deep learning

29 statements across 17 episodes · 18 bullish · 3 bearish · 14 people on the record · first statement Jul 15, 2017 by Frank Chen · across every show →

Everything said about deep learning, oldest first

Jul 15, 2017 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Frank Chen: AI and deep learning will eclipse mobile and cloud shifts
“We think artificial intelligence, and in particular deep learning, could be as profound and maybe even bigger.”
Frank Chen Jul 15, 2017 ▶ 0:32 AI, Deep Learning, and Machine Learning: A Primer
Jul 15, 2017 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Frank Chen: Hundreds of startups will outperform human experts using AI
“We're going to see Hundreds and hundreds of startups over time getting to better than human performance on things that we used to think only the most trained humans could do.”
Frank Chen Jul 15, 2017 ▶ 38:07 AI, Deep Learning, and Machine Learning: A Primer
Jul 15, 2017 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Frank Chen: All serious future software applications will require AI inside
“All the serious applications from here on out need to have deep learning and AI inside in exactly the same way that all serious computing systems needed to have Intel chips inside them.”
Frank Chen Jul 15, 2017 ▶ 45:33 AI, Deep Learning, and Machine Learning: A Primer
Jul 15, 2017 positive
Insight
Frank Chen: Deep learning replaces expert rule programming with data training
“We didn't have an expert say, here's how you find a cat with nose and paws and whiskers and this shaped eyes and these funny shaped ears. We basically just fed the network a bunch of data, and the data learned to categorize the inputs without any guidance from…”
Frank Chen Jul 15, 2017 ▶ 25:48 AI, Deep Learning, and Machine Learning: A Primer
Jul 15, 2017 bullish
Opinion
Frank Chen: Deep learning is the biggest AI breakthrough since 1956
“Deep learning is the most fundamental advance in artificial intelligence research since we started since that summer of 1956.”
Frank Chen Jul 15, 2017 ▶ 46:18 AI, Deep Learning, and Machine Learning: A Primer
Jul 28, 2017 positive
Assertion Supported
Mars: Tech giants are building future data centers around deep learning
“Deep learning is absolutely the bet that companies are making, right? So Google has put a lot of resources into deep learning you know, Facebook. We're designing future data centers and future infrastructures around this one technique, and it's primarily becau…”
Jason Mars Jul 28, 2017 ▶ 13:15 Jason Mars
Dec 8, 2017 positive
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Instacart achieved dual 3-4% efficiency gains from traditional ML and deep learning
“Instacart uses prediction techniques to help get shoppers through the grocery store faster. They went through this in two waves. Wave one was they used traditional machine learning techniques. Things like gradient boosted decision trees. And they got a three o…”
Frank Chen Dec 8, 2017 ▶ 8:32 AI: What's Working, What's Not
Jan 2, 2019
Insight
Deep learning algorithms require a critical mass of data to work
“Especially these new modern machine learning methods like deep learning just crave data. And so often you have to reach a critical mass before they can even be used.”
Vijay Pande Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 2:35 a16z Podcast | Data Network Effects
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Assertion Supported
Chen: Deep learning enables robots to cook from YouTube videos
“There are systems where robots are learning to cook food by watching YouTube videos of people cooking food. There's systems that can take photos and paint them in the style of Renoir or Van Gogh. There's algorithms that can create paintings that are indistingu…”
Frank Chen Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 24:35 a16z Podcast | The Dream of AI Is Alive in Go
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Assertion Supported
Chen: DeepMind's AlphaGo uses an ensemble of algorithms centered on deep learning
“It is the heart of the Go algorithms, although interesting to point out, it's an ensemble of techniques that's working for Go.”
Frank Chen Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 12:15 a16z Podcast | The Dream of AI Is Alive in Go
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Insight
Chen: Deep learning represents the triumph of data over algorithms
“So the big trend is the triumph of data over algorithms. Which is you try to make more and more sophisticated edge detection algorithms, feature recognition algorithms. The big advance with deep learning was, screw all that. I'm not going to try to figure out …”
Frank Chen Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 16:25 a16z Podcast | The Dream of AI Is Alive in Go
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Prediction Held up
Sinofsky: Pure deep learning systems will emerge for translation and vision
“And that's an important point about just innovation in general, which is there will be massive innovation, and in fact, I fully expect to see pure deep learning approaches to translation, to image recognition, which is, you know, internet already is that, but …”
Steven Sinofsky Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 21:27 a16z Podcast | The Dream of AI Is Alive in Go
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Andreessen: 2012 was the tipping point for machine learning breakthroughs
“An entire battery of techniques that people have known about for a long time, plus some new techniques have, in, in, in machine learning and deep learning, have really started to work. 20 12 was kind of the tipping point for that, and now it's really building …”
Marc Andreessen Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 20:29 a16z Podcast | Startups and Pendulum Swings Through Ideas, Time, Fame, and Money
Jan 2, 2019
Assertion Supported
Fei-Fei Li: Deep Learning Originated in the 1960s and 1970s
“Deep learning is not the newest. It's actually developed in the sixties, seventies by people like Kunihiko Fukushima, then carried out by Jeff Hinton and Yang Lecun and their colleagues.”
Fei-Fei Li Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 8:10 a16z Podcast | When Humanity Meets A.I.
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Assertion Supported
Fei-Fei Li: Deep learning cannot yet enable interactive observational robot learning
“You want to just, you know, like show and talk about what tasks there is and have the robot observe and learn. That kind of training scenario we cannot do in deep learning yet.”
Fei-Fei Li Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 9:54 a16z Podcast | When Humanity Meets A.I.
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Insight
Chen: Deep learning replaces deterministic logic with probabilistic reasoning
“Programming has been functional and procedural, which is I have if loops and else loops, and I tell it, and what I'm trying to do is predict enough state so that the computer can make the right decision. If this, do that. Else do this, right? With the introduc…”
Frank Chen Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 7:20 a16z Podcast | It's Complicated
Jan 2, 2019
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Schuler: Distributed computing enabled practical deep learning applications
“So the industrial project, even in capital markets, a lot of stuff we've done, you could have done 20, 25 years ago, deep learning, right? It was really distributed computing that made the big difference in that.”
Cameron Schuler Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 18:29 a16z Podcast | Machine Intelligence, from University to Industry
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Chen: 25% of Facebook developers write deep learning code
“If you look at something like FB Learner Flow, which is Facebook's Automation workflow system for artificial intelligence. They've gotten it so good that 25% of their total software developer universe is writing deep learning. 25%, right?”
Frank Chen Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 19:22 a16z Podcast | Machine Intelligence, from University to Industry
Jan 2, 2019 bearish
Prediction Partly held up
Chen: Deep learning will outperform trained radiologists within five years
“It takes five years to train a radiologist, and in five years, deep learning will get better results than a trained radiologist, so we should stop training them right now.”
Frank Chen Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 13:34 a16z Podcast | Machine Intelligence, from University to Industry
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
AJ Shankar: Most machine learning implementations do not use deep learning
“Most ML implementations are not deep learning. They're not neural networks. There's a ton of implementations that are incredibly valuable that don't involve networks.”
AJ Shankar Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 3:58 a16z Podcast | The Product Edge in Machine Learning Startups
Jan 2, 2019
Insight
Butte: Pitching AI as a doctor replacement immediately alienates healthcare customers
“I think there are other kind of silly things that companies do sometimes that are unnecessary, like say things like physicians are going away, right, with AI and deep learning. Yeah, the greatest way to Make us not want to accept your product, right? That kind…”
Atul Butte Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 4:12 a16z Podcast | Breaking Into Bio
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Opinion
Butte: Skin mole AI apps tackle easy problems, ignoring complex medicine
“Deep learning of moles, cancer. Because that seems like a very intuitive kind of problem, but that's an easy one. We have many, many harder problems in biology medicine, but they take time to learn, so you have to be patient.”
Atul Butte Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 1:35 a16z Podcast | Breaking Into Bio
May 4, 2019 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Siki Chen: Deep learning will enable non-verbal communication in VR
“There is a deep learning component that will make that happen. And those are the areas that we want to invest in, so that when you're in that experience with your friends, You can actually communicate both verbally from the audio cues, but non-verbally as well…”
Siki Chen May 4, 2019 ▶ 31:18 Founding Stories: Sandbox VR
Nov 21, 2019 bullish
Insight
Pande: Deep learning can process DNA sequences like one-dimensional images
“One thing that's interesting to think about is that you can think of DNA almost like a one-dimensional image, and so you can use the exact same technology now to put in DNA sequences, and maybe now you're not identifying a face, you're identifying whether some…”
Vijay Pande Nov 21, 2019 ▶ 10:11 AI is Industrializing Discovery
Sep 25, 2023 positive
Opinion
Dylan Field: AI applications in scientific discovery are vastly underexplored
“When it comes to science, Just the applications of all this technology that's happening right now are still completely underexplored, whether it's, you know, using deep learning to get approximations of systems faster or figuring out how we can just accelerate…”
Dylan Field Sep 25, 2023 ▶ 19:40 Democratizing Design with Figma's Dylan Field
Sep 25, 2025 positive
Opinion
Pachocki: AI research ideas succeed more often today because deep learning works
“Currently the pace of progress is very fast. Maybe also the ideas tends to work out a little bit more often than they did in the past. Because yeah, deep learning just wants to learn”
Jakub Pachocki Sep 25, 2025 ▶ 43:17 From Vibe Coding to Vibe Researching: OpenAI’s Mark Chen and Jakub Pachocki
Oct 8, 2025 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Altman: OpenAI continues achieving fundamental breakthroughs in deep learning and reasoning
“And deep learning has been this miracle that keeps on giving, and we have kept finding, like, breakthrough after breakthrough. Again, when we got the reasoning model breakthrough, like, I also thought that was like, we're never gonna get another one like that.…”
Sam Altman Oct 8, 2025 ▶ 12:20 Sam Altman on Sora, Energy, and Building an AI Empire
Mar 17, 2026
Insight
Deep learning remains in the Shannon entropy world, lacking Kolmogorov complexity
“I think deep learning is still in the Shannon entropy world. It has not crossed over to the Kolmogorov complexity and the causal world.”
Vishal Misra Mar 17, 2026 ▶ 30:07 Why Scale Will Not Solve AGI | Vishal Misra - The a16z Show
Mar 17, 2026
Insight
Misra: Deep learning performs correlation rather than causation
“All of deep learning is, ah, doing correlations. It's not doing causation. Causal models are the ones that are able to do simulations and intervention.”
Vishal Misra Mar 17, 2026 ▶ 28:03 Why Scale Will Not Solve AGI | Vishal Misra - The a16z Show
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