Shadowing Practice: ENGLISH SPEECH | ELON MUSK & JACK MA: Elon Musk & Jack Ma: Billionaires Debate (English Subtitles) - Learn English Speaking with YouTube
C1
Trust human beings and trust young people.
269 sentences
If sentences are too short or too long, click Edit to adjust them.
1
Trust human beings and trust young people.
2
Let's take responsibility for today,
3
but let's not take away all the solutions for tomorrow.
4
It's great human being make mistakes.
5
It's great human being learn from mistakes.
6
It's great to die.
7
Okay, great.
8
AI, yeah.
9
Actually, I'm told that does AI mean love?
10
There's like a name, AI?
11
It sort of sounds a bit like love.
12
Yeah, AI.
13
I hate the word AI called Artificial Intelligence.
14
I call it Alibaba Intelligence.
15
Yeah.
16
Might end up being true.
17
You never know.
18
I think generally people underestimate the capability of AI capability of AI.
19
They sort of think like it's a smart human.
20
But it's really much, it's going to be much more than that.
21
It'll be much smarter than the smartest human.
22
It'll be like, can a chimpanzee really understand humans?
23
Not really.
24
We just seem like strange aliens.
25
They mostly just care about other chimpanzees.
26
And this will be how it is,
27
more or less, in a relative.
28
In fact, if the difference is only that small, that would be amazing.
29
Probably it's much, much greater.
30
I mean, I really think that there should be other companies like Neuralink,
31
essentially to create a high bandwidth interface to the brain.
32
Because right now, we are already a cyborg.
33
People don't realize we are already a cyborg.
34
Because we are so well integrated with our phones and our computers,
35
the phone is almost like an extension of yourself.
36
If you forget your phone,
37
it's like a missing limb.
38
But the bandwidth, the communication bandwidth to the phone is very low, especially input.
39
So in fact, input bandwidth to computers has actually gone down because of typing with two thumbs
40
as opposed to 10 fingers is a big reduction in bandwidth.
41
Input bandwidth has gone up because of video and imagery.
42
So input bandwidth is many orders of magnitude greater than output bandwidth.
43
But at a certain point,
44
assuming a benign scenario with AI,
45
we will just be too slow.
46
I think AI is going to open a new chapter of the society of the world
47
that people try to understand ourselves better rather than the outside world.
48
And it's so difficult to predict the future.
49
99.99% of the predictions that human being had in history about the future all wrong.
50
Including that one?
51
Oh yeah.
52
Only, you know, the 0.00% of the prediction are right.
53
They're right because by accident.
54
Yeah, but it's also true that 80% of statistics are false.
55
Yeah.
56
So my meaning is that...
57
Old room, come on, guys.
58
It was a joke.
59
My meaning is that I'm happy about the artificial intelligence or Alibaba intelligence that's going to understand a human,
60
the inside of the human better.
61
So when people worry a lot about artificial intelligence,
62
people should have more confidence in themselves.
63
Because I think if a lot of solutions we don't have today,
64
but there will be solutions tomorrow,
65
we don't have solutions, but the young people will have solutions.
66
So I'm quite optimistic.
67
And I don't think artificial intelligence is a threat.
68
I don't think artificial intelligence is something terrible.
69
But human beings are smart enough to learn that.
70
And to me, artificial intelligence is just like,
71
people worry a lot about this today.
72
Those people, I call them college smartness.
73
People like us, street smart,
74
we're never scared of that.
75
We think it's a great fun,
76
and we want to change ourselves to embrace it.
77
I don't know, man.
78
That's like famous last words.
79
Let me tell you, AI is,
80
I mean, you look at sort of the rate of advancement.
81
Just in general, the rate of advancement of computers is insane.
82
A good example would be video games.
83
If you go back 40 years ago,
84
50 years ago, maybe, you had Pong.
85
That was just two rectangles and a square.
86
Now you've got photorealistic real-time simulations with millions of people playing simultaneously.
87
If you assume any rate of improvement at all,
88
these games will be indistinguishable from reality.
89
You will not be able to tell the difference.
90
Either that or civilization will end.
91
Those are the two options.
92
Good.
93
Yeah.
94
Well, let's talk about something fun.
95
I admire that you want to go on the Mars.
96
Shall we go to the Mars?
97
Yeah.
98
Yes, so what will the life look like on Mars?
99
Are you both moving?
100
What do you think about that?
101
Actually, I'm not interested in Mars.
102
I just came back from there, so...
103
I'm more interested on the Earth,
104
the things, what's going on happening here.
105
So why are you so curious about Mars?
106
Among the set of actions we can take that are likely to increase the scope and scale of consciousness
107
such that we are better able to understand the nature of the universe.
108
One of those actions is to become a multi-planet species or ensure that life is multi-planetary.
109
Not because I think something that...
110
It's not from the standpoint of it just being an escape hatch or because I think that Earth is doomed,
111
but there's a certain probability that is irreducible that something may happen to Earth.
112
Despite our best intentions, despite everything we try to do,
113
there's a probability at a certain point that some either external force
114
or some internal unforced error causes civilization to be destroyed
115
or sufficiently impaired such that it can no longer extend to another planet.
116
This is the first time in the four
117
and a half billion year history of Earth that it's been possible to extend life beyond Earth.
118
Before this, it was not possible.
119
How long will this window be open?
120
It may be open for a long time or it may be open for a short time.
121
I think it would be wise to assume that it is open for a short time.
122
And then let us secure the future of consciousness such that the light of consciousness is not extinguished.
123
And we should try to do this as quickly as possible.
124
That's my view.
125
It's so difficult to secure the future of the Earth,
126
but we can secure the future of next 100 years.
127
I am not a person that I admire your courage to explore the Mars,
128
but I admire a lot of people spend efforts on improving the Earth.
129
It's great to send 1 million people to the Mars,
130
but we have to care about the 7.4 billion people on the Earth.
131
How can we make the world is more sustainable and I'm not
132
that fun of the Mars because I think it's easy to go to the Mars
133
when you go on the top of the hills of the building just a one step you go to Mars
134
but we will never be able to come back yeah that's my head works though
135
and we cannot solve all the problems for future
136
but we have to be responsible for the future but we should care more about how how we can enjoy better.
137
My view is that by the artificial intelligence or AI,
138
when human beings understand ourselves better,
139
then we can improve the world better.
140
Last 200 years human being tried to understand the other side were better understand the other people better.
141
To be clear I'm very pro-earth
142
when I say you know us becoming a multi-planet species
143
or making life multi extending life beyond earth expanding the scope
144
and scale of consciousness from a resource standpoint I'm talking about
145
less than 1% of Earth's resources should be dedicated to making life multi-planetary
146
or making consciousness multi-planetary
147
so you know I think it should be like somewhere in between how much we spend on lipstick
148
and how much we spend on healthcare like
149
that you know things like for the preservation of consciousness we
150
should spend maybe slightly more than we spend on on cosmetics that's my you know
151
and I'm pro cosmetics I like it they're great But,
152
you know, there's probably worth spending,
153
I don't know, like at least half a percent of Earth's GDP on extending life to be multi-planetary.
154
Maybe one percent, I'd say,
155
seems like a good use of resources.
156
And within 90, you know,
157
you have like two orders of magnitude more resources spent on Earth.
158
So it's not like it's,
159
you know, somehow going to fundamentally impair Earth.
160
If, like I said, just 1% of our three sources on that order should be enough to make life multi-planetary.
161
Seems like a wise investment for the future.
162
So what new jobs will be created because of AI or has the change already started?
163
What do you think?
164
I think why we needed that many jobs.
165
Sure.
166
Right?
167
My view is that the jobs,
168
actually every technology revolution people start to worry.
169
Right?
170
200 years we worry about the new technology going to take away all the jobs.
171
Actually, we made a lot of jobs.
172
Second, because of the industrial revolution,
173
jobs created a lot of jobs.
174
What I think is the next 20,
175
30 years, human beings will live much longer.
176
The life science technology is going to make people live probably 100, 120 years.
177
That may not be a good thing because you get a grandfather's grandfather still working hard.
178
But the challenge is my question,
179
why shouldn't we have a lot of jobs?
180
I think people should work three days a week, four hours a day.
181
At that time, the jobs we need is make people happier,
182
make people experience the life, enjoy the human beings.
183
What knowledge or skills will be useful to master the future?
184
Do you have any advice for young professionals who want to pursue a career in AI?
185
Young professionals.
186
I don't think we will have professionals on AI in the future.
187
Well, I worry a lot about,
188
Now, people worry about jobs,
189
but I worry about education.
190
All the education systems, the things we teach our kids,
191
the way we teach our kids,
192
are mainly designed for the industrial period.
193
And I'm sure the machine will be much cleverer than human beings in the future.
194
How can human beings do better?
195
Human beings should be smarter.
196
Human beings should be wiser.
197
So how can we be human beings to be wiser or smarter?
198
I think that we should change the way of education, change the things.
199
Because in the past, we focused a lot about remember things.
200
Computer can remember better than you are.
201
We want to calculate faster.
202
Computer can calculate much faster.
203
We want to run faster.
204
Computer can run much faster than you are.
205
So human beings should have confidence by being more creative, more constructive.
206
So how can we teach our kids to be more creative and constructive?
207
And I think this is the key of the education.
208
Yeah, I would say try to learn as much as possible that allows you to predict the future or make the future.
209
So the saying is the best way to predict the future is to make it.
210
And then assess whether what you're learning is enabling you to predict the future with less error.
211
Are you less wrong we're all always wrong to some degree but can you reduce the error on your future predictions
212
i think that's the way to look at education as of course
213
but it's both creative create the future and predict the future
214
so that includes art and all those other things but close the loop on being less wrong about future.
215
I think the best resources of the human beings on the or the best resources on the earth are not the coal,
216
not the oil, not the electricity, it's the human brains.
217
How can we make the human brains more creative, constructive?
218
How can we making sure that the machines are always the toys and tools of humans rather than the control.
219
So I never in my life,
220
and especially last two years where people talk about AI,
221
say human being will be controlled by machines.
222
I never think about that.
223
I think it's impossible.
224
It's impossible.
225
Because human beings, they are different.
226
Machines are invented by human beings.
227
And according to the science,
228
right, humans can never create another animal that is smarter than humans,
229
especially when you have so many smart people,
230
it's impossible to make another smart people.
231
I very much disagree with that.
232
OK.
233
Yeah.
234
That's good.
235
Yeah.
236
I mean, the first thing we should assume is that we are very dumb.
237
And we can definitely make things smarter than ourselves.
238
I mean, they didn't used to be humans, right?
239
So then our early civilization was very primitive.
240
We didn't have any technology, really.
241
We're just like running around,
242
trying to not get eaten,
243
or just trying to survive a winter.
244
Now we have heating, and we grow food.
245
This is all new stuff.
246
So things have obviously gotten way more smarter than the past, way smarter.
247
So that's going to continue.
248
We are not the last step in evolution.
249
So the most important thing,
250
like I said, the most important mistake I see smart people making is assuming that they're smart.
251
It's the not technology change the world.
252
It's the dreams behind the technology that changed the world.
253
So my hope is that anything we can do is to improve this world,
254
to helping 7.4 billion people live better and live healthier.
255
Trust the human beings and trust young people.
256
Let's take responsibility for today,
257
but let's not take away all the solutions for tomorrow.
258
It's great human being make mistakes.
259
It's great human being learn from mistakes.
260
It's great to die.
261
Ha ha.
262
That's probably true.
263
Thank you.
264
Yeah, you cannot live long.
265
I just like, yeah.
266
Thank you.
267
Fight for the light of consciousness.
268
Thank you.
269
but
Download App
AI scoring for every sentence you speak
TRENDING
Popular
Context & Background
In the engaging debate between tech magnates Elon Musk and Jack Ma, critical issues surrounding artificial intelligence, human potential, and the future of society are brought to light. Each speaker presents their unique perspective, emphasizing the importance of trusting young people and the lessons derived from mistakes. Musk's insights reveal a belief in the incredible capability of AI, suggesting it will exceed human intelligence and fundamentally reshape our relationship with technology. This conversation reflects not only on technological advancements but also on the essence of what it means to be human in an increasingly digital world, making it a valuable learning experience for those looking to improve their English skills.
Top 5 Phrases for Daily Communication
- "Trust human beings and trust young people." – A powerful reminder of the importance of faith in the abilities and potential of the younger generation.
- "It's great human beings make mistakes." – An affirmation that errors can lead to growth and understanding.
- "We are already a cyborg." – A thought-provoking statement on how deeply integrated technology is in our daily lives.
- "The phone is almost like an extension of yourself." – A metaphor that emphasizes how essential our devices have become.
- "It's so difficult to predict the future." – An acknowledgment of the uncertainty that surrounds advancements in technology.
Step-by-step Shadowing Guide
To effectively utilize the content from this debate for improving your English pronunciation and communication skills, consider the following shadowing technique:
- Select a shadowing app: Choose a reliable app that allows you to play the video while simultaneously recording your voice. This will help you track improvements as you practice.
- Watch and listen: Begin by watching the video without any interruptions. Pay close attention to the way both speakers articulate their thoughts and ideas.
- Segment the transcript: Break down the transcript into smaller sections. Focus on a few sentences at a time to make shadowing more manageable.
- First attempt: Play a segment and repeat what you hear immediately after. Try to match the speakers’ tone, rhythm, and pace. This will help you improve English pronunciation and intonation.
- Record and compare: After your first attempt, listen to your recording. Analyze how closely you mimicked the speakers and identify areas needing improvement.
- Repeat: Go over the same phrases multiple times. This repetition, combined with the shadow speech technique, will enhance your fluency and confidence in spoken English.
By utilizing this shadowing technique with the phrases from Elon Musk and Jack Ma, you'll not only expand your vocabulary but also develop a deeper understanding of conversational English. Engaging with high-profile discussions makes learning both relevant and exciting, paving the way for continued improvement in your language journey.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.
☕ Buy us a coffee
ShadowingEnglish remains 100% free thanks to your support. Server and AI costs are high — your coffee keeps us going! 🙏