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Cartoon Humor Test for AGI
Albert Wenger – Jul 10, 2019
I wrote a post nearly four years ago titled Brief Q&A on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), which has held up pretty well. Despite a lot of progress in specific domains since then there is no obvious sign that AGI is [...] Read more
Otis
Albert Wenger – Jul 9, 2019
Museums are a wonderful way to see art and to make art accessible to the public. On the opposite spectrum of accessibility are private collections, locked away in the homes, or sometimes simply the storage facilities, of collectors. Even for [...] Read more
The Heretic
Fred Wilson – Jul 9, 2019
I am reading a friend’s book which is still in proofs and so I’m not going to talk about it yet. But there is one part of the book that really rang true for me and that is when he [...] Read more
Business Model Innovation
Fred Wilson – Jul 8, 2019
I’ve shared my views on this before here at AVC. I believe business model innovation is more disruptive than technical innovation. A good example of this was moving from web apps to mobile apps, which was largely a technical innovation. [...] Read more
Practice
Fred Wilson – Jul 5, 2019
When I started writing this blog in 2003, I was not a strong writer. Sixteen years later, I am a better writer. Doing something every day is the best way to improve at something. I’ve been doing yoga for roughly [...] Read more
The American Dream
Fred Wilson – Jul 4, 2019
It has been 243 years since our founding fathers signed the Declaration Of Independence and the great American experiment began. These words form the moral backbone of our country and represent our core values: We hold these truths to be [...] Read more
A Blast From The Past
Fred Wilson – Jul 3, 2019
I saw this in my twitter feed today. Almost a decade ago, my friend John Heilemann interviewed John Doerr and me at Web 2.0. It is interesting to go back a decade and see what we were talking about then. [...] Read more
Oculus Quest
Fred Wilson – Jul 2, 2019
If there is a technology that has overpromised and underdelivered more than AR/VR over the last five years, I am not sure what it is. Facebook paid $2bn (or possibly more) for Oculus in the spring of 2014 and maybe [...] Read more
Universal Basic Income: An Introduction
Albert Wenger – Jul 1, 2019
Here is the text of a speech I gave at the 72nd Annual NYU Labor Conference, which this year was on AI and Automation. Unfortunately there is no recording - I stuck relatively closely to this, but didn’t read it. ———- [...] Read more