The 2021 cohort for the 77 Venture Challenge #77VC is kicking off this week with 10 #AI, #IoT and #Robotics (AIR) ventures. Welcome 2Censor, 3DB, Blesen, Deep Conection, endla, GeoNadir, MaxusAI, readiness.io, Sync Technologies and Yuva AI! @AdvanceQld @QChiefEntrepren

AI100, the One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence project, released its second report today (five years after the first report). I read it. Here are my highlights and extra context, filtered through my own interests in this space (thread). ai100.stanford.edu

Thrilled to be investing $10M with Daniel Gross in AI Grant to support the new wave of founders building AI-first products. Apply now at aigrant.org!

I'm not entirely unfamiliar with making statements that go against the common wisdom of the day.

To those who think AGI is upon us: 1. why don't we have level-5 autonomous driving? Any 17 year old can learn to drive in 20 hours of training. 2. Why don't we have domestic robots that can clear the dinner table and fill the dishwasher? Any 10 year old can learn to do that in

I teamed up with philosopher Seth Lazar and AI impacts researcher Arvind Narayanan to investigate the "Statement on AI Risk" that proposes: "Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority". tl;dr: We're not convinced.🧵 fast.ai/posts/2023-05-…

Last week Main Sequence ran a great workshop with the startup team NVIDIA "How to Turbocharge your Startup using LLMs" If you couldn't make it, here are the links to the recording & presentation us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/ki9z… Passcode: A6.L&27% drive.google.com/file/d/1uwlTY9… #GenerativeAI