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Market Insight JP|海外経済テック解説
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Uber founder Travis Kalanick just inverted the entire automation panic. Everyone assumes AI eliminates human value. The physics say the opposite. Kalanick: “Let’s say the entire world, everything in our world, was automated except for plumbers. You had machines making buildings. You would basically have like a thousand buildings a day.” The algorithm can design a skyscraper in a millisecond. It cannot connect the pipes. When compute violently accelerates the speed of construction, the unautomated human becomes the ultimate bottleneck. And the bottleneck captures all the margin. Kalanick: “How valuable would those plumbers be? Extremely valuable. Those guys, each and every plumber would be like LeBron. Why? Because plumbing is the long pole in the tent to progress.” If the machine needs a human to finalize physical execution, that human doesn’t get replaced. Their economic value goes exponential. Kalanick: “You got so much efficiency everywhere else that you need millions of plumbers.” The market thinks automation drives human wages to zero. The physics dictate it drives the bottleneck’s wages to infinity. The next decade doesn’t belong to whoever out-computes the machine. It belongs to whoever stands at the exact point where the digital engine meets the physical world. Kalanick: “If we get to this place where autonomous cars are everywhere, if it was a thousand to one, you still probably have, I don’t know, 20 million jobs, 50 million jobs.” The panic over job destruction assumes a static volume of output. When output goes infinite, the system demands more human oversight. Not less. Waymo doesn’t delete the human. It shifts them from driver of one vehicle to director of a thousand. Kalanick: “Until we get super AGI, humans are valuable and they are going to become more and more valuable because they will be the long pole in the tent to progress.” You are no longer the engine. You are the grid.












NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang today: “The Chat-GPT moment for self-driving cars has arrived. NVIDIA announced that they’re now expanding their self-driving partnership to BYD, Nissan, Hyundai, and Geely. Their automotive partners: • GM • Toyota • Mercedes-Benz • Jaguar Land Rover • Volvo • Rivian • Hyundai • BYD • Geely • XPENG • Polestar • NIO • Lucid • Li Auto • Nissan • Isuzu • Zeekr • Xiaomi • Stellantis Additionally, NVIDIA and Uber are partnering to launch a global network of Level 4 autonomous robotaxis, beginning in LA and San Francisco in early 2027 before expanding to 28 cities by 2028. The robotaxi race is well underway.



【速報】1万1787機のドローンが夜空で完全同期し3Dアニメーションを描き出した。パイロットはゼロで衝突もゼロ。AIが全機の位置を個別制御し銃の形から星条旗へ一瞬で変形させている。


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