Hebbia’s George Sivulka: “Bots will be most of the economy within decade”

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Artificial intelligence “agents” will create more economic value than humans within ten years. Sound outlandish? That is the prediction of this week’s guest, George Sivulka, founder of AI startup Hebbia, who comes on to talk about building AI that actually works for business (3:20), AI orchestra conductors (9:15), coral reefs and why he called the company Hebbia (10:30), why he started the company (19:30), being a “disappointment” to his athlete parents (29:30), working at NASA as a teen (33:00), meeting Peter Thiel (36:45), and how AI is going to revolutionize the economy (42:00).

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0:00.0	I'm always up before the birds and the kids.
0:02.9	Good thing Costa Express is always up too.
0:07.0	Early starts are easier with great coffee.
0:09.7	And if I grab one for Bob, I might even get some decent company.
0:14.5	Large cappuccino for the bloc who's half asleep.
0:17.2	Oh, you legend.
0:19.6	Now that's a proper coffee.
0:21.3	Should kick in Justin Samfut, remember which end of the screwdriver to use.
0:25.1	Hmm.
0:26.3	Costa Express, quality coffee every time.
0:32.3	Yo, technology.
0:35.2	What is it all about?
0:37.1	One day, I believe opening I released GPD3.
0:41.7	Yep.
0:42.7	In the summer of 2020.
0:44.6	And I recall sitting in kind of coronavirus just playing around with this thing and realizing
0:50.1	my life's goal, which was to build meta learning, to build multitask learning, had been
0:55.2	achieved. You're like, oh, no. And I'm like, oh, I've committed my whole life to building,
1:02.7	to building this important technology, and I'm looking at it right here. Right. Back to the coral
1:08.3	reef. And so back to the coral reef. And I was like, well, at least I got to be on a boat in microneasia for a little bit.
1:13.9	Yeah, I made the right call.
1:27.0	Hello and welcome to Danny in the Valley, your weekly dispatch from behind the scenes and inside the minds of the top people in tech.
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