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Sep 2023
18m 35s

AI Revolution: Universally Accessible In...

Andreessen Horowitz
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Noam Shazeer, Character.ai CEO and cofounder, talks to a16z's Sarah Wang about the dawn of universally accessible intelligence, the compute it will take to power it, and his pursuit of AGI's first use...

  • [0:59] Real Noam vs. AI Noam
  • [6:14] Next unlocks
  • [8:11] First use case for AGI
  • [11:06] Building a full-stack LLM
  • [13:33] Noam calculates global compute capacity
  • [15:24] Universally accessible intelligence

This conversation is part of our AI Revolution series, recorded August 2023 at a live event in San Francisco. The series features some of the most impactful builders in the field of AI discussing and debating where we are, where we’re going, and the big open questions in AI. Find more content from our AI Revolution series on www.a16z.com/AIRevolution.

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