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Alex Schultz: Europe is not in the global AI race
“Europe's not in the race right now. I mean, maybe it can find a way to be in the race, but I don't think it's in the race. You've got the US and China as the two groups that are leading in AI.”
Schultz: Snap Cloned TikTok Despite Public Denials
“Faster than Snap, who also cloned and copied TikTok despite everything they've said about that.”
Alex Schultz: Meta may reconsider open-sourcing extreme AI capabilities
“We've said that when it gets to the cutting edge, like the absolute cutting edge, the bleeding edge, There, we don't think you should be necessarily releasing open source, and we'll think about that. So I think at the most extreme capabilities, I don't know th…”
Alex Schultz: Cryptocurrency still feels like a Ponzi scheme
“I never got crypto. I still don't get crypto... It still feels like a Ponzi scheme to me, which I know it makes me an old fogey, but I don't get it.”
Alex Schultz: Hiring a dedicated growth team at 50 employees is silly
“So many companies try and hire a growth team at, like, 50 employees, and it's just silly.”
Alex Schultz: Malign AI superintelligence is scarier than quantum computing
“There are ways for us to handle encryption being broken, not least quantum encryption. And so it's a much more solvable problem. Whereas If a malign AI superintelligence actually existed, that would be less solvable. So of the two, I'm more scared of AI.”