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Boss Talk #12: The AI Edition

Episode Summary

Ben, Ali, and Marc tackle the big questions around AI, including what is AI? Why do so many of the breakthroughs come from the big tech "FAANG"s? What is the difference between AI in training and in production? What are some of the coolest AI use cases today? What use cases might we see in the future? And what might all of this mean for jobs?

Episode Notes

• What is AI? [2:27]
• AI is statistics, not consciousness [7:05]
• Why then so much talk about the singularity? [12:12]
• AI breakthroughs and FAANGs [17:21]
• Building the AI toolchain [26:07]
• AI applications in bio and medicine [30:19]
• Ali's favorite AI use cases [34:35]
• What will AI do to jobs? [39:27]
•  AI in 10 years [46:09]
• Snowflake, Databricks, data Lake, data warehouse, and how it all fits together [48:16]

Boss Talk is the Clubhouse show where a16z cofounder Ben Horowitz and Ali Ghodsi, the Founder/CEO of Databricks, discuss CEO stuff, leadership stuff, management stuff... boss stuff. Live every Tuesday 5-6pm on Clubhouse.