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<ul class="summary-list"><li><a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/who-is-peter-thiel-svb-facebook-trump-biography-2023-3">Peter Thiel</a> predicted that either Kamala Harris or Donald Trump would win the 2024 election handily.</li><li>Thiel, who says he's "very strongly pro-Trump," pointed out that most elections aren't close.</li></ul>Peter Thiel, the <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/peter-thiel-fbi-informant-charles-johnson-johnathan-buma-chs-genius-2023-10">right-wing tech billionaire</a> who's known for his contrarian views, is making another unusual prediction: The 2024 election won't be close.During a <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYRunzR9fbk">live appearance</a> at "The All-in Summit" earlier this month, Thiel acknowledged that this year's race between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris is "basically 50-50," though he believes Trump is favored.But he also argued that the last two presidential elections may have been historical aberrations in terms of how close they were."My one contrarian view on the election is that it's not going to be close. You know, most presidential elections aren't," Theil said. "2016 and 2020 were super close, but two-thirds of the elections aren't."Though he didn't go into detail, Thiel mused that either the "Kamala bubble will burst" or "maybe the Trump voters get really demotivated and don't show up.""One side is simply going to collapse in the next two months," Thiel added.It happens to be a self-serving argument for Thiel. After spending money to elect Trump in 2016 and <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/peter-thiel-super-pac-jd-vance-ohio-fec-ruling-2024-5">pouring millions of dollars</a> into two key Senate races in 2022 — JD Vance in Ohio and <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/blake-masters-loses-arizona-primary-abe-hamadeh-jd-vance-2024-7">Blake Masters</a> in Arizona — the conservative tech billionaire has stepped back from financial involvement in politics. He's since <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/jd-vance-peter-thiel-donald-trump-get-off-sidelines-2024-8">faced pressure from Vance</a> to "get off the sidelines" this year.Thiel has argued that political spending has little impact, especially at the presidential level. During the "All In" appearance, he said that's even more true in a landslide election. "If it's not even close, I don't think it makes much of a difference," Thiel said."I am still very strongly pro-Trump, pro-JD," Thiel said. "I've decided not to donate any money politically, but I'm supporting them in every other way possible."He went on to claim that if the election is indeed close, Harris and Democrats will "cheat" via ballot harvesting and election rule changes.The Harris campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment. When pressed on how he would change US elections, Thiel said he'd prefer to see just one day of voting, "practically no" absentee ballots, and stronger voter ID laws.

Peter Thiel predicts the 2024 election won't be close: 'One side is simply going to collapse'

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>An <keyword id="11907754" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="arizona" source="Orion">Arizona</keyword> Republican Senate candidate said the gender pay gap is "a left-wing narrative."</li><li><keyword id="13005786" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="blake-masters" source="Orion">Blake Masters</keyword>, an acolyte of businessman Peter Theil, made the comments in a video obtained by NBC.</li></ul>Arizona Republican Senate candidate Blake Masters questioned the existence of a <a href="https://blog.dol.gov/2021/03/19/5-facts-about-the-state-of-the-gender-pay-gap">gender-based pay gap</a> in America in a newly obtained video from NBC News, even though data shows men typically earn more than women for comparable jobs."Women are not paid less in America than men," Masters said. "It's a left-wing narrative, this gender pay gap. When you control for the occupations, when you control for people taking time out to, you know, birth children, things are actually pretty equal. And men do the most dangerous jobs."Masters' campaign declined to provide comment when Insider reached out.<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-election/gender-pay-gap-just-left-wing-narrative-ariz-senate-candidate-said-rcna28327">NBC News first reported on Masters' statements</a> on Wednesday. According to NBC, Masters made the comments during an appearance at a February 4 candidate forum in Scottsdale, Arizona. Masters is a close ally of <keyword id="12142474" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="peter-thiel" source="Orion">Peter Thiel</keyword>, a billionaire tech entrepreneur. Through a super PAC, Thiel has already spent<a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/26/peter-thiel-arizona-senate-race-484585"> $10 million</a> to help Masters win.Masters said that the gap does not exist when it is taken into account that men do "most dangerous jobs." He made the remarks during a discussion of the Equal Rights Amendment. <a href="https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/gop-warming-equal-rights-amendment">The ERA once received bipartisan support,</a> but it has become heavily politicized in recent years as more Republicans oppose passing a Constitutional amendment that would prohibit discrimination on the ba"Men are the ones who are doing risky, you know, fishing–crab in Alaska," Masters said. And sometimes those jobs pay more. Sometimes those jobs pay more, and so I think we got to push back on the fake left-wing narrative that women don't have equal rights in this country."The reality is different from Masters' assertion as the gender-based pay gap has been extensively researched and documented. <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/05/25/gender-pay-gap-facts/">Pew Research found last year</a> that the gap between men and women has "remained fairly stable for the last 15 years or so." In 2020, Pew found that women earned 84% of what men earned.Regarding Master's assertions, researchers concede that various factors and outliers can affect the size of the gap. But research that tries to take this into account still finds a gap exists. Glass Door's latest survey of the situation found "workers with the same job title, employer and location, the US gender pay gap is about 5.4 percent." In other words, according to their findings, <a href="https://www.glassdoor.com/research/demystifying-the-gender-pay-gap/">women make 94.6 cents on the dollar compared to men.</a>The Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank, previously said there's some merit to suggestions that the gap narrows based on career differences. But researchers there have also argued that career choice isn't as straightforward as it seems."Gender discrimination doesn't happen only in the pay-setting practices of employers making wage offers to nearly identical workers of different genders," <a href="https://www.epi.org/publication/what-is-the-gender-pay-gap-and-is-it-real/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Elise Gould, Jessica Schieder, and Kathleen Geier wrote in 2016. </a>"It can happen at every stage of a woman's life, from steering her away from science and technology education to shouldering her with home responsibilities that impede her capacity to work the long hours of demanding professions."Masters is polling in the top three of Arizona's Republican Senate primary, just six percentage points behind Jim Lamon in first place, according to Trafalgar and the <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2022/senate/Arizona.html">Real Clear Politics polling averag</a>e.Masters' has received <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/26/peter-thiel-arizona-senate-race-484585">more than $10 million from billionaire entrepreneur Peter Thiel</a>, mostly in the form of donations to a pro-Masters super PAC called Saving Arizona.Masters had been working as the chief operating officer of Thiel Capital and the president of the Thiel Foundation before officially launching his campaign.

GOP Senate candidate Blake Masters falsely says the gender pay gap is a 'fake left-wing narrative' because men do 'the most dangerous jobs'

<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com.au/how-artificial-intelligence-will-transform-your-business-2016-7">Artificial Intelligence</a> should be painstakingly measured before we start utilizing it for the comfort of humans. Then again, might be in a greed to play the character of god, the maker of the universe, humans may demolish themselves. 
 
The apprehension of manmade brainpower is not going to blur any sooner. Hear it from the experts themselves: 
 
<keyword id="6355315" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Elon-Musk">Elon Musk</keyword> 
 
Elon Musk has set up himself as a main voice among the top techies in raising worry about how artificial intelligence may debilitate humanity. Presently, he and his companions are demonstrating their reality with their wallets. 
Musk has been drifting some very confronting, futurist tech thoughts lately, for instance, how we'll make government on Mars, why we're all living in an environment like The Matrix, and how he wants to dispatch a SpaceX rocket at the phenomenal rate of once every two weeks. 
 He is the leader of a group of tech elites pooling together $1 billion to back another nonprofit research company, OpenAI, aimed at propelling AI technology that will help humanity. The company will have a lab that will initially work from space given by <keyword id="610465" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Y-Combinator">Y Combinator</keyword> in San Francisco, and its discoveries and improvements will be available on an open source premise. 
 
<keyword id="61369" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Stephen-Hawking">Stephen Hawking</keyword> 
 
In an interview with BBC, Prof. Stephen Hawking said, “The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race." This warning came in when he was asked about the advancement of technology in reference to AI. 
 
AI is not just about machines reaching an intelligence level of humans, it’s about learning and if the data processing is done fast enough—there’s no doubt it’ll surpass humans. He agrees to these facts and says, “Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn't compete, and would be superseded.” 
 
<keyword id="257641" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Sam-Altman">Sam Altman</keyword> 
 
“Development of superhuman machine intelligence (SMI) is probably the greatest threat to the continued existence of humanity,” says Sam Altman in his blog ‘Why Should you fear Machine Intelligence’. 
He further explained that evolution will continue, and if humans are no more the most-fit species, we may leave. In some sense, this is the framework acting as planned. In any case, as a human is made to survive and reproduce, “I feel we ought to battle it.” 
 
In what manner would we be able to survive the development of SMI? One of my main 4 most loved clarifications for the Fermi Catch 22 is that biological intelligence dependably in the long run makes machine intelligence, which wipes out biological life and after that for reasons unknown chooses to makes itself imperceptible. 
 
<keyword id="380555" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Peter-Thiel">Peter Thiel</keyword> 
 
Peter Thiel is not as scared as is pal Elon Musk. He has a different perspective towards the growth of machine intelligence. In an interview when asked about AI and fure, he said “I'm super pro-technology in all its forms. I do think that if AI happened, it would be a very strange thing. Generalized artificial intelligence. People always frame it as an economic question, it'll take people's jobs, it'll replace people's jobs, but I think it's much more of a political question. It would be like aliens landing on this planet, and the first question we ask wouldn't be what does this mean for the economy, it would be are they friendly, are they unfriendly? And so I do think the development of AI would be very strange. For a whole set of reasons, I think it's unlikely to happen any time soon, so I don't worry about it as much, but it's one of these tail risk things, and it's probably the one area of technology that I think would be worrisome, because I don't think we have a clue as to how to make it friendly or not.”

Why Elon Musk, Peter Theil and Stephen Hawking Fear
the Advent of Artificial Intelligence

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Elon Musk said OpenAI has become a "maximum-profit," closed-source firm "effectively controlled by Microsoft."</li><li>The billionaire said this is not what he "intended" when he co-founded the company in 2015. </li></ul>OpenAI co-founder Elon Musk took to Twitter to defend his early involvement in the company that created ChatCPT, saying it has become a "maximum profit company effectively controlled by Microsoft," which was not what he "intended at all."The billionaire was responding to a <a href="https://twitter.com/GRDecter/status/1625899834543681547" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweet</a> questioning why he co-founded OpenAI when he considers artificial intelligence "<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/musk-cofounder-of-openai-says-unregulated-ai-is-great-danger-2023-2">one of the biggest risks</a>" to civilization and needs further regulation. Musk has long advocated for proactive regulation in the AI space, famously saying in 2018 that the tech has the potential to be <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/13/elon-musk-at-sxsw-a-i-is-more-dangerous-than-nuclear-weapons.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">more dangerous than nuclear weapons</a>. He said in 2020 that <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-maureen-dowd-ai-google-deepmind-wargames-2020-7?_gl=1*boh551*_ga*NjUwNjkxNDMyLjE2NTU1MDI0OTg.*_ga_E21CV80ZCZ*MTY3NjUwNTUyNS42MjEuMS4xNjc2NTA1NjE3LjAuMC4w">he feared Google's Deepmind could one day effectively takeover the world.</a>Musk <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1626516035863212034" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote in response</a>: "OpenAI was created as an open source (which is why I named it "Open" AI), non-profit company to serve as a counterweight to Google, but now it has become a closed source, maximum-profit company effectively controlled by Microsoft. Not what I intended at all."OpenAI did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment on Musk's remarks. Musk, who is the CEO of five different companies, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/history-of-openai-company-chatgpt-elon-musk-founded-2022-12?r=US&amp;IR=T#openai-released-an-early-demo-of-chatgpt-in-december-and-the-conversational-chatbot-quickly-went-viral-on-social-media-1">co-founded OpenAI in 2015</a> alongside prominent Silicon Valley figures like Sam Altman, Reid Hoffman, Peter Theil, and others. They all pledged $1 billion to the project at the time. It was initially a non-profit dedicated to developing digital intelligence "in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole," it wrote on its website in 2015, Insider's Grace Kay recently <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/history-of-openai-company-chatgpt-elon-musk-founded-2022-12?r=US&amp;IR=T#elon-musk-and-former-y-combinator-president-sam-altman-cofounded-openai-in-2015-2">reported</a>.But it shed its non-profit status in 2019 and became a "capped-profit" company to "raise investment capital and attract employees," the company announced in a <a href="https://openai.com/blog/openai-lp/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blog post</a>. The company announced a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-openai-artificial-general-intelligence-investment-2019-7?r=US&amp;IR=T">partnership with Microsoft</a> the same year and welcomed a $1 billion investment from the tech giant. After launching publicly in November, ChatGPT attracted <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/chatgpt-may-be-fastest-growing-app-in-history-ubs-study-2023-2?r=US&amp;IR=T">100 million users</a> in just two months. Microsoft then increased its investment, reportedly <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-23/microsoft-makes-multibillion-dollar-investment-in-openai">pouring a further $10 billion</a> into the AI firm in January.Musk <a href="https://openai.com/blog/openai-supporters/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">resigned</a> from OpenAI's board of directors in 2018 to "eliminate a potential future conflict" with Tesla, because of his plans to create autonomous self-driving cars. He <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1096989482094518273?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">clarified in 2019</a> that he parted ways with the company because "Tesla was competing for some of same people as OpenAI &amp; I didn't agree with some of what OpenAI team wanted to do."Speaking at the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/musk-cofounder-of-openai-says-unregulated-ai-is-great-danger-2023-2?r=US&amp;IR=T">2023 World Government Summit</a> in Dubai this week Musk said "we need to regulate AI Safety."He added: "It is, I think, actually a bigger risk to society than cars or planes or medicine."

OpenAI cofounder Elon Musk said the non-profit he helped create is now focused on 'maximum-profit,' which is 'not what I intended at all'

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="11897862" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="elon-musk" source="Orion">Elon Musk</keyword> and Rep. <keyword id="11949072" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="alexandria-ocasio-cortez" source="Orion">Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez</keyword> had an awkward <keyword id="11892744" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="twitter" source="Orion">Twitter</keyword> interaction on Friday.</li><li>She slammed a "billionaire with an ego problem" who "controls a massive communication platform."</li></ul>In a cringe-worthy social media exchange Friday, billionaire Elon Musk told Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez to "stop flirting" with him after the lawmaker slammed an unnamed "billionaire with an ego problem.""Tired of having to collectively stress about what explosion of hate crimes is happening bc some billionaire with an ego problem unilaterally controls a massive communication platform and skews it because Tucker Carlson or Peter Thiel took him to dinner and made him feel special," the New York progressive wrote in a tweet on Friday.Musk, whose <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-to-buy-twitter-board-accepts-44-billion-2022-4">buyout offer was accepted</a> by Twitter earlier this week, then <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1520152887090892800">responded</a>: "Stop hitting on me, I'm really shy."Ocasio-Cortez quipped back in a now-deleted tweet that she was referring to a different billionaire, <keyword id="11892960" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="facebook" source="Orion">Facebook</keyword> CEO <keyword id="11896062" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="mark-zuckerberg" source="Orion">Mark Zuckerberg</keyword>."I was talking about Zuckerberg but ok," the New York lawmaker replied.Musk, nor Zukerberg, replied to the now-deleted tweet.Ocasio-Cortez's initial tweet namedropping Fox News host Carlson and venture capitalist Thiel may have been referring to <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/14/facebook-zuckerberg-conservatives-private-meetings-046663">a 2019 Politico report</a>, which claimed that Zuckerberg hosted a confidential dinner with Carlson. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-peter-thiel-strange-relationship-contrarian-max-chafkin-2021-9">Thiel, Zuckerberg's </a><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-peter-thiel-strange-relationship-contrarian-max-chafkin-2021-9">longtime mentor,</a><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-peter-thiel-strange-relationship-contrarian-max-chafkin-2021-9"></a> was one of Facebook's early investors.Meanwhile, Theil and Musk's trajectories have run parallel since the founding of Paypal in 2000, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/peter-thiel-elon-musk-relationship-contrarian-book-max-chafkin-2021-9">though they appear to have a love-hate relationship</a>. And this week, Carlson <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/04/26/twitter-tucker-carlson-conservatives-elon-musk/">said he would be returning to Twitter</a> after Musk's takeover.Both social media companies have been wrapped up in an <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-amplified-attacks-on-twitter-executives-by-right-wingers-2022-4" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">ongoing</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-buying-twitter-latest-american-political-divide-2022-4" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">culture war</a> over free speech. Twitter, for example, has faced criticism for allowing accounts that <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-twitter-responsibility-to-tackle-vaccine-misinformation-who-says-2022-4">amplify misinformation</a>. <a href="https://www.insider.com/far-right-influencers-banned-twitter-elon-musk-buyout-extremism-2022-4">Many believe Musk</a>, a self-proclaimed "<a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1499976967105433600?s=20&amp;t=qvEZvuSZXmkvL8A9Oz9BXQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">free speech absolutist</a>," may reinstate accounts previously banned for violating the platform's hate speech or misinformation policy. Facebook has faced criticism in the past for allowing the <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/03/06/974394783/far-right-misinformation-is-thriving-on-facebook-a-new-study-shows-just-how-much" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">spread of far-right misinformation</a>.

Elon Musk told Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 'stop hitting on me' after she posted a scathing tweet about a tech 'billionaire with an ego problem'

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image">New Line CinemaThe Palantir, as shown in "Lord of The Rings."</div></div></div>Palantir Technologies, the data analytics company that helped <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/08/14/agent-of-intelligence-how-a-deviant-philosopher-built-palantir-a-cia-funded-data-mining-juggernaut/">track down Osama Bin Laden</a>, has raised $129 million (£85 million), valuing the company the company at over $20 billion (£13 billion), <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2015/12/09/palantir-129m/">according to TechCrunch</a>.The company, founded by Peter Theil and Alex Karp among others, has <a href="https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/palantir-technologies">previously raised</a> $555 million (£365 million), putting the current total at around $680 million (£448 million). Palantir specialises in the analysis of big data and its clients, <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/11/leaked-palantir-doc-reveals-uses-specific-functions-and-key-clients/">according to a leaked document</a>, include governments, banks, and legal research firms. The company keeps a low profile, however, preferring to work behind the curtain. The name comes from "Lord of the Rings" and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palant%C3%ADr">describes a spherical, mystical Palantír</a> used by Saruman to "see from afar." The name <a href="http://upstart.bizjournals.com/entrepreneurs/hot-shots/2015/04/16/peter-thiel-has-founded-at-least-five-lord-of-the.html?page=all">was chosen by Peter Theil</a>, who is a fan of the books. <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/iphones-medical-id-could-save-your-life-2015-12">How to setup the hidden iPhone feature that could literally save your life in an emergency</a></h3> <div> <div> <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="M4dWlieTozkNoJjJ7hhgq7W3sVs0yHoA" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div> </div> </div> </div>

Big data company Palantir has raised another $129 million in funding

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image">TransferWiseTransferWise co-founders Taavet Hinrikus, left, and Kristo Käärmann.</div></div></div>International money transfer company TransferWise has poached Google <keyword id="6354868" type="COUNTRY" weightage="60" keywordseo="UK">UK</keyword>'s head of sales finance to be its new finance director, Business Insider can reveal.TransferWise confirmed to us that Matt Briers started yesterday at the company's East London offices after three years at Google. Before that, he helped run Lloyds' asset finance division, and has also worked at credit card company Capital One and management consultancy Bain &amp; Company.A spokesperson for TransferWise says Briers will help the company with its planned international expansion. The company is currently hiring <a href="https://transferwise.com/jobs#/o6ud1fwy">a full-time country manager for Japan</a>.TransferWise is one of London's hottest startups, working in the <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/these-2-simple-slides-show-just-how-hot-fintech-is-right-now-2015-5">booming area of fintech</a>, or financial technology.The 4-year-old company, which was founded by two Estonian immigrants, matches people looking to send currencies in different directions, cutting down on costs by cutting the actual transfer of money.Instead, TransferWise pays out of or into large accounts in each country. The company currently lets people send money across 400 different currency routes, covering 51 countries.At the start of the year, TransferWise became one of the few UK technology startups to be valued at $1 billion (£650 million) when <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/transferwise-58-million-andreessen-horowitz-2015-1">Silicon Valley venture capital fund Andreessen Horowitz invested $58 million (£37 million) in the company</a>.Other backers include Virgin billionaire Sir Richard Branson, renowned European VC fund Index Ventures (which has backed the likes of Just Eat, Etsy, and Sonos), and PayPal co-founder Peter Theil, through his fund Valar Ventures.The company has grown rapidly since its last funding round, announcing in June that it is <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/transferwise-passes-500-million-monthly-transfers-rival-smallworldfs-warning-money-transfer-2015-6">transferring around £500 million ($768 million) a month and has transferred £3 billion ($4.6 billion) to date</a>. <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/make-stronger-coffee-butter-bulletproof-2015-8">The one thing you can add to coffee for even more energy in the morning</a></h3> <div> <div> <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="AzaHR0azqiCrAFeAtElHGrY0gtxdQM__" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div> </div> </div> </div>

EXCLUSIVE: TransferWise poaches new finance director from Google

Do you know who is competing with <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Google+CEO+Sundar+Pichai+">Google CEO Sundar Pichai</a> and <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Microsoft+CEO+Satya+Nadella">Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella</a>? He is a class 10 student and at the age of 16, he designed a personalised search engine that claims to be as high as 47% more accurate than <keyword id="6355629" type="CITY" weightage="80" keywordseo="Google">Google</keyword>. 
 
The search designed by Anmol Tukrel, an <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Indian-origin+Canadian+citizen">Indian-origin Canadian citizen</a>, is said to be about 21% more accurate on an average. Imagine what he can do next? 
 
He has just completed his 10th grade, and made the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=search+engine+">search engine</a> in a couple of months, reported the Economic Times. 
 
He said it took him about 60 hours to code the engine, as part of his submission into <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Google+Science+Fair">Google Science Fair</a>. The fair is a global online competition and is open to students aged between 13 and 18 years. 
 
"I thought I would do something in the personalised search space. It was the most genius thing ever. But when I realised Google already does it, I tried taking it to the next level," said Tukrel, who was in India for a two-week internship programme at <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Bengaluru+">Bengaluru</a>-based adtech firm IceCream Labs. 
 
Tukrel's tinkering kit: A computer with at least 1 gigabyte of free storage space, a python-language development environment, a spreadsheet program and access to Google and New York Times. 
 Is this search engine accurate? To find its answer, he limited his search query to this year's news articles from <keyword id="187229" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="the-New-York-Times">The New York Times</keyword>. He created several fictitious users with different interests and corresponding web histories. Tukrel then fed this information to both Google and his interest-based search engine. Finally, the results from each search engine were compared. 
 
Today, personalisation is dependent on factors like one's location, browsing history, and the affinity to the kind of apps they install on their phone. That's just one part of the equation. 
 
Tukrel claims his algorithm solves the other side of the equation: It understands what a user would like before it serves up the results by dwelling deep into the content of the text, understanding the underlying meaning, before matching it to a user's personality, and throwing up the result. 
 "For someone to look at a successful Google product and attempt to go one level up, it's astonishing," said Sanjay Ramakrishnan, cofounder of <keyword id="3010314" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Ice-Cream-Labs">Ice-Cream Labs</keyword>, and former marketing manager of <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Myntra">Myntra</a>. 
 Tukrel, the student of <keyword id="3010194" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="80" keywordseo="Holy-Trinity-School-in-Toronto">Holy Trinity School in Toronto</keyword>, said he learnt to code in his third grade, and subsequently picked up on mathematics and coding. 
 
"My computer teacher was pretty impressed with the project," said Tukrel, who has put up a link to the test cases online on <a href="http://bit.ly/1FYRNxl">http://bit.ly/1FYRNxl</a> for anyone to view. 
 Tukrel submitted his paper to the International High School Journal of Science last month, and hopes to study computer science at <keyword id="101399" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="80" keywordseo="Stanford-University">Stanford University</keyword>. But before that, he wants to develop a news aggregator based on this technology, and licence it to a few digital marketing agencies as well. Would he become a fellow at <keyword id="6357940" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Paypal">Paypal</keyword> founder Peter Theil's foundation, where one is required to drop out of college to try an idea? 
 
One being asked if he will drop out, he said: "To be honest, it's incredibly stupid to drop out. It's very arrogant to think that your idea is so good, that you don't need to learn anything." 
 
So what does he want next? 
The reply came: "Eleventh grade." 
 
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