AI just hit its COVID shutdown moment

Samuel Boivin; Ethan Swope/Bloomberg via Getty Images; Alyssa Powell/BI I happened to be on the toilet both times everything changed. The first was March 11, 2020, the day America's eyes were opened to COVID. More than 4,000 people around the world had died before that date, but in the US, we were still ever so young and naive. It was a time when multiple media outlets were admonishing Andreessen Horowitz, not for extolling the virtues of "retardmaxxing" as the venture firm does these days, ...