{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Manifold","title":"Letter from Reykjavik: Genomics, Chess, Hyperscaling genAI, and Quantum Black Holes — #67","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/61692eb7\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2130,"description":"This is a short episode recorded at the end of a trip to Caltech (LA), Frankfurt, and Reykjavik.\nBlack hole information and replica wormholes at Caltech (talk slides):\nhttps://stevehsu.substack.com/p/black-hole-information-and-replica\n00:00 Intro: summer in Iceland\n02:04 deCODE genetics \n05:52 Chess: Bobby Fischer in Reykjavik\n11:56 Hyperscaling genAI\n23:11 Synthetic data and Hyperscaling\n24:26 Is the Transformer architecture enough for AGI?\n29:45 Quantum black holes\nMusic used with permission from Blade Runner Blues Livestream improvisation by State Azure.\n\n--\n\nSteve Hsu is Professor of Theoretical Physics and of Computational Mathematics, Science, and Engineering at Michigan State University. Previously, he was Senior Vice President for Research and Innovation at MSU and Director of the Institute of Theoretical Science at the University of Oregon. Hsu is a startup founder (SuperFocus.ai, SafeWeb, Genomic Prediction, Othram) and advisor to venture capital and other investment firms. He was educated at Caltech and Berkeley, was a Harvard Junior Fellow, and has held faculty positions at Yale, the University of Oregon, and MSU. Please send any questions or suggestions to manifold1podcast@gmail.com or Steve on X @hsu_steve.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/3dN5jXpdPU-2tksLGunno-_3QSF26xY_bpkov6O7drs/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzI3Njg3LzE2NDI3/MjI3MjUtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}