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Naveen Rao recalled it was around the fifth or sixth grade when he built a buzzer system for the school Quiz Bowl. He loved to build things. He would draw the circuits out on a computer and determine if it would work.
Today, Rao is vice president of AI at Databricks, where, though he is building software, he loves talking about the story of our times: The ever-evolving development of AI systems, neural nets, the correlary to computational neurobiology, the 20-watt brain and the potential folly of building gigawatt or even, in a few years,…
