What's the Difference Between Tech Focus and Value Investing?

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I feel like a quick intro and like your background would be helpful. So I work at a startup called Mashgen and we make a visual self check out kiosk where you don't have to scan items, barcodes, one by one. And that's my day job. I've also published a book since 2012 and I run an investment fund on the site. Still do it. That investment fund's been you been at that for a while. What is the like focus of that? Yeah. It's mostly kind of your typical long term value investing. But then I also do lots of different kind of, you know, special situations, quantitative strategies, things like that.

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(5:29) - Max’s background and career

(14:15) - Is it reasonable to use Neural Net, Deep Learning and Machine learning interchangeably?

(26:37) - The Future of AI

(39:18) - Google & AI Writing

(49:42) - Hiring AI for help in our personal lives

(55:02) - How Improvements in Robotics will massively push things forward

(57:12) - Computers being able to smell and taste

(1:04:56) - Scarier futures of AI

(1:08:13) - Is there a new field of opportunities you’re paying attention to now in Computer Vision?

(1:16:03) - Prompt Engineering

(1:24:54) - Final recap