Talking AI The New Era of AI Reasoning with Nate Jones
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Mar 25, 2025 
Nate Jones, an AI expert and Head of Product at Rockerbox, shares his insights on the evolution of AI reasoning models. He explains how methodologies like chain-of-thought enhance AI's problem-solving capabilities, making it much more than a simple autocomplete tool. The conversation also dives into the importance of tokens and compute power in AI development. Nate emphasizes the need for humans to maintain critical thinking skills while using AI and shares personal anecdotes on teaching his daughter to wisely navigate these technologies.
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Reasoning Boosts AI Performance
- Reasoning adds a new scaling law beyond training data size for AI performance.
- Giving a model more time to "think" dramatically boosts its output quality.
2024 As AI Watershed Year
- Early large language models (LLMs) fooled people by being less capable than they are now.
- 2024 marked a watershed moment where LLMs began to reliably "think" and should be a default AI tool.
Partner With AI Thoughtfully
- Partner with AI as a new intelligence rather than just use software.
- Evoke the AI's intelligence by knowing how to ask questions effectively.