Garry Tan

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President and CEO of Y Combinator; co-founder of Initialized Capital and Posterous.

Speaks on: AGI AI AI Ethics AI Policy Research Policy

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Personal AGI is a different animal. An agent that runs on your infrastructure, reads from a memory you own, executes procedures you wrote, and compounds. [...] I believe intelligence—intelligence of this kind—should be owned by you, not rented. If yo...
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