Ep 57: Former CTO of Meta Mike Schroepfer on the Path to Powering the AI Revolution

Unsupervised Learning

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On today’s Unsupervised Learning, Mike Schroepfer (ex-CTO of Meta and founder of Gigascale Capital) reveals why energy is a key bottleneck holding AI progress back. Mike discusses how we can scale energy production to democratize AI globally and explores AI’s role in climate change. He also reflects on a decade as Meta’s CTO and how AI coding is transforming the CTO role. Finally, he offers predictions on the future of AI developer tools, VR, and open-source models.

(0:00) Intro
(0:43) AI's Role in Energy and Climate Change
(4:32) Innovative Energy Solutions
(14:50) Open Source and AI Development
(22:35) Challenges in Chip Design
(24:04) Balancing Data Center Capacity
(25:55) The Future of VR and AI Integration
(29:41) AI's Role in Climate Solutions
(31:41) AI in Material Science and Beyond
(34:31) Personal AI Assistants and Their Impact
(38:47) Reflections on AI and Future Predictions
(41:23) Quickfire

With your co-hosts:

@jacobeffron

- Partner at Redpoint, Former PM Flatiron Health

@patrickachase

- Partner at Redpoint, Former ML Engineer LinkedIn

@ericabrescia

- Former COO Github, Founder Bitnami (acq’d by VMWare)

@jordan_segall

- Partner at Redpoint

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