The @tensorqt episode is here.
This is special. Just being terminally online on this app - post ideas, meet mutuals, raise funds, and build a frontier company. This has been Francesco's journey building infra for autonomous research at Paradigma.
0:00:00 - INTRO
0:01:03 - Dropping out of PhD, Saturation in Academia, Building from EU
0:13:15 - Autoresearch, Idea behind Flywheel, ex-OpenAI Co-founder
0:19:18 - Evals for Autoreserch and Research Taste
0:25:00 - How a Research Lab uses Flywheel?
0:31:15 - Thesis and Autoresearch Adoption in Top 5 Labs
0:41:00 - Working around with Flywheel, Combinatorial Explosion
1:02:03 - Science as Public Graph, Deriving New Research Loop, Quick Fire
1:06:23 - Toughest Autoresearch Challenge as of Today, Future Directions
1:11:53 - Automating Science: Sakana and Deepmind, Trust Problem?
1:21:07 - Business Model, Automating R&D, Model Capabilities
1:27:20 - Dropout of college to live on frontier!
A new age of research is ahead of us.
Some reflections by @tensorqt on the vision that motivated us to power it.
Link to the blogpost in the first reply.
Unveiling our new startup Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI Labs).
We just completed our seed round: $1.03B / 890M€, one the largest seeds ever, probably the largest for a European company.
We're hiring!
[the background image is the Veil Nebula - a picture I took from my backyard, most appropriate for an unveiling]
More details here:
https://t.co/eWHyGLXwCA
After 24 of our #portfolio entrepreneurs have shared their ideas with us let's round up the #btovPFD19 with our HR panel: Richard Eloli from #Sherpa, Andréa Pereira from @sumup, @Katharina_Wolff from @DLevel and Benjamin Heimlich from @vc_magazin#HR#HRhacks