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Why Scale Will Not Solve AGI | Vishal Misra - The a16z Show
- ▶ 17:36 Vishal Misra So you can go to tokenprobe.ch.columbia.edu. 3 times in the scene
Will LLMs Get Us To AGI?
- ▶ 10:59 Vishal Misra So my PhD thesis, my sort of early work, uh, Columbia has all been in networking, but there's another side of me, another hat that I wear.
Marc Andreessen: The US is in a AI Arms Race & It Decides The World's Future
- ▶ 26:30 Joe Lonsdale And Columbia is over half, right?
Tech vs. Media: Balaji Srinivasan on the Battle Shaping Our Future
- ▶ 37:31 Balaji Srinivasan I think Columbia says a master's in journalism, right?
Building Cluely: The Viral AI Startup that raised $15M in 10 Weeks w/ Roy Lee
What Is an AI Agent?
- ▶ 35:59 Matt Bornstein Um, there, there's actually a, a, a fun paper put out by, um, some folks at Columbia, I think, called AI as Normal Technology, and they sort of make the argument that
AI-Powered Acquisitions: A New Playbook
- ▶ 5:59 Joe Schmidt So let's imagine that, you know, Steph has an insurance agency in Columbia, Missouri. 2 times in the scene
Startup Building: Major Shifts in Tech & Culture
- ▶ 50:37 Marc Andreessen It's a special day for us to record this podcast because I've been teasing Ben all day because he was on the board of Columbia for a long time, and the, uh, president and board of trustees of Columbia just got lit up in front of Congress,… 3 times in the scene
The Declining State of Higher Education
- ▶ 1:10:21 Ben Horowitz And, and by the way, when I was at Columbia, which is a long time ago, um, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:29:07 Marc Andreessen So for those of you who didn't see the prior episodes, Ben was on the board of Columbia some years back, um, and, uh, so has hands-on experience with this question. 2 times in the scene
Fixing Higher Education & New Startup Opportunities
- ▶ 7:09 Marc Andreessen But for leader general leadership standpoint, how do you think about, um, an institute like it, you know, look, we all know it's hard enough to just like run a company that just has customers, right?
- ▶ 1:19:25 Ben Horowitz Um, and then, you know, your school experience, uh, you know, right now in an industrial age world is you have instructors, and you've got, like, administrators filling out forms, and you've got, um, you know, very little, you know, I…
- ▶ 1:34:23 Ben Horowitz When I went to college, and I went to Columbia, so like, and Columbia's like a pretty high end, so I imagine at like regular school, that's even more the case. 2 times in the scene
Crisis in Higher Ed & Why Universities Still Matter
- ▶ 10:04 Ben Horowitz Cause that was the case at Columbia. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:40 Marc Andreessen Do you have a view on that from what you saw at Columbia? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:44 Ben Horowitz Um, you know, I know at Columbia, it really mattered the quality of the high school that you went to, even when, you know, they had SATs.
- ▶ 47:29 Ben Horowitz And it, and it also gets into, you know, again, to the customer question, you know, one of the very interesting things for me and being involved in universities, um, both at Columbia and UCLA is that the way that, uh, the slots get…
- ▶ 1:15:54 Ben Horowitz And like I saw this at Columbia, like the retention is terrible for all your diverse hires. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:29:37 Ben Horowitz I mean, Columbia football is not like that.
- ▶ 1:50:01 Marc Andreessen Um, I would just volunteer, you know, add whatever you'd like, but I would volunteer two things, which is one is, well, there are actually three questions, which is one, one is the reform question, which is like, okay, what if you were,… 2 times in the scene
Oppenheimer & the Catastrophe of Communism
- ▶ 1:35:09 Ben Horowitz You know, I went to Columbia, which is an Ivy League school, and, and there's no question the smartest kids at Berkeley High were smarter than the smartest kids at Columbia. 2 times in the scene
Imagining Our Future Through Tech
- ▶ 34:33 Frank Chen So researchers at Columbia, led by Nima Mezgarani, have literally turned brain waves into speech.
Making Culture, Making Influence -- Dapper Dan in Silicon Valley
- ▶ 18:36 Dapper Dan As an intern at Columbia University. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Beyond Zero-Sum Thinking in the Game of Tech... and Life
- ▶ 27:34 Ben Horowitz I'm on the board of trustees at Columbia, and there are certainly people who are going to go to, like, an elite school and become a scholar, a PhD, and I think the system works reasonably well for them, but for, you know, the kind of bulk…
a16z Podcast | Teams, Trust, and Object Lessons
- ▶ 13:08 Michael Copeland Ben, you, you addressed the, uh, graduating class from Columbia last year, and your basic message was, don't follow your passion.
a16z Podcast | The Role of Academia in the Startup World
- ▶ 38:35 Chris Dixon I know, like, I've tried to, I, I went to Columbia undergrad, and I've tried to argue this philosophy to the administrators there, and it's just a very hard argument to make, because it sounds very counterintuitive to most people.
On Career Moves and Business Leadership
- ▶ 28:46 Ben Horowitz You, why, why would you major in computer science at Columbia University?
Marc Andreessen and Chris Dixon
- ▶ 45:37 Chris Dixon I know, like, I've tried to, I, I went to Columbia undergrad, and I've tried to argue this philosophy to the administrators there, and it's just a very hard argument to make, because it sounds very counterintuitive to most people.
Don't Follow Your Passion
- ▶ 0:35 Ben Horowitz And when I got the invitation, I started thinking back to when I was in Columbia, and I remember getting to Columbia, and I was immediately super stressed out, because I realized that I now had to figure out, at some point, what I was… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:50 Ben Horowitz And that, that's if you were a Columbia student, right, and you had a good library like Butler, it would take you hours to look things up, so it was very discouraging. 4 times in the scene