Azeem Azhar

8 statements across 2 episodes · 4 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 8, 2022 by Azeem Azhar · across every show →

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Mar 8, 2022
Insight
Azhar: Human evolution selected against the ability to comprehend exponential growth
“There are lots of reasons why, from an evolutionary perspective, exponential understanding would have been selected out.”
Azeem Azhar Mar 8, 2022 ▶ 5:12 Fireside Chat - Azeem Azhar (Author, The Exponential Age) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Mar 8, 2022 positive
Assertion Supported
Azhar: Exponential technology platforms improve 10% to 50% annually on price-performance
“And by improving, I mean, on a price performance basis, they get better by 10, 20, 40, 50% per annum compounding.”
Azeem Azhar Mar 8, 2022 ▶ 3:01 Fireside Chat - Azeem Azhar (Author, The Exponential Age) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Mar 8, 2022
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Azhar: Nations will increasingly combine cyber warfare, disinformation, and physical force
“So people are worrying about other things, and then you let your tanks roll in and that recipe is, is increasingly going to be tried, tried and tested.”
Azeem Azhar Mar 8, 2022 ▶ 20:45 Fireside Chat - Azeem Azhar (Author, The Exponential Age) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Mar 8, 2022 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Azhar: Four new tech platforms will supplant 20th-century technology foundations
“And the contention that I have today is that we are at a point and just past a cusp where there are new general purpose technology platforms that are going to supplant the ones that define the 20th century. And those are the broad technology platforms of compu…”
Azeem Azhar Mar 8, 2022 ▶ 2:03 Fireside Chat - Azeem Azhar (Author, The Exponential Age) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Mar 8, 2022
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Azhar: Tech pace has outpaced institutional adaptation over past 10-15 years
“It's really just been in the last 10 or 15 years where that pace, the difference in that pace, has been so rapid that the gap becomes more and more present.”
Azeem Azhar Mar 8, 2022 ▶ 6:56 Fireside Chat - Azeem Azhar (Author, The Exponential Age) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Mar 8, 2022
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Azhar: Companies ignoring AI and automation shed jobs, while adopters grow
“That the data seems to show is that companies who invest in robotics, automation, AI grow. But it's companies that don't that shed the job.”
Azeem Azhar Mar 8, 2022 ▶ 14:24 Fireside Chat - Azeem Azhar (Author, The Exponential Age) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Jul 2, 2024 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Nov 2029
Azeem Azhar: 75% of people will use AI daily by 2029
“I think you have to be making quite a bold and, you know, heterodox claim to say that we won't all, by which I mean, 75% of us, be using these things daily in less than seven years from when ChatGPT launched, which was November the 22. And, ah, and that means …”
Azeem Azhar Jul 2, 2024 ▶ 18:28 From Business to Warfare: How AI Affects the Modern World | Azeem Azhar
Jul 2, 2024 positive
Assertion Supported
Azhar: Exponential compounding cost drops extend far beyond silicon chips
“We saw those patterns in, in other areas. You saw it in, in terms of the amount of bandwidth that you could put over an optical fiber, you saw it in terms of storage densities, and we saw it in areas like genome sequencing and in areas like lithium-ion battery…”
Azeem Azhar Jul 2, 2024 ▶ 2:53 From Business to Warfare: How AI Affects the Modern World | Azeem Azhar
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