(00:00) – The Future of Jobs

(03:15) – Job growth over the last 80 years

(05:06) – The shelf-life of jobs

(09:11) – Education trends

(12:25) – The importance of learning the foundations

(17:18) – Regional access to education

(20:19) – How companies are hiring and looking at strategic priorities

(22:58) – The economic mobility and economic stability of degrees 

(25:59) – Job and training trends at Grow with Google

(28:11) – Do companies train or hire for skills?

(29:23) – The future of the traditional degree

(31:10) – The employer and educator ecosystem 

(35:36) – How to approach upskilling 

 

In a world where technology is moving at an unprecedented pace, what will the jobs of the future look like?

Kai Roemmelt, CEO of the online learning platform Udacity, and Lisa Gevelber, a key figure at Google responsible for building the Grow with Google program, unpack the seismic changes reshaping the tech and education realms.

From disrupting hiring norms to redefining how we acquire degrees and engage globally, this episode poses the question: How can you skillfully navigate the challenges and seize the opportunities awaiting in this evolving landscape?

Resources: 

Find Kai on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kai-roemmelt

Find Lisa on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisagevelber

Learn more about Udacity: https://www.udacity.com

Learn more about Grow with Google: https://grow.google

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Flock is a public safety technology platform that operates in over 4,000 cities across the United States, and solves about 2,200 crimes daily. That’s 10 percent of reported crimes nationwide.

Taken from a16z’s recent LP Summit, a16z General Partner David Ulevitch  joins forces with Flock Safety’s founder, Garrett Langley and Sheriff Kevin McMahill of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. Together, they cover the delicate balance between using technology to combat crime and respecting individual privacy, and explore the use of drones and facial recognition, building trust within communities, and the essence of objective policing.

 

Resources: 

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Find Sheriff McMahill on Twitter:  https://twitter.com/Sheriff_LVMPD

Find David on Twitter:https://twitter.com/davidu

Learn more about Flock Safety: https://www.flocksafety.com

 

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Nature’s blueprint – DNA – is an incredibly efficient machine. You cannot see it with the naked eye, yet it can last for hundreds, maybe even millions of years. Plus, the storage capacity of a single gram of DNA is over 200 million gigabytes! As the cost of DNA sequencing (reading) and synthesis (writing) comes down, scientists are looking to our very own biology for applications reaching as far as data storage. Learn more about this fascinating world with a16z General Partner Vijay Pande, as he says, this next wave of biological computing will “be the mother of many new exponentials to come.”

 

Resources: 

Save As: DNA Part 1: https://exo.substack.com/p/saving-our-story-in-dna-part-1

Save As: DNA Part 1: https://exo.substack.com/p/save-as-dna-part-2

 

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As we close off 2023, we wanted to revisit some of our favorite episodes from the last year. From AI hardware, to healthcare regulation, to disrupting the world’s largest asset class, to the electrification of nearly everything… there’s  something in here for all listeners.

 

Resources: 

AI Hardware, Explained:

https://a16z.simplecast.com/episodes/ai-hardware-explained

Chasing Silicon: The Race for GPUs: https://a16z.simplecast.com/episodes/chasing-silicon-the-race-for-gpus

The True Cost of Compute: https://a16z.simplecast.com/episodes/the-cost-of-compute

AI Revolution: Disruption, Alignment, and Opportunity: https://a16z.simplecast.com/episodes/ai-revolution-disruption-alignment-and-opportunity

The Robot Lawyer Resistance; https://a16z.simplecast.com/episodes/the-robot-lawyer-resistance

The Quest for AGI: Q*, Self-Play, and Synthetic Data: https://a16z.simplecast.com/episodes/the-quest-for-agi-q-self-play-and-synthetic-data

The Road to Autonomous Vehicles: Are We There Yet?: https://a16z.simplecast.com/episodes/the-road-to-autonomous-vehicles-are-we-there-yet-PstZz2G_

The Electrification of Everything: From Sky to Sea: https://a16z.simplecast.com/episodes/the-electrification-of-everything-from-sky-to-sea

When Two Giants Intersect: Healthcare Meets Fintech: https://a16z.simplecast.com/episodes/when-two-giants-intersect-healthcare-meets-fintech

Salary Transparency: Clarity or Chaos?: https://a16z.simplecast.com/episodes/salary-transparency-clarity-or-chaos

Disrupting the World’s Largest Asset Class with Adam Neumann: https://a16z.simplecast.com/episodes/disrupting-the-worlds-largest-asset-class

The Data Highway Above with Privateer’s Steve Wozniak, Alex Fielding, and Dr. Moriba Jah: https://a16z.simplecast.com/episodes/new-the-data-highway-above-with-privateers-steve-wozniak-alex-fielding-and-dr-moriba-jah

 

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A new age of maritime exploration, the rise of the developer as a buyer in financial services, and more applications for computer vision and video intelligence. We asked over 40 partners across a16z to preview one big idea they believe will drive innovation in 2024.

Here in our 3-part series, you’ll hear directly from partners across all our verticals, as we dive even more deeply into these ideas. What’s the why now? Who is already building in these spaces? What opportunities and challenges are on the horizon? And how can you get involved?

Topics Covered:

00:00 – Big Ideas in Tech 2024

01:39 –  Big Idea: The Rise of the Developer as a Buyer in Financial Services

07:03 – Examples of financial service infrastructure products

08:40 – Building products and cost/selling structures

09:56 – How financial institutions will adopt new technology

13:07 – Regulatory shifts and updates

14:09 – The impact on customers

16:30 – Big Idea: A New Age of Maritime 

18:15 – The challenges of maritime exploration 

19:56 – Why is 2024 the year of iInnovation in maritime exploration?

23:32 – Space and aerospace exploration’s impact on maritime 

26:51 – Geopolitical supply chain and climate applications

29:40 – Autonomous fleets

31:49 – Key challenges in modernizing maritime 

34:11 – Opportunities for builders in the space

36:23 – Big Idea: New Applications for Computer Vision and Video Intelligence

38:06 – The current use of video and it’s data

38:53 – The unlocks in hardware and software driving change

41:40 – Emerging applications and use cases

43:20 – Video and privacy

44:49 – Why is 2024 the year of change and innovation?

Resources:

Find Angela on Twitter :https://twitter.com/astrange

Find Grant on Twitter: https://twitter.com/grant__gregory

Find Kimberly on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kimberlywtan

View all 40+ big ideas: https://a16z.com/bigideas2024

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General Partner Anjney Midha explores the cutting-edge world of text-to-video AI with AI researchers Andreas Blattmann and Robin Rombach. 

Released in November, Stable Video Diffusion is their latest open-source generative video model, overcoming challenges in size and dynamic representation.

In this episode Robin and Andreas share why translating text to video is complex, the key role of datasets, current applications, and the future of video editing.

Topics Covered: 

00:00 – Text to Video: The Next Leap in AI Generation

02:41 – The Stable Diffusion backstory

04:25 – Diffusion vs autoregressive models

06:09 – The benefits of single step sampling

09:15 – Why generative video?

11:19 – Understanding physics through AI video

12:20 – The challenge of creating generative video

15:36 – Data set selection and training

17:50 – Structural consistency and 3D objects

19:50 – Incorporating LoRAs

21:24 – How should creators think about these tools?

23:46 – Open challenges in video generation 

25:42 – Infrastructure challenges and future research 

Resources: 

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Find Andreas on Twitter: https://twitter.com/andi_blatt

Find Anjney on Twitter: https://twitter.com/anjneymidha

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Voice-First Apps, AI Moats, Never-Ending Games, and Anime. We asked over 40 partners across a16z to preview one big idea they believe will drive innovation in 2024.

Here in our 3-part series, you’ll hear directly from partners across all our verticals, as we dive even more deeply into these ideas. What’s the why now? Who is already building in these spaces? What opportunities and challenges are on the horizon? And how can you get involved?

Timecodes:

00:00 – Big Ideas in Tech 2024

01:39 – Big Idea: Voice-First Apps Will Become Integral to Our Lives

04:14 – The limiting factors of voice technology

05:27 – What would a voice-first app look like? 

06:52 – Voice tech for companionship and productivity 

08:05 – The primary modality voice applications

10:08 – How builders and founders can integrate voice technology

13:31 – Big Idea: The Consumer AI Battleground Moves from Model to UX

15:49 – How user experience can contribute toward building a moat

17:57 – The commoditization of models

19:55 – How should builders differentiate between model and experience?

22:58 – Breakout examples for 2024

25:10 – Open source vs closed source

26:44 – The impact of applications splitting from the infrastructure layer

28:14 – Big Idea: AI-First Games That Never End

29:59 -Generative AI in gaming and AI native games

31:12 – Introducing generative agents as game companions 

33:57 – Does the gaming community want hyper personalization?

38:00 – New entrants vs the incumbents

41:57 – How business models and cost structures are evolving

46:21 – Advice for game builders in 2024

48:03 – Big Idea: Anime Games Go Mainstream

49:28 – What defines anime?

52:05 – Anime’s monetization strategy and how it differs from other genres

54:04 – Why are we seeing a rise in anime?

55:56 – What is required to be successful in anime

58:20 – AI, XR and inventing the next wave of anime

 

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