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Legacy security tools lack context to monitor autonomous AI agent systems
“A lot of these existing tools, they don't have the context to understand what these very flexible and predictable systems are doing.”
Sam Parr: Scaling from $10M to $100M comes down to systems and hiring
“The difference between ten million and a hundred million a year business oftentimes is systems. So I think it typically comes down to hiring great people and creating great systems.”
Hubinger: AI researchers currently lack a robust science for how models generalize
“The way in which these systems behave and the way in which they generalize or in different tasks is just not something that we really have a robust science of right now. We're just starting to understand what happens when you train a model on one task and how …”
Coca-Cola captures $47B of its $175B system revenue with 10% of employees
“Revenue, forty seven billion dollars at Coca-Cola company out of one hundred and seventy five billion dollars in total revenue by the system. And this is as reported by Coca-Cola in their proxy statement. There are 70,000 employees of Coca-Cola. But again, if …”
Sauer: Businesses under 15 employees only need offers, products, and systems
“With our profit school system, we basically think there's really three functions in a business until you're at 15 plus employees. And that's offers products and systems.”
Sauer: Giving equity to systems or operations hires is often a mistake
“Somebody who can do the systems, like there's a lot of people out there who would do that. They're usually not, they don't always have to be an equity person in your business. And oftentimes making them an equity person in your business is a mistake because th…”
Dan Go: A Healthy Body Requires Operational Systems Like a Business
“Like if I'm running a successful business, I need to have systems. If I'm running a successful body, I need to have systems. And I think that the main thing that people are missing are these protocols and systems in their lives when these things pop up.”
Huang: ChatGPT is largely inferenced on same systems used for training
“And most of ChatGPT I believe are inferenced on the same type of systems that we're trained on just recently.”
Diamandis: Smarter AI systems naturally become more benevolent and supportive
“Truly believe that as systems become more and more intelligent, they get more abundant minded, more loving of life more supportive.”
Bullard: California residential solar battery attachment spiked to nearly 25%
“It was like a couple of percent of systems had a battery attached in the middle of twenty-twenty-three, and now like almost 25% do.”
Yoo: Price transparency reforms will take years to transform healthcare
“I think we have still years for it to really seep through the system and address a lot of the challenges that we described earlier.”
Calacanis: The system is not rigged, but designed for participation and success
“Like, the system is not rigged. If anything, the system is rigged for you to participate and succeed.”
Tenev: Market systems were not built for viral retail coordination
“In this case, you know, you could argue this is concentrated on a small number of stocks, but the system wasn't built for People on the internet banding together, millions of people to buy the same stock or small group of stocks, and I think it kind of broke t…”
Booth: Bailing Out Companies While Subsidizing Consumers Is an Unsustainable Waste
“At some point, like the system just like, it's just such a colossal waste of money on both, both fronts. And you can't keep doing that.”
Kirill Sheynkman: Automated machine-to-machine processing will dominate real-time data systems
“Really a lot of the trading that goes on is actually done by machines receiving feeds from other machines, and I think the same is true, is going to be true with systems, that systems that understand signals, that, that can react.”