Thiel: But I share your intuition because I think we’ve had a lot of smart people and things have been stuck for other reasons. And so maybe the problems are unsolvable, which is the pessimistic ...

Peter Thiel said there would be "total stagnation" in technological advances without AI. The billionaire investor told the "Interesting Times" podcast that there was nothing else "going on" in tech.

Peter likes exploring clever ideas and wisdom, and loves to win. JOE LONSDALE, HOST: That's interesting. I want to pivot to macro for a little bit. We're a few months into the new administration.