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“We have a Gemini embeddings model which is state-of-the-art. So excited to be rolling that out to developers more broadly in the next couple of weeks.”
“The deep research API I'm super interested in... we're finding ways to bring a bunch of that together into a like bespoke deep research API which will be awesome.”
“We introduce SIMA 2, a generalist embodied agent that understands and acts in a wide variety of 3D virtual worlds.”
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“Here we introduce AlphaQubit 2, a neural-network decoder that achieves near-optimal logical error rates for both surface and color codes at scale under realistic noise.”
“The other really important thing they did, which I kind of give I give as a recommendation for parents to think about, which was very useful for me becoming a scientist, is you know, when you come hom…”
“I think the big event for in high school was I got to take a physics course in high school and really loved it because it put the math into all the kind of physics I had understood doing things.”
“Anyone who's read my book, uh, lifespan knows that this book is very important to me.”
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“You can take the precursors. ... NMN is directly converted into NAD. ... When you give a human NMN by swallowing it, a gram of it, you can t you typically double the amount of NAD in your body.”
“the special competitive studies project is organizing an all-day summit on AI plus science on July 23rd here in Washington DC. So, please register if you're interested in attending.”
“in March of this year, we launched a Genai course for national security in partnership with Corsera. It's an incredible course. More than 3,000 people have enrolled. You can be one of them if you star…”
“Spermadine. The reason that I take it is that it extends the lifespan of every animal ... it's a very safe molecule.”
“I'm also um keen on glycine. ... I take about 5 g of glycine most days uh they live longer ... it's very safe”
“Open claw basically put into the popular consciousness what an AI agent can do... open claw is open but it formulates it structures a type of computing model that is basically reinventing computing al…”
“certainly as a patient you should be using second opinion. But but we don't know if it introduces bias.”
“You announced one here uh I believe it's the Dell 6800. Uh this is a very powerful workstation to run local models. 750 gigs of RAM.”
“you read the AI 2027 report and now you're talking about AI super coders training models and then having this just recursive loop”
“Josh Gans who's an economist at the University of Toronto has a really nice paper outlining that in an area where we don't know what's going to happen where harms and benefits are both emergent that p…”
“some of them written by my colleague Daniel Schwarz that those papers showing that 01 preview leads to 10 to 30% improvements in quality and speed”
“if you go to the generative AI lab at Wharton, we have a whole bunch of creative common prompts that we've released that are designed for teaching and you can modify for yourself.”
“just take 03 and ask it a bunch of hard questions and open up its thinking and you'll see it. You know, it does some research. or write some code.”
“or use operator. You'll see this is the goal that the AI companies want. Systems that autonomously carry out your will.”
“agents bang on Blender, agents bang on Photoshop. And the reason for that is because those tools are first of all do a very good job.”
“there was a training run that happened in this crypto project called Bit Tensor Subnet 3. They managed to train a 4 billion parameter llama model totally distributed with a bunch of people contributin…”
“if you haven't played with Manis or for most people who've listening, just take 03 and ask it a bunch of hard questions and open up its thinking”
“if you configure AI to work like a tutor and give it people classroom support in the right kind of way you get fairly big boost to learning outcomes.”
“if you just use the tools, if you actually go spend 10 hours using these tools as you recommend and just ask, 'Hey, be nice to me.'”
“if you're doing differential diagnosis you 100% want as a doctor you 100% want to be using AI to do this right like if you're not like it's already better than humans across most of that field”
“I was the first Democratic mayor in the state to come out in support of Prop 36. The rule of thumb there is on your third public drug offense, you can be given a choice between treatment and incarcera…”
“came back as a public school teacher through the Teach for America program.”
“we've created AI upskilling courses for our workers. We've gotten AI companies to come into our libraries and provide tools and training.”
“And there's this new documentary, the um the AI doc, uh which I just saw, which is very um super watchable and um entertaining in its own way, uh but also, you know, very worrying.”
“we acquired a company on the mining stuff, a company called Pronto... automating mining equipment.”
“Labs which takes you 10 to 15 minutes... can literally build you websites, dashboards, analytical charts, diagrams, study guides, slide decks, presentations.”
“There's this thing in perplexity called tasks that you can just periodically run for yourself... I have a task that tells me the max seven stocks movement every day.”
“about two years ago, we put together this product that we called the Dell AI factory and now we've got 4,000 plus of these and it's kind of running rampant across enterprises.”
“I have played with the Ray-B band Meta glasses. They're okay. I think today I would say they're good AirPods replacement, but not really useful for the AI yet.”
“we have this Dell portal on hugging face and we have all these open models and we qualified them on every kind of machine we have”
“Google has these Gemma models, GMMA, and they work really, really well on small machines.”
“How many people have set up OpenClaw? Raise your hand. Oh my lord. That's about what a 20% of the audience here.”
“I have started running Kimmy 2.5 on a Mac Studio. It's not as good as Claude or Gemini or Grock, but you can probably do about 80% there for free.”
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“part of my doing the reading and the research phase...was reading his textbook you know twice and going through that”
“the Atari learning environment is uh you know, it's born in Alberta and it underpins so much of what happened in dynamic reinforcement learning.”
“I understand it's not a well-loved benchmark but the Atari 100K benchmark that people have been doing for the last few years I think is a really good way of addressing that”
“eventually migrating towards spinning up cloud instances using Visual Studio Code on remote systems and kind of working there.”
“I am a big fan of CUDA graphs where the entire thing that's running there is one CUDA call to the graph and it does everything.”
“they're called April tags, these little fidials that robotics people use a lot uh to identify things...We could identify those and then we can pull out a nice rectified image of the screen.”
“you should do search on like human latency testing or click latency testing. You go to a little website and they'll just like flash a color and click as fast as you can.”
“I want every researcher to add a delay Q into your uh right before your environment. Just put a little flexible delay Q where you can tune in up and down how many frames you delay.”
“BBF, the bigger, better, faster Atari 100k kind of uh top dog, it generates really really impressive learning scores in 100k frames. But if we just add a few frames of latency in there, it falls apart…”
“the gateau agent the the transformer-based learn to play all the Atari games...they demonstrated negative transfer learning where if you took a game a model trained on a dozen agents...it was harder t…”
“I'm very bullish on computer use as a technology... I'm really hoping and I'm sort of excited about computer use technology actually maturing.”
“There's open AI operator browser base is more like infrastructure but but it's interesting.”
“There's another one called pig.dev for Windows machines.”
“when I need more Bitcoin or Salana or XRP, Moonpay is always the first app I open. Since Moonay works with Apple Pay, Vinmo, PayPal, bank accounts, and credit cards, it's fast and easy to get what I n…”
“The city and the stars is one of my favorite sci-fi stories. It's about like a future... what happens when computers get so advanced and they can like manage every aspect of our lives.”
“If you want to go deeper on this, actually build the system behind these ideas. That's what the AI second brain cohort is for.”
“It was the very beginning of the MIT OpenCourseWare program... I started listening to these neuropsychology 101 lectures from MIT.”
“The ARC challenge is like an IQ test for machines that released in 2019... I was releasing this as a way to test and illustrate my definition of intelligence.”
“It was probably the influence of Asimov, the 'Robot' book series. That's probably at least part of where this came from.”
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“I am uh more interested than ever in psychedelic compounds... it needs to be done properly with a licensed professional. It needs to be done carefully.”
“We did the world's most extensive measurement of ketamine with kernel before, during, and after.”
“Sprinting is one of the most underappreciated longevity therapies.”
“I'm a big big big believer in this this this course of therapeutic modality... I'll do a blood draw in the next week or two. They'll spin up and then we'll do it.”
“I'm an investor in New Limit... they've made remarkable progress. They figured out how to computationally solve the discovery process.”
“You work your way down to things like hyperbaric oxygen therapy and sauna, and then rapamy, metformin.”
“You work your way down to things like hyperbaric oxygen therapy and sauna, and then rapamy, metformin.”
“We took my IPSCs... we now have induced pluropotent stem cells... we're doing indish... now we have like a Brian Johnson heart, liver, lungs, and now we're gonna try molecules on me.”
“Stanley Parable is a great video game. I recommend people play. That kind of in a meta way mocks the illusion of choice.”
“There's a great book by Nick Lane, one of the top experts in this area called 'The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution.' I think it's fantastic.”
“You mentioned to me the book 'The Maniac' by Benjamin Labatut, a book on...about you...the central figure that is John von Neumann. I would say it's a haunting and beautiful exploration of madness and…”
“I think this is probably one of the greatest and most unique commencement speeches ever given.”
“you could ask your computer, is there a proof of the remon hypothesis...in a machine checkable format like, coaul or lean or some formal verification language like that”
“LiveKit on the infra side.”
“I first heard about Bitcoin when I was giving talks about quantum money you know in in 2012 or so...could you have quantum money that anyone could verify”
“this protocol uh you mentioned for generating cryptographically certified random bits using a quantum computer. Uh that was a very good example of of this approach”
“you created this um in part created this documentary, The Social Dilemma, which it seems half of humanity saw.”
“there is um a conjecture or belief called the quantum extended church touring thesis which would say that every physical system can be efficiently simulated by a quantum computer”
“if you go to the humanmovement.org there will be, you know, action groups and things that people can do there for actually taking action on this that are not just passively sharing news links, but lik…”
“Ethereum now has mature privacy solutions with uh, railway. Now, privacy pools launched.”
“the safe smart contracts like the smart contracts have actually been perfect like basically for like since the start, right?”
“This is exactly the problem we talk about in building a second brain community.”
“there was like a pretty good bangalist podcast with Ethereum researchers um about some of these kinds of things about a week ago.”
“It's called the Building a Second Brain Public Notebook on a platform called Notebook LM by Google. Very few of you have seen it, which is why that's what I want to show you today.”
“This is a UV lamp 222 nanometer light... what it does is it kills the viruses right. So it just passively like basically significantly reduces the chance that people in the room are going to infect ea…”
“this is why I've been like pushing for social recovery, multiigs, account abstraction, all of this stuff non-stop for the last 10 years.”
“if you're if you're going to spend if you're early in your career that's I don't know there's some things I think ZK biotech things like that haven't had their massive breakout moment yet and ZK was d…”
“places like Berlin, like I'm always a big fan of Berlin because I think the local community does a great job of like remembering what crypto is actually there for”
“obviously you have Zuzulu and all the sons and daughters and grandchildren Zuzulu zoo Thailand zoo Georgia zoo this zoo that... those are all abundance agenda sympathetic people”
“This is a course on the theory of quantum computing. It consists of 16 lessons, each with a video and written component, covering the basics of quantum information, quantum algorithms...”
“Meet Jirro Ono, the sushi monk who's taken the same pre-dawn path to making the world's best sushi since 1951.”
“Here's John Carmarmac, one of the legendary game engineers behind Doom and Quake, the first shooter games ever. We are our own besting team. And we should never allow anyone else to experience bugs or…”
“I actually built one, uh that I have myself... there is a QR code that you can scan and get the GitHub repo. It's all open source.”