Guillaume Verdon
12 statements across 1 episodes · 7 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 31, 2024 by Guillaume Verdon · said 2 times in 1 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
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Jan 31, 2024 positive
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Jan 31, 2024 positive
Google acquired Verdon's quantum TensorFlow prototype and hired his team
“During that first startup I ended up Being approached by Google to prototype, really, what would a TensorFlow for quantum computing look like? So TensorFlow at the time was the core software framework for Google to do deep learning, and we wanted to extend tha…”
Jan 31, 2024
Verdon: Started e/acc via anonymous Twitter alt at Google X
“I think I think I started it roughly when I was towards the tail end of my stint at Google X there, obviously the baseline is secrecy. I couldn't talk much and you know, about what I do and can't, couldn't say anything too controversial. And so, you know, I st…”
Jan 31, 2024 positive
Verdon: Deploying advanced technology requires active cultural engineering
“Even if you can work on technologies all day, but those that get deployed and funded you know, if you don't have a sort of ideological or cultural support for what you're working on you're not gonna get to build and deploy certain technologies. And that kind o…”
Jan 31, 2024
Verdon: Societies must maintain startup-like adaptability to maximize growth fitness
“And so one of the sort of core tenets is to maintain variance, maintain adaptability, because, you know, it's just like an early stage startup versus a late stage company. An early stage startup, things aren't fully pinned down. You're still flexible. You're s…”
Jan 31, 2024 bullish
Jan 31, 2024 positive
Verdon: He pioneered the field of quantum deep learning
“I was basically a pioneer of a field called quantum deep learning. So many people are familiar with deep learning neural networks, but extending those types of notions to quantum mechanical computers and really defining what does it even mean to have a sort of…”
Jan 31, 2024 negative
Verdon: Incumbents use fearmongering to consolidate power and entrench dominance
“Fear mongering becomes instrumental towards certain people and incumbents that are trying to gather power and crystallize their position before, you know people realize that actually the future wasn't going to be a gloom and act actually what is going to be gr…”
Jan 31, 2024 negative
Jan 31, 2024 negative
Verdon: Big Tech ideological subversion stops government collaboration, helping adversaries
“What I saw with my own eyes was that a sort of cultural subversion within big tech more broadly was stopping a big tech from working with the government, right? Like basically ideologies that sort of were very pervasive within the middle layers of the organiza…”