Bojan Tunguz — From Physicist to Grandmaster (EP.182)

Bojan Tunguz is a senior systems software engineer at NVIDIA, quadruple Kaggle grandmaster, former top 10 Amazon reviewer, and former physicist. He joins the show to discuss the problems that LLMs can’t solve, the speed of AI progress, why he homeschools his kids, how to win Twitter, and more! Important Links: Twitter Substack 40 AI Use Cases Show Notes: Becoming a Kaggle Grandmaster Hyper-Competitive Learning From Physics to Data Science How Natural Language Processing Has Evolved The Problems That LLMs Can’t Solve The Future of the Centaur Model AI as a Creativity Extender Why Bojan is Homeschooling His Kids The AI Feedback Flywheel How Quickly Will Different Sectors Be Transformed By AI? Disruption vs. Destruction Is AGI possible? AI Use Cases: Mental Health & Elder Care How to Win Twitter Why Bojan Became a Top 10 Amazon Reviewer Bojan’s Favorite Books Bojan’s Current Side-Project Bojan As Emperor of the World MORE! Books Mentioned: Lolita; by Vladimir Nabokov The work of Haruki Murakami The work of Milan Kundera The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature; by Steven Pinker Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition have Failed; by James Scott