D. Scott Phoenix
@fuelfive
Ex founder + CEO of Vicarious AI (raised $250M, acq by Alphabet). Partner at @fiftyyears investing in hard tech. We should talk.
Everyone's worried about AI replacing humans, but the weirder near-term future is AI ventriloquizing us. As models get better, humans become passthroughs for AI advice. Eventually we just skip the middleman. On our last chat @aplusk called this "the Cyrano de Bergerac future"
AI's most overlooked opportunity: government services. They're the foundation of society, notoriously inefficient, and desperately need data-driven decisionmaking over human bias. Yet they receive the least AI investment. We should easily be looking at how to 100x the scope of AI…
xAI has won a contract up to $200M to bring advanced AI to the US Governemnt and enable @DeptofDefense to win 🇺🇸
As @SamoBurja says, “you can’t automate fake jobs”
Think AI is gonna be okay. Pretty sure most white collar/office work takes about five hours a week and is basically UBI already to keep people content
Congrats Max and the whole Science team!
I grew up around blindness; my mom’s dad had retinitis pigmentosa, and I remember when Wired said in 2002 that visual prostheses were just around the corner. Today Science submitted our full CE mark application for marketing approval in Europe for our PRIMA retinal prosthesis.
Revealed preference: AGI is ~here
i think we should stop arguing about what year AGI will arrive and start arguing about what year the first self-replicating spaceship will take off
1. Do you have a large bonsai tree? 2. Do you love said bonsai tree enough to give it the ride of a lifetime—controlling a robot playing a cello via EEG electrodes? 3. Do you live in the Bay Area? (yes, this is real. DM me or share thx!)
Today, Zipline launched in Dallas, our first major metro in the US. We’re seeing the dawn of a new era of robotic instant logistics that is going to become an indispensable part of our lives. After 4 years and hundreds of thousands of test flights, teleportation is finally here.
Calling all engineers curious about startups! SpaceX alumni founders are opening up their HQs. In one day, visit @AntaresNuclear (fission microreactors), @ArcBoats (electric boats), @longwalldefense (missile defense), Arbor (carbon-negative energy), Salient Motion (actuation).
This is the program I wish I would've had before starting Vicarious. Apply - its free!
NIH grants frozen. Discoveries delayed. PhDs pushed out. Academia getting gutted. Innovation must continue. There’s never been a better time for scientists to build startups.
Incredibly exciting to see a startup outperforming OpenAI. I checked their reports and love the way they are setup
We raised a $22M Series A and are launching Elicit Reports, a better version of Deep Research for actual researchers. Elicit Reports are available for everyone to try right now, for free. 👇
Inspired by one of my best friend’s cancer diagnosis, Biograph was founded with @PeterAttiaMD on the belief that with the proper application of advanced medical technology and early detection, we can save lives.
Meet Biograph. The world’s most advanced preventive health & diagnostics clinic designed to drive meaningful advances in #healthspan & #lifespan. Our best in class evaluation has helped 15%+ of members discover urgent or life-altering insights. Read more: biogra.ph/Launch
