In big companies, the main incentive is getting promoted, while startup people are passionate about their work and don't care about titles or compensation. This mindset can seem alien to established companies. Additionally, existing companies may resist change and be wary of disruptive technologies like AI. This creates tension within the company and makes progress difficult.
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Naveen Rao, founder of MosaicML, to talk about the efficiency of the human brain (3:30), slashing the cost to train AI models (8:00), how this is like the evolution of the car (11:40), selling to Databricks (14:30), how the AI market will evolve (17:00), the fallacy of AI doomerism (21:00), growing up in eastern Kentucky (22:30), plunging into the dotcom boom (24:50), why he studied neuroscience (27:10), selling his previous startup to Intel (32:00), solving intelligence (34:40), and what he tells his kids about the future (40:00).
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