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Episode Synopsis
Follow Andrew: x.com/AndrewArruda
Follow Yohei: x.com/yoheinakajima
About Andrew:
Andrew is the co-founder and CEO of Flexpa, a company refactoring healthcare. He's an Angel investor in more than 50 companies.
Andrew was the Co-founder/CEO ROSS Intelligence (YC S15), which was one of the first AI companies to go through Y Combinator.
About Yohei:
Yohei is a renowned venture capitalist and innovator. He is a General Partner at the early stage venture capital firm Untapped Capital, and the creative mind behind BabyAGI, the first open-source autonomous agent with task planning capability. Nakajima has been supporting early-stage startups for 15 years working closely with early-stage startups, and with global corporations such as The Walt Disney Company and Nintendo through his career at Techstars and Scrum Ventures. He is known for his “build-in-public” methodology, where he publicly builds with the latest technologies to both learn and meet founders. His projects span No Code, web3, artificial intelligence, and beyond.
(00:00) Intro + beondeck.com 👀
(02:18) Who is Andrew?! Who is Yohei?! 🤔
(04:26) Yohei and Andrew's first ever interaction with AI?! 🤖
(13:44) Similarities between when the Internet came online and what's happening with AI!! 🛜
(20:11) Which phase of the Internet are we in right now with AI? ⌛
(26:41) Is uncertainty really important for the future of AI? 😵
(31:40) Where is the world going with AI? 🌍
(35:27) Difference between using AI to solve problems vs humans performing the task! 🙆♂️
(41:39) How LLMs are going to change communication?!
(42:11) How LLMs are trained!
(43:27) How LLMs will help us in conversing with History? 🧾
(45:02) Limiting the sources for better results rather than more sources to train the model! ❌
(46:49) What really makes models better or worse?! ✅
(50:52) How do these models get better overtime? 📈
(53:37) Why are VCs not funding foundational models more? 🤑
(57:00) As compute increases and the price of training models decreases, will we see an increase in new foundational models being released?
(01:04:57) The best definition of AGI!
(01:12:13) Why should AI be regulated?
This is The Forum
We talk about AI -- The Past, The Present, The Future.
Enjoy!
Follow Yohei: x.com/yoheinakajima
About Andrew:
Andrew is the co-founder and CEO of Flexpa, a company refactoring healthcare. He's an Angel investor in more than 50 companies.
Andrew was the Co-founder/CEO ROSS Intelligence (YC S15), which was one of the first AI companies to go through Y Combinator.
About Yohei:
Yohei is a renowned venture capitalist and innovator. He is a General Partner at the early stage venture capital firm Untapped Capital, and the creative mind behind BabyAGI, the first open-source autonomous agent with task planning capability. Nakajima has been supporting early-stage startups for 15 years working closely with early-stage startups, and with global corporations such as The Walt Disney Company and Nintendo through his career at Techstars and Scrum Ventures. He is known for his “build-in-public” methodology, where he publicly builds with the latest technologies to both learn and meet founders. His projects span No Code, web3, artificial intelligence, and beyond.
(00:00) Intro + beondeck.com 👀
(02:18) Who is Andrew?! Who is Yohei?! 🤔
(04:26) Yohei and Andrew's first ever interaction with AI?! 🤖
(13:44) Similarities between when the Internet came online and what's happening with AI!! 🛜
(20:11) Which phase of the Internet are we in right now with AI? ⌛
(26:41) Is uncertainty really important for the future of AI? 😵
(31:40) Where is the world going with AI? 🌍
(35:27) Difference between using AI to solve problems vs humans performing the task! 🙆♂️
(41:39) How LLMs are going to change communication?!
(42:11) How LLMs are trained!
(43:27) How LLMs will help us in conversing with History? 🧾
(45:02) Limiting the sources for better results rather than more sources to train the model! ❌
(46:49) What really makes models better or worse?! ✅
(50:52) How do these models get better overtime? 📈
(53:37) Why are VCs not funding foundational models more? 🤑
(57:00) As compute increases and the price of training models decreases, will we see an increase in new foundational models being released?
(01:04:57) The best definition of AGI!
(01:12:13) Why should AI be regulated?
This is The Forum
We talk about AI -- The Past, The Present, The Future.
Enjoy!
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