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Andy Halliday

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The Daily AI Show
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Yeah.

The Daily AI Show
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The way we would have to do, I think, in custom GPTs is you'd have to delete that document.

The Daily AI Show
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That's the way you do it.

The Daily AI Show
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We would do the document and upload it again.

The Daily AI Show
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It's the process right now.

The Daily AI Show
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Cool.

The Daily AI Show
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Can I move on to some updates on some news that we talked about yesterday and some news today that sort of moves the chips forward on the board here?

The Daily AI Show
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We talked yesterday about the whole idea of trying to mimic biological computing in order to achieve energy efficiency in silicon.

The Daily AI Show
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And I talked about Naveen Rao's startup, Unconventional AI, which has gotten $475 million to go after this question.

The Daily AI Show
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Like, how do we imitate neurons more directly in the physics of silicon rather than

The Daily AI Show
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just run in computation, which I've understood how to do on GPUs since the beginning of video games, right?

The Daily AI Show
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So now a different approach to the design of chips.

The Daily AI Show
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Well, we then kind of leaked into the whole idea of wetware and the companies that are out there using actual living cells as components in the compute infrastructure.

The Daily AI Show
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So now...

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A stealth company just emerged yesterday called the Biological Computing Company.

The Daily AI Show
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And it has a $25 million seed funding round led by primary venture partners and is going to commercialize neuron-powered AI.

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Now, when they say neuron-powered, they're talking about real neurons.

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Okay.

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The co-founders are both neurosurgeons.

The Daily AI Show
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And they grow neurons on electrodes and then encode data.