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EP 85: Alexandr Wang (Scale AI CEO): The 26-Year-Old Powering the AI Industry

EP 85: Alexandr Wang (Scale AI CEO): The 26-Year-Old Powering the AI Industry

FromThe Logan Bartlett Show


EP 85: Alexandr Wang (Scale AI CEO): The 26-Year-Old Powering the AI Industry

FromThe Logan Bartlett Show

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Length:
92 minutes
Released:
Nov 3, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

(0:00) Intro(0:55) Was data the new oil?(2:36) Data is the new code(7:41) Outsourcing the problem to a third party(10:28) Reinforcement learning and generative AI(16:46) What should execs and founders do with AI(18:53) AI compared to past tech trends(22:32) The next two to three years of AI will define decades(25:29) Atomic bomb analogy(28:24) Worries about AI(31:55) What's inevitable about AI that isn't mainstream(36:33) Three components of model development(40:35) Underappreciating our reliance on Taiwan(43:44) Competing curves of scale and democratization in AI(45:41) The Turing Trap(47:39) General misconceptions about AI(49:17) Geopolitics and Artificial Intelligence(54:48) The UK AI Summit(56:33) What role does government play in regulating AI?(1:15:53) Prestige around big brands distorts the hiring perspective(1:21:24) Scale AI is not a particularly cool business(1:24:35) Influence of playing violin(1:25:29) Childhood with physicist parents(1:30:19) Being weird means being interesting(1:31:54) Future of AI Mixed and edited: Justin HrabovskyProduced: Rashad AssirExecutive Producer: Josh MachizMusic: Griff Lawson ? Listen to the showApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-logan-bartlett-show/id1606770839Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5WqBqDb4br3LlyVrdqOYYb?si=3076e6c1b5c94d63&nd=1Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zaW1wbGVjYXN0LmNvbS9zb0hJZkhWbg ? Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCugS0jD5IAdoqzjaNYzns7w?sub_confirmation=1 Follow on Socials? Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/theloganbartlettshow? Twitter - https://twitter.com/loganbartshow? Clips on TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@theloganbartlettshow About the ShowLogan Bartlett is a Software Investor at Redpoint Ventures - a Silicon Valley-based VC with $6B AUM and investments in Snowflake, DraftKings, Twilio, and Netflix. In each episode, Logan goes behind the scenes with world-class entrepreneurs and investors. If you're interested in the real inside baseball of tech, entrepreneurship, and start-up investing, tune in every Friday for new episodes.
Released:
Nov 3, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

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Each week, Logan Bartlett, partially known for his work as a partner at Redpoint Ventures, but maybe even better known for his and his cartoon avatar’s posting on Twitter sits down with giants of the tech industry to give you the inside scoop you won’t hear anywhere else. They’re covering the biggest stories in tech, but the side nobody talks about. From the memes and Twitter beefs to the idiot billionaires, and basically, all the things real people in the tech world actually talk about, but secretly in their group chats! Subscribe now because you won’t want to miss an episode!