I roughly have similar beliefs and I’ve thought about the same question before.
The hope is that you could make more specific bets based on trends which are not currently clear to the world as a whole but will become apparent relatively soon. For example, I think I remember Gwern asking whether, if the scaling power of larger NNs continues, Nvidia will become the most valuable company in the world as the power of truly massive models/training volumes becomes apparent and they’re in prime position to profit.
The problem is that shares on the frontier of AI developments are already subject to a lot of hype from somewhat similar beliefs (e.g. anyone who is a major blockchain believer, or a big AI believer but in a purely positive sense). These stocks are therefore already significantly overvalued by traditional metrics and it’s not obvious whether NN progress is enough to generate major share price growth, at least with high enough probability to overcome the presumably very high discount rates that you have, even within the next 10 years (e.g. Nvidia market cap is $360B, so even becoming the largest company in the world only implies a ~6x price increase and it’s hard to give this more than 15% credence in the next decade).
It seems that if you believe specifically in short timelines then there may be companies who are particularly likely to succeed given the importance of massive models (if indeed that’s the way you expect things to play out). At the moment though, most of those in position to take advantage seem to either be embedded in larger companies (DeepMind, big tech AI divisions) or just not public (OpenAI, most startups).
Ideally I guess there would be a venture capital fund which you could place money into which would invest in the most promising companies which themselves are betting on being in position to take commercial advantage of ML breakthroughs. I’m not sure I’m aware of any such fund but I’d certainly be interested if one exists/is being created.
Agreed. Like I said though, money isn’t even my main constraint, at least not small amounts of money. (If you have an idea for how I could make a million dollars or more, or otherwise 10x my savings, let me know!) Any ideas for how I could do a bet that pays off in knowledge or help?
I roughly have similar beliefs and I’ve thought about the same question before.
The hope is that you could make more specific bets based on trends which are not currently clear to the world as a whole but will become apparent relatively soon. For example, I think I remember Gwern asking whether, if the scaling power of larger NNs continues, Nvidia will become the most valuable company in the world as the power of truly massive models/training volumes becomes apparent and they’re in prime position to profit.
The problem is that shares on the frontier of AI developments are already subject to a lot of hype from somewhat similar beliefs (e.g. anyone who is a major blockchain believer, or a big AI believer but in a purely positive sense). These stocks are therefore already significantly overvalued by traditional metrics and it’s not obvious whether NN progress is enough to generate major share price growth, at least with high enough probability to overcome the presumably very high discount rates that you have, even within the next 10 years (e.g. Nvidia market cap is $360B, so even becoming the largest company in the world only implies a ~6x price increase and it’s hard to give this more than 15% credence in the next decade).
It seems that if you believe specifically in short timelines then there may be companies who are particularly likely to succeed given the importance of massive models (if indeed that’s the way you expect things to play out). At the moment though, most of those in position to take advantage seem to either be embedded in larger companies (DeepMind, big tech AI divisions) or just not public (OpenAI, most startups).
Ideally I guess there would be a venture capital fund which you could place money into which would invest in the most promising companies which themselves are betting on being in position to take commercial advantage of ML breakthroughs. I’m not sure I’m aware of any such fund but I’d certainly be interested if one exists/is being created.
Don’t know of a venture capital fund like that, but there’s apparently a “Rise of the Robots” ETF.
Agreed. Like I said though, money isn’t even my main constraint, at least not small amounts of money. (If you have an idea for how I could make a million dollars or more, or otherwise 10x my savings, let me know!) Any ideas for how I could do a bet that pays off in knowledge or help?