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A Berkeley startup called Ditto has no feed and no swiping: students fill in a values questionnaire and a Wednesday evening text arrives with a match, a place and a time. On Moonshots, the panel weighed the appeal of having the choosing removed against Emad's worry about outsourcing connection, Dave's warning that a system that knows you well is also a very good salesperson, and Alex's refusal to use it at all.
On the Moonshots panel, Peter Diamandis runs a Grok Bot chief of staff called Skippy and Emad Mostaque runs 18 of them across his own machines, installing models and making art. Salim Ismail calls it the move from asking an AI to assigning work; Alex argues the messaging-app interface cannot possibly scale.
On Moonshots with Peter Diamandis, the panel watched Sam Altman explain that he expected GPT-4 to put software businesses up for grabs far sooner than it did, and that the economy's inertia has made the transition "smoother and slower." Salim Ismail blamed institutions that move at a different speed from the technology, Alex pointed instead at the abstraction layers of the economy and prescribed vertical integration, and Emad Mostaque objected that the models simply were not good enough until recently.
NVIDIA has signed memorandums with six financial institutions aiming to mobilize more than $500 billion in outside capital for customers’ AI infrastructure. On Moonshots, the panel debated whether rapidly changing chips can support long-term investments: Salim Ismail warned of stranded assets, Alex argued for financial hedges, and Emad Mostaque explained why older, paid-off GPUs can keep earning.