Finding a Single Source of AI Truth With Marty Chavez From Sixth Street

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🗓️ 22 May 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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a16z General Partner David Haber talks with Marty Chavez, vice chairman and partner at Sixth Street Partners, about the foundational role he’s had in merging technology and finance throughout his career, and the magical promises and regulatory pitfalls of AI. This episode is taken from “In the Vault”, a new audio podcast series by the a16z Fintech team. Each episode features the most influential figures in financial services to explore key trends impacting the industry and the pressing innovations that will shape our future.

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0:00.0	I cannot believe he said this to me in 1981 but he said the future of the life
0:06.5	sciences is computational. The Thru Arc is my entire career. I've been building digital twins of some
0:16.0	financial or scientific or industrial reality.
0:21.0	We looked at that and thought, wow, we better do something about this very large unhedged
0:26.6	position.
0:28.1	That was the history of Dodd-Frank, like we don't really know what went wrong in the financial
0:32.0	crisis, so let's just go regulate everything.
0:34.8	And I think 99% of it was red tape that did not make the world a better place.
0:41.3	This was one of the many early nuclear winters of AI. I walked right into it.
0:47.0	Hello everyone, welcome back to the A16C podcast. This is your host, Steph Smith.
0:52.0	Now today we have a very special episode from a new
0:55.6	series called In The Vault. This series features some of the most influential voices
1:00.5	across the finance ecosystem, including of course our guests today, Marty Chappets.
1:05.6	Marty is now the partner and vice chairman of 6th Street Partners, however he's long
1:10.6	had a knack for spotting how a healthy serving of technology can disrupt other industries.
1:15.4	From his PhD of Applied Artificial Intelligence to Medicine to being one of the founding
1:20.0	engineers of the team that created SecDB. That's the software that perhaps
1:24.3	couldn't predict the global financial crisis but famously help Goldman survive
1:28.5	it. So today Marty sits down with A16Z general partner David Haber, and they talk about a lot more,
1:35.2	including where the puck is moving in this new wave of technology and the role of regulators
1:39.7	and lawmakers within that.
1:41.9	And of course, if you like this this episode don't forget to check out
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