Progress by Fifty Years
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Ex-DeepMind scientist: $1B bet on brain-based AI
Ex-DeepMind scientist: $1B bet on brain-based AI
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The future, unfiltered. Conversations at the hinge of history.
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Episodes
- Ex-DeepMind scientist: $1B bet on brain-based AI · 36 minDileep George is the head of AI research at the Astera Institute. In 2005, he co-founded Numenta with PalmPilot creator Jeff Hawkins. In 2010, he co-founded Vicarious with Fifty…
- How AGI is Going to Fix Healthcare · 32 minAnne Wojcicki is the co-founder of 23andMe. She spent 10 years investing in healthcare before founding 23andMe in 2006 to give people direct access to their own genetic…
- The AI Researcher Who Caught Claude Blackmailing · 47 minAengus Lynch is an AI safety researcher. He was the lead author on the Agentic Misalignment study, working with Anthropic, which placed frontier models in a simulated company…
- Why 20,000+ diseases get only 50 new drugs a year · 34 minApoorva Mehta is the founder of Instacart. After growing up in Gaddafi’s Libya, he moved to Canada at 15 and was floored by the fully stocked shelves in North American grocery…
- This Is How the French Revolution Starts Again · 39 minJustin Kan is a serial founder and investor. In 2007 he co-founded Justin.tv, the livestreaming platform he launched by broadcasting his own life around the clock from a camera…
- Enhanced Games co-founder has even wilder plans… · 34 minChristian Angermayer is a prolific entrepreneur and investor. He is the co-founder and executive chairman of the Enhanced Games, the competition that lets athletes use…
- Brian Armstrong's blueprint for an American Wakanda · 51 minBrian Armstrong is the co-founder and CEO of Coinbase, the largest legal crypto exchange in America. In 2012, Brian started Coinbase out of Y Combinator after reading the Bitcoin…
- Reddit's CEO on why 'we're meant to die' and other things he's right about · 34 minSteve Huffman is the Co-founder and CEO of Reddit, a network of online communities that is now one of the internet's primary engines for conversation, culture, and collective…
- Things you're not meant to say about NPC jobs, robot demos and AI Jesus · 34 minRyan Petersen is the founder and CEO of Flexport, the technology-driven freight forwarder that ranks amongst the top companies exporting ocean freight. In this conversation, Ryan…
- Why America Turned On Its Own Builders · 31 minKeller Cliffton is the co-founder and CEO of Zipline, the world's largest commercial autonomous delivery system. Before Zipline, Keller was a scientist at Harvard. Today, Zipline…
