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Jack Soslow

Co-Founder and CEO, Ciridae · 1 appearance on the record.

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Jack Soslow is the co-founder and CEO of Ciridae, an AI operating system company for real-economy businesses. He was previously an investment partner on the a16z Games team focusing on artificial intelligence, games infrastructure, and AR/VR after working as a data scientist at Meta.

5statements → 2claims → 0claims resolved → 3.6/5average certainty → 2.8/5average debate potential →

2 not checkable as stated how the 2 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

2 predictions · 1 opinion · 2 insights · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 2 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 0 are resolved, and 2 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Jack argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

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254 words/min while actually speaking · 4.6 um and uh per 1k words · 4.2 false starts per 1k · 24.6% of pauses land inside a clause

No argument clarity score for Jack Soslow: only 2 usable question→answer exchanges on raw tape (a fair score needs 8+). We do not score a sample that small. Roundtable and news formats yield far fewer direct exchanges than interviews.

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 2,404 words across 1 episode of raw-level tape, transcribed verbatim with every um and uh kept, each one attributed only where the alignment onto our timed stream is unambiguous. These are measurements of speaking style. We do not rank them: across this corpus, fluency and argument quality are nearly uncorrelated (ρ≈0.2), and smooth talking does not signal clear thinking. How it's measured →

Everything Jack Soslow said on the a16z Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Prediction Not checkable as stated
Soslow: Gamers will not distinguish AI bots from humans within a year
“In the year ahead, you may not know who's who anymore, and you won't mind.”
Jack Soslow Jan 25, 2023 ▶ 31:59 2023 Big Ideas in Technology (Part 1)
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Soslow: Future multiplayer games will replace human players with personalized AI
“The ones that I'm most excited about are with like single player games. And then also with multiplayer games where the multiplayer games become personalized, where you actually don't play with other humans anymore. You're playing with perfectly catered AIs.”
Jack Soslow Jan 25, 2023 ▶ 40:23 2023 Big Ideas in Technology (Part 1)
Insight
Soslow: The Turing test is flawed because it tests for deception
“The Turing test, as you say, is like a flawed metric, and the reason for this is in part because It is too low of a bar. It is a binary bar, so it's either intelligent or not intelligent, and it tests for deception, not real understanding.”
Jack Soslow Jan 25, 2023 ▶ 32:56 2023 Big Ideas in Technology (Part 1)
Opinion
Soslow: AI image generation was effectively solved in 2022
“So we saw image pretty much be solved last year and then text continually get better and better.”
Jack Soslow Jan 25, 2023 ▶ 44:53 2023 Big Ideas in Technology (Part 1)
Insight
Soslow: AI game proliferation will make curation the key creator skill
“I think games is coming for a new renaissance. There's gonna be, Tons and tons of games that are made, but the real skill is in understanding what a good game looks like.”
Jack Soslow Jan 25, 2023 ▶ 47:00 2023 Big Ideas in Technology (Part 1)

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
2023 Big Ideas in Technology (Part 1) Jan 25, 2023 10m
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