#37 - Uma Roy
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Uma, welcome to the NeuroScape Podcast.
Thanks for having me.
Awesome. You want to introduce yourself briefly?
Yeah. So I'm co founder and CEO of Sisync. Sisync is an applied cryptography company. We're probably best known for making the fastest zero knowledge virtual machine, ZKVM for short, in the world known as SP1. For those of you who aren't aware, ZK is this really powerful cryptography technique where it lets you prove to someone else something is true without revealing all the details. Kind of the canonical real world example is that if I can prove to you that, you know, I'm over 21 without revealing my birthday or my home address or anything like that, so instead of showing a driver's license
Thank you.
So, yeah, I think honestly, that's probably one of the most important things cryptography can do right now. And there's like a finally a clear catalyst. Every model release where the image stuff or video stuff gets better and better, it's like we need cryptography as a defense. So I think it's time for cryptography to be on a societal stage right now as a solution to all the AI stuff. So I'm very excited about that.
Awesome. So, yeah, actually many years ago, partly actually because of AI, but also with social media when people were talking about misinformation, disinformation, and so on and so forth. Years ago, I remember I tweeted something, and I was like, oh, so you wanna ban lies on the Internet? Okay. Give me a function that says whether the Riemann hypothesis is true. Right? And so, you know, that's a reduction ad absurdum where we we don't know whether it's true. And it could be true, and it's plausible that it's true, but there's many things in math which have really arcane counterexamples that,
Oh, yeah.
What's your background, by the You're born in The US. You what's your Yeah. Born in what's your spiel?
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