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Cade Metz

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“That one idea that I talked about is called a neural network. And the easiest way to understand this idea is that a neural network is a mathematical system that can learn a skill by analyzing data. If you've got thousands of cat photos and you feed them into a neural network, it analyzes those photos and it learns to recognize a cat. It identifies the patterns that define what a cat looks like. And that's an idea, as you alluded to, that dates back to the 50s and in the late 50s and early 60s, a guy named Frank Rosenblatt, who was a professor at Cornell University and worked at a lab in Buffalo, New York. built what he called the Mark I perceptron and it was an early version of a neural network and it worked in very simple ways basically if you gave it large printed letters like printed letter A or a B or a C,”
2021-05-09 · We Study Billionaires · TIP348: Will Artificial Intelligence Take Over The World? w/ Cade Metz · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“These enormous personal obstacles as he's trying to bring this one idea that drives so much of the AI that we experience today and will experience in the future. As he's trying to realize this idea, he's facing these very personal obstacles. And it became a great metaphor for this 50-year-long effort to take this one idea and realize that became the thrust in the book.”
2021-05-09 · We Study Billionaires · TIP348: Will Artificial Intelligence Take Over The World? w/ Cade Metz · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“As I built the book, and this wasn't necessarily what I expected as I set out to write it, was that Jeff Hinton was the central character in this story. It was inevitable that the book began with him and end with him in a way. It's a 50-year journey, really, of this one person. And he's fascinating in so many different and unexpected ways. You learn in the first sentence of the book that he literally does not sit down. When he was a teenager, he was lifting a space heater for his mother in England where he grew up and he slipped a disc. And by his late 50s, his disc would slip so often that it could lay him up for weeks and often months at a time. And so he literally got to the point where he realized that he could no longer sit down. And what this means is he can't drive. He can't fly in an airplane because the commercial airlines make him sit during takeoff and landing. He's someone who is...”
2021-05-09 · We Study Billionaires · TIP348: Will Artificial Intelligence Take Over The World? w/ Cade Metz · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The researchers at DeepMind watch this machine play this match, this machine that they had created. And even they were surprised by how it was performing and what it was doing. And it was playing the game at a level that they never could. And that was a fascinating phenomenon. And when I came back, I resolved to write a book about the people building this type of technology, including Demis Asabas, who was the leader of the DeepMind Lab. But as I dug into the book, I found so many other fascinating characters whose stories sort of wove in and out of Demesis. And I found there was a great narrative story to tell about the creation of what we call AI. And in using that narrative and those characters, I could build on top of that and really explore all the big ideas that you alluded to, all the way.”
2021-05-09 · We Study Billionaires · TIP348: Will Artificial Intelligence Take Over The World? w/ Cade Metz · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“First started actually when I came back from Seoul, South Korea in 2016. I had flown to Seoul to see this event, which I ended up writing about for my employer at the time, Wired Magazine. This lab in London, DeepMine, had built a system to play the ancient game of Go, which is like the eastern version of chess, except it's exponentially more complicated. And most people in the AI field, as well as the world's top Go players, thought that a machine that could beat the top players at the game was still decades away. But at the Four Seasons Hotel in downtown Seoul, this machine built by DeepMind ended up winning this match, beating Lee Seedol, who was the best go player of the past 10 years. And there was this incredible moment when I was watching the creators of this system.”
2021-05-09 · We Study Billionaires · TIP348: Will Artificial Intelligence Take Over The World? w/ Cade Metz · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT