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E4: The AI Moment with Amjad Masad, Flo Crivello, Dan Romero, and Antonio Garcia Martinez
From"The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis
E4: The AI Moment with Amjad Masad, Flo Crivello, Dan Romero, and Antonio Garcia Martinez
From"The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis
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36 minutes
Released:
Feb 23, 2023
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Podcast episode
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(0:00) Preview of the debate(2:23) Sponsor(3:10) Flo’s take on the AI moment and AGI(5:45) Amjad’s take on the AI moment(8:03) Antonio's skepticism about transhumanism(9:10) Human tendencies color the debate about agency(11:25) The inflection point is a jump in generality(13:14) AI's effect on coding(16:57) Weakness in current models(19:18) Bounties and the future of work(21:48) Antonio's skepticism around bounties(25:00) Who will capture value, incumbents or startups?(27:26) "All knowledge work will be automated in 20 years"(30:10) Who will be the biggest beneficiaries of this shift?(31:50) What AI companies should VCs invest in?(32:26) SponsorThank 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@amasad (Amjad)@antoniogm (Antonio)@altimor (Flo)@dwr (Dan)@eriktorenberg (Erik)@labenz (Nathan)Subscribe to our Substack: https://cognitiverevolution.substack.com/ Websites:cognitivervolution.aireplit.comteamflowhq.comomneky.com Show Notes & references:Eliezer Yudkowsky: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FKNtgZrGYwgsz3nHT/bankless-podcast-159-we-re-all-gonna-die-with-eliezerPaul Christiano: https://paulfchristiano.com/AI Feedback: https://www.anthropic.com/constitutional.pdf
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Feb 23, 2023
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Podcast episode
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