Adam D'Angelo (@adamdangelo) on X (original) (raw)

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  We are going fully remote first at Quora. Most of our employees have opted not to return to the office post-covid, I will not work out of the office, our leadership teams will not be located in the office, and all policies will orient around remote work. (1/2)
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  Wild that the o3 results are public and yet the market still isn't pricing in AGI
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  At Quora we recently tested switching from Zoom to Google Meet for a week. Google Meet is better in many small ways, but worse in one big way: audio quality, particularly background noise cancellation and echoing. That kills it so we are staying on Zoom!
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  It’s so incredible that we are going to live through the creation of AGI. It will probably be the most important event in the history of the world and it will happen in our lifetimes.
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  The pace of change right now is unbelievable. We are going to be living in a very different world a year from now.
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  We are opening up a new role at Quora: a single engineer who will use AI to automate manual work across the company and increase employee productivity. I will work closely with this person.
  
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  I think we are permanently done with AI winters. Endless summer from here on.
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  We are excited to launch Poe for desktop today at poe.com. With this launch, between our existing iOS app this new web interface, we believe Poe is now the fastest and easiest way to talk to AI across iOS and all desktop platforms.
  
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  Today, we are opening up public access to a new AI product we have been building called Poe. Poe lets people ask questions, get instant answers, and have back-and-forth conversations with several AI-powered bots. (1/n)
  
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  I expect we will see continual progress from here to AGI, without any period that feels like a "winter". There are just too many obvious things left to be done. And the underlying exponential growth in compute has a very long way to go.
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  One reason the AI boom is being underestimated is the GPU/TPU shortage. This shortage is causing all kinds of limits on product rollouts and model training but these are not visible. Instead all we see is Nvidia spiking in price. Things will accelerate once supply meets demand.
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  I don't think people realize how bad this will be.
  
  Technology is on the verge of being able to generate credible video and audio of anyone saying anything econ.st/2tTpzti
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  I am very pro skilled immigration, but to build the biggest coalition it needs to be framed as “how we get the best people on our team so we can win” instead of “look how racist/selfish these people are to not want to allow it”