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Safety in Numbers: Keeping AI Open
- ▶ 0:28 unnamed speaker Who was working at DeepMind at the time.
- ▶ 3:17 Arthur Mensch So in particular, DeepMind, when I joined, uh, I, I joined a project called Gopher and, and that's, uh, uh, there was a misconception there.
- ▶ 6:20 Arthur Mensch So we're doing things in a more open source manner, uh, which was not the direction that Google at least was taking. 2 times in the scene
Big Ideas 2024: The Consumer AI Battleground Moves from Model to UX with Alex Immerman
- ▶ 2:05 Alex Immerman The most popular consumer AI companies thus far have been the producers of their own models, such as ChatGPT, Character, Bard, and Midjourney.
- ▶ 8:41 Alex Immerman Should entrepreneurs build their own infrastructure, or should they work with AWS, GCP, Azure?
- ▶ 11:29 Alex Immerman So on the aggregation front, Po brings together leading models like GBT, Claude, Bard for text, Stable Diffusion, DALI for image, and many others.
Big Ideas 2024: New Applications for Computer Vision and Video Intelligence with Kimberly Tan
- ▶ 4:39 Kimberly Tan Like I mentioned, either on people's smartphones, there's all these home nest cameras that are getting built out.
Big Ideas 2024: AI Interpretability: From Black Box to Clear Box with Anjney Midha
- ▶ 14:01 Anjney Midha You know, while the, while, of course, the, the holy grail challenge with interpretability is explaining how frontier models that are the GPT-IVs and Cloud IIs and Bards of the world, which are, you know, several hundred billion parameter…
Big Ideas in 2024: Voice-First Apps Will Become Integral to Our Lives with Anish Acharya
- ▶ 3:38 unnamed speaker And yet, despite a lot of investment from a lot of big companies, we're talking Amazon, Google, Apple feels like we're still waiting and you address that.
- ▶ 5:23 Anish Acharya So if Google does decide to do that, they're going to have to start from scratch along with everyone else.
Launching a New Category with Modern Treasury's Dimitri Dadiomov
- ▶ 14:24 Dimitri Dadiomov Sam and Matt were the technical, uh, primary and secondary, and I didn't matter because, like, they could decide to go on AWS versus Google Cloud without asking me.
Advancing AI, Approaching VC's & Crypto Scandals: Ask Us Anything!
- ▶ 26:51 Marc Andreessen Because, because if you knew you had it, right, if you knew you were headed to a Google, you know, sort of a search industry outcome thing where you were going to have like a national monopoly or a logopoly, it would be the government…
- ▶ 40:50 Ben Horowitz And so that's companies like, you know, a Google or a Meta or so forth.
- ▶ 1:08:40 Ben Horowitz And this is in all kinds of areas such as, you know, in the creative field right now, like your creative work, um, that you do, uh, you know, the take rate from the, the big social media companies or from Google searches.
- ▶ 1:14:03 Marc Andreessen Um, what actually happened was like a lot of really smart people at a lot of companies, you know, including companies like Google and Amazon and others, right?
- ▶ 1:15:27 Marc Andreessen We talked about this earlier with this kind of question about, you know, kind of the God models versus, you know, the, the, the Google sort of search model versus the internet model or something.
Welding Yourself to Early Customers with Marqeta's Jason Gardner
- ▶ 3:53 Jason Gardner There was Samsung Pay or Android Pay or GPay, what they call it now.
Competing in a Crowd of Incumbents with Mercury's Immad Akhund
- ▶ 7:50 Seema Amble Yeah, no, it's, it's very, it's not uncommon for, as you know, in fintech, the MVP is quite, is quite robust, unlike, you know, in SaaS, where you may be able to start with, like, a, a Chrome extension here, you,
Why It's Time to Be A Techno-Optimist
- ▶ 31:43 Ben Horowitz And we, we like, we've seen this with Google who invented, you know, most of the new AI technology and then was a little bit of sleep at the wheel.
- ▶ 40:31 Marc Andreessen Um, you know, uh, you know, IBM and Hewlett Packard and Google and Microsoft and many, many, many others across many industries have done this. 2 times in the scene
The Evolution of the Satellite Economy
- ▶ 35:01 John Gedmark You want to be able to just pull up, you know, uh, Google maps, navigate back to your lunar base, right?
What is the Future of Hollywood?
- ▶ 20:49 Ben Horowitz And so far the answer has been depending if it's Elon or Google, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:00 Marc Andreessen And then, and then basically, as a consequence, there's this 15 point basically bullet list that you can just Google and look up, and it's really interesting, and it's like, and it turns out it's this, it's the same format of plot, um,…
- ▶ 57:04 Marc Andreessen And look, I actually think like, uh, search, uh, search engines, like Google had a, had a, uh, had a, had an impact on, on actually the quality of screenplays, which is, you know, like, it's, it's a lot easier to write a screenplay that… 2 times in the scene
Universally Accessible Intelligence with Character.ai's Noam Shazeer
- ▶ 1:50 Sarah Wang Um, you were at Google for almost 20 years.
- ▶ 12:29 Noam Shazeer You know, some people are motivated by publishing, you know, like, I was frustrated I couldn't launch at Google.
AI Food Fights in the Enterprise with Databricks' Ali Ghodsi
- ▶ 3:08 Ben Horowitz Are the enterprises right about not wanting to give their data to OpenAI or Anthropic or BART or whoever?
- ▶ 11:43 Ben Horowitz It'll be like AWS GCP, you know, Azure.
Where We Go From Here with OpenAI's Mira Murati
- ▶ 3:38 Mira Murati And there were two places at the time that were laser focused on this issue and OpenAI and DeepMind.
Improving AI with Anthropic's Dario Amodei
- ▶ 2:14 Dario Amodei Then I went to, I was at Google Brain for a year.
The Economic Case for Generative AI with a16z's Martin Casado
- ▶ 1:52 Martin Casado And so, as we all know, there's been a ton of market cap that's been added to companies like Meta and Google and
Chasing Silicon: The Race for GPUs
- ▶ 13:50 unnamed speaker The cost of fine-tuning added only an additional 300 dollars, but the result is competitive with much larger models like ChatGPT or Bard.
AI Hardware, Explained.
- ▶ 5:41 Guido Appenzeller The TPU, for example, is Google's name for these kind of chips, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:41 Guido Appenzeller The TPU, for example, is Google's name for these kind of chips, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:57 Guido Appenzeller Google with the TPU you mentioned before, right?
- ▶ 7:57 Guido Appenzeller Google with the TPU you mentioned before, right?
Growth vs Efficiency: Can You Have Both?
- ▶ 3:19 Kieran Flanagan So I think certainly in search, I've really dug in there and there are lots of examples of the click through rate decrease in and the amount of traffic you get from Google search pages.
- ▶ 18:14 Bryan Kim Uh, for lack of a better word, maybe I can call it ossified, where there are two distribution platforms, Google Play and Apple Store, great, and they just distribute apps, and people re-download a ton of apps, they re-try a lot of things,…
Are Autonomous Vehicles Finally Here? Buckle up!
- ▶ 26:19 Saswat Panigrahi The amount of data you have to learn to handle to build a really, you know, well-learned algorithm is pretty hard, and that's where Google's infrastructure that we have worked with, it's just an immense, uh, and 2 times in the scene
Ben Horowitz on Executive Firing (and Hiring)
- ▶ 27:14 Ali Ghodsi You know, it's not Google, ok?
- ▶ 33:41 Ben Horowitz And hire like an enterprise sales guy who's selling Google AdWords.
AI Will Save The World with Marc Andreessen and Martin Casado
- ▶ 25:59 Marc Andreessen So jailbreak, for people who haven't seen, so basically, by, by the time you as an individual in the world get access to, like, Bing or BART or ChatGPT or any of these things, like, it's, it's basically been essentially, you know, it's…
- ▶ 1:03:50 Marc Andreessen Microsoft thinks about PCs, or Apple thinks about iPhones, or Intel thinks about chips, or Google thinks about search, or Facebook thinks about social, or the Coca-Cola company thinks about Coca-Cola, or Tesla thinks about cars.
- ▶ 1:05:13 Marc Andreessen Like, Bing and BART are both free.
Embedded AI: The Questions Every CEO is Asking
- ▶ 14:16 Byung Liu So, you know, a lot of the big language models that we know about today, well, you know, ChatGPT, Claude, uh, you know, Bard, they were trained on, on very large, you know, public data sets and probably some amount of private data, but,…
- ▶ 15:34 Byung Liu Now you arm them with like, you know, Google search.
- ▶ 31:13 Byung Liu I'm looking forward to, you know, what Google releases in, in this arena too. 2 times in the scene
The Rise of the Exponential Organization with Peter Diamandis and Salim Ismail
- ▶ 3:51 Peter Diamandis Both of us were involved in the starting of Singularity University and started studying all of these companies and why was Uber, Airbnb, different elements of, of, of Google and Tesla.
- ▶ 12:02 Peter Diamandis You know, at the end of the day, it was Google buying YouTube and shutting down Google video, right?
- ▶ 12:02 Peter Diamandis You know, at the end of the day, it was Google buying YouTube and shutting down Google video, right?
- ▶ 13:01 Salim Ismail Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon all successfully became platforms, and that business model basically carries you through because now you wire yourself into the infrastructure.
- ▶ 16:26 Salim Ismail At Google, organize the world's information, Uber, everybody's private driver.
- ▶ 26:20 Salim Ismail It's actually a form of IP, allowing you to automate the interaction to Google's AdSense, whether you're a demand side or supply side.
- ▶ 27:02 Steph Smith Or, you know, even Google Maps way back in the day, like before we had digital maps, you might even call someone or look up, you know, a physical map and say, hey, how do I get here?
- ▶ 47:39 Salim Ismail Google was basically the foundation of LLMs, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:36 Peter Diamandis And I want to go hit again, you know, Google had Google videos. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:36 Peter Diamandis And I want to go hit again, you know, Google had Google videos. 3 times in the scene
Beyond Avatars: How AI is Reshaping Online Identity (Danny Postma and Sinead Bovell)
- ▶ 37:13 Danny Postma But just ship like a startup, which is exciting to see because they're competing with Google and all the likes, right?
Marketplace Tactics: Metrics, Growth vs. Focus, Business Strategy | Field Notes by Connie Chan
Building Hardware and Taking on the Phone Giants with Carl Pei
- ▶ 3:21 unnamed speaker I mean, if you look at the companies who do have strong market share in the phone market, you've got Apple, Samsung, Motorola, Google.
The Art and Science of Podcasting with Sriram and Aarthi
- ▶ 46:42 Sriram Krishnan It's like if you put, right, and you Google and you had to write up something about this person, you know, what would you get?
Unlocking Creativity with Prompt Engineering
- ▶ 5:56 Guy Parsons I think there was an era, I don't know if we're still in it, where there was a certain category of person who could consider themselves like good at Googling stuff.
- ▶ 18:20 Steph Smith Would you liken the ability to prompt within each of these more like the difference between Excel and Google Sheets, where if you know how to use Excel, you really can drop right into Google Sheets, and it's relatively straightforward. 2 times in the scene
The 1000x Developer with Amjad Masad
- ▶ 6:10 Amjad Masad I helped them apply for other companies and they ended up, uh, at Google actually.
- ▶ 37:43 Steph Smith And it's got this three D model of the earth that was built off of the two D model from Google earth.
- ▶ 40:05 Amjad Masad So Firebase is this great project that Google, uh, cloud acquired.
The State of Apps with Olivia Moore
- ▶ 23:21 Olivia Moore I think it's a mix of like Apple Pay and Google Pay adoption and saturation, people getting more comfortable making purchases online.
- ▶ 47:57 Steph Smith And just as a fun fact, if people, uh, Google, there was, uh, once a, a lawsuit or a court case between
- ▶ 51:04 Olivia Moore And there's so many stories out there now, if you Google him of businesses that were really struggling and he was able to generate tens of thousands of dollars in revenue for them in just one or two days.
Disrupting the World's Largest Asset Class with Adam Neumann
- ▶ 22:10 Marc Andreessen And, and, you know, sort of Google maybe, you know, really kind of, you know, crystallized that in the, in the culture. 5 times in the scene
Rebooting the Arsenal of Democracy
- ▶ 12:09 Palmer Luckey Google very publicly pulled out of Project Maven.
AI & The Future of Modern Warfare
- ▶ 16:54 Brian Schimpf When you look at what has made Facebook from, you know, successful, well, maybe not a great example right now, uh, but, you know, Google, Apple, all these companies, they've learned how to
2023 Big Ideas in Technology (Part 2)
- ▶ 10:03 Anish Acharya If you look at the NPS of Google, Apple, Facebook, all of these companies, you know, it's not just better than the NPS of, you know, their financial services companies and, you know, most media outlets.
- ▶ 46:55 Vijay Pande Much larger, in fact, than the size of the global advertising industry in which consumer giants like Google and Meta operate. 5 times in the scene
2023 Big Ideas in Technology (Part 1)
- ▶ 34:21 Jack Soslow In the case of, like, Google, you ascribe some trust to the outputs, but you don't really know, like, the underlying model that 2 times in the scene
Building for Tomorrow with Jason Feifer
- ▶ 20:51 Steph Smith Um, I think one great example is people saying, well, Google is removing our memory spans, right? 2 times in the scene
Expert AI as a Healthcare Superpower
- ▶ 8:21 Marc Andreessen But I'll, but I'll bet, we can, we can check this, I'll bet if we Googled long enough, I'll bet we could find a paper that described a general purpose algorithm for, you know, multi.
- ▶ 45:09 Marc Andreessen Everybody knows that patients should not be on Google Googling their own symptoms. 2 times in the scene