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Palantir CEO on Iran, AI Weapons and American Domination | a16z American Dynamism Summit
Marc Andreessen: How Movies Explain America
- ▶ 57:39 Marc Andreessen If you go, if you read his Wikipedia entry of, like, what his life story had been up until that point, he's another one of these guys who are just like, yeah, just this incredibly impressive backstory of life service to the country and…
Chris Dixon on How to Build Networks, Movements, and AI-Native Products
- ▶ 16:19 Chris Dixon Wikipedia, Stack Overflow, like a lot of these kind of interesting kind of movements, like community sites, like they're, they're often like 20,000 people, like they aren't that many, they, they aren't the millions that you might think.
Tech vs. Media: Balaji Srinivasan on the Battle Shaping Our Future
- ▶ 58:18 Balaji Srinivasan By the way, Wikipedia is actually just as bad as the media because Wikipedia, it's garbage in, garbage out. 4 times in the scene
AI is Revolutionizing Web Security - Bots, Agents, & Real-Time Defense
- ▶ 8:50 David Mytton And maybe it's like when you used to go to Wikipedia
Where Crypto Meets AI with Chris Dixon & David George
- ▶ 19:59 Chris Dixon So one boxing is when Google takes the content and just puts it at the top, located with Wikipedia.
Who Will Own the Internet? a16z’s Chris Dixon on AI and Crypto
- ▶ 5:13 Chris Dixon Um, all these different people coming along and contributing little pieces to the system and the system, uh, collectively getting much better in the same way that Wikipedia is sort of a collective knowledge system.
- ▶ 10:20 Chris Dixon They've done that with Wikipedia, they did it with Lyric sites.
Build Your Startup With AI
- ▶ 32:57 Marc Andreessen And the reason for that is this thing in economics called the Jevons paradox, which I'm going to read from Wikipedia.
Sharks Never Stop Swimming: A Conversation with Mark Cuban
- ▶ 22:01 David Ulevitch Wikipedia had something wrong, it's incredible. 2 times in the scene
Future of Crypto, Blockchain & Web3 w/ Chris Dixon
- ▶ 1:13:30 Chris Dixon And the idea is a group of people get together kind of Wikipedia style, but instead of creating an encyclopedia, they create narrative universes, sort of like the next Marvel and Harry Potter.
The Declining State of Higher Education
- ▶ 23:17 Marc Andreessen It's, it's, you see it, you see them everywhere.
Crisis in Higher Ed & Why Universities Still Matter
- ▶ 7:30 Marc Andreessen Yeah, if you read, if you read the, yeah, if you read the original charter of Harvard, this is all, you know, right there on the Wikipedia page.
Inside AI Town: What AI Can Teach Us About Being Human
What is the Future of Hollywood?
- ▶ 57:19 Marc Andreessen Cause you can just get access to all the information on Google or Wikipedia.
The True Cost of Compute
- ▶ 11:55 Guido Appenzeller And all of Wikipedia and many books, like a good, good chunk of all books.
Oppenheimer & the Catastrophe of Communism
- ▶ 1:22 Marc Andreessen Um, but, but, uh, it's all on the Wikipedia page.
- ▶ 58:50 Marc Andreessen There's two great moments in his Wikipedia biography. 3 times in the scene
The Rise of the Exponential Organization with Peter Diamandis and Salim Ismail
- ▶ 23:52 Salim Ismail Yeah, and they're all feeding into the MTP, like Wikipedia, with all this, you know, millions of editors that helped watch everything.
The Network State with Balaji Srinivasan
- ▶ 1:12:51 Balaji Srinivasan It was basically like printed out math world or printed out the math portion of Wikipedia before that existed, you know, all the compounds
Data Security and the Rise of Crypto
- ▶ 13:57 Diogo Mónica And if you're not concerned of Yahoo Groups, think about Wikipedia. 2 times in the scene
We Don't All Need to Learn to Code
- ▶ 5:40 David Ulevitch Such an important developer mantra that it has its own Wikipedia page.
What's Next for the Internet?
- ▶ 2:51 Chris Dixon And then like Wikipedia is an example, which I still think of, I think is still kind of an underappreciated marvel 6 times in the scene
Clippy: The Unauthorized Biography
- ▶ 40:59 Steven Sinofsky In fact, there's like a whole Wikipedia article these days about like, why it's four fingers.
a16z Podcast | What's in the Water at the George Church Lab?
- ▶ 28:35 George Church So we wanted something that was more like Wikipedia, where you didn't have to
a16z Podcast | How the Internet Happened
- ▶ 27:47 Chris Dixon oh, I think that's Clay Shirky's phrase, which is sort of this idea of like Wikipedia and Facebook, whatever, of just sort of this bi-directional instead of just, uh.
a16z Podcast | Cryptonetworks and Decentralization -- Building Blocks
- ▶ 35:25 Chris Dixon So, an example I like to use, it's not, it's not a strict analogy, but it's Wikipedia versus Encarta. 6 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Beyond CES: Connected Home Devices, Voice, and More
- ▶ 17:06 Steven Sinofsky It started off by being this pure, like, we will match your question to the right website kind of thing, and then what they realized is that could only take you so far, and then it turned into, like, they just have different teams, they… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Why Crypto Tokens Matter
- ▶ 17:48 Chris Dixon The nights and weekends programmers, the people that built Linux, the people that built a lot of the internet, the people that built Wikipedia, you know, all these people, the people that built all the open source projects, there's
a16z Podcast | Getting Applications Into People's Hands
- ▶ 3:06 Juan Benet So recently Turkey decided to block Wikipedia and it was very easy for them because all they had to do was intercept, you know, the, the connection between all Turkish users and 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Taxonomy of Collective Knowledge
- ▶ 1:01 Luis von Ahn You can think of Wikipedia as a huge ontology.
- ▶ 8:47 Jay Komarneni So, so taking a step back, I think the power of being able to create ontologies is ultimately to do scalable knowledge projects like Wikipedia, like open source software, like the type of stuff that Recaptcha has been able to accomplish. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:19 Jay Komarneni So Wikipedia is a classic example where, you know, there really wasn't
- ▶ 20:50 Jay Komarneni It's like publishing Encyclopedia Britannica instead of having Wikipedia, right?
a16z Podcast | Quantum Computing, Now and Next
- ▶ 14:48 Chris Dixon And very few of them predicted Facebook and Wikipedia and YouTube and all these other things that we use all the time, so.
a16z Podcast | On Wearables, Quantified Self, and Biohacking
a16z Podcast | Technology, Mobility, and the American Dream
- ▶ 32:24 Alex Rampell That was replaced with Wikipedia, 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Knowledge Builds Technology and Technology Builds Knowledge -- with Joel Mokyr
- ▶ 30:43 Sonal Chokshi Wikipedia is a great example. 4 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | We Gotta Talk Pokémon Go
- ▶ 17:07 Ryan Hoover Anything from a chat app for Pokemon, because you can't chat with your friends directly inside the app today, inside the game, to a crowdsource, like, Wikipedia-like map, so you can, like, see where all the Pokemon are and people are…
a16z Podcast | Not If, But How -- When Technology is Inevitable (with Kevin Kelly)
- ▶ 11:59 Kevin Kelly Have, have right now, like Wikipedia, are all about being able to collaborate on a scale and speed that would never have been possible before.
- ▶ 14:02 Kevin Kelly And that kind of deep sense of experience, I think, is very powerful and very different than the kind of information stuff that we get, you know, the world of Wikipedia and PDFs and pictures.
a16z Podcast | On Productivity, Immigration, Trump, and Media
- ▶ 4:33 Ezra Klein And so I did this series where I actually went, I was at UCLA at this point, I went to the library, I checked out a bunch of books on international healthcare policy, and I wrote up what, you know, I, I recognize now in retrospect is… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Investing in (Business and Career) Change
- ▶ 2:51 Marc Andreessen Actually, first, it was, uh, uh, encyclopedias on CD-ROM, uh, at a fraction of the price, um, and, and now it's just Wikipedia. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:23 Marc Andreessen Um, another big thing I figured out, a friend of mine told me this trick, um, so like Wikipedia is like this huge, you know, archive of information, um, 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Dream of AI Is Alive in Go
- ▶ 25:52 Steven Sinofsky And now, like anyone learning to do anything in computer science has access to all of the world's information, even if they just used Wikipedia. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | 'In the Eye of a Tornado': Views on Innovation from China
- ▶ 14:31 Clay Shirky So it's not crowdsourcing in the sense of Wikipedia where it is, it is assembled by a, by a self-nominating group.
a16z Podcast | What Software Developers (and Therefore Every Company) Need
- ▶ 10:20 Chris Wanstrath See the history, it gave me very Wikipedia-like control over my code base, but there was still this huge hurdle for me to work with someone who was sitting right next to me.
a16z Podcast | The Wearables Session
- ▶ 7:46 Chris Dixon 10 plus years for people to invent Wikipedia, and Twitter, and YouTube, and all these other great things.
a16z Podcast | The Two Big Problems With Thomas Piketty’s “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”
- ▶ 9:48 Balaji Srinivasan Um, Sergey Brin is a billionaire, but he doesn't have an appreciably better Wikipedia experience. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Where is the Technology That "Matters?" Right Here
- ▶ 8:30 Balaji Srinivasan It wasn't about the newest thing always, but it was, for example, a site that say maintained an up to date thing, sort of like a Wikipedia, but better maintained on say three printing and all the companies there.
10 Years Too Early: On a Tech Career, Business, and Investing
- ▶ 9:44 unnamed speaker There's Wikipedia pages for all of them.
Crypto and Decentralization: Building Blocks
- ▶ 34:35 Chris Dixon So, an example I like to use, it's not, it's, it's not a strict analogy, but it's Wikipedia versus Encarta. 6 times in the scene
An Intro to Crypto: Decentralization, the Big Picture
- ▶ 10:36 Chris Dixon Um, on the flip side, you know, if you look at how, um, uh, you know, like Wikipedia every year has to put these banner ads up that sort of ask for money, right?
AI: What's Working, What's Not
- ▶ 18:01 Frank Chen Same thing, but with Wikipedia articles instead of photos. 3 times in the scene
On Career Moves and Business Leadership
- ▶ 33:36 Ben Horowitz Now, I mean, you know, there's Khan Academy and Udacity and, like, everything online and Wikipedia and Google, and it's incredible.
Jason Mars
- ▶ 5:31 Jason Mars First, we do speech recognition, and then when it's actually a question for which we need to grab information, we have a QA system, a question and answer system that has at its disposal the entire corpus of Wikipedia to answer your…
AI, Deep Learning, and Machine Learning: A Primer
- ▶ 20:56 Frank Chen If you read the Wikipedia entry, there's actually more, but I just wanted to give you a taste for the boom and bust cycles that have happened.
- ▶ 41:36 Frank Chen Here is another perfectly valid English sentence, and look this up on Wikipedia because it has its own very, very own Wikipedia page. 2 times in the scene
DJ Kleinbaum
- ▶ 17:02 DJ Kleinbaum So you should think of this sort of like Wikipedia.