Tag: AI
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Is Deep Tech More Capital Intensive?
Something exciting about investing in deep tech startups is that the playbooks are still unwritten. It’s still a fairly small world with people trying a diversity of strategies that will be tested by the market and refined in the coming years. One thing I’ve found basically every investor agrees on,…
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Making Machines Smart
I did a bunch of computer science in high school and college but never really got to do much robotics. I’ve recently been spending some time thinking about the space and wanted to get my hands dirty to understand it better. Thankfully, our portfolio company Viam makes it super easy…
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ChatGPT and Hedonic Adaptation
ChatGPT is incredible. It’s only the first iteration of a consumer LLM product, and I already use it everyday. Ordinary internet tools like search and wikipedia are still best for quickly finding a fact or going deep on researching something, but until ChatGPT’s release, I hadn’t realized their inadequacy for…
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Sama on AI
I’ve been reading the archives of other blogs in preparation for writing this one. As I was digging around Sam Altman’s old posts (which I will admit felt weirdly invasive), I found a record of his thoughts on AI from about two years before he founded OpenAI. In the post,…
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*Le Mage du Kremlin*
I recently finished reading Le Mage du Kremlin. It was the runner-up in the big French book contest last year and received acclaim for its literary analysis of Putin in particular and power and politics in Russia more generally. Given the discourse around the book, I was pretty surprised by…
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AI Reliability and Building Trusted Brands
Recent progress in AI is extremely exciting and has the potential to change the world for the better. However, in order for AI products to gain deep traction, they will have to earn our trust in the domains that matter the most to us. Andy summarized many of our questions…
Matthew Mandel 