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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
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92 minutes
Released:
Nov 3, 2023
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(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
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Podcast episode
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