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E563 AI CEO Alexandr Wang

2025/2/18
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Alexandr Wang
Scale AI 的首席执行官和联合创始人，专注于 AI 数据标注和机器学习工具。
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Alexandr Wang: 我认为人工智能旨在编程计算机，使其能够像人类一样思考。传统计算机编程非常基础，而人工智能则试图构建能够像人脑一样思考的算法。现代人工智能时代始于计算机视觉，目标是让计算机像人类一样“看”东西。早期的突破包括YouTube开发出能够识别视频中猫的算法。现在，人工智能已经发展到可以像人类一样说话和思考的ChatGPT。要实现这些，需要先进的芯片和算法，算法需要从大量数据中学习模式。因此，人工智能的发展依赖于计算能力、数据和算法的不断进步。

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Alexandr Wang's journey from growing up in Los Alamos, New Mexico, where his parents were physicists, to becoming the youngest self-made billionaire by founding Scale AI at age 19 is discussed. His experiences with math competitions and MIT are highlighted, along with his decision to drop out and pursue AI full-time.
  • Alexandr Wang is the founder and CEO of Scale AI.
  • He grew up in Los Alamos, New Mexico, surrounded by scientists.
  • He was a nationally ranked mathlete.
  • He dropped out of MIT to start Scale AI.
  • Scale AI is valued at $14 billion.

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Alexandr Wang is the founder and CEO of Scale AI, a platform that provides data training for AI programs. In 2021 he was named the youngest self-made billionaire in the world by Forbes at the age of 24.

Theo is joined by Alexandr Wang to talk all about AI and how it’s changing our world fast. They discuss Alex’s choice to drop out of MIT to pursue this field full time, the debate over whether it’s creating or eliminating jobs, and how soon regular people will start to see these programs in their everyday lives. 

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