Great day in NYC at the Nyca Partners , Bain Capital Ventures , QED Investors #fintech demo day!
Wonderful to see so many friends and make some new ones.
@ninousarwono Claire Verville @Jessepod Christi Deakin @danterrasi@ONfintech https://t.co/fJpJYcYrmg
It's pretty awesome how dancing makes robots less intimidating. Looking forward to seeing more nontrivial Machine Learning on these robots. Credit: Boston Dynamics.
The GPT-3 hype is way too much. It’s impressive (thanks for the nice compliments!) but it still has serious weaknesses and sometimes makes very silly mistakes. AI is going to change the world, but GPT-3 is just a very early glimpse. We have a lot still to figure out.
I’m moving $1B of my Square equity (~28% of my wealth) to #startsmall LLC to fund global COVID-19 relief. After we disarm this pandemic, the focus will shift to girl’s health and education, and UBI. It will operate transparently, all flows tracked here: https://t.co/hVkUczDQmz
As recently as March 10, the rates of confirmed coronavirus infection in NYC & SF were roughly the same: NYC had seven cases and SF had 14. On Monday evening, NYC had more than 38,000 confirmed cases and 914 deaths; SF had over 374 cases and six deaths. https://t.co/P4hDIyYPYR
Enemies of innovation:
1 culture of blame
2 no safe space to experiment
3 desire to please all
4 big egos
5 self-doubt
6 micro-management of talent
7 fear of failure
8 too much process rigor
9 impatience
10 abundance of resources
11 need for immediate KPIs
12 HIPPOs #Think2018