human

also referred to as: humans

19 statements across 14 episodes · 8 bullish · 1 bearish · 14 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Kevin Kelly · said 2 times in 1 episodes since 2019 · across every show →

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Jan 2, 2019
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kevin Kelly: Humans will specialize in interpersonal roles over next 20 years
“I think what humans are going to be good for in the next 10 to 20 years is these interpersonal roles, like, you know, nursing at home coaching experiences, again, coming back to experiences, and asking questions, and so I think If you want to answer, you're go…”
Kevin Kelly Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 30:22 a16z Podcast | Not If, But How -- When Technology is Inevitable (with Kevin Kelly)
Jan 2, 2019
Assertion Supported
Fei-Fei Li: Human brain and motor speed are drastically slower than transistors
“Compared to computers, humans are extremely slow computing machines. The information transfer in our brain is very slow compared to transistors. And add on top of that, our motor system You know, from our brain to our muscles is even slower.”
Fei-Fei Li Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 21:39 a16z Podcast | When Humanity Meets A.I.
Jan 2, 2019
Assertion Supported
African megafauna survived human expansion by co-evolving alongside humans
“One of the running hypotheses is that the megafauna of other continents were what's called naive prey, because like humans show up, harmless little thing, whereas in Africa, they, the megafauna there had grown up Alongside us, evolutionarily.”
Ross Anderson Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 7:26 a16z Podcast | Making a (Really) Wild Geo-Engineering Idea Real
Feb 26, 2019 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Dr. Abernethy: Dogs share more conserved biology with humans than mice do
“So there's much more conserved biology between dog and human than mouse and human.”
Dr. Amy Abernethy Feb 26, 2019 ▶ 6:16 a16z Podcast | Connecting Hearts, Bodies, and Networks to Cure Cancer
Mar 18, 2025 positive
Opinion
Moore: People interact with modern AI voice as human or better
“It's in no way like a true conversational partner in a way that people are interacting with AI voice now like it is a human or in some ways even better than a human.”
Olivia Moore Mar 18, 2025 ▶ 1:45 Why AI Voice Feels More Human Than Ever
Aug 4, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Smith: Every historical technology has complemented rather than replaced humans
“Every other tool that's ever been made, every other technological tool was a compliment to humans.”
Noah Smith Aug 4, 2025 ▶ 9:28 Dwarkesh Patel and Noah Smith on AGI and the Economy
Aug 4, 2025 bullish
Assertion Supported
Patel: Running an H100 GPU costs significantly less than sustaining a human
“The marginal cost of keeping an H 100 running is much lower than the cost of keeping a human alive for a year.”
Dwarkesh Patel Aug 4, 2025 ▶ 10:27 Dwarkesh Patel and Noah Smith on AGI and the Economy
Aug 4, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Dwarkesh Patel: Post-AGI, humans will not have high-paying jobs
“Once we get AGI humans will not have high paying jobs.”
Dwarkesh Patel Aug 4, 2025 ▶ 34:46 Dwarkesh Patel and Noah Smith on AGI and the Economy
Aug 4, 2025 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Smith: AI outperforms human doctors on many medical diagnoses
“AI is, is better for diagnosis on a lot of things than humans, right?”
Noah Smith Aug 4, 2025 ▶ 8:52 Dwarkesh Patel and Noah Smith on AGI and the Economy
Oct 13, 2025
Insight
Casado: Human reasoning operates by mapping reality onto lower-dimensional manifolds
“We as humans do the same thing as we take this very complex, heavy tailed, stochastic universe, and we reduce it to kind of this geometric manifold, and then When we reason, we just move along that manifold.”
Martin Casado Oct 13, 2025 ▶ 2:53 Will LLMs Get Us To AGI?
Nov 17, 2025
Insight
Shear: Human Goal Inference Succeeds Due to Built-In Theory of Mind
“The reason humans are so good at this is we have a really excellent theory of mind. I already know what you're likely to ask me to do. I already have a good model of what your goals probably are. So if you ask me to do it, I have an easy inference problem.”
Emmett Shear Nov 17, 2025 ▶ 19:18 Emmett Shear on Building AI That Actually Cares: Beyond Control and Steering
Nov 17, 2025
Insight
Shear: Humans are the most goal-coherent entities in the known universe
“Humans are more relatively goal coherent. Than any other object I know of in the universe.”
Emmett Shear Nov 17, 2025 ▶ 16:36 Emmett Shear on Building AI That Actually Cares: Beyond Control and Steering
Nov 24, 2025 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Epoch AI: Humanity understands AI learning mechanisms better than human learning
“I think we know a lot more about how AIs learn right now than we know about how humans learn”
Epoch AI Researcher Nov 24, 2025 ▶ 11:00 The 2045 Superintelligence Timeline: Epoch AI’s Data-Driven Forecast
Apr 2, 2026
Insight
Horowitz: AI is better at programming humans than humans are at AI
“AIs are really good at programming humans. Much better than humans are at programming AIs.”
Ben Horowitz Apr 2, 2026 ▶ 0:18 How Bots, Deepfakes and AI Agents Are Forcing a New Internet Identity Layer | Alex Blania on a16z
Apr 6, 2026 positive
Insight
Yang: Aligning cross-functional AI agents is easier than aligning humans
“I think it's way easier to cross-function the line of the agents than with humans.”
Peter Yang Apr 6, 2026 ▶ 17:50 OpenClaw, Claude Code, and the Future of Software | Peter Yang on The a16z Show
Apr 13, 2026 positive
Insight
Jessie Genet: AI output improves when humans are removed from the loop
“That's the thing that we have to get used to as humans. Is, is it's, we have to get used to this. Obviously, when we're no longer in the you loop, it's better. Not worse, you guys. So, so that's the thing we have to get used to.”
Jessie Genet Apr 13, 2026 ▶ 22:30 Building Agents at Home: Homeschooling, Parenting and More | The a16z Show
Apr 28, 2026 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Casado: AI onboarding will rely on human training, not databases
“Given the technical nature of these agents and how much entropy they have and kind of how unruly they are, we're gonna have to go through the processes that we've refined around humans, because humans have all of those things, and so I just, you know, it's mor…”
Martin Casado Apr 28, 2026 ▶ 23:02 Box CEO on AI Agents & Why Enterprise Can't Keep Up | a16z
Apr 28, 2026 positive
Insight
Casado: AI models integrate better when treated like human workers
“These models don't integrate well with software. Actually, I think it turns out and what we're learning as an industry is if you view them more like humans and you draft on the mechanisms we put in place for humans, they are much easier to integrate.”
Martin Casado Apr 28, 2026 ▶ 21:40 Box CEO on AI Agents & Why Enterprise Can't Keep Up | a16z
Sep 8, 2026 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Selke: Only humans can generate 200-page mathematical proofs right now
“Like, only humans can generate, like, 200 page proofs right now.”
Mark Selke Sep 8, 2026 ▶ 56:38 Inside OpenAI’s Breakthroughs in Mathematical Reasoning
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