Aiden Smith

Co-founder, Flapping Airplanes · 1 appearance on the record.

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A 2025 Thiel Fellow and former Neuralink machine learning engineer, Aidan Smith worked on brain-computer interfaces and human clinical trials before founding Interfaces. He subsequently co-founded Flapping Airplanes, an AI research lab focused on data-efficient model training.

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Insight
Contextual Awareness Resolves Noisy Non-Invasive Neural Speech Signals
“There's a really good story to be told about kind of doing this for speech and getting really terrible speech. I have no illusions as a neurotechnologist that you will get really terrible speech out of this. But the key thing is that this does not matter becau…”
Aiden Smith May 28, 2025 ▶ 1:50:30 We Interviewed the New Thiel Fellow Dropouts
Opinion
Voice Interfaces Fail for Ambient AI Due to Social Awkwardness
“I actually don't like voice as a medium that much for most things. If it actually wants to integrate into your life effortlessly, I don't want to be in the middle of conversation with you and be like, what's the guy on the left's name. It's super awkward. It's…”
Aiden Smith May 28, 2025 ▶ 1:48:38 We Interviewed the New Thiel Fellow Dropouts

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
We Interviewed the New Thiel Fellow Dropouts May 28, 2025 6m
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