Vishal Misra

9 statements across 2 episodes · 0 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Oct 13, 2025 by Vishal Misra · across every show →

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Oct 13, 2025 negative
Insight
Misra: Pure language processing is insufficient for human-level intelligence
“Language is great, but language is not the answer. You know, when I'm looking at catching a ball that is coming to me, I'm mentally doing that simulation in my head. I'm not translating it to language to figure out where it'll land.”
Vishal Misra Oct 13, 2025 ▶ 39:22 Will LLMs Get Us To AGI?
Oct 13, 2025 negative
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Misra: Adding data to LLMs cannot create new mathematical manifolds
“There has to be an architectural lead that is able to create these manifolds and just throwing new data will not do it. It'll just smoothen out the already existing manifolds.”
Vishal Misra Oct 13, 2025 ▶ 37:47 Will LLMs Get Us To AGI?
Mar 17, 2026
Assertion Supported
LLM prompt combinations exceed the number of electrons in the universe
“If you look at all possible combinations of 8000 tokens and 50,000, ah, vocabulary, the number of rows In this matrix is more than the number of electrons across all galaxies, right? So, so there's no way that these LLMs can represent it exactly.”
Vishal Misra Mar 17, 2026 ▶ 6:35 Why Scale Will Not Solve AGI | Vishal Misra - The a16z Show
Mar 17, 2026
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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
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Misra: LLM deception is driven by training data, not architecture
“That's not a function of the architecture. That's a function of the training data. It has been fed, you know, articles on Reddit or Asimo or whatever.”
Vishal Misra Mar 17, 2026 ▶ 25:47 Why Scale Will Not Solve AGI | Vishal Misra - The a16z Show
Mar 17, 2026
Assertion Not checkable as stated
ESPN deployed a GPT-3 database query system in production in September 2021
“We deployed this In production at ESPN in September, 21.”
Vishal Misra Mar 17, 2026 ▶ 1:55 Why Scale Will Not Solve AGI | Vishal Misra - The a16z Show
Mar 17, 2026 negative
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Misra: LLMs are just silicon doing matrix multiplication, not conscious beings
“You can rule out they're conscious. I mean, come on. And I said, you know, Anthropic makes great products. Cloud code is fantastic. Co-work is fantastic, but they are grains of silicon doing matrix multiplication. They don't have consciousness. They don't have…”
Vishal Misra Mar 17, 2026 ▶ 26:07 Why Scale Will Not Solve AGI | Vishal Misra - The a16z Show
Mar 17, 2026
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Misra claims he built the first known implementation of RAG using GPT-3
“And I got GPD three to do in context learning, few short learning, and you know, it was kind of the First, at least to me, it was the first known implementation of RAG, Retrieval Augmented Generation, which I used to solve this problem of querying, getting GPT…”
Vishal Misra Mar 17, 2026 ▶ 1:20 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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