Hi everyone, welcome to the A6 and Z podcast. I'm Sonal and today we have two partners from

Andresen Horowitz. We were just having an informal conversation in the hallway literally around

machine learning and AI. I'm Steven Sinovsky, a board partner for A6 and Z, gave a presentation

on the evolution of machine learning. And Frank Chen recently put out a tweet storm on why Google's

deep mind algorithm beating Lee Sadal is so significant.

And they were sort of talking about like, oh my God, we've been here before.

But it's not going to be all backward looking because I think the point is that the evolution is what's, why now?

Right. And also putting, you know me, I love to put things in context because like there's always lessons to be learned and patterns to avoid and not avoid in patterns. That's a key word for today. Okay. Well, let's start talking about those patterns. Well, maybe let's start with the big go victory, which is it got people really fired up. It dominated the press for a little while. And you might be wondering, what is the big deal? Computer program won another board game.

A board game. Like, what could be less relevant to everyday life, right? And we've seen this before. We

started with Tic-Tac-Tow and we got to checkers and we got to chess. And then Watson even won Jeopardy.

And now here we are talking about another board game. So like it's kind of irrelevant to everyday life, isn't it? And the

surprising thing is, look, we've had a lot of false starts with artificial intelligence. And the

vector has always been, hey, look, now that we've run this very sophisticated board game,

checkers, whatever, now we're on the verge to do general purpose intelligence, right? And that has always been the promise and the false start of AI.

And so the question is whether this victory with Go, which is an incredibly complex game,

you can't brute force search all of the possible moves because there's just too many, right?

Right.

So people don't know.

It's like a Google times a chess game.

So think of there's all the possible chess configurations. The number of Google.

The actual search company. Right. So basically if you think of the number, total number of chess moves,

and there's a lot of them, right? It's a big board, lots of pieces. You multiply by a Google.

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