Tim Hwang

Everything Tim Hwang said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

Y COMBINATOR Insight

Hwang: Virtual 3D environments train robots without expensive physical setups

“There's also one really cool interface between VR and AI that's happening right now, where the whole idea is, like there's a project called Universe from OpenAI, and another project called DeepMindLab, which basically, like, imagine you need to teach a robot t…”

Tim Hwang Jun 16, 2017 ▶ 12:06 At the Intersection of AI, Governments, and Google - Tim Hwang · Y Combinator

Y COMBINATOR Assertion Partly supported

Hwang: DeepMind demonstrated AI systems learning encryption without explicit programming

“There's a paper that came out from DeepMind, I think, earlier this year, that was kind of, like, if you get two machines to talk to one another, they will eventually, like, and you can set up another computer to basically say, like, oh, I can read what you're …”

Tim Hwang Jun 16, 2017 ▶ 22:18 At the Intersection of AI, Governments, and Google - Tim Hwang · Y Combinator

Y COMBINATOR Disclosure

Hwang: Google is researching federated learning for on-device ML training

“So we're actually working on a little bit of research around that. I haven't played around with it myself, but for example, there's a couple of papers around what they call federated learning, where we're just exactly working on this premise, which is the bet …”

Tim Hwang Jun 16, 2017 ▶ 33:51 At the Intersection of AI, Governments, and Google - Tim Hwang · Y Combinator

Y COMBINATOR Prediction Not checkable as stated

Hwang: Visual and interface designers will see high demand in AI

“I think the second thing that's about to be in really strong demand is thinking about the visual dimension of this, right, which is, like, happens on a couple levels. That's both, like, the interface of how you work with machine learning systems, But also just…”

Tim Hwang Jun 16, 2017 ▶ 36:50 At the Intersection of AI, Governments, and Google - Tim Hwang · Y Combinator

MAD Assertion Partly supported

Tim Hwang says roughly 94% of New York state legislative bills fail

“In New York, I think something like 93 or 94% of bills end up failing you know, by the time they get to committee.”

Tim Hwang Jan 16, 2014 ▶ 22:06 Tim Hwang, FiscalNote // Data Driven NYC 21 // Dec 2013 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Tim's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
Y COMBINATORLEDGER	Global Public Policy Lead, Google	2	24	75% 3/4	full record on the Y Combinator Startup Podcast →
MADLEDGER		1	5	0% 0/1	full record on the MAD Podcast →