Naveen Rao: 4D Computing, AI's Energy Wall & Beating Biology

Naveen Ralph, co-founder and CEO of Unconventional AI, which is an AI chip startup. >> Best known for building and [music] selling two deep tech companies. Naveen is kind of definitionally outlier founder. When I came there, we had about a $20 million business and it was, you know, 7 or 800 [music] million when I

left. >> I don't think you really understand something until you can build it. >> Just because something is tried does not mean it's [music] wrong. >> I'm the opposite of an AI goomer. I think AI is the next evolution of humanity. We need innovation on the hardware substrate to actually build true intelligence.

>> Please welcome Naveen Ralph. [music] Hey everyone, great to be here. Um, you know, switching gears a little bit to AI now, which you may have heard a little bit about. Um, it's super exciting to be at this conference specifically because as was said in the uh intro, I'm the opposite of a doomer. I think AI is one

of the most transformational technologies that humanity's ever created and will enable us to get to that next level of evolution which I'm here for and uh this is sort of the anti-doomer conference. So, let's go. [laughter] Um, so before we get going, I'll tell you a little bit about myself. Um, you know, I'm it's kind of weird. I'm really

right where I wanted to be my whole life. Uh this was me at about five or six years old, something like that. We had a computer very early on, so I'll date myself, but uh this was in 1978. We got a computer. This is probably in the early 80s. Uh learned to program when I

was a little kid. I just thought it was like a puzzle. Um you know, learned to I became an electrical engineer. Um really because I enjoyed sci-fi and always wanted to think about how I could make a intelligent machine. And uh you know then after a career in uh building computers I went back to school and got