Watch: Pete Hegseth, Elon Musk speak at Starbase [45:12]

I loved the way Musk talked about how he wanted to turn star wars— star trek-from science fiction to science fact.

About 10 years ago, Issac Newton’s religious texts were released. (He had the low view of Jesus.) He put the return of Christ at roughly 2060. About the same time I noticed that Star Trek official future history put the date for warp drive invention at roughly 2063.

So I figured that would be the rough date for the invention of warp drive to other stars.

A week ago, on the same day that elon musk visited President Trump—Musk posted on X that we have entered the “Singularity”.

Ray Kurzweil posited the singularity as happening sometime in the 2040s.

Last summer elon musk said he expected all known math problems to be solved in 2026. He said further that he would be surprised if there were not a new physics by the end 2026.

(I’m seeing a lot of math problems solved in recent weeks. Further I even saw a plausible application for string theory for the the surface area of networks in the last couple of days.)

Therefor I would not be surprised if a working warp drive were developed before 2040.

If there’s a new physics popping up because of AI, it’ll mean there won’t be any further talk about warp, or speed limits, concepts that go hand in hand.

Musk is ridiculously smart, but he’s also dreaming (as he said) of making Star Trek real because of his having been an avid reader of sci-fi throughout his life.

There may well be some solutions to unsolved math problems, but it’s more likely that AI will instead identify previously unknown unsolved math problems.

Decades ago, probably in “Personal Computing”, there was a monthly sci-fi short story feature. The one I recall reading had to do with the development of a very AI-sounding super computer.

In the story, one of the first questions posed was to ask the computer to “complete math”. The computer bent all its resources to the completion, and in hours a message came up on the screen (which of course, at the time, was a CRT) — “math completed”.

The other person present suggested they test the computer’s claim by asking for various examples of known unsolved math conundrums. The computer responded with their solutions.

That person then suggested that the completion of math by the computer had altered reality, and that the same request would now not work. So they again requested that the computer complete math.

After the same interval of time had passed as before, the computer continued to churn on, and couldn’t complete math.

Sci-fi writers are, alas, writers of fiction. 😊

It’s probably best to temper expections regarding the actual future performance of AI.

Now that the browsers lead their search results with AI nitpicking about the inquiry, one realizes that the legacy search engine actually gets the answer while the AI bitches about how two of the search terms aren’t related, or are racist, etc etc.

Now, prepare to read an “AI-generated answer. Please verify critical facts.”

https://search.brave.com/search?q=ai+solution+to+cancer+treatment&summary=1

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