AI’s Future: Opportunity, Regulation & Limits with Vinny Lingham & Sunny Madra | E1729
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
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🗓️ 26 April 2023
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Vinny and Sunny join Jason to discuss the three phases of AI adoption and the emergence of new business models (1:55), which leads to a conversation about Grimes open-sourcing her AI-generated vocals before debating whether the government should regulate AI (24:57). They wrap with a conversation about AI’s technical constraints, OpenAI’s transparency issues, and the future of startups (39:31).
(0:00) Show start
(1:04) Vinny and Sunny join Jason
(1:55) The three phases of AI adoption
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(12:41) Building AI applications
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(19:59) Emerging business models
(24:57) Grimes’ approach to AI-generated music
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(30:04) Regulating AI
(39:31) The technical constraints of AI
(45:33) Becoming more efficient with AI
(51:16) OpenAI’s lack of transparency
(1:01:44) Lessons from Mahalo
(1:05:55) The future of startups
(1:08:36) Reflecting on the Starship launch
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| 0:56.0 | slash Jason. |
| 1:00.2 | Welcome everybody back to this week in Startups AI and crypto are basically the two |
| 1:06.8 | why-nows that we've experienced in the last five years. |
| 1:10.0 | One of them perhaps fading here in the United States and the other one soaring with me to |
| 1:14.1 | discuss it all on our weekly or every other week by weekly AI crypto round table. |
| 1:21.8 | Sunny, Sunday, Madra, the co-founder of definitive intelligence and Vinny Langham, the co-founder |
| 1:28.8 | of Civic and Weight Room. |
| 1:32.7 | Welcome back to the program boys. |
| 1:35.7 | Thanks for having us again, Sunny. |
| 1:38.7 | All right. |
| 1:39.7 | There has been a lot of discussion about the phases under which AI will be adopted. |
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