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Neuromancer
William Gibson
“Neuromancer is particularly good”
“well, Neuromancer is particularly good. If you look at Seveneves, a Neal Stephenson book, it's an extraordinary composition”— Eric Schmidt
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Seveneves
Neal Stephenson
“it's an extraordinary composition”
“If you look at Seveneves, a Neal Stephenson book, it's an extraordinary composition of of the importance of of humanity surviving the destruction of the Earth.”— Eric Schmidt
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The Age of AI and Our Human Future
Eric Schmidt, Henry A. Kissinger, Daniel Huttenlocher
“With co-authors Henry A. Kissinger and Daniel Huttenlocher, Eric has a new book out titled The Age of AI and Our Human Future.”— Tim Ferriss
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Google Search
“you use AI today whenever you use Google Search, Google Ads, spelling correction, Google Translate.”— Eric Schmidt
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Google Ads
“you use AI today whenever you use Google Search, Google Ads, spelling correction, Google Translate.”— Eric Schmidt
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Google Translate
“you use AI today whenever you use Google Search, Google Ads, spelling correction, Google Translate.”— Eric Schmidt
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AlphaGo
DeepMind
“Dr. Kissinger wrote an article after AlphaGo called the the end of history, basically.”— Eric Schmidt
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GPT-3
OpenAI
“a group called OpenAI built what is are now called universal models, where they read everything they could find on the web into something called GPT-3.”— Eric Schmidt
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Clima
Caltech (inferred)
“they used an AI system to approximate how clouds would behave, which allowed them to solve the prediction problem. It's called Clima, c l i m a.”— Eric Schmidt
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DeepMind
“there are two well-known examples in AGI. One is called DeepMind, which is in the UK. It's owned by Google.”— Eric Schmidt
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OpenAI
OpenAI
“another one is OpenAI, which is the inventor of GPT-3, uh which has a big partnership with Microsoft.”— Eric Schmidt
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The Case Against Reality
Donald Hoffman
“Donald Hoffman who is a cognitive scientist, also computer scientist at UC Irvine and he has a book that's called the believe the case against reality”— Tim Ferriss
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Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson
“I think of really good science fiction of course subjective, but Snow Crash, the description of the metaverse, or you have some of William Gibson's work.”— Tim Ferriss
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Ready Player One
“you can see it in the movie Ready Player One, where people cross over and they spend most of their time in a in a virtual world”— Eric Schmidt
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