Tony Kim
@tonywkim
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Global technology investor & portfolio manager at BlackRock. San Francisco.
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Joined December 2008
Our TPUs are headed to space! Inspired by our history of moonshots, from quantum computing to autonomous driving, Project Suncatcher is exploring how we could one day build scalable ML compute systems in space, harnessing more of the sun’s power (which emits more power than 100
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Now is the time for leaders in aerospace and defense to prepare to seize the full potential of utility-scale quantum computing. Together, PsiQuantum and @LockheedMartin have formed a strategic collaboration to accelerate quantum solutions to complex national security
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There’s nothing inherently expensive about nuclear, in fact it’s the opposite. If a nation WANTS to build low cost nuclear, it can. Comes down to building up the muscle and right-sizing regulations. The capital will follow.
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This is amazing - a periodic table showing every element and how it’s used. Chemistry really is everywhere. 🔬✨ What’s your favorite element?
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New breakthrough quantum algorithm published in @Nature today: Our Willow chip has achieved the first-ever verifiable quantum advantage. Willow ran the algorithm - which we’ve named Quantum Echoes - 13,000x faster than the best classical algorithm on one of the world's fastest
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My pleasure to come on Dwarkesh last week, I thought the questions and conversation were really good. I re-watched the pod just now too. First of all, yes I know, and I'm sorry that I speak so fast :). It's to my detriment because sometimes my speaking thread out-executes my
The @karpathy interview 0:00:00 – AGI is still a decade away 0:30:33 – LLM cognitive deficits 0:40:53 – RL is terrible 0:50:26 – How do humans learn? 1:07:13 – AGI will blend into 2% GDP growth 1:18:24 – ASI 1:33:38 – Evolution of intelligence & culture 1:43:43 - Why self
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Hmm. Test any person on what they learned/remember from a book they read, a week/month/year later. 🤔😬
Andrej Karpathy beautifully explains the fundamental difference of learning between a human and an LLM. > “The book I’m reading is a set of prompts for me to do synthetic data generation. It's by manipulating that information that you actually gain that knowledge. We have no
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16000 drones over Liuyang, a new world record. We need to accelerate, quick. Especially europe.
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Shirokuro, a Japanese restaurant in NYC's East Village, where the interior mimics a hand-drawn black-and-white sketchbook,
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Demis Hassabis: calling today's chatbots “PhD intelligences” is nonsense. They can dazzle at a PhD level one moment and fail high school math the next. True AGI won't make trivial mistakes. It will reason, adapt, and learn continuously. We're still 5–10 years away.
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The dilution refrigerator or “chandelier” is a beloved icon of quantum computing, but it does not have enough capacity to be practical as we scale up. We ditched the chandelier and built a simpler, dramatically more powerful form factor, capable of cooling hundreds of quantum
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@michael_nielsen Yes exactly, great question. I read it more as a critique of specific kind of power distribution and specific kind of technology. So first I share his fear of corruption from power and I think many technologists do as well, imo especially pioneers of internet/computing. There's
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I am (slowly) re-reading the Tolkien legendarium (of which Lord of the Rings is a small part). The whole body of work is so incredible and there's nothing else like it... it dilutes other worlds of fiction. Wait - your story doesn't have a comprehensive history/mythology spanning
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🫡 3. Prioritize conscience. Studying and translating thinkers from Julius Caesar to Seneca, my father saw that morals outlast talent. Moral compass, unlike intelligence or creativity, is the ultimate human quality that will not lose value even in the age of AI.
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Anybody who looks at the numbers sees that we've never had deficits remotely like this, or the prospect of debts remotely like this, at a moment when the economy was strong and we were at peace in our history. This is a risk that we don't need to run and for what, to give a
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ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos interviews former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers on “This Week.”
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No donors. No puppets. No strings. Just a party built on common sense, not consultants. The 'America Party'🇺🇸
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