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Alex Modon

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170 total appearances

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The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

And then ideally you're goal seeking, you're optimizing towards something.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

So that's just a calculator.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

We've done that simulation software for like decades.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

Yeah.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

And those are tools for us.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

It's like you kind of train an AI how to use that specific tool, how to run a bunch of optimizations.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

And you can do that across simulating how electrons move, how fluids move, how structures move when the earth shakes, all of that through simulation.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

And the good thing about at least our world, the easier thing that we have in our world is when you think about designing any of these big projects, it is just...

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

I mean, it's just Legos on hard mode.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

Like you are empirically saying the only way that you validly fit these things together is if it's either been done before or it perfectly matches up from an inputs and outputs perspective.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

So it's an extremely like calculable answer in almost all scenarios versus something that's a little bit more like we have to predict how it will provide an environment where we actually have no data against it.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

No, I think our problem is like, it's even more sparse.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

So it's like hard to...

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

You know, we're not an order of magnitude or two.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

Yeah, yeah.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

So we don't even really have that as an option on the table.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

I do think that most all those problems can be bounded.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

And the kind of benefit of this space is there is an incredible amount of standards that govern how something should be built.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

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