A historical collection of our writing.
Matt Mandeltl;dr: For increasingly capable AIs to gain widespread adoption, they will have to earn our trust by reliably doing what we want in the ways we want. Four promising areas for ensuring reliability and corrigibility in AI products are: refining AI behavior, interpreting models, evaluating models, and […] Read more
Fred WilsonThere has been a lot of discussion about how AIs can make art and possibly replace artists, but I think the opposite is more likely to happen. Artists have been using AI to make art for a while now and the pace has picked up a lot in recent years. I have always loved the […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonI was approached by a company this week that has trained a large language model on all of the blog posts I have written here at AVC. There are 9059 of them for those that are counting. They wanted to offer me a chat bot called “ask Fred.” I told them no thanks. Let me […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Politics in the US has become ever more tribal on both the left and the right. Either you agree with 100 percent of group doctrine or you are considered an enemy. Tim Urban , the author of the wonderful Wait but Why blog has written a book digging into how we have gotten here. Titled […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Politics in the US has become ever more tribal on both the left and the right. Either you agree with 100 percent of group doctrine or you are considered an enemy. Tim Urban , the author of the wonderful Wait but Why blog has written a book digging into how we have gotten here. Titled […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Trust is the core component of the USV investment thesis: “trusted brands that broaden access” is the opening description of our articulation. In a world of applications that are driven by artificial intelligence, we are now thinking about how trust will be defined and established, and in what […] Read more
