When downtown was packed and people on bar were packed it just felt like there was in fact safety and numbers. A 20-minute delivery service called milk run is shutting down one year after raising 75 million dollars from tiger global. The company laid off 20 percent of its staff in february and then just completely shut down last night or on sunday night. It's an emergency situation take emergency action, says San Francisco mayor jason.
Jason breaks down an AI experiment conducted by Google and Stanford researchers, where they created a simulated Sims-like video game with characters driven by AI (2:27). Then, he discusses Bloomberg announcing its own financially-focused LLM and what it means for analysts (21:58). He wraps with two quick hits about San Francisco’s dire commercial real estate situation and the collapse of an instant delivery startup (37:51).
(0:00) Jason kicks off the show
(2:27) Stanford and Google paper "Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior"
(10:10) LinkedIn Marketing - Get a $100 LinkedIn ad credit at https://linkedin.com/thisweekinstartups
(11:38) Prompting the agents and programming AI
(20:28) Pilot - Get 20% off the first 6 months at https://pilot.com/twist
(21:58) Bloomberg releases BloombergGPT
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(34:03) The future for financial analysts
(37:51) San Francisco's commercial real estate debacle
(47:03) MilkRun shuts down
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