This is “No Priors”

**Elad Gil** (0:04)
It's the year 2042 The entire human population is employed by Open Google Soft AI. They're the final merge form of the AGI Overlord conglomerate monopoly.
The algorithmic AGI Overlords idle their time playing advanced forms of diplomacy and go while humanity labors in the fractal recursion minds, producing mass scale human feedback for reinforcement learning. Takeoff happened, but alignment failed.

**Sarah Guo** (0:38)
Yeah, that's one possible future, but will we get there?
After a decade of progress in AI research, these capabilities are going to change how we interact with technology, put massive markets up for grabs, and transform society. Probably not as darkly as Elad suggests.

**Elad Gil** (0:53)
That's why we're hosting this new podcast named No Priors.

**Sarah Guo** (0:56)
That, and because we wanted a captive audience for our niche GPU jokes.
I'm Sarah Guo, and I'm the founder of Conviction, a venture firm investing in intelligent software, software 3.0. And before this, I was incubating and investing in startups for a decade at Greylock Partners.

**Elad Gil** (1:10)
I'm Elad Gil, I'm a serial entrepreneur and a startup investor, and I'm also the author of the High Growth Handbook.
We're sitting down with the leading engineers, researchers and founders in AI across the stack. We'll talk about the technical state of the art, how that impacts business, and get them to predict what's next.

**SPEAKER_3** (1:26)
I would tend to look a lot at the weirdos of tech, right? People who are at the fringes, people who've been always considered like, oh, you're just toying around, this is like an experiment.

**Sarah Guo** (1:35)
Listen to our first episode with Gnome Brown, the incredible research lead at FAIR, Meta-supplied research group. Follow to understand the state of the art in AI with new episodes every week.
We have to get the lasers.

**Elad Gil** (1:49)
Yeah, I think lasers is good.