How to Think About the Current Moment in A.I. | John Borthwick

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Apr 10, 2023

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Chat Interfaces As A New Internet Layer

The public treats "AI" as a catchall shaped by Hollywood and recent consumer apps like ChatGPT.
John Borthwick says large-language chat interfaces are becoming a new discovery layer for the internet.

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Scaling Revealed Emergent Model Behaviors

Neural network scaling surprised many experts by producing unexpected, useful behaviors.
Borthwick notes the computationalist approach has outperformed symbolic-SYSTEM expectations recently.

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Plan For Rapid Cost Deflation

Watch model-cost deflation: cheaper training unlocks wider access and faster iteration.
Plan product and policy choices assuming models will keep getting far cheaper to train and run.

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In Episode 307 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with the founder and CEO of Betaworks, John Borthwick about the current moment in artificial intelligence. In John’s first appearance on the podcast in 2017, Demetri and he spoke about the challenges and opportunities present in the field of A.I. and how we could progress technologically into an immersive future of superintelligence and simulation without losing touch with our humanity. The incredibly rapid adoption of ChatGPT has caused both Demetri and John to revisit these questions and whether that immersive future that they spoke about then has finally arrived.

How we would even know if it has and what the appropriate response to the current moment is for the public, for companies investing in this technology, and for governments seeking to regulate and exploit it is the subject of the episode’s second hour, which is available to premium subscribers.

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Episode Recorded on 04/06/2023