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E5: The Embedding Revolution: Anton Troynikov on Chroma, Stable Attribution, and future of AI
From"The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis
E5: The Embedding Revolution: Anton Troynikov on Chroma, Stable Attribution, and future of AI
From"The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis
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88 minutes
Released:
Mar 2, 2023
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(0:00) Preview(1:17) Sponsor (4:00) Anton breaks down the advantages of vector databases(4:45) How embeddings have created an AI-native way to represent data(11:50) Anton identifies the watershed moment and step changes in AI(12:55) Open AI’s pricing(18:50) How chroma works(33:04) Stable Attribution and systematic bias(36:48) How latent diffusion models work(51:26) How AI is like the early days of aviation(56:01) How Disney inspired the release of Stable Attribution(59:53):Why noise can lead to generalization(1:01:04) Nathan’s KPI for The Cognitive Revolution(1:01:59) Other use cases for embedding(1:03: 19) Anton touches on the applications for biotech(1:04:35) Anton on doomerism hysteria and what actually worries him(1:11:43) - Nathan sums up a plausible doomer scenario(1:20:17)What AI tools does Anton use and why?(1:22:55) Anton’s hopes*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. Mention "Cog Rev" for 10% off. Twitter:@CogRev_Podcast@atroyn (Anton)@labenz (Nathan)@eriktorenberg (Erik)Join 1000's of subscribers of our Substack: https://cognitiverevolution.substack.com/Websites:cognitivervolution.aitrychroma.com/omneky.com Show Notes & references:-https://same.energy/ (Beta)-Wright Brothers Bio (https://www.amazon.com/Wright-Brothers-David-McCullough/dp/1476728755)-Ajeya Cotra article in Less Wrong (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/pRkFkzwKZ2zfa3R6H/without-specific-countermeasures-the-easiest-path-to)
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Mar 2, 2023
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