AI and Jobs Primer | Stay Human, Chapter 8 | The Irrational Decision by Benjamin Recht | Conversations on Software Brain and with Larry Irving
First, thank you to those who sent condolences this week after the death of Dave's dad at age
Recent Publications (Page 40)
Venture capital's agonizingly slow progress toward gender balance
In 2019, 6.9% of deals and 2.9% of invested capital went to all-women founding teams. Clearly, the venture industry has a long way to go.
8 Trends That Will Shape the Next Decade of Venture Capital
We see eight trends that will shape the next decade of venture.
How Does a Venture Capital Firm Work?
Venture capitalists are paid to take risk—or at least that’s how it’s supposed to work.
The decade that completely transformed venture capital
The venture industry invested more than four times as much capital in 2019 as in 2010. But while the industry invested four times the amount of capital, it only invested in twice the number of companies.
Putting brakes on facial recognition & surveillance
How should we think about this super-convenient yet dystopian tech?
Facebook deepfake ban techno-solution distraction
This week Facebook announced a new policy banning deepfake videos.
Predictions for AI in the 2020s
All predictions are wrong but some are useful. Hopefully these are useful!
Facebook "subsidizes" polarization
Facebook’s algorithms cause political polarization by creating “echo chambers” or “filter bubbles” that insulate people from opposing views about current events.
