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Dr Michelle Dickinson: nanotechnologist on the latest AI developments at NVIDIA GTC · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: And we welcome into the studio to talk about science.
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  Speaker 2: Doctor Michelle Dickenson, Good morning to you. Good morning, and
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  Speaker 2: you have just arrived fresh from San Diego because you've
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  Speaker 2: been at a mind blowing conference.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I've just been California, San Jose at the GtC
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  Speaker 3: Confidence which is run by Nvidia, where Jensen Huang, the
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  Speaker 3: CEO over that who's probably one of the most powerful
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  Speaker 3: people in tech right now, gave us the lay of
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  Speaker 3: the land for the next twelve months when it comes
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  Speaker 3: to computers and AI and robots and what's happening.
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  Speaker 2: So in video are the big chip people, and we
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  Speaker 2: need their chips to make everything work, and they're booming
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  Speaker 2: because of AI.
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  Speaker 3: At the moment they were the big chip people. They've
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  Speaker 3: become very clever. They now own the whole stack. So
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  Speaker 3: they did make chips. Now they are involved in making
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  Speaker 3: rex of server X for all of these massive AI
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  Speaker 3: data centers. They also own a lot of the software
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  Speaker 3: that makes it so Omniverse, ISAAC SIM a lot of
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  Speaker 3: the simulation software which they showed off which helps people,
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  Speaker 3: and digital twins and a lot of stuff that most
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  Speaker 3: people in the real world don't care about, but these
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  Speaker 3: are the things that help manufacturers and industries to get
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  Speaker 3: there faster. You could do a digital twin of your body,
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  Speaker 3: for example, and understand what would happen if you took
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  Speaker 3: a certain medication, oh wow, without you having to take it,
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  Speaker 3: and then we can work for what's best for you.
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  Speaker 3: So there's a lot of data in that modeling the real.
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  Speaker 2: World and what you showed me in the air, bro
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  Speaker 2: You're show me some photographs from yesterday at this conference,
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  Speaker 2: and there's a lot of robots, and there's little o
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  Speaker 2: lefts from Frozen wandering around, and there's humanoids who are
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  Speaker 2: walking around. They're talking. You can talk to them, they
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  Speaker 2: can talk to you. The help desk is humanoid. They're
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  Speaker 2: making the future real now.
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  Speaker 3: It's so funny coming back, like I just learned a
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  Speaker 3: back in our own New Zealand and I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: you go through security, everything's so manual, Like this is
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  Speaker 3: so nice. I've just been surround us. There are one
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  Speaker 3: hundred and ten robots doing stuff at the conference, including
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  Speaker 3: robotoid concierges, which are they're designed with an emotional sense
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  Speaker 3: of what they do is they're not just a humanoid
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  Speaker 3: that can answer wears the lit nearest coffee shop. They
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  Speaker 3: can pick up if you're stressed, and they respond back
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  Speaker 3: with a tone that matches your emotional state. So a
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  Speaker 3: lot of the robots last year were quite like, I
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  Speaker 3: am a robot, I only have one voice. These ones
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  Speaker 3: are designed to have personality. The Olaf, which was amazing,
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  Speaker 3: which Jensen had on stage, is a beautiful little snowman
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  Speaker 3: for anybody who's watched Frozen that wanders around and looks
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  Speaker 3: just like the real thing. And what was unique about
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  Speaker 3: that and what's different is usually if you were to
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  Speaker 3: so Disney made this robot, if you were to build
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  Speaker 3: a robot, you would spend years trying to work out
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  Speaker 3: how to build it best, what components use, how to
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  Speaker 3: make the movement work best. And instead they just did
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  Speaker 3: a couple of days in a software called Isaac sim
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  Speaker 3: to run millions of simulations to do all of the
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  Speaker 3: question asking in simulation at once. So the robot designers
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  Speaker 3: just had the perfect answer and had to just make
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  Speaker 3: what came out of it okay.
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  Speaker 2: So, and we were talking before about how we've been
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  Speaker 2: phoned up by AI sales rips trying to sell us insurance,
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  Speaker 2: and you can actually have conversations and you can say
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  Speaker 2: you can swear at them and tell them to go away,
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  Speaker 2: and they go, oh, I understand how you feel about that,
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  Speaker 2: and they're quite polite. So now you've seen the humanoids.
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  Speaker 2: Does this freak you out? Or is this actually exciting?
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  Speaker 3: I think it's inevitable. So rather than be freaked out,
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  Speaker 3: I'm lucky that I get to be part of people
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  Speaker 3: who are designing robotics for the world, and I get
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  Speaker 3: to think about putting humans first and what do we
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  Speaker 3: need to think about in doing that. Not everybody is
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  Speaker 3: doing that, but I'd rather be in it and trying
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  Speaker 3: to shape it than be worried that somebody who was
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  Speaker 3: trying to do something to me with them. The aibots
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  Speaker 3: that are calling you are a sign of how people
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  Speaker 3: are trying to save money or make money. Right, there's
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  Speaker 3: that side of it. I guess I'm excited, but I'm
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  Speaker 3: excited because I'm in it and.
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  Speaker 2: I can see, well, I'm not right, so you know, but.
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  Speaker 3: If I wasn't, I think i'd be a bit worried.
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  Speaker 2: Well, as you mean about the airport. You know, if
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  Speaker 2: we replace the humans on the customs line with humanoid
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  Speaker 2: robots who come this with you and do the whole business,
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  Speaker 2: but they do it amazingly, calmly because they don't have
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  Speaker 2: the I'm frazzled thing or I'm tired thing. This will
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  Speaker 2: make our lives better.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I mean yes, I mean there's always going to
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  Speaker 3: be what we call edge cases in robotics that the
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  Speaker 3: outlier is that you will still need a person. But
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  Speaker 3: for me, who flies a lot, I'm doing the same
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  Speaker 3: thing when I learned at the airport. Every time I've
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  Speaker 3: got nothing to declare, I know, got to carry on
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  Speaker 3: like you know me, you know you this let me
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  Speaker 3: in quigaut. I don't need you know, the human side
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  Speaker 3: of that. But it's also people's livelihoods. Yes, and so
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  Speaker 3: we do have to think about where automation and robotics
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  Speaker 3: is helpful because we already have a workforce shortage in
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  Speaker 3: that space or people. It's a job that we shouldn't
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  Speaker 3: give to people, but you know, the workforce will change
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  Speaker 3: because of it. I am robotics, and I think rather
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  Speaker 3: than be worried about it, I say, understand your job
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  Speaker 3: and what your job is made up of tasks. Understand
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  Speaker 3: those tasks and think, can any of these tasks be automated?
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  Speaker 3: If yes, okay, but if more than ninety percent of
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  Speaker 3: your tasks can be automated in your job, you might
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  Speaker 3: want to think about borrowing something out.
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  Speaker 2: Well. Look, the fellows who showed me were mind blowing,
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  Speaker 2: and the future is coming. As you say, it's inevitable,
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  Speaker 2: and it sounds like you had a really fun time.
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  Speaker 2: He did.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm so glad to be surrounded by humans again
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  Speaker 3: with robots for a whole week.
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  Speaker 2: That's great. Look, and thank you for coming straight here
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  Speaker 2: from the airport. Go home and have a sleep.
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  Speaker 3: And a shower. I will see you next week.
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