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Why Scale Will Not Solve AGI | Vishal Misra - The a16z Show
- ▶ 32:28 Vishal Misra The Einstein test. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:59 Vishal Misra So it's like, you know, it's like Einstein saw all these evidences, then he thought, what will explain
Marc Andreessen's 2026 Outlook: AI Timelines, US vs. China, and The Price of AI
- ▶ 18:45 Marc Andreessen You know, the counterargument is just, there's a huge number of tasks that take place in the economy and in the world that don't require Einstein, you know, where, you know, where, you know, a 120 IQ person is great.
Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz on the State of AI
- ▶ 21:18 Marc Andreessen and then they all start fighting, and you've got Einstein, you know, you know, hitting, you know, Niels Bohr with nunchucks, and it, and by the way, it's happy to do that too.
Marc Andreessen: How Movies Explain America
- ▶ 53:01 Marc Andreessen And then it sort of, the movie sort of sets up, uh, both, uh, Oppenheimer and actually also specifically Albert Einstein as sort of the key moral authorities, um, of, of, of the era with respect to use of nuclear weapons.
- ▶ 1:01:20 Marc Andreessen Um, and then there's the, the, and then there's my most stinging indictment of the movie, uh, which is, uh, Einstein was the exact opposite of a moral exemplar. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:43 Marc Andreessen This guy that slammed down that the nuke was bad, and that these people were bad, and the whole thing was bad, and that Einstein was like a, er, sorry, that both Einstein and Oppenheim were moral heroes, in some extent, kind of trying to… 4 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen & Amjad Masad on “Good Enough” AI, AGI, and the End of Coding
- ▶ 37:56 Marc Andreessen Should a brilliant economist be able to extrapolate, you know, the internet is a good question, but, um, but the point being, like, even if he is a brilliant, you know, or take anybody, take anybody, oh, by the way, or, like, Einstein's,… 6 times in the scene
Will LLMs Get Us To AGI?
- ▶ 0:08 Vishal Misra Einstein had to sort of reject the Newtonian physics and come up with a space-time continuum. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:12 Vishal Misra Einstein had to sort of reject the Newtonian physics and come up with this space-time continuum. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:47 Vishal Misra And, you know, I'm not saying that we need to create an Einstein or a Gator, but there has to be an architectural lead that is able to create these manifolds and just throwing new data will not do it.
- ▶ 47:26 Martin Casado And then I guess, I guess the counter, I guess the counter to that would be maybe all humans do is work on their own manifold and Einstein, you know, was lucky or something, I guess would be the counter to that. 2 times in the scene
Rick Rubin: Vibe Coding is the Punk Rock of Software
- ▶ 23:03 Marc Andreessen And then Einstein figured everything out, and then it turned out he didn't, right? 2 times in the scene
Build Your Startup With AI
- ▶ 9:35 Marc Andreessen Do you, do you need a test actually that can actually test for Einstein?
Tony Robbins on the Future of Health & Longevity
- ▶ 16:32 Ben Horowitz In various things, and one of the things, you know, kind of as a student of Tony that I've noticed is, you know, he's sort of a scientist from the previous era, from the kind of Einstein, Heisenberg, you know, that era where it's a lot of,… 2 times in the scene
The Unanswered Questions of Space: Quantum Entanglement, Dark Matter, and Dark Energy
- ▶ 3:09 John Mather And this is something that Einstein predicted, and we never thought it would be useful, ah, except in the most abstract way, but
- ▶ 12:52 John Mather Dark energy, you know, which is something that, in principle, Einstein imagined. 2 times in the scene
Why It's Time to Be A Techno-Optimist
- ▶ 1:15:51 Marc Andreessen Um, and you know, this was the American physics community in the 19 twenties and 18 thirties that basically like most of them went like hardcore communist, like Einstein, Einstein was a Stalinist.
Where We Go From Here with OpenAI's Mira Murati
- ▶ 18:53 Martin Casado He said, okay, so, like, you've got a continuum between, like, say, a computer and Einstein. 3 times in the scene
Oppenheimer & the Catastrophe of Communism
- ▶ 3:34 Marc Andreessen I don't think he was never specifically known for a single piece of breakthrough work the way that, you know, the way that an Einstein was, but he was sort of respected by everybody.
- ▶ 10:00 Marc Andreessen Um, so the small one is the treatment of Einstein. 11 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:50 Marc Andreessen Uh, and unfortunately, you know, the history of this is, is that, you know, Einstein and Oppenheimer and others basically chose to ignore, uh, the information and they, and they chose, they chose to buy into a system sort of past the point… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:04 Marc Andreessen Um, and unfortunately, Einstein, uh, is, is with Oppenheimer in that.
- ▶ 27:52 Marc Andreessen In a sense, it was, uh, it was correct, and in a sense, it very, it very much wasn't, and so the, the very end of the movie, um, you know, there's this kind of pivotal final kind of conversation with, uh, uh, Einstein and Oppenheimer,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:44 Marc Andreessen And, you know, of course, sitting here today, at least, Ben and I would say that von Neumann, like, had a clearer view of politics than, you know, than Oppenheimer or Einstein did.
- ▶ 42:42 Ben Horowitz Like Einstein.
AI is Industrializing Discovery
- ▶ 2:18 Vijay Pande In time, actually kicking into perhaps the most important aspect in the US Revolution, which is, uh, connecting to a feature that, uh, is often attributed to Einstein. 2 times in the scene
Clippy: The Unauthorized Biography
- ▶ 39:32 Steven Sinofsky Um, and, uh, we had a, a smart, uh, genius-like character that kind of looked a lot like Albert Einstein, um, and then we got a cease and desist letter from the estate of Albert Einstein. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:06:35 Frank Chen It wasn't Einstein, or it wasn't the butler, it was.
a16z Podcast | Incenting Innovation Inside, Loonshots to Moonshots
- ▶ 3:58 Vijay Pande And maybe Einstein.
a16z Podcast | The Business of Continual Change
- ▶ 2:37 Charles Koch And it's what Einstein said, the best fate for any theory that any theory can hope for
a16z Podcast | Mindsets for Engineering Biology
- ▶ 20:46 Vijay Pande And sort of pure research, you know, there's that Einstein quote, uh, you know, if we knew what we're doing, we wouldn't call it research.
a16z Podcast | From Mind at Play to Making the Information Age
- ▶ 14:55 Steven Sinofsky The guy's in his twenties, and he's hanging out with von Neumann, with Morris, with, with Einstein. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:15 Steven Sinofsky we, we learned, we know the same thing about, uh, Pierre Marie Curie and the same thing about Einstein and, and Maleva and, and so on.
a16z Podcast | Knowledge Builds Technology and Technology Builds Knowledge -- with Joel Mokyr
- ▶ 18:40 Joel Mokyr I mean, that's the kind of thing that happens with the Newtonian revolution or later on with Einstein.
a16z Podcast | Your Worst Deeds Don’t Define You -- Life and Redemption in Prison
- ▶ 0:54 Ben Horowitz On the car ride over, um, I was, like, super nervous because I'm interviewing Oprah, and, like, that's like trying to, like, give Albert Einstein a physics pop quiz or something like that.
a16z Podcast | How to Be Original and Make Big Ideas Happen
- ▶ 15:15 Adam Grant So Einstein couldn't have come up with his theory of relativity without knowing something about physics beforehand and studying Newton. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Quantum Leap
- ▶ 12:18 Ilyas Khan The second aspect is what Einstein, um, was famously, uh, responsible for being very skeptical about, and this is, uh, a spooky action at a distance, or entanglement, or, I mean, there are many different ways of describing it for the…
- ▶ 28:20 Ilyas Khan This is where the individual Einstein or the individual
- ▶ 42:30 Ilyas Khan There certainly wouldn't have been Einstein and relativity had we not allocated resource, and long may it continue.