Partner @RadicalVCFund, AI columnist @Forbes. "the machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them."
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10 (bold) predictions for AI in 2026:
1⃣ Anthropic will go public. OpenAI will not. 📈
2⃣ Details of SSI’s research and technology will leak to the public. The big labs will make meaningful adjustments to their research roadmaps as a result. 🤫
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Venture capital requires you to be exceptionally optimistic and exceptionally skeptical at the same time. It is not an easy balance, but man it is fun.
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New HELM results from Stanford are out.
@CohereAI beats everyone.
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For those of you intrigued or confused by @ylecun and @GaryMarcus’ ongoing Twitter spat about symbolism and connectionism, check out my recent Forbes article for some context:
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meeting with AI founders every day, it's impossible not to reach this conclusion: the next five years in AI are going to be absolutely bonkers.
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"The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them." -Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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I am curious to see how many VCs will still be all in on AI 12, 18, 24 months from now.
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If you are interested in AI, you should be paying attention to this.
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let me know what you agree and disagree with!
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It was an absolute pleasure speaking at Upfront Summit last week with @DaveRogenmoser from Jasper, @c_valenzuelab from Runway, and Phil Blunsom from Cohere about generative AI. One sharp group!
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Nice shoutout in the New York Times today.
Tech hype cycles come and go. We @radicalvcfund were committed to AI before this one came, and we will continue to be after it passes.
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Great line from @GaryMarcus’ new book: “The real reason computers can’t read is that they lack even a basic understanding of how the world works.”
This is why the Turing Test (while imperfect) has stood....
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A lot of people are talking about conversational search.
You.com just shipped it.
Huge congratulations to @RichardSocher and @YouSearchEngine — the team creating the future of search!
Today, youChat goes live.
Open, broadly capable, conversational AI for search with knowledge of recent events and citations of sources.
Search and chat of the future: you.com/search?q=what+was+th…
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Thrilled to welcome Dominic Barton (former head of McKinsey) and Aaron Rosenberg (former head of strategy & operations at DeepMind) as Partners at Radical!
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LLMs have ushered in a period of unreal possibilities. There are dozens of great startups that should exist that don’t yet. We have a ludicrous oversupply of great startup ideas.
Great ideas are 1%. Execution is 99%.
The next couple years will be fun!
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It was a real pleasure speaking at the SALT Conference in NYC last week about all things AI alongside @AndrewYNg, @May_Habib and @1vnzh. Very fun conversation!
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if GPT-4 has 10x or 100x more parameters than GPT-3, I agree that error rate will be lower. expect diminishing returns, though.
more broadly, this doesn't change the fact that it still will lack internal representations, understanding, the ability to reason 😊
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I do not know of any early-stage VC firm that has more *true* AI startups in its portfolio than @radicalvcfund
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I have published AI predictions in Forbes for the past four years.
These are my spiciest predictions yet 😏
Let me know what you agree with and what you disagree with!
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this article has a list....you know you love lists!
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An exciting day for @Zoox - the most badass AV crew out there. The future is bright!
Amazon acquires self-driving start-up Zoox for over $1.2bn on.ft.com/3fS5SH0
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the intersection of LLMs and robotics (any AI agent that can make stuff happen in the physical world) is going to be NUTS
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Congrats to @charleskfisher and @UnlearnAI on their Series B! We are thrilled to invest and join the company's journey, together with @insightpartners.
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if you are looking for something to stress out about, I have just the article for you
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There is a lot of buzz right now about LLMs and foundation models.
@twelve_labs is building an entirely new kind of foundation model: a foundation model for videos.
Excited to lead Twelve Labs' latest round with our friends @IndexVentures and @WndrCoLLC
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People who say that AI will be "as big as the internet" or "the next internet" are dramatically underestimating AI's importance.
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Could not be more excited to partner with the team at @DominoDataLab -- the future of data science and machine learning in the enterprise
Did you see the news? Today Domino announced a new ML model monitoring product, $43M in new funding, and innovations to our enterprise data science management platform. hubs.ly/H0rmSlz0 #modelops #modelmonitoring #datasciencemanagement
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Congratulations to Radical portfolio companies @CohereAI , Waabi and @UnlearnAI on being named to Forbes' "AI 50" list of the 50 top AI startups in the world.
It was a lot of fun serving as a VC judge for the list this year!
The AI 50 2023 (forbes.com)
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treat yourself. read an article that has absolutely nothing to do with COVID-19. forbes.com/sites/robtoews/20…
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here are the books you should REALLY be reading this holiday break:
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I would love to hear your reactions—especially if you disagree with me!
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it has never been more important to understand how we can improve our broken healthcare system
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every now and then, the sequel is better than the original!
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new Forbes article — with a message of encouragement to AI entrepreneurs everywhere :)
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It is a real pleasure to be giving a TED Talk next week at @TEDAI2023 alongside Andrew Ng, Reid Hoffman, Ilya Sutskever and so many other amazing AI leaders. Looking forward to it!
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this is a straw man. I do not know of anyone calling for a pure rules-based approach. Advocates of a hybrid approach, like @GaryMarcus, are suggesting combining learning-based and symbolic techniques. Learning remains essential — this is inherent in the word “hybrid”
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thanks @cajundiscordian! It would be fun to discuss further
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This is one of the really big, outside-the-box ideas in AI today: should machine learning models have more intelligence "built in" (like humans do)? @TonyZador
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AI is putting the "Silicon" back in Silicon Valley: forbes.com/sites/robtoews/20…
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so little, indeed
for those not familiar, here is @GaryMarcus' insightful take on GPT-2's shortcomings - highly relevant to GPT-3: thegradient.pub/gpt2-and-the…
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Grading the 2023 AI predictions that we made at the end of last year:
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PSA: Building cutting-edge large language models is very hard.
There are very few people in the world who know how to do it.
If a magical shortcut appears that suddenly makes something very hard seem very easy, it is probably too good to be true.
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Congratulations to the 6 @RadicalVCFund portfolio companies that made CB Insights' AI 100 list for 2022, announced today!
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to those into genetics: it is truly incredible that Darwin and Mendel lived at the same time on the same continent and never crossed paths. the ultimate “what might have been”
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It's not often that two of the world's leading legends get on a stage together to talk about the past and future of their field.
This conversation between @geoffreyhinton and @drfeifei, brought to you by @radicalvcfund, will be a special evening.
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Thanks Mario! Fun to share thoughts about the future of AI alongside @saammotamedi, @reidhoffman, @nathanbenaich, @LM_Braswell, @mattturck, @catherwu, @xuezhao, @saranormous, @mhdempsey
It's been an insane year in AI. To try and understand what's going on, I asked 10 awesome investors what trends and companies to watch out for.
Here's what they said 👇 🧠
🔗 generalist.com/briefing/what…
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awesome AI angel portfolio from @olivercameron - exciting set of companies that showcases the transformative impact that AI will have across industries
AI is changing everything, and it's not just ChatGPT or self-driving cars.
You'd be surprised at just how broadly AI is being applied across tons of industries.
I’ve now invested in 50 AI startups, and here are some recent investments using AI in fascinating applications 👇
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a touch of philosophy for your Saturday afternoon: forbes.com/sites/robtoews/20…
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It was a lot of fun speaking with @paulinebhyang
at Altimeter and @danny_lange at Unity about all things AI on the inaugural episode of the Cross Validated podcast. Thanks for having me!
Excited to launch Cross Validated podcast, where we speak with practitioners & builders making AI deployments a reality! @altcap
Our first guest is @danny_lange, SVP of AI @unity, w guest host @_RobToews @radicalvcfund
We have been studying and investing in AI over last few yrs and have never been more convinced that AI will be deployed in every co to assist (& eventually auto-pilot) humans to make better and faster decisions – on everything
In this first episode, we discuss:
- Rxns to GPT-4 and Chat Plug-ins
- AI transforming game development and Unity’s role
- Powerful combo of imagination and innovation
- OSS vs. third party vendors
Lmk if you have guest requests for future pods and make sure to subscribe for the next ep!
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if you work in the field of artificial intelligence, and you don't find yourself bumping up against philosophical questions pretty regularly, you're doing it wrong
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It was a blast guest-hosting Redpoint’s AI podcast alongside my pal @jacobeffron and interviewing @npew, who leads OpenAI’s commercialization and product efforts.
Fascinating and enlightening discussion. Enjoy!
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this is huge. congrats @Cohere!
Excited about our multi-year partnership to power @CohereAI’s natural language processing technology with Cloud TPUs, making it easier and more cost-effective for any organization to use AI to better understand their customers. techcrunch.com/2021/11/17/go…
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“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.”
—Albert Einstein
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Hubert Dreyfus’ classic book “What Computers Still Can’t Do” (originally published in 1972, updated in 1992) is a great reminder that, while the amount of compute and data available today is a new thing, the fundamental concepts at the core of AI are not
Some choice quotes 👇
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in a world that has gone crazy over AI, I am deeply appreciative to work with the best people in the world at the biggest VC firm in the world focused exclusively on AI. onward!
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It is sometimes said, “Today’s AI is just statistics.” The only part of this that is incorrect is the word “just.”
Statistics is incredibly powerful, especially when paired with digital computation — more than powerful enough to generate intelligent behavior.
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thanks, @ylecun! means a lot coming from you
Good article on LLMs at Forbes.
The media are starting to agree with my much-criticized statements about LLMs.
"LLMs as they exist today will never replace Google Search. Why not? In short, because today’s LLMs make stuff up."
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I bet you disagree with this article
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great reporting by @theinformation and big ups to @DominoDataLab! the "AI boom" has just begun, and Domino is in a great position to turbocharge it in the enterprise in the years ahead
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Excited to deepen our partnership with @UnlearnAI and to welcome OpenAI CTO Mira Murati to the team!
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it's not often that you see an AI startup develop an entirely new AI model architecture, purpose-built for its needs. huge congratulations to @charleskfisher and the @UnlearnAI team - one of the most original and imaginative AI companies out there, in any sector!
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We are thrilled to partner with @RichardSocher and the You.com team on their ridiculously ambitious vision to reimagine the search engine. Onward! 🚀
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We could not be more excited to partner with George and @hebbia to build the future of search. Keep an eye on this one! 👀
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this article has a list....you know you love lists!
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Exciting and humbling to be published alongside Niall Ferguson, Nouriel Roubini and so many other distinguished scholars.
The full #Horizons issue on #AI is worth reading:
1. The AI Opportunity - written by GPT-4😉
2. The AI Threat - by Nouriel Roubini @Nouriel
3. From Shocking to Mundane - John D’Agostino & Manolis Kellis @JohnJDAgostino @ManolisKellis
4. The Aliens Have Landed, and We Created Them - Niall Ferguson @NFergus
5. Humanity’s Greatest Existential Crisis - David Shrier @DavidShrier
6. Going Nuclear? - David Backovsky & Joanna Bryson @BackovskyDavid @J2Bryson
7. Nurturing Sustainable Digital Dialogue for a Multipolar World - Miloš Jovanović @Milos002
8. China’s AI Regulations and How They Get Made - Matt Sheehan @MattSheehan88
9. The Geopolitics of AI Chips will Define the Future of AI - Rob Toews @_RobToews
10. Nourishing the Future - Ali Faqeeh
Full issue here: cirsd.org/en/horizons/horizo…
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Huge congratulations to the team at @DominoDataLab! Domino is all substance and no hype, building one of the most meaningful companies in the burgeoning field of MLOps. Onward!
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We could not be more excited to partner with @twelve_labs alongside our friends @IndexVentures. Onward! 🚀
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excellent, thoughtful piece from @molwelch about what is needed to productize and operationalize generative AI at scale. if you're excited about generative AI, read it!
lots out there on application layer opportunities in generative AI (and, of course, how crazy good chatGPT is!), but less on what’s unsolved in this new paradigm.
new piece on what’s missing in generative AI, where I cover: 👇
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A huge win for @UnlearnAI on its mission to transform clinical trials with AI and digital twins. Congratulations!
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some thoughts from me about who, beyond Google and Tesla, is worth keeping an eye on in the AV space:
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