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John Collison

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587 total appearances

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The a16z Show
From Models to Mobility: Building Waymo with Dmitri Dolgov

in the nominal case, drive pretty darn well, which is mind-blowingly impressive.

The a16z Show
From Models to Mobility: Building Waymo with Dmitri Dolgov

That is very funny, yeah.

The a16z Show
From Models to Mobility: Building Waymo with Dmitri Dolgov

I just want to be clear, it's...

The a16z Show
From Models to Mobility: Building Waymo with Dmitri Dolgov

Orders of magnitude away from what you need.

The a16z Show
From Models to Mobility: Building Waymo with Dmitri Dolgov

Exactly, exactly.

The a16z Show
From Models to Mobility: Building Waymo with Dmitri Dolgov

And you can actually, the product that you wanted to build was maybe a driver assist system, not a fully autonomous system.

The a16z Show
From Models to Mobility: Building Waymo with Dmitri Dolgov

Then maybe that's all you need to do.

The a16z Show
From Models to Mobility: Building Waymo with Dmitri Dolgov

And then for that, you don't need all this other machinery of the simulator and the critic because the number of nines is drastically lower.

The a16z Show
From Models to Mobility: Building Waymo with Dmitri Dolgov

But this is interesting because there is some...

The a16z Show
From Models to Mobility: Building Waymo with Dmitri Dolgov

intuition behind you know why that works if you think about the hard parts of driving it's you know not unlike you know having a conversation except if in the llm world right having you know your modeling

The a16z Show
From Models to Mobility: Building Waymo with Dmitri Dolgov

language or maybe modeling a dialogue in the space of sentences and words.

The a16z Show
From Models to Mobility: Building Waymo with Dmitri Dolgov

What makes driving hard is also this kind of multi-agent social interactive part of it.

The a16z Show
From Models to Mobility: Building Waymo with Dmitri Dolgov

And if I do something that's going to affect you, it's going to affect somebody else.

The a16z Show
From Models to Mobility: Building Waymo with Dmitri Dolgov

And the history matters.

The a16z Show
From Models to Mobility: Building Waymo with Dmitri Dolgov

It's not local and just geometric.

The a16z Show
From Models to Mobility: Building Waymo with Dmitri Dolgov

Context matters.

The a16z Show
From Models to Mobility: Building Waymo with Dmitri Dolgov

Semantics matters.

The a16z Show
From Models to Mobility: Building Waymo with Dmitri Dolgov

So, but it's in a different, you know, it's not in the language of words, it's in the language of kind of

The a16z Show
From Models to Mobility: Building Waymo with Dmitri Dolgov

Well, body language, if you will, right?

The a16z Show
From Models to Mobility: Building Waymo with Dmitri Dolgov

So, and we see that empirically validated if you do this approach.