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Alexandr (Alex) Wang

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The Shawn Ryan Show
#208 Alexandr Wang - CEO, Scale AI

So they, they somehow they hook into basically the neural circuits that are doing the visual processing, visual like image processing in the brain.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#208 Alexandr Wang - CEO, Scale AI

And they're able to project like,

The Shawn Ryan Show
#208 Alexandr Wang - CEO, Scale AI

things into their into their vision such that the monkey will like always click the button that you want it to collect to click um and then you know you give it you know a treat or something damn and so yeah manipulating vision manipulating your senses manipulating your emotions um uh this is this will be longer term but like leveraging your memories um manipulating your memories manipulating like uh those are that stuff is on the table the other stuff that is

The Shawn Ryan Show
#208 Alexandr Wang - CEO, Scale AI

i think more exciting is like being able to hook into ai and like all of a sudden i have encyclopedic knowledge about everything and just like you know chat gpt or other ai systems do i can like think at superhuman speeds i can um all of a sudden i can like uh i

The Shawn Ryan Show
#208 Alexandr Wang - CEO, Scale AI

I have way more information I can process.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#208 Alexandr Wang - CEO, Scale AI

I can understand everything that's going on in the world and then process that instantaneously.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#208 Alexandr Wang - CEO, Scale AI

I think there's an element here where we'll legitimately turn us superhuman from a just cognitive standpoint.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#208 Alexandr Wang - CEO, Scale AI

But then to your point, the flip side of that is the risk the other way, which is that you're going to have... It's a huge attack vector.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#208 Alexandr Wang - CEO, Scale AI

Yeah, so we do a few things.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#208 Alexandr Wang - CEO, Scale AI

So we help...

The Shawn Ryan Show
#208 Alexandr Wang - CEO, Scale AI

large companies and governments deploy safe and secure advanced AI systems.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#208 Alexandr Wang - CEO, Scale AI

We help with basically every step of the process, but the first thing that we were known for and we've done very well is exactly what you're saying, which is creating large-scale data sets and creating data foundry is what we call it, but creating the large-scale data production that goes into fueling every single one of the major AI models.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#208 Alexandr Wang - CEO, Scale AI

And if you ask questions in ChatGPT, that question

The Shawn Ryan Show
#208 Alexandr Wang - CEO, Scale AI

it's able to answer a lot of those questions well because of data that we're able to provide it.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#208 Alexandr Wang - CEO, Scale AI

And as AI gets more and more advanced, we're continually fueling more advanced scientific, advanced information and data into those models.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#208 Alexandr Wang - CEO, Scale AI

And then we also work with the largest enterprises and governments like the DoD and other agencies in the US to deploy and build full AI systems, leveraging their own data.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#208 Alexandr Wang - CEO, Scale AI

And our strategy as a company has been, how do we focus on

The Shawn Ryan Show
#208 Alexandr Wang - CEO, Scale AI

How do we focus on a small number of customers where we can have a really big impact?

The Shawn Ryan Show
#208 Alexandr Wang - CEO, Scale AI

So we work with the number one bank.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#208 Alexandr Wang - CEO, Scale AI

We work with the number one pharma company, the number one healthcare system, the number one telco, the number one country, America.