Stanford & Google’s Westworld-like AI experiment, BloombergGPT, SF CRE collapse | E1718
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.2 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2023
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Jason breaks down an AI experiment conducted by Google and Stanford researchers, where they created a simulated Sims-like video game with characters driven by AI (2:27). Then, he discusses Bloomberg announcing its own financially-focused LLM and what it means for analysts (21:58). He wraps with two quick hits about San Francisco’s dire commercial real estate situation and the collapse of an instant delivery startup (37:51).
(0:00) Jason kicks off the show
(2:27) Stanford and Google paper "Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior"
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(11:38) Prompting the agents and programming AI
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(21:58) Bloomberg releases BloombergGPT
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(34:03) The future for financial analysts
(37:51) San Francisco's commercial real estate debacle
(47:03) MilkRun shuts down
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody, we have a ton of news for you today. First up, there's a big story out of Stanford |
| 0:04.8 | researchers have released a paper in which they basically created Westworld, if you've ever seen |
| 0:09.5 | the show or the movie, or read the book by Michael Crite. Inside a Sims-like sandbox video game, |
| 0:15.3 | they created a bunch of NPCs, had them talk to each other, emergent behavior, came out of that, |
| 0:20.0 | so we're going to talk about what Google and Stanford researchers just released. It's pretty, |
| 0:25.3 | pretty wild, folks, and it does tell us what simulation they're in Blade Runner as well. |
| 0:30.4 | Then we're going to talk about the commercialization of large data sets. Bloomberg has announced |
| 0:35.1 | their own chat GPT competitor, essentially their own LLM, called Bloomberg GPT, and we'll talk |
| 0:40.9 | about what this means for financial analysts, and figuring out market sentiment, and how these |
| 0:46.8 | data sets are going to be verticalized, and will it get rid of tons of jobs, or just augment people, |
| 0:54.3 | automate people, or deprecate jobs. We're going to talk about that very important issue, and that |
| 0:58.8 | transition from augmentation of human intelligence and performance, automation of human performance, |
| 1:04.7 | and then deprecation of humans themselves. Finally, two quick hits on San Francisco commercial |
| 1:10.1 | real estate. Turns out, some people have some interesting ideas about transforming Soma |
| 1:15.5 | into a new type of hub. I think it's a brilliant idea. It gets Mayor Jason's endorsement, |
| 1:20.0 | and our trillion startup has blown through $75 million in one year and shut down. It's in the |
| 1:25.2 | 20-minute instant delivery space, and so we'll talk about founders creating things that maybe consumers |
| 1:31.0 | don't need slash our unwilling to pay for. It's going to be a great solo dolo show. Please stick |
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