the IRS. I have to call the government.
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  Speaker 2: I have to do.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody hated it. What if we did have this works
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  Speaker 1: and we did have the information at our fingertips? There's
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  Speaker 1: your use of super intelligence right there. Right there, it's
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  Speaker 1: a benefit for convenience. Convenience wins. Simplicity wins if it's powerful.
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  Speaker 1: If it puts the power of information in your and
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  Speaker 1: my hands, that wins. But I think there's something else
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  Speaker 1: behind this. And I may be wrong. You tell me.
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  Speaker 1: I think it also means we're more secure with this
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  Speaker 1: to find out exactly who's in this and who gets
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  Speaker 1: passports and who gets benefits. And who gets information? I think.
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  Speaker 1: Who knows? We'll see. Pretty cool, though. Pretty interesting. They
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  Speaker 1: brought a lot of people under this umbrella to launch
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  Speaker 1: this thing. Hey, if it's more convenient, I'm in. Convenience
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  Speaker 1: wins for me, too. All right, thanks for finding me.
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