The Pioneer
The frontier and an appetite for the unknown, goes first.
Alexandr Wang exemplifies The Pioneer, a leader who stakes out unclaimed territory before the market recognizes its value. Dropping out of MIT at nineteen to co-found Scale AI, he identified data labeling and evaluation as the unglamorous bottleneck of machine learning and built essential infrastructure around it, becoming one of the youngest self-made billionaires in the process.
“Yeah, I think that's totally fine. I mean, I think basically there will probably be more AIs over time than people get used to and use. And like anything, there'll always be like a. In America, there will always be a bunch of options for consumers and a bunch of options for people to use. And they'll be good at different things, right?”
“No. Yeah. So I think what AI is good at because it's ingested all of the facts, right? Like it's ingested this like the body of water is really, really big and it's ingested so many different facts and information from all of humanity.”
“Yeah, for sure. And then even stuff where you're like, let's say you're mostly just working on a laptop and even from those jobs, it'll just change. Like instead of being, instead of my job being like, hey, I have to do the work. I have literally do the work on a laptop. It'll almost be like everybody gets promoted to being a manager.”
“Yeah, yeah. Well, it turns out, by the way, most of the AIs don't really speak other languages that well. They're much, much better at English and particularly American English than other languages. And so we want to make sure that they speak all these languages as well and that there's these opportunities. But yeah, an outlier.”
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