The US is still at something like 20ish percent nuclear power, Japan is 30%, France is 70%. So people have been using nuclear and they've been using 60 year old reactors this whole time without any real issues. I kind of worry that in the short run, the same thing is happening on the AI side. There are some really great regulatory actions, but there's a lot of things that tend to be arbitrary at times too. And so I think it's a very odd moment in the history of the technology industry in terms of how people are acting.
This week on No Priors, Sarah and Elad do another hangout to answer listener questions. Topics include debunking common misconceptions about AI and its implications on the world, the analogy to nuclear power and nuclear safety, the impact of larger context windows, developer productivity, incumbent announcements of AI products, and some requests for (fat) startups.
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Show Notes:
[00:21] - What Are People Getting Wrong About AI Right Now? / New Capabilities of NLP
[04:35] - Nuclear Power and Safety Concerns
[11:12] - Emerging AI Companies and Research
[15:54] - China's Hardware Sanctions and Funding Ramp
[20:34] - Innovation in Heterogeneous Compute Infrastructure
[28:08] - Enterprise Stack and Decision Making
[33:44] - Data's Impact on the World