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Balaji Srinivasan

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The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

Simply not, right?

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

Even like, you know, a pendulum, you know, with a few different weights on it, there's different ways you can quickly get into chaotic or, you know, that kind of behavior.

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

So empirically right now, at least, and you can argue this point, whether AI is centralizing or decentralizing, but I think there's so many AI companies and there's so many AI models out there that it's pretty hard to put a lid on the thing.

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

And then finally, if you go to the end, the optimal amount of AI is not 100%.

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

If you scroll down a little bit further, right?

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

0% AI is low, but 100% AI is slop.

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

Just having that concept in mind means that in almost any process,

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

You do not want to have 100% AI, but you probably, and frankly, sometimes you want 0% AI.

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

You often want to just learn offline with pencil and paper and then speed up with AI because AI is a shortcut.

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

And like any shortcut, it can be overused to the point that you don't know how to take the long cut, right?

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

Okay, this is a laugher curve, but for AI.

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

And then, you know, I talk about how referential is this?

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

Whoa, we're referencing Torenberg on Torenberg.

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

Yeah.

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

A16Z podcast, that's right.

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

This is recursive, right?

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

And fundamentally, my worldview on AI is it's constrained AI.

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

It's economically constrained because every API call is expensive and now it's energy constrained, right?

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

It's

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

There's so many competing models.