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Why Scale Will Not Solve AGI | Vishal Misra - The a16z Show
- ▶ 41:19 Vishal Misra And, uh, the LLMs are extremely efficient at doing the Shannon part of it.
Will LLMs Get Us To AGI?
- ▶ 5:03 Vishal Misra It, uh, entropy the way, uh, Shannon just shared an entropy and not, not thermodynamic entropy.
Building the Next Generation of Conversational AI
- ▶ 1:21:28 Anjney Midha If you read some of Claude Shannon's early work, there's this idea that
Fixing Higher Education & New Startup Opportunities
- ▶ 1:44:56 Ben Horowitz And then of course, Claude Shannon was a master's student and you know, which isn't, I mean, a master's thesis, which is considered like of nothing in academia, which is probably more important than
a16z Podcast | From Mind at Play to Making the Information Age
- ▶ 0:03 unnamed speaker Today we're doing one of our book episodes, and we're talking about genius and the process of innovation through the life of Claude Shannon, the father of information theory. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 0:33 Steven Sinofsky Uh, back in, I think, around 1990, Scientific American said, decades after this paper was published in 1948, that Shannon created, quote, the Magna Carta of the information age. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:15 Steven Sinofsky Let's kind of go back in time and go back to, uh, you know, his earliest years, and he was born in 1916, more than a hundred years ago. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:54 Jimmy Soni His mom is a musician, so he ends up playing the, um, the French horn, uh, and later picks up the jazz clarinet. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:29 Rob Goodman So again, it, it kind of testifies a little bit to Shannon's ambition. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:46 Steven Sinofsky And what, what I think is actually really neat in hindsight is Bush was, was attempting to push his students, including Shannon, to build like the general purpose version of this machine that could like solve any differential equation. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:31 Rob Goodman Because why not once you're Claude Shannon? 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:24 Jimmy Soni There's a lot of work to be done, uh, there, basically everybody's working a six or seven day work week just until, you know, until the war ends, and into this mix steps Claude Shannon with his knack for math, with his 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:09 Steven Sinofsky So now we're post-war, and we're back to Shannon going on to solve even bigger problems, and the notion of communication comes up, and it's, it's, at this point, it was still rather primitive. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:34 Rob Goodman One, he must have gotten some pretty good feedback on it. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:22 Steven Sinofsky Amazing foundation gets laid and this career, he won many awards that he'd ever seemed to seek out in his later years. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:19 Rob Goodman He, as Jimmy was saying, that Shannon was the sort of person who was really occupied with doing interesting things, whether it was, uh, 6 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Software Programs the World
- ▶ 23:15 Ben Horowitz So I think we're big, big believers that, you know, in the last hundred years, the great breakthroughs in knowledge have been, uh, the, the breakthroughs of people like Alan Turing and Claude Shannon, who gave us a new model of the world,…
AI, Deep Learning, and Machine Learning: A Primer
- ▶ 2:27 Frank Chen So we had Marvin Minsky, John McCarthy, Claude Shannon, Nathaniel Rochester all come together this summer in Dartmouth