Imagine a computer that you never have to upgrade, or one that never runs out of storage. Today we’re sitting down with my friend Suhail Doshi to help me show you how the future of the internet is giving us new powers we never had before. Download Mighty: https://www.mightyapp.com/ Follow Suhail on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Suhail 00:00 The future of all computing 1:52 The future of the internet 4:55 Devs trapped Apple’s walled garden 7:36 Leadership and hiring tips 10:09 Download Mighty! 100% of the revenue from this channel is donated to https://www.code2040.org​ - thank you for helping me help the engineers of tomorrow. I’m Garry Tan, venture capitalist and founder at Initialized Capital. We were earliest investors in billion dollar startups like Coinbase and Instacart, and I’m a Forbes Midas List Top 100 venture capitalist in the world. We want these videos to be about helping people build world-class teams and startups that touch a billion people. Our startups have gone on to create more than $200 billion in market value so far, and Initialized has over $3.2B in assets under management. Please like this video and subscribe to my channel if you want to see more videos like this! Follow me on Twitter and Instagram so you'll never miss my videos and ideas— https://instagram.com/garrytan​ https://twitter.com/garrytan​ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezCEv1kgwbQ

Can computers think like humans? Can they learn like us? $1 trillion is spent yearly on tasks a general artificial intelligence can do. D Scott Phoenix of AI startup Vicarious is building exactly that. 00:59 How Garry and Scott met 02:02 How Scott came up with the idea to work on AGI 02:41 The time to build AGI is now 03:10 Why work on AGI? 04:26 What are the building blocks to building a general AI? 04:49 What is a human-like learning system? 06:15 Vicarious vs Deep Learning 08:08 Traditional AI methods resemble insectoid or reptilian brain approaches 09:43 New methods and models are more important than more money on training existing models 11:52 Limits of narrow AI 12:48 History and origins of the AI debate in philosophy and neuroscience 14:45 Brute force methods require 14,000 years of training to do what children only need 2 years to learn 15:28 Lessons from biology 16:24 How do systems layer to generate more complex behavior? 17:30 Is an ambitious project like AGI composable and iterable like SaaS software? 20:01 Long term ambition is great, but what do you do along the way? 20:38 Vicarious's first applied use case in robotics 22:16 Vicarious vs other robotics approaches 23:47 Building learning systems, not one-off point solutions 24:51 Advice for builders just starting out 25:17 How to tackle large problems and ambitious projects 26:57 Technology is the ultimate lever for humans to create a better world 29:14 How to be prepared for the long hard road Full transcript at https://blog.garrytan.com/building-general-ai-with-d-scott-phoenix-founder-of-vicarious Learn more about Vicarious: https://vicarious.com I’m Garry Tan, venture capitalist and cofounder at Initialized Capital. We were earliest investors in billion dollar startups like Coinbase and Instacart, and we’re spending time with some of our best founders to learn the secrets of their success and see the future they’re building. I’m doing my own run-and-gun one man YouTube channel with no staff or crew — we're going for raw and unfiltered, not perfect. Please like this video and subscribe to my channel if you want to see more videos like this! ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOMZebDXQsU