Ben Gilbert

So with that, this show is not investment advice.

David and I may have investments in the companies we discuss, and this show is for informational and entertainment purposes only.

David, Google, the AI company.

Yeah, it's pretty difficult to trace a big AI lab now back and not find Google in its origin story.

Right.

It was the stuff of very specific PhD programs with a very limited set of advisors and a lot of infighting in the field of where the direction of the field was going, what was legitimate versus what was crazy, heretical, religious stuff.

Yeah.

In fact, a lot of people thought specializing in AI was a waste of time because so many of the big theories from 30 years prior to that had been kind of disproven at that point, or at least people thought they were disproven.

And so it was frankly contrarian for Larry's dad to spend his life and career and research work in AI.

Yep, and that was in 2000.

which kind of foreshadows big LLMs today are like compressing the entire world's knowledge into some number of terabytes.

That's just like the smashed down little vector set.

Little, at least compared to all the information in the world.

But it's kind of that idea, right?

You can store all the world's information in an AI model in something that is like kind of incomprehensible and hard to understand.

But then if you uncompress it, you can kind of bring knowledge back to its original form.

Do they?

That's the question.

That's the question.

They certainly mimic understanding.