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Gross: Google will always beat Apple in services, but lose in hardware
“And I think this will always be the case. They will try to always fix this, but it will always be the case that Google will be amazing at services because ads requires a service business model, and Apple will be amazing at kind of user experience and hardware.…”
Gross: YouTube's algorithm will produce many more leaders like Jordan Peterson
“Jordan Peterson is, you can imagine the world basically has, YouTube is a massive fuzzer where people are trying every possible permutation in terms of communication style, oration, content language, and what emerges is the best and the most addictive and the …”
Silicon Valley will solve its housing crisis and remain the tech hub
“I think we will. I think Silicon Valley has managed to produce significantly harder innovations than fixing housing, but I think that's the ticket to becoming the home for things like cryptocurrency and longevity, because ultimately people need to be able to a…”
Gross: AI platform startups face tough competition from TensorFlow and incumbents
“Second is for the platform companies, I do think there's a less obvious but likely business model as well. Less obvious because unlike the database analogy I provided, it's not immediately clear that there'll be An Oracle or a MySQL, that is to say, a company …”
Gross: Core Google will fail to reinvent ads due to innovator's dilemma
“So, so the core Google unit, I think, will not be able to reinvent kind of the next ad model because of traditional innovators dilemma”
Gross: No independent company exists solely because of modern ML
“Currently, the way you kind of look at the world today, there is yet to be an independent entity that you could really say is an AI company, or I think a better framework for this only exists because of the kind of latest and greatest machine learning technolo…”
Gross: Autonomous driving startups are operating without LIDAR
“And there certainly are startups that are working on autonomy, literally with cameras and deep learning alone without the help of LIDAR.”
Gross: Machine learning-enabled software will eat traditional software
“I think that there are going to be business models of taking AI and applying it to a vertical in the same way that you could literally take the advent of the database and apply it to a vertical. You know, software eats the world. Is a quote I think originally …”
US productivity and innovation growth has dropped below one percent
“Economic productivity in the United States and innovation in the United States has slowed down from just below two percent to below a percent over the course of the past few decades.”
Pioneer aims to eventually distribute grants to one million people
“Our dream one day is to be able to hand out grants to a million people, and we just need to figure out a way where we can create the capital to do that.”
Gross: Breakthroughs in reinforcement learning will transition to market quickly
“Because when something really big happens with, say, reinforcement learning, which is an area mostly attributed to research today, it's going to happen really quickly.”
Gross: SpaceX was originally a stunt to land a plant on Mars
“SpaceX, I believe, was conceived as the Green Mars Oasis Project, where the idea was it's a very Los Angeles idea we're gonna go buy a bunch of rockets from the Russians, and we're gonna try to launch a bunch of stuff onto Mars, and we're gonna take a photo of…”
SpaceX began as a temporary project to photograph a plant on Mars
“SpaceX with all of its grand and glory was started as effectively almost as like a Hollywood ask moonshot project to just like take a photo of a plant on Mars, and Elon was going to find some Russian rockets to just send a bunch of stuff to Mars, cameras, take…”