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E2: Why AI Will Cause a Cognitive Revolution with Nathan Labenz and Erik Torenberg
From"The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis
E2: Why AI Will Cause a Cognitive Revolution with Nathan Labenz and Erik Torenberg
From"The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis
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81 minutes
Released:
Feb 10, 2023
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Podcast episode
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00:00 Coming Up01:00 The Cognitive Revolution01:20 Sponsor01:39 Intro02:09 Nathan’s path to AI 04:27 Founding Waymark06:56 The future of AI is just starting 10:00 AI dramatically enhances human capabilities 10:50 Why we started The Cognitive Revolution and what to expect14:55 Which guests will appear on the show and topics that will be discussed18:59 Being replaced by an AI host20:42 Unpacking the future of AI with “no new breakthroughs” 32:21 What’s underhyped and overhyped43:46 The dangers of AI44:51 Applying AI safely 52:19 Losing faith in technology53:38 A new AI ecology55:14 Facebook, Google and Open AI58:00 Upside and downside case for AI 58:18 Sam Altman’s case for AI01:09:25 Starting an AI company01:18:22 Closing01:18:46 Sponsor Thank you Omneky for sponsoring The Cognitive Revolution. Omneky is an omnichannel creative generation platform that lets you launch hundreds of thousands of ad iterations that actually work, customized across all platforms, with a click of a button. Omneky combines generative AI and real time advertising data, to generate personalized experiences at scale. Twitter:@CogRev_Podcast@eriktorenberg (Erik)@labenz (Nathan) Websites:cognitivervolution.aiwaymark.com
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Feb 10, 2023
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