Vinod Khosla

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Um, best talent was going.

In 2016, I gave a talk at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

I should probably release those slides.

My first slide was the top 20 uh occupations in the US by a number of people.

And I said, I can't see which ones of these can't be.

Mm.

Now this was to a bunch of economists.

That was 2016.

I was convinced, but in that talk, I had human performance and current AI performance.

And most people were making fun of AI because you tell an uh ask an 83-year-old man if they were pregnant.

It made silly mistakes.

I looked at the rate of progress.

And the rate of talent influx.

Those two things convinced me the moment for AI was soon.

Now this were twenty sixteen.

Um so by twenty eighteen when

Elon backed off uh funding OpenAI.

He'd committed a lot of money that he didn't meet his commitments for.

And when Sam called me, I looked at that and said, We have the right team.

Uh I was very worried about China.

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