Link: https://mezha.net/eng/news/mezha-6bc314a45816c39dc4eb3758_a16z_crypto_rebrands/

The venture firm is widening the unit’s focus to include AI, robotics and networks connecting people and machines, while continuing to invest in blockchain technology.

Is there an anti-index you can buy that just does the opposite of this? I feel like it would print money long term.

https://a16zfrontier.com/

Foremost is the emergence of native use cases: brand-new activities you couldn't do before. Early applications of new technologies tend to focus on doing old things better. To date, AI has mostly been used to do existing activities — like coding and other knowledge work — faster, better, and cheaper. But soon native uses will open up entirely new, unexpected experiences. At first, many of these experiments will look strange and unserious, like toys and hobbies, but over time some will grow into mainstream products. The key to telling the difference is to understand their potential rates of improvement, the factors that can bend deceptively marginal growth into an exponential curve.

[If at first you do not succeed to make something "more than a toy", and then do not succeed on your second, third, fourth and fifth times... maybe you disastrously missed your calling as a toy maker?]

We’re lucky enough to be living through one of the most consequential curves in human history today. Technological progress is accelerating rapidly, and we’re already starting to see early signals about what a post-AGI world might look like. For one thing, software and increasingly hardware are becoming easier to create. Just as the growth of smartphones fueled an earlier computing cycle, we expect a proliferation of new devices to underpin this one. Some of these will be autonomous machines that can perceive, reason, and act in the physical world. Others will draw on advances in biology and medicine. Still others will fall somewhere, cybernetically, in between.

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Even the idea of what it means to be a founder may change as we gain more superpowers and as AI agents become increasingly autonomous, able to act on their own. As these capabilities spread, they could change how industries are organized and even give rise to new ones.

Honestly as hard as I try, even after repeated experiments, I cannot rip my bong as hard as these idiots taking bong rips off of their scifi delusions.

Also, this mindset pretends to care about the future without ever mentioning Climate Change, which poses the largest existential threat to our future humanity has ever faced.

You mean, they...

pivoted to AI?

Is "pivoting to AI" becoming the "went to a nice farm up north of the city" of tech companies/tech figures?