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Krishna: Foundation AI models will become commodities within one to three years
“I think foundation models are going to become commodities. By the way, not that far out. Is it a year? Is it two years? Is it three years? Commodities doesn't mean that they don't have value. Gold is a commodity. So is iron. So commodities means that there is …”
Krishna: AI token pricing will rise significantly to justify capital investments
“Second, I think that right now the token price on all of these is going to go way up. It just has to justify the capital investments.”
Webb: China will technologically leapfrog the US within ten years
“So what's gonna wind up happening is, 10 years from now, China's gonna leapfrog us. I'm sorry, but like, anybody can, like, I'm happy to argue with anybody all day long about this, but we are missing the structural components for success.”
Hoffman: An AI GP as good as an average doctor is months away
“We could construct in a small number of months a medical assistant that is as capable as kind of call it You know an average GP or better that could run for, you know, small number of dollars per hour.”
Bret Taylor argues AI hallucinations will help solve digital disinformation
“And if you want a contrarian take on this, I think it will help with the disinformation problem a bit. People don't assume everything coming out of these agents is a hundred percent accurate and they like verify it. And my hope is the combination of these AI t…”
Wang: Humans will always hold a reasoning advantage in long-duration thought
“The areas where humans will always have a meaningful sort of reasoning or intelligence advantage relative to models is long form thought long duration thought, thinking over long time horizons.”
Russell: Luminar can be a trillion-dollar company integrated into every car
“It's this kind of thing where, you know, you have this outcome of where it's, like, very, very clear in your head, like, how we're gonna execute on these programs, how, you know, we'll see Luminar in every car, how, you know, it can be a trillion dollar compan…”
Raskin: ESP will have capability to contact non-human cultures within six years
“In the next six years we will make contact or have the technical capability of making contact with these thirty four million year old cultures.”
Roy-Chowdhury predicts AI will ultimately be a net job creator
“First of all, I do think that AI will be a net job creator.”
Gelsinger says Intel will extend Moore's law until exhausting the periodic table
“We're not gonna let Moore's Law die until the periodic table is exhausted, and we have a lot of elements yet to go.”
Hoffman: Within 10 years society will want exclusively autonomous vehicles
“Like, I actually think that within 10 years, we will strongly want a world in which it's only autonomous vehicles on the road and not human beings.”
Daunt: AI will displace study guides but cannot write great literature
“Is AI gonna write, write the next great books?
I very, very much doubt it, but it will take categories of books out quite clearly.
Such as?
Home study guides, you know, you, that will, that's an easy thing.”
Raman: Software engineering and customer service jobs face AI displacement
“Some jobs that are going to get displaced, and they already are, software engineering, customer service.”
Hoffman: Consumers will rely on an AI agent as their front door
“There's a platform sense in which I think there will be, will have, people will have an agent, maybe a couple, but certainly an agent that's kind of their general front door.”
Hoffman: Consumer AI will be massive despite enterprise-heavy consensus
“With AI, people haven't realized the whole consumer revolution. That's going to come with AI. And I agree with you. And as we know, as we see in Silicon Valley, everyone's talking, well, well, okay, enterprise is where the money is. That was the same thing bac…”
Pincus: The metaverse will be huge, but not inside VR goggles
“I think that the metaverse is starting to happen and I think it's going to happen and it's going to be As big as Zuck thought, and it's just not going to happen inside of an immersive game goggle that is painful and hot to wear on your head, even if the form f…”
Wilson: Generative AI will eradicate Care.com's technical debt within one year
“There's the promise of that it'll eradicate this in short period and actually believe it will. I think we're going to work our way out of it over the next year.”
Krishna: 30% of back-office headcount won't be needed within a few years
“It's not going to go down to zero. But I would not be surprised if about 30% of the total headcount in those areas is not needed within a few years.”
Krishna: Market will support only three or four foundation models globally
“So, and I don't think in a commodity world, there probably isn't space for a dozen foundation models. Is there space for three or four? Probably. But since there's a dozen being run after globally, it tells you that They're not all going to work out.”
Krishna: Quantum simulation will scale to 24,000 atoms within two months
“We're pretty sure that in another month or two, we'll be at double that range, which means you can solve trypsin.”
Deeter: Foundation models will become tech's new hyperscalers
“Our belief is that the foundation models are going to be the new hyperscalers.”
Deeter: Anthropic can capture the number one foundation model slot
“The better in Anthropic was that they would be one of those companies and that they had the chance to compete at the one slot, which we very much still think they do.”
Deeter predicts a one-person billion-dollar company will exist by 2027
“In my mind, I'm thinking a year and I'm holding off whether that means 13 months, whether it's a calendar year or through the end of January, but I think it's that soon.”
Webb: Generative AI and programmable biology enable non-experts to create bioweapons
“It also means absolutely terrifying lethal bioweapons that can be produced by people that maybe wouldn't have had the tools before.”
Masad: Future developers will program entirely in natural language
“I think there are people that are going to be entirely programming in natural language.”
Masad: Autonomous background agents will require new programming UIs beyond chat
“I don't think we've invented the UI for how to mix and match these LLMs and how to program them. So as much as I am a big believer in natural language-based programming, I think at some point as agents get better and they're like working most of the time in th…”
Masad: AI coding will decentralize SaaS into niche local applications
“As much as I love Silicon Valley, we tend to flatten the world. We just like build one size fit all. And that, that means like, you know, SaaS software tends to have all these buttons and configuration just to fit every use case. But instead, we're going to ex…”
Masad: Vibe-coders will build the vast majority of software applications
“But if you believe in AI, as I do, and we're going to continue to make progress on AI agents, and all the labs, billions of dollars, perhaps trillions of dollars, are going towards optimizing code specifically, then we're going to get to a point where it's, ag…”
Digital health will not consolidate into a single platform, predicts Tom Hale
“I think this idea that it's not going to be one system for everybody. And then maybe that's not scalable, but I think the thing is that it might be different solutions for each person. The person who is managing chronic fatigue syndrome or long COVID, very dif…”
Webb: Singapore could become a net chicken exporter using cultured meat
“Singapore could become a net exporter of chicken to Malaysia, to other places around Southeast Asia.”
Case: The US will avoid Europe's mistake of over-regulating AI
“I think that we will not make the mistake I believe Europe is making, which Europe often makes, of over-regulating trying to make, be so careful about bad things happening, you don't allow the good things to happen, and we need to figure out a way to, you know…”
Galloway: AI won't lower healthcare costs, but will save patients time
“I don't think AI is going to reduce healthcare costs. I think what it's going to do is give people back time, which I think is probably even more valuable.”
El Kaliouby: The next trillion-dollar company will be AI-first and is being born now
“The next trillion dollar company is going to be AI first, and it's being born now.”
Bret Taylor predicts AI agents will rival websites in corporate importance
“Every company will want their own agent, and they'll spend as much care and attention on their AI agent as they do building their website, as they do building their mobile app. This is going to be one of the main digital artifacts as a business that you make.”
Bret Taylor: AI will widen the performance gap between top and bottom workers
“I think it will make the better people even better by giving them more leverage. It will probably increase the gap in the distribution between the best people and the worst people, because the best people will now have an Ironman suit, you know, of AI capabili…”
Hoffman: AI Assistants on Every Smartphone Will Provide Direct Medical Guidance
“And so I think part of what we're going to be doing is kind of training, you know, AI to kind of be as an assistant on every smartphone, and the first question will be is, do you have access to a GP, right? Because by the way, if you have access to a GP, You k…”
Wang: Generative AI will eliminate massive film visual effects budgets
“A lot of films now have, you know, tens of millions, hundreds of millions of dollar visual effects budgets. It's true. They won't have to spend that much on visual effects going forward. It'll be able to be done Much more automatically using these models”
Wang: AI will not displace high-end professional labor due to shortages
“This does not in itself result in, in labor displacement because most of these jobs that we're talking about are you know, there's a shortage of them in the economy. Most of the, most of these high end high end fields, you know, we need more doctors. We need m…”
Maples: AI will create massive value for startups over incumbents
“And so I think that's true of AI, and I think we're kind of in this five-year window where it's not completely obvious where to play, just like it wasn't completely obvious in the first five years of the internet, but all my instincts tell me that it's going t…”
Hoffman: Every professional activity will have an AI copilot within five years
“But one of the things that I believe with some vigor is that anything that we count as a professional activity, Today, or yesterday, will, within three to five years, have an AI, you know, use the Microsoft language, copilot.”
Russell: Fully driverless cars are still decades away, not years
“Oh, oh, it will. It will. It's just like decades, you know, it's not like, you know, next year, you know, it's just there's a different kind of timescale for these things.”
Russell: Luminar targets up to $60B in booked business by 2030
“Our target is to be as much as a sixty billion by the end of the decade.”
Hoffman: Scaling AI compute will yield massive progress regardless of AGI
“Whether or not you think AGI is, is high probability, medium probability, low probability, wherever you are in that spectrum, you will be creating really interesting increases in cognitive capability of these systems. Say they can't raise seven trillion or not…”
Hoffman: AI will benefit both tech giants and startups, not disrupt incumbents
“Like it isn't going to be the David and Goliath where David invents his new thing, AI, and it kind of resets the apple carts of the Goliaths that are appropriately bought into AI, which, you know, is intensely Microsoft and Google and, you know, some Amazon an…”
Wallach: Algorithmic decisions today will dictate human trajectory for 300 years
“The decisions that we make right now over the next, gosh, five, 10 years, even five months, which I know is very short term, but even at the algorithmic level, are going to dictate the course of our species, I think, for two to 300 years.”
Gavet: Startups attempting to compete with ChatGPT will probably fail
“And frankly, if you're an entrepreneur and your dream is to compete with ChatGPT, you're probably not going to succeed because of the compute power and the data sets required to even remotely have a shot at competing. So the only businesses that might compete …”