Jeffrey Hinton, who left Google last week and has been on an AI safety tour ever since, is the source of his concern around why this has gotten so different. Why AI is no longer just a small handful of companies proceeding cautiously. Instead it's one of the most significant capitalistic arms races that we've ever seen. And in that type of setting, precautions and cautiousness go out the window in favor of other objectives.
On today's episode, we discuss Warren Buffett's recent comments on AI as well as cover a primer of the geopolitics of AI. On the headline news brief, we cover updates from Google and Amazon as well as new open source LLM's and a new text-to-3D platform Shap-E from OpenAI.