Alex Wilhelm

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67,402 appearances 274 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2024 last heard 19 Aug

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This Week in Startups · This Startup Fused Human Brain Cells with Silicon Chips | E2295 · 1 Jun 2026 podcast

biological compute on top of a chip enough and we'll get gains just from improving the chip component of this. voice-verified

I'm trying to kind of figure out like putting some dots on the chart for where we're going. voice-verified

I'm just really excited about what you're working on because when we think about voice-verified

The systems we're using to make artificial intelligence smarter, we're throwing the equivalent of bodies at it. voice-verified

We're throwing more GPUs, the bitter lesson, Jevon's paradox, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. voice-verified

But we're working on systems that are so fundamentally much more power hungry, less efficient, and less attuned to the problems trying to solve than our brains, the things we already have with us. voice-verified

And so to me. voice-verified

it it just seems very logical that as the chips get better and as we make get better um algorithms to make the neurons function as we need them to, we should be able to have two different intelligence curves working in in in synchr synchronized fashion. voice-verified

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And we should get much faster gains. voice-verified

And this is when religion comes into it. voice-verified

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As background, Han, I was raised uh in a very conservative Christian church. voice-verified

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And so growing up in the nineties, I heard a lot about stem cells and cloning and a lot of just what what I would call fear mongering. voice-verified

I'm now a non religious science fiction nerd, so I'm pretty much your biggest fan. voice-verified

But I'm a little worried about how we're gonna tell people that we're fusing neurons with computers. voice-verified

Cause I think you've now taken this from proof of concept when you guys played Pong to early commercial with the CL1 to playing Doom recently. voice-verified

That was cool. voice-verified

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