“We literally, with AI, have a technology that transfers sand into thought.” Marc Andreessen on why AI is the philosopher’s stone: “The early scientists, including Isaac Newton, were super obsessed with this concept of alchemy.” “Alchemy was the transmutation of lead into gold. Which meant the transmutation of something that was very common, which was lead, into something that was very rare and valuable, which was gold.” “The most common thing in the world, which is sand, converted into the most rare thing in the world, which is thought.” “And so AI is the philosopher’s stone.” @pmarca on Lenny's Podcast with @lennysan