algorithm

also referred to as: algorithms

12 statements across 11 episodes · 5 bullish · 3 bearish · 10 people on the record · first statement Jul 16, 2017 by Frank Chen · across every show →

Everything said about algorithm, oldest first

Jul 16, 2017 positive
Opinion
Chen: Human Driving Should Be Banned Once Autonomous Vehicles Prove Safer
“So if it were true that the algorithms are demonstrably, measurably, statistically better than a human driver, then we should not let human drivers on the roads, and so if you wanted to go drive, then go to Legoland.”
Frank Chen Jul 16, 2017 ▶ 26:10 16 Questions About Self Driving Cars
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Insight
Pure algorithm companies struggle to build value without proprietary data
“If you are an algorithm company, It's very, very hard to build any kind of value because somebody else comes up with a marginally better algorithm. So you need to pair the algorithm with the data.”
Alex Rampell Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 6:10 a16z Podcast | Data Network Effects
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Opinion
Fei-Fei Li: Dedicated AI Hardware Is Early as Algorithms Haven't Matured
“I think we're still in the exploratory stage because the algorithms are not matured enough yet.”
Fei-Fei Li Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 4:21 a16z Podcast | When Humanity Meets A.I.
Jan 2, 2019
Insight
Rachel Kalmar: Wearable algorithms are useless if users reject the hardware
“If you can't get somebody to wear the device that you built, none of the sophisticated algorithms that you have matter at all.”
Rachel Kalmar Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 23:42 a16z Podcast | On Wearables, Quantified Self, and Biohacking
Jan 2, 2019
Insight
Pandey: New compute architectures require complete algorithmic rethinking
“In some ways they were right. That was impossible. It was impossible to take existing algorithms and just like shove it down to a very different architecture. You basically had to rethink the problem.”
Vijay Pande Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 1:43 a16z Podcast | The Cloud Atlas to Real Quantum Computing
Jan 2, 2019
Insight
Sinofsky: Algorithms are rarely a sustainable moat because competitors reverse-engineer them
“Very rarely is like an algorithm like this secret sauce for a company. Because you could look at what goes on from the outside and pretty much reverse engineer an algorithm.”
Steven Sinofsky Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 22:32 a16z Podcast | Revenge of the Algorithms (Over Data)... Go! No?
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Dalio: Documenting decision criteria enabled converting principles into software algorithms
“By writing it down, I was able to communicate with others, so it got us in sync, and then I was able to convert a lot of these two algorithms so that I was able to build a decision-making system.”
Ray Dalio Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 4:45 a16z Podcast | Principles and Algorithms for Work and Life
Feb 9, 2019 bullish
Assertion Partly supported
Human pathologists using AI detect nearly 100% of cancers in biopsies
“And in that study, the algorithms find 92% of the cancer. Then we show them to the human pathologists who find 96% of the cancer. Go team human. But the fascinating thing is if we let the humans use the algorithms together, they find almost all the cancer.”
Frank Chen Feb 9, 2019 ▶ 29:11 Better Together: Humanity + Machine Learning
Feb 26, 2019 positive
Insight
Younis: Sophisticated AV leaders keep their focus strictly on core algorithms
“One of the easy rules of thumbs of you can see how sophisticated an AV leadership is just asking them, where's that line? And that line, that circle of competence should be as small as possible. That small circle in autonomy is algorithms. That's the coveted g…”
Qasar Younis Feb 26, 2019 ▶ 29:00 a16z Podcast | Capitalizing on an Autonomous Vehicle Future
Nov 9, 2022 negative
Insight
Karen X Cheng: Creators Now Design for Algorithms Over Human Taste
“We're almost no longer designing ourselves for like human taste, but we're designing ourselves for like the algorithm.”
Karen X Cheng Nov 9, 2022 ▶ 10:37 AI and the Creator Economy with Karen X Cheng
Mar 20, 2025 negative
Assertion Supported
Batniji: Standard Medicaid algorithms identify high-cost patients too late to help
“If you look at those high cost claimants, and you look at the algorithms that are used to identify them, there's a couple of very common ones, By the time they identify a patient, that patient's cost, and this is according to the National Medicaid Database, wh…”
Rajaie Batniji Mar 20, 2025 ▶ 18:33 Scaling Medicaid Innovation with Rajaie Batniji, Sanjay Basu, and Afia Asamoah
Mar 20, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Batniji: Waymark trains risk models on clinical and social data
“Our algorithm is, is trained not on cost or prior utilization, but on condition and social risk factors, and the various other data feeds that tell us about behavior, the kind of admission discharge transfer feeds, we can see whether they're picking up their m…”
Rajaie Batniji Mar 20, 2025 ▶ 19:16 Scaling Medicaid Innovation with Rajaie Batniji, Sanjay Basu, and Afia Asamoah
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