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Amjad Masad

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2535 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

And like a lot of people just don't struggle with the fact that there's more to life than just like mechanistic physics of it all.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

So when you start from this premise...

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

And I can talk about all the different, I can like have a technical debate about AI as well.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

But just like at rock bottom, I feel like there's something special about humans.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

There's something about the mystery of the world that we haven't really figured out.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

I think there is a sense in which intentions matter and you can...

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

you can get into a self fulfilling theories of the world.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

Right.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

Uh, and we've seen that throughout, throughout history, uh, predicting doom and bringing about crisis, you know, happens a lot.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

Um, and so I think it is important to be optimistic.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

And I think if you have a, like a doomer mindset and, um,

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

it is dangerous for that reason, for sure.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

And so I do think like people who are naturally depressed and like not very optimistic do kind of gravitate towards like a more doomer mindset.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

So think about how machine learning models are trained.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

Right now, machine learning models are trained by consuming super large corpus of content, essentially all of content on the Internet.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

and then simulating, creating algorithms, so they would learn by creating internal algorithms, essentially that's a good way to understand machine learning, to simulate how a human might respond to a query.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

You can go really far with that.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

It's amazing that it works.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

But if you give...

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

it queried on AI for something it doesn't have an algorithm for, it will fail at.