Game On: Marc Andreessen & Andrew Chen Talk Creative Computers

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Science, Innovation, Business, Entrepreneurship, Culture, Disruption, Software Eating The World, Technology

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🗓️ 17 April 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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The gaming industry stands as a pioneer of cutting-edge technologies, ushering in innovations like GPUs, virtual and augmented reality, physics engines, and immersive multiplayer experiences. In this episode, a16z cofounder Marc Andreessen and Andrew Chen, General Partner at a16z Games, dig into why a16z was compelled to establish a dedicated games fund. They explore the origins of tech pessimism, effective engagement with government in tech, its significance for the gaming community, the ongoing AI revolution, and even what Marc himself would build today if he didn't have his hands full. Recorded as part of a16z's extensive games fund accelerator, SPEEDRUN, this session offers valuable insights for founders and innovators at the intersection of games and technology. If you're passionate about shaping the future of gaming, consider applying for SPEEDRUN 3.0 at a16z.com/speedrun3.

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0:00.0	Our assessment is basically that the world has changed and the world has changed is changing and we're going to try to change it further
0:06.8	Now there's you know enormous moral panic around AI and another one around crypto and so forth and so it's just this constant kind of barrage of
0:12.5	negativity. It's all these academics now trying to figure out how to jailbreak these
0:16.0	things and I just get so excited and I'm just cheering on the jailbreaks.
0:19.0	I'm just so excited. The last thing I want is these things locked down. Like I want these things to be out there
0:23.8	like doing all kinds of crazy stuff. When I look at AI, what I see is sort of a new kind of computer,
0:28.4	a fundamentally new kind of computer. Every once in a while you get a platform shift that's like dramatic enough where it basically means that you both kind of can and have to reinvent from scratch the whole idea of what the thing is in the first place.
0:42.0	There's something really interesting about games.
0:45.9	This industry has long outsized the music or movie industries, yet it's often still overlooked.
0:52.4	Sometimes it's not even taken seriously.
0:55.0	And this is all despite the fact that this very industry and its difficult infrastructure challenges
1:01.0	have brought us some of the most cutting edge technologies
1:04.4	used in a variety of other industries, whether that be GPS, virtual and augmented reality,
1:10.8	physics engines, multiplayer experiences, and a whole lot more.
1:15.4	So in today's episode, you'll get to hear A16Z co-founder Mark Andresen's take on why
1:20.9	games are such an effective driver of this innovation.
1:24.5	And of course, Mark has gotten to witness and participate in many of those technology waves
1:29.4	firsthand as a founder of the world's first widely
1:33.0	mosaic, which of course became a vessel for many games itself.
1:37.0	In this episode, Mark and a 16-Z general partner
1:41.0	at a 16Z games, Andrew Chen, discuss so many things. the why all of this matters for the gaming community, why A16Z had enough conviction to raise a dedicated
1:55.7	games fund, the current AI wave of course and whether this is different from the rest, and even
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