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Inside the Race to Measure Frontier Intelligence
- ▶ 5:48 Ben Horowitz Um, framework for which we do it, and people have issues with things like the SAT, and this, and that, and the third, and then, you know, of course, models are really good at hacking the benchmark, um, as before proved, and so how do you…
Build Your Startup With AI
- ▶ 9:26 Marc Andreessen Um, it's a little bit like the, the question people have around the SAT, which is if you have a lot of people getting 800, you know, on both math and verbal on the SAT, 2 times in the scene
Fixing Higher Education & New Startup Opportunities
- ▶ 43:41 Ben Horowitz Uh, and so I think that, you know, if you don't like the SAT part, then you probably need to fix the SAT part. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:12 Marc Andreessen Because to your point on the SAT, the, the incoming credential is actually part of the outgoing credential.
- ▶ 1:01:24 Ben Horowitz And I guarantee it's not the same populations that score high on the SAT, right? 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:25:59 Ben Horowitz The, the, the SAT was invented because it used to be only like nobles, you know, the elite, the aristocrats, people from rich families got to go to college. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:59:36 Ben Horowitz There's no grades that mean anything.
Crisis in Higher Ed & Why Universities Still Matter
- ▶ 23:17 Marc Andreessen Which is like tests like SAT, ACT, GRE, and those tests from a, from a, from a, from a, just a clinical standpoint, like those in sort of clinical psychology psychometrics, those tests are all proxies for an IQ test. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:19 Ben Horowitz Well, I think, look, I think if you take out the SAT, um, that's a pretty big change. 3 times in the scene
Expert AI as a Healthcare Superpower
- ▶ 5:48 Vijay Pande Like, can, people can take, like, GPT-III, you can give it SAT exams, can do okay, can, like, ah,
a16z Podcast | The Case Against Education, From Signaling to Rainbow's End
- ▶ 15:48 Marc Andreessen And the sort of cynical view would be, therefore, what's happening is the employers, if you believe everything else you're saying, then what you say is basically the employers are outsourcing the IQ test to the educational institution,…
- ▶ 19:07 Bryan Caplan So they may want them to have high SAT scores, but in terms of state standardized tests, most parents don't care about that stuff very much.
The Future of Money: Banking on Fintech
- ▶ 0:34 Alex Rampell So this is an old fashioned, at least in America, SAT analogy, which is Walmart is to Amazon as Chase is to whom?