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McGuire: Every human interaction on Roblox is monitored by technology
“Every communication between humans is monitored, monitored by technology.”
McGuire: AI advances stem from data preparation, not new models
“A lot of the learnings in AI are not on the technology side. It's not about creating a new AI model from scratch. It's about learning how to prepare data, how to augment the data so that you don't need quite as much of it, learning how to normalize or regulari…”
McGuire: AI will take decades before its full impact is felt
“The core technology has decades before the full impact is felt.”
McGuire: Roblox is the only platform allowing instant, unapproved 3D publishing
“And so it's the only platform where you can do for three D what today you can do for micro blogging, like text or images, which is one person without some sort of app store approval, without becoming a publisher, or that's, you can go and create something that…”
McGuire: Roblox AI Code Assist has suggested 300M characters of code
“Three hundred million characters of code have been suggested by this tool.”
McGuire: Roblox released its code-generation LLM as fully open source
“And so we shared our LLM with the world that we had built as fully open source that anybody could build on it.”
McGuire: Controlling generative AI will be AI's main challenge for 2–3 years
“I think the big challenge that the field is facing probably in the next two or three years that we've been focusing on is how do you control generative AI?”
McGuire: Interactive 3D is the ultimate form of media
“Text is hard video images, but the three D is the ultimate making interactive three D that there is no thing past that. That's the ultimate media.”
McGuire: Roblox has around 70 million daily active users
“We have about seventy million daily active users”
McGuire: Roblox's fastest growing segment is 17-to-24-year-olds
“And our fastest growing segment is actually 17 to 24 year olds,”
McGuire: Roblox operates roughly 100,000 servers on custom infrastructure
“We have about a 100,000 servers that we maintain with our own infrastructure running our own software stack on those.”
Roblox releases new client software to all players every Thursday
“Every single Thursday, we ship a new client to every single player around the world, releasing new features new access, new security mechanisms.”
McGuire: Roblox releases a new AI feature every couple of weeks
“Every, every couple of weeks we're releasing a new AI powered feature.”
McGuire: Roblox operates 17 edge data centers globally
“We have edge data centers around the world. I think we're up to 17 of those”