Hi how are you!
i'm pretty wonderful! how are you?
I am doing great! I have a new question
go for it
Because I have answered this one like 10 times hahaha Which is more important to you a great car or a great house and why?
oooh! that's a really tough question. I personally want a small, but nice house, but a nice luxury car. so i'm not totally sure where i'd put that. i'd probably say a great house though. Preferably one with a  wood shop.
Yeah.
what about you?
I think I would rather have a great house.
why's that?
I mean after all that is where I spend most of my time My car could be average and I wouldn't care
true. The only reason i'd want a nice car is cause driving is more fun with a little more power, and that's what keeps me paying attention to the road when driving
Yeah true. To be completely honest I kind of want to get a tesla Especially with the speed they have on that roadster
oooooh! that is for sure something on my bucket list if i just get to drive one of those once in my life i'm going to be a happy person
At the very least I need to take one on a test drive when it comes out in 2020
that would be super cool, that's a pretty long wait though i wonder if by then there will be self driving cars?
Yeah it is already a long wait for the model three
how long of a wait?
like 6-9 months right now I think
yikes!
I know Elon musk is stressing out really bad trying to keep production at reasonable levels
Tesla's are for sure a luxury good.
He needs to get it up to 6000 a month to try and catch up
Really?
the model three is supposed to be more affordable
You know a lot about teslas! that motivates you to learn so much about them?
I follow their news network I really think he has some great ideas so I just tend to follow elon musk in general He is like the mix between an entrepreneur and a philanthropist
what kind of ideas have you seen?
Well have you heard about neuralink?
i think that's a good combination. I hope to get to that point some day i haven't what is it?
Neuralink is a company he started with money out of his own pocket (though it is a fairly large pocket at that)
haha, what does it do?
Neuralink is about linking the human mind to a computer So we can more directly interface with it like think to type
that. is. awesome.
and other stuff like that I know right?
do you know if they've had any success so far?
Um I don't think they have They are trying to find a way that is non intrusive or minimally intrusive to put something on your brain I think they are looking at nanites in your brain or something but obviously way still experimental they have a long way to go
That's kind of a scary concept. having little bits of machinery floating around your brain?
It is. Some other companies are working on non intrusive ones that are like helmets but they have very little success Well its more like a mineral If you can think of it that way once you get down to that small of a level things become more like molecules than machines so if you saw it in real life it would be like a powder
true. So would they have nanites, plus a machine to detect changes in them as well?
Then they can use it to cover your brain and track the signals fired from it and interact with it. well the machine would end up being the helmet hahaha
you have almost motivated me to start following him. what other stuff has he done? also, where do you follow him?
have you heard of space x?
ya, i've heard of that.
i use my news app on my iphone space x was founded by him it was literally "a monshot" moonshot He is doing so many cool things
i agree! i wonder what his life is like
Well he has his own biographu he grew up in south africa and migrated to canada to avoid the military
hahaha, you have an answer for everything really!
because at the time the apartheid was still a thing and he didn't believe in fighting to quell a black rebellion.
have you read his biography?
yes I read a bit of it yesterday Do you read much?
you should tell me more about his biography ya, i did a lot in high school, then i haven't for a few years and i've just started reading a lot more recently
I dont remember it all
i've only gotten through a few books the past semester. mostly all about business.
Is that your major?
Nope! i'm a CS major. I've actually read a bit about code and psychology as well though.
Oh wow thats cool
I think it's amazing how the human brain works. Like hearing about neuralink is super interesting to me. i'm probably going to go research more about that after finals
Yeah I wanted to do something with neuroscience initially
I think it's super cool that every person is unique, but society as a whole follows patterrns really? same here! why didn't you?
because if i did I wanted to be a neurosurgeon then I found out that might not be exactly what I had envisioned.
how so?
They work way too much
hahaha, that's true. I was the home teacher of a recent convert neurosurgeon back at home and she was only a church half the time cause she constantly got called in to work not even half actually. Also, she was struggling raising her daughter cause she wasn't there enough
Yeah that isn't the job I want to have
I actually thought the exact same thing.
I would really like to get involved with artificial intelligence though
I thought it would be super cool to be a doctor and save lives (literally) but then i realized how much school and money it would take , and after i graduated i'd still have n no time, so i passed on it same here. Did you know there are computer programs that model how the brain work?
Yeah doctors have it rough yeah you mean neural networks
ya.
I think that is actually some of the stuff that will break down the barriers we are facing in artificial intelligence
When i learned about it it was amazing. I already learned awhile ago how the brain works, at least on a basic level, and when i heard about how artificial intelligence works
I think we need to work on our neural network design so it more closely takes advantage of the way our brain works
it is already pretty similar
Simple neural networks only work similar to the brain but dont mimic it very wlel well
why do you say that?
Just the way neural networks are designed it is an input layer and an output layer with several intermediary layers but the brain isnt that simple Some neurons completely bypass multiple layers We need to use machine learning to better our neural network design like a sort of inception
ya, that's true. hmmm... i wonder how that could work. i can think of a couple solutions, but they'd use a ton more memory and computing power to be able to do it. what major are you by the way?
Applied and computational mathematics with an emphasis in business I plan to get an economics minor, a business minor, and a music minor.
you are going to be very well qualified going out of college. what are you hoping to do with all that?
Go into artificial intelligence work Like with google apple and amazon They pay between 300000 and 500000 a year
do you have a preference between any of the three?
probably google I think they have made the most advances
that's cool! they also have the best work environment. my brother has worked at google and apple, and has heard a lot about amazon, and he's happiest there
Wow I hope its a great job and I get it Well I have to go
alright, it was great talking to you