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Von Ahn: Learning Spanish takes an English speaker about 500 hours
“Turns out for an English speaker, getting to a pretty good spot in Spanish takes about 500 hours.”
O'Brien: Hundreds of ocean shipwrecks contain over $1B in gold and artifacts
“There is actually like, you know, hundreds of wrecks out there in the ocean today that potentially have, like, more than a billion dollars on them, right? Like, gold bullions that, like, the Spanish were bringing back from their conquests”
Spanish conversational AI generalizes well across industries due to standard grammar
“The reason we only focus on Spanish is because it's complex. It's pretty standard. So even if I get asked about pineapples in a thousand different ways, there isn't that many more ways that I could be like, hey, how many pounds of pineapple in this? So, so the…”