Very interesting conversation! One of the reasons new grads want to work in banking or hedge funds is that the tech/scientist salaries are low in the UK compared to the US. I definitely believe higher salaries will draw more people into tech and I know this well since I live in Cambridge! I regularly meet brilliant people. If we just paid more the talent flow will automatically increase
32:48 You've probably basically explained why the UK could very well be up here with us in the US regarding innovation in artificial intelligence. Now I also understand by what you said that China is highly regulated and they're trying to make everything politically correct by the CCP standards is going to slow a lot of things down and it may very well be that it will be neck and neck with a UK and the US and not too distant future and if we in the US take a look at your model that is somewhat less regulated and see that you are pulling ahead everybody else well then we'll probably take a look at that and want to implement that here in the US as well.
EF is not a fantastic deal for founders (you give up a fair amount of equity for not very much in return - I guess you’re forced to do that with spray and pray). Though still a net positive force for creating more startups in the UK. Otherwise this interview was brilliant. Right on the money about AI talent in the UK and our ability to give birth to many more exceptional new companies - if only a few things were tweaked. Matt seems v sharp, comes across very well
6:00 The flattening off of adding more compute that's very interesting. So now the real value is going to get the systems to be modified so you get the same output with less compute and less energy and then we can add in there some recursive self-improvement with human supervision similar to what you got with systems that gave you alphago and alpha fold. Those systems gave us narrow superhuman intelligence and we should use that tool for the improvement for one thing when you have improvement in software it's almost immediate whereas if you need improvement and hardware will then you got to order it you got to pay for it you have to bill the data center then you got to hook up someplace where you're not going to be bringing the grid down or you might have to build a nuclear reactor to power it so there is no doubt that the top of that s curve is not that far off.
9:40 perhaps the LM's need to be trained on some of the interesting things that's generated from Wolfram alphas attempt to simulate bare bones universes based upon present ideas of quantum physics or no wait a minute correct that I mean some of his simulations have shown that quantum physics appears to be an emergent property of when you try to simulate a universe. There might be an awful lot of information and gets generated from that as they use mathematical models to determine The veracity of what the simulations are doing. There's a bit more to that but it's very difficult to try to articulate that very well because of the fact that there's an awful lot to be understood as far as like how all of his methods work.
18:15 The CCPs obsession with regulation might actually be on inhibiting factor on their ability to get ahead other than of course copying and pasting what we do here in the West.
9:29 wouldn't a good source of data perhaps be the self play between the computer agents that alpha fold and alpha Go used, and also there is Dr Steven Wolfram and his company called Wolfram alpha and digital physics where he uses what we know about physics today and then see if running simulations gives us something similar that mirrors the real universe. One could imagine that the amount of data that could be available by running those simulations and feeding that back into the systems would be basically the limits of the universe.
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I’m convinced, make this man PM
Super thoughtful and clear thinking, amazing to hear it!
So glad you enjoyed it!
old joke: how far is China behind the US in tech? about 10 hours -- they just wake up the next day and see what's been done
He’s impressive. (And thank you Matt - one of my best investments is an EF alum ✌️😀✌️)
He really is impressive!
Very interesting conversation!
One of the reasons new grads want to work in banking or hedge funds is that the tech/scientist salaries are low in the UK compared to the US.
I definitely believe higher salaries will draw more people into tech and I know this well since I live in Cambridge! I regularly meet brilliant people. If we just paid more the talent flow will automatically increase
Matt mentioned a book but it's not linked in the notes. Which book was he referring to?
Nuclear War by Annie Jacobsen
7:31 there we go one and a half minutes after I posted well then he mentions using the techniques they gave us alpha go and alpha fold.
32:48 You've probably basically explained why the UK could very well be up here with us in the US regarding innovation in artificial intelligence.
Now I also understand by what you said that China is highly regulated and they're trying to make everything politically correct by the CCP standards is going to slow a lot of things down and it may very well be that it will be neck and neck with a UK and the US and not too distant future and if we in the US take a look at your model that is somewhat less regulated and see that you are pulling ahead everybody else well then we'll probably take a look at that and want to implement that here in the US as well.
EF is not a fantastic deal for founders (you give up a fair amount of equity for not very much in return - I guess you’re forced to do that with spray and pray). Though still a net positive force for creating more startups in the UK. Otherwise this interview was brilliant. Right on the money about AI talent in the UK and our ability to give birth to many more exceptional new companies - if only a few things were tweaked.
Matt seems v sharp, comes across very well
6:00 The flattening off of adding more compute that's very interesting. So now the real value is going to get the systems to be modified so you get the same output with less compute and less energy and then we can add in there some recursive self-improvement with human supervision similar to what you got with systems that gave you alphago and alpha fold. Those systems gave us narrow superhuman intelligence and we should use that tool for the improvement for one thing when you have improvement in software it's almost immediate whereas if you need improvement and hardware will then you got to order it you got to pay for it you have to bill the data center then you got to hook up someplace where you're not going to be bringing the grid down or you might have to build a nuclear reactor to power it so there is no doubt that the top of that s curve is not that far off.
9:40 perhaps the LM's need to be trained on some of the interesting things that's generated from Wolfram alphas attempt to simulate bare bones universes based upon present ideas of quantum physics or no wait a minute correct that I mean some of his simulations have shown that quantum physics appears to be an emergent property of when you try to simulate a universe. There might be an awful lot of information and gets generated from that as they use mathematical models to determine The veracity of what the simulations are doing. There's a bit more to that but it's very difficult to try to articulate that very well because of the fact that there's an awful lot to be understood as far as like how all of his methods work.
how come mistral comes from France tho
31:25 well if they try to regulate it then it's all going to move somewhere where they don't.
18:15 The CCPs obsession with regulation might actually be on inhibiting factor on their ability to get ahead other than of course copying and pasting what we do here in the West.
9:29 wouldn't a good source of data perhaps be the self play between the computer agents that alpha fold and alpha Go used, and also there is Dr Steven Wolfram and his company called Wolfram alpha and digital physics where he uses what we know about physics today and then see if running simulations gives us something similar that mirrors the real universe. One could imagine that the amount of data that could be available by running those simulations and feeding that back into the systems would be basically the limits of the universe.
1. Buy up all the bitcoin left on exchanges for 1/10th of what the London->Birmingham trainline cost.
2. Back the pound with bitcoin so that every British citizen owns perfectly sound money.
3. Tell the world about why bitcoin is scientific, 21st century money, and watch everyone converge on the schelling point.
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This guy souds so much entitled and thinks same for the UK