2007
Khosla says the 2007 mortgage crisis wiped out his industry and ended his first AI job.
“the year being 2007, when the great mortgage crisis and the financial collapse happened, my entire industry got wiped out.”
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Vineet Khosla
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Khosla's first job after his master's in AI was building AI models for loans in the mortgage industry.
“my first job in the mortgage industry. We used to do these AI models for loans.”
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Siri's founders noticed Khosla's open source contributions and invited him to interview, leading to roughly ten years working on Siri.
“I was contributing some open source code. The founders of Siri saw my code, they invited me to apply for an interview.”
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Khosla interviewed with owner Jeff Bezos as part of being hired at The Washington Post.
“I interviewed with Washington Post, they had a great team. I interviewed with Jeff Bezos”
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Khosla's University of Georgia AI master's program combined language, philosophy, theory of mind, first-order logic and statistical AI.
“What University of Georgia was offering uniquely at that time, and it still does, is it's an interdisciplinary program.”
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