Bojan Tunguz is a senior systems software engineer at NVIDIA, quadruple Kaggle grandmaster, former top 10 Amazon reviewer, and former physicist.

He joins the show to discuss the problems that LLMs can’t solve, the speed of AI progress, why he homeschools his kids, how to win Twitter, and more!

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Show Notes:

Becoming a Kaggle Grandmaster
Hyper-Competitive Learning
From Physics to Data Science
How Natural Language Processing Has Evolved
The Problems That LLMs Can’t Solve
The Future of the Centaur Model
AI as a Creativity Extender
Why Bojan is Homeschooling His Kids
The AI Feedback Flywheel
How Quickly Will Different Sectors Be Transformed By AI?
Disruption vs. Destruction
Is AGI possible?
AI Use Cases: Mental Health & Elder Care
How to Win Twitter
Why Bojan Became a Top 10 Amazon Reviewer
Bojan’s Favorite Books
Bojan’s Current Side-Project
Bojan As Emperor of the World
MORE!

Books Mentioned:

Lolita; by Vladimir Nabokov
The work of Haruki Murakami
The work of Milan Kundera
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature; by Steven Pinker
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition have Failed; by James Scott

Bojan Tunguz — From Physicist to Grandmaster (EP.182)

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