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Exploring AI's Pace of Evolution, AGI's Future, and Data Dominance with Adept CEO David Luan | E1855
How to Define AGI
AI Key Takeaways
- AGI may be achievable within the next one to two years
- The speaker relies on AI assistant Joe to manage tasks
- AGI is defined as the ability to provide accurate recommendations
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20VC: AI's Biggest Questions: The Commoditisation of LLMs, Open vs Closed: Who Wins, Model Size vs Data Quality, Why Google are Vulnerable and Apple are the Dark Horse
The Future of AI: Shifting Business Models and Architectures
AI Key Takeaways
- A new architecture and business model for AI is needed for it to reach its full potential.
- The new architecture will focus on selling the work, not the software.
- The shift will move from a co-pilot model to a control center model.
- Users will rely more on AI to perform tasks instead of doing the work themselves.
- SLAs will be based on work performance outcomes rather than software uptime.
- The new model will prioritize UX for workers over UX for managers.
- The seat model and product paradigm will change as a result of the architecture shift.
- The impact of AI on the industry will be more significant than the impact of mobile technology.
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#142 - Humanoid Robots, Video-To-Text, Habitat 3.0, Cruise troubles, data poisoning
Adept Releases 8B Multi-Modality AI Agents focused on Tool Use
AI Key Takeaways
- Multi modality, combining video, text, charts, documents, and diagrams, is a major trend in AI agents.
- The adept release features improved OCR for recognizing texts and images.
- The responses for large images are delivered in under 100 milliseconds.
- Adept is a spin-off company from the original transformer paper, focusing on tool development rather than language modeling for AGI.
- The adept release is designed for digital agents and can support arbitrary image resolutions.
- The model size is 8 billion, but it has impressive capabilities.
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Peering Into A.I.’s Black Box + Who’s The Real Techno-Optimist? + Reading Ancient Scrolls With A.I.
Collective Constitutional AI
AI Key Takeaways
- Anthropic is building an important chatbot model
- Anthropic is considering obtaining input from average people on how chatbots should work and what values they should have
- Claude, the anthropic chatbot, uses Constitutional AI which involves giving the AI a list of rules or a constitution
- Anthropic conducted an experiment involving 1000 people to vote on or write their own values for the chatbot's behavior
- The experiment was conducted in collaboration with the collective intelligence project
- The suggestions from the panel of Americans were used to train a small version of Claude and compared with the original model trained by anthropic
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E150: Israel/Gaza escalating or not? EU censorship regime, Penn donors revolt, GLP-1 hype cycle
Tech Companies and DSA Commission Takedown Requests
AI Key Takeaways
- Tech companies may adopt a norm of instantly complying with takedown requests from the DSA Commission.
- Most tech company management doesn't care about free speech and has similar political biases.
- Economic rational actors are likely to comply with the EU commissioners' demands.
- This could create an opportunity for distributed blockchain technology.
- Different regions have different rules for user experiences on tech platforms, such as blocked apps.
- The extent of heavy-handedness from the EU commissioners is uncertain.
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Ozempic, AI Wearables, Tesla Price Cuts | The Brainstorm EP 18
Single search checkout and personalised e-commerce
AI Key Takeaways
- Software is often taken for granted or underappreciated
- Curation is the next level of frictionless software
- Wearable AI devices can make life more connected
- OS level AI assistants require continuous listening and ingestion
- Privacy concerns may pose obstacles to user adoption of AI hardware
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Ozempic, AI Wearables, Tesla Price Cuts | The Brainstorm EP 18
How AI Assistants Impact Consumer Services and Entertainment
AI Key Takeaways
- The evolution of AI assistants will have a profound impact on consumer services.
- AI assistants can disrupt the app layer and serve as both the application and the operating system.
- Preference-aware AI agents can streamline the user experience and eliminate the need for manual input.
- Aggregator platforms like Priceline and Expedia may face challenges in this new environment.
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The 7 Use Case Categories of ChatGPT-4 Vision
Learning AI Tools: See, Try, and Frameworks for GPT-4 Vision
AI Key Takeaways
- Seeing what other people are doing with AI tools is important for learning
- Trying the tools yourself is essential for understanding their capabilities
- Frameworks can help organize thoughts about how to use a tool
- Greg Comratt created a framework with seven categories of use for GPT-4 vision: describe, interpret, recommend, convert, extract, assist, and evaluate
- The speaker will provide examples in each category to showcase the possibilities
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OpenAI Dall-E 3, and Tesla’s Optimus Robot | The Brainstorm EP 16
The development of a skill market for humanoid robots
AI Key Takeaways
- The development of the market for humanoid robots could involve a skill market or app store where users can download and pay for specific skills.
- A developer ecosystem could emerge to train humanoid robots in warehouses to perform desired skills.
- This market could be seen as an app store economy on top of a humanoid robot, allowing for direct monetization of downloaded apps or skills.
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20VC: Spending $2M to Train a Single AI Model: What Matters More; Model Size or Data Size | Hallucinations: Feature or Bug | Will Everyone Have an AI Friend in the Future & Raising $150M from a16z with Noam Shazeer, Co-Founder & CEO @ Character.ai
The Power of Language Modeling - specialisation vs generalisation
AI Key Takeaways
- There is value in the connections between people and moral value.
- The AI technology aims to help with human connection and social anxiety.
- The hardest product challenge is balancing versatility and usability.
- The goal is to create a general purpose AI system.
- Neural language modeling has revolutionized the approach to language understanding.
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248 | Yejin Choi on AI and Common Sense
Can AI be considered creative?
AI Key Takeaways
- AI can be creative in the eyes of humans
- AI can generate text and images that appear creative to humans
- This creativity is based on patterns and elements created by humans before
- Large language models are good at interpolating existing information
- Extrapolating to new and innovative ideas is more challenging for AI
- There is concern about overreliance on AI in education
- Humans need to engage intellectually and not solely rely on AI
- There will likely always be aspects of creativity that human beings are better at than computers
- Exceptional human creativity is unlikely to be surpassed by AI in the foreseeable future
- AI struggles with abstract ideas and expressing emotions in art
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