1. What Is an AI "Super Learner"? Ineffable Intelligence's David Silver Explains Ineffable Intelligence's mission is to build a super learner: a system that starts knowing nothing and discovers knowledge beyond what humans know. David Silver on why humans are t 10/16 01:06 ♡
2. What it takes for gigawatt of power at 99.99% reliability | Google's Amin Vahdat If you need a gigawatt at 99.99% reliability, you need one-plus-one redundancy, which means building two gigawatts, ideally clean, ideally right next to the data center. Amin Vahda 10/15 03:02 ♡
3. AlphaGo Took 2 Years. AlphaZero Beat It in Hours | David Silver, Ineffable Intelligence David Silver on what happened when his team gave up human data, and why he says LLM labs are "human-in-the-loop learning algorithms with thousands of people in the loop." #AlphaZer 10/14 04:11 ♡
4. David Silver and Lasse Espeholt of Ineffable Intelligence: A Superlearner for the Age of Experience David Silver spent two years building AlphaGo on human data. When he removed human data altogether building AlphaGo Zero, the AI surpassed AlphaGo in under two days. He left DeepMi 10/13 20:00 ♡
5. Luca Ferrari: The Operating System Behind Bending Spoons Luca Ferrari is co-founder and CEO of Bending Spoons, a serial acquirer of AOL, Vimeo and Evernote, Airtable, etc, that buys to hold forever, and whose only real edge is that it op 10/08 20:00 ♡
6. Google's AI Infrastructure Chief, Amin Vahdat, on the Physics & Economics of Frontier AI At 100,000-accelerator scale, something fails multiple times an hour, which is why Google's Chief Technologist for AI Infrastructure Amin Vahdat thinks FLOPS is a vanity metric. Th 10/06 20:00 ♡
7. "It'll take humanity a decade to absorb AI" | Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi The models are ready. The organizations aren't. Ali Ghodsi on why diffusing AI means re-engineering the processes of every company on the planet, and why that takes a decade at lea 09/24 23:00 ♡
8. Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi built in 2 days what his team took 9 months to ship Ali Ghodsi built a connector in two days. His team was taking three quarters. What he learned about where the time actually goes, and how they got to seven connectors a quarter. 09/24 04:00 ♡
9. "80% of references are bullsh*t" — Databricks' Ali Ghodsi on exec hiring A good exec search takes 6 to 12 months. Ali Ghodsi on why people settle, why the signals were always there, and why backdoor references beat front doors. 09/23 23:00 ♡
10. Why Ben Horowitz bet on a founder with zero commercial experience | Ali Ghodsi, Databricks Databricks had $1.5M in revenue and a board interviewing outside CEOs. Ali Ghodsi on why a16z picked him anyway, and the trial run nobody told him about. 09/23 05:27 ♡
