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“My own bet is that you'll see a lot of that happening over the next few years as the number of high profile projects inside corporations end up not yielding fruit in part because the problem was not defined well enough, or there was an assumption that If we ju…”

“The best investment decisions were always very, very controversial.”

“In our firm at least, we've made the decision that anyone can say yes.”

“The danger, though, is that a lot of the conversation focuses on what I would call either Theological questions about the end of the world, which is interesting, but I think oftentimes not relevant, or questions around straightforward labor replacement, and I …”

“There's going to be something, some similar insight and some similar buzzword about the separation of models and the ability to share insights of models between companies while at the same time not actually sharing data.”

“Groups are really good at Getting new diverse points of view and new bits of information. And groups are actually also really good at doing complex coordinated tasks. Groups are uniquely bad at making interesting decisions.”

“Is that it is the act of creation, and I think that the act of creation, that is to say making something from nothing or something from very, very little, is as close as we'll really get to doing the work of God.”

“To be honest, I don't know that AI is gonna be necessarily that different. Which is say all those other technologies were incredibly transformative, and this will be another example. And people who come from a thousand years ago will look at us and sort of mar…”

“Now, what's interesting, when we first started talking about machine learning three years ago, I think it was still seen as something that only tech companies were interested in, and what's changed over the last three years is that now everyone's interested. T…”

“I think machine intelligence is not going to be, at least in the near term, you know, one big intelligence, but as it is for our own brains, many small intelligences and many, many small systems that help us make Good decisions or make decisions for us and do …”

“The more data you get, the more valuable it is actually for the SaaS company, right? And so all the normal units of measure around how much you should charge are, don't really apply and don't entirely make sense.”

“I think we live now in a world where everyone is a knowledge worker, and so everyone from the construction worker to the chef, the line chef, will have a Android phone and will be able to digitize their work.”

“And I think that frame of thinking is a helpful frame and has, is going to lead to A huge number of startups.”

“One way to think about machine learning is that it is basically Really, really smart statistics that, that ends, that end up constantly improving. And I think that as a frame for thinking about machine learning rather than machine learning as magic is, is, is …”

“I think some people become VCs because they like the opportunity for fantastic returns, and some people become VCs because they read too much science fiction.”

“The work that Google has been doing for, you know, kind of quietly for the last 15 years is now yielding an incredible amount of fruit and creates all these opportunities.”