language interfaces are going to be a big deal, i think. talk to the computer (voice or text) and get what you want, for increasingly complex definitions of "want"!
this is an early demo of what's possible (still a lot of limitations--it's very much a research release).
This is what I keep saying. Economists have stopped asking the big questions about development.
Ironically, there are sociological reasons for why. The field settled on a local maximum and is trapped in a self-reinforcing suboptimal equilibrium.
i'm hopeful for a future where people who want to work really hard have incredibly fulfilling things to do, and people who don't want to work hard don't have to and can still have an amazing life of prosperity.
As a researcher at a frontier lab I’m often surprised by how unaware of current AI progress public discussions are.
I wrote a post to summarize studies of recent progress, and what we should expect in the next 1-2 years:
https://t.co/B7438Z9lOF
while big companies are struggling to integrate AI internally, AI-native startups have absolutely EXPLODED
token usage is up 22x yoy in openrouter alone
no better time to build
@radjathaher probably true, but still not comparable at all to mba
also yc’s bigger cohorts vs thiel fellow allows more non-americans to have a chance
and @paulg is famously anti college drop out, that might explain the new yc rule
couldn’t disagree more
1) yc funds you; you pay for mba
2) yc is hardcore; mba is pretty
3) yc teach how to sniff bullshit; mba teach how to bullshit
4) most yc startups fail but some become generational companies (global maxima); most mba grads land good jobs (local maxima)
YC has become the new Harvard MBA: institutionalized, legible, and hedged by optionality. won’t be surprised if the outcome of both institutions are converging