Cameron Berg: AI Torture, Blackmail, Robot Empathy, and more!
Cameron Berg: AI Torture, Blackmail, Robot Empathy, and more!
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Cameron Berg: AI Torture, Blackmail, Robot Empathy, and more!
Google's Gemini 4 Argon is here and yes, Google has caught up. I've had access for about a week. Let me show you some things that I've built with it because they are truly impressive. Build the most incredible hyperrealistic 3D animation of a cyberpunk 3D city using 3JS. The…
The US government essentially banned the use of Fable, Anthropic's frontier-level AI system. And if this kind of capability is locked away from us, even from some of its own creators, we have to ask if any other AI model reaches that capability, will that get the banhammer, too?…
Scientists at Deep Seek have invented something amazing and exactly at the right time when we need it most. You see, we are entering the age of AI. But, I am really surprised. I just found out that the way these AI systems run on our computers is incredibly inefficient. So, if…
Today, we are going to create crazy virtual worlds where we simulate squishy things. Yes, things that deform. This new method is incredibly impressive. It can do absolutely wonderful things. Elastic barbarian ships and rods, really squishy letters, super detailed cloth wrinkles,…
What if an AI could see into its own future? Not perfectly, no, just a little. DeepSeek did something absolutely amazing in their new research work. You see, when you ask an AI how to rewrite a difficult email, it answers you one word or one token at a time. That can get pretty…
Imagine you could hold an entire planet in your hands, a world with mountains that never existed, coastlines stretching past the horizon in every direction forever. A solo scientist invented something incredible here. One, it is a truly infinite terrain generator. This panel…
What would you see if your whole world was made out of numbers? Yes, like in the Matrix movie. A bat sees with sound. A reindeer shifts its vision into ultraviolet for the winter. But, an AI system does not have eyes. All it sees is a flood of numbers. So, how come it can…
Welcome to Startup School 2026. Now, let's get started. Please join me in welcoming to the stage the founder and CEO of Nvidia, Jensen Huang. >> [music] [music] >> Hey Jensen. >> [music] >> Please. Everybody. >> Oh my god. This is a surreal moment for me. Thank you. Thank you…
[music] >> All right, Boris. We're so excited to have you here, the creator of Claude code. >> Thank you. >> [applause and cheering] >> It's great to be here. >> Fresh off the press. You guys just shipped Opus 5 yesterday. >> Yes. >> [applause and cheering] >> And it seems that…
Sam, thanks for joining us. >> This is something. >> This is something. >> a lot bigger than the earlier startup schools. >> Yeah, I mean, uh startups are a lot bigger now than they have ever been, so. >> [cheering] [applause] >> I mean, they're bigger they're bigger than ever…
All right, [music] full rockstar treatment for Alexander Wang, everyone. All right. >> [cheering] [applause] >> So, why don't we start out uh backstage we're saying, you know, one of the cool ways to think about this event is like you know, this room is actually full of people…
[music] Welcome to uh YC Mountain View special edition of YC Paper Club. I'm thinking about some of the feedback was like kind of making it theme related. So today it's the YC kernel and chip club. So the trend that I see in lab with Stu and John that we talk about all the time…
All right. Should we go Should we get started, Jeff? >> Sure. Sounds great. >> All right. Jeff, welcome. And again, thank you so much for being here. Especially I just got a cold and thank you for being here. >> Yeah, I'm afraid I've lost my voice. I don't normally sound quite…
Okay, Patrick. Thanks so much for being here. Welcome to Startup School. >> Great to be here. Harj and I first met 20 years ago and um uh he um we started a company together. I was going to give away the introduction. >> Yeah, I I thought this was my interview, but keep going.…
Good afternoon, everyone. It's great to be here. Uh we talk a lot about AI that lives on your screen, uh lives in the digital world. And today, I'd like to talk to you about a different kind of AI that we've been building at Waymo. AI that lives in the real physical world. How…
First thing every space company should do is book the first available launch they can. >> [laughter] >> Before they built the thing that they're going to >> Before they built the thing, before they probably even know what they're going to launch. Booking a launch is such a good…
Итак, в интернете меня называют одним из самых помешанных на ИИ людей. Поэтому будет правильно начать мой рассказ с истории одного из самых «отмененных» людей в истории. Его звали Барух Спиноза. И если философия была не по вашей части, вот главные моменты, которые вам нужно…
The agents can speed you up. They can save you a lot of work, and they can do tasks like translation or resizing for you. But I we're a big believers in the human element of design and and how important that is. And so, we're trying to create a tool that lets humans work really…
My name is Max Hodak. I'm the CEO of a company called Science. Um, we're going to talk a little bit about infrastructure at startups. So, I've spent most of my life working on brain computer interfaces. This is almost 20 years ago now. Um, I started my career as an undergrad…
[music] >> Welcome to YC Paper Club. How are you guys doing today? Woo. >> [laughter] >> Okay. How do you guys like this one? We're We're We're going to change it every time now. So So today it's actually YC Robotics Club. Okay. So this is the 10th year of next year robotics…
6 месяцев назад я был будущим. Сегодня же говорят, что меня высмеяла аниме- девочка. Знаете, я получаю подобные вопросы почти каждый день. Обычно я их игнорирую. Или даю стандартный медийный ответ. Сегодня вы услышите настоящие ответы. У нас будет пять вопросов и 40 минут. И я…
Hey, I'm Ali, co-founder of CircleBack. We were in the YC Winter 24 batch and excited to show you my setup. >> [music] >> CircleBack is an AI note-taker that captures and organizes everything from your conversations. It records and transcribes your meetings, writes the notes,…
Everyone, today I'm going to be talking about the state-of-the-art of physical intelligence. And in particular, two years ago, I founded a company called physical intelligence. And uh we're really interested in how we can basically uh develop any robot allow any robot to do any…
Michael, welcome to Y Combinator uh Startup School. Uh this is uh we've got an amazing uh crowd here. It's been an amazing day and um really excited to talk about uh AI policy and your role at the White House with President Trump. Um but I wanted to tell the audience a little…
[music] Welcome to YC data club this time. I hope you guys like the little picture that we have this time. Paul Graham didn't like that I was slacking off in my little crown over there, but he does know know my name now, so that's good. All right, so why data? Why does it why…
This is a much warmer welcome than what we had coming into Y Combinator the first time. Legora's YC journey started with a rejection, but more on that story later. In YC they teach you something and it's called the two sentence description. It is describe your company in two…
So, we're here in Mountain View today with PG himself at the original offices doing your talk that you do for the YC batch. I looked it up, this is actually the 47th YC batch. >> You know, I've been trying to calculate that number. I wasn't sure exactly what it was. >> As so >>…
cost is by far the largest pain point that open models can jump in and solve. But you know, every business has a vision of getting better control over AI and customizing it for their business. And that's really their north star. You know, cost is something they can solve in the…