deep learning

5 statements across 5 episodes · 4 bullish · 1 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement May 30, 2016 by Matt Turck · across every show →

Everything said about deep learning, oldest first

May 30, 2016 positive
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Turck: Deep learning's resurgence required big data and NVIDIA GPUs
“Deep learning for the most part was really developed by some, you know, particularly forward-thinking researchers like, you know, you have a con, Jeff Hinton, that, that, that group, and it's really only up until recently when those algorithms intersected with…”
Matt Turck May 30, 2016 ▶ 17:34 20VC: Is Big Data Still A Thing with Matt Turck, Managing Director at FirstMark Capital
Oct 16, 2017 negative
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VanDevender: Deep learning is just linear algebra at industrial scale
“At the core of it is just this matrix multiplication operations. It's, you know, you're just sort of doing linear algebra at industrial scale. We haven't gotten to the point for most of these things or most of the things that call themselves AI, where you're r…”
Aaron VanDevender Oct 16, 2017 ▶ 8:43 20VC: Founders Fund's Chief Scientist on Why AI Is Mostly A Scam, Why The Value of Large Datasets Is Mostly Overplayed & The Societal Effects of 4m Truck Drivers Being Unemployed with Aaron Vandevender
Aug 31, 2023 positive
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Shazeer: Deep Learning Succeeds Because Hardware Is Optimized for Dense Matrix Multiplication
“The reason this whole field is working so well is because Now we have this magic hardware that's great at these dense matrix multiplications. And so you can do them like orders of magnitude faster than you can do anything that involves poking around in memory.”
Noam Shazeer Aug 31, 2023 ▶ 34:24 Noam Shazeer: How We Spent $2M to Train a Single AI Model and Grew Character.ai to 20M Users | E1055 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 15, 2024 positive
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Altman: OpenAI was founded on the insight that deep learning improves with scale
“Deep learning seemed to actually legitimately be working. And two, it got better with scale. We didn't know how predictably it got better with scale at the time, but it was clear that like bigger was better.”
Sam Altman Apr 15, 2024 ▶ 1:11 Sam Altman & Brad Lightcap: Which Companies Will Be Steamrolled by OpenAI? | E1140 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nov 4, 2024 bullish
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Altman: Deep Belief in Deep Learning Pays Off Despite Major Setbacks
“There is something about betting on deep learning that feels like being on the side of the angels, and you kind of just, it eventually seems to work out, even though you hit some big stumbling blocks along the way, and so like a deep belief in that has been go…”
Sam Altman Nov 4, 2024 ▶ 26:18 Sam Altman: What Startups Will be Steamrolled by OpenAI & Where is Opportunity | E1223 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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