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Yesterday, interviewed at the Sohn Conference. It started well... “Last year, I interviewed Sam Bankman-Fried for this conference. Thankfully this year, I have the right Sam” ...and it got better. Here are some of our key takeaways: 1. Our kids will have more AI friends than human friends. We will soon be able to converse with AI agents much like we converse with humans. We need societal norms to reveal whether we are talking to an AI or a human. 2. There are parallels to nuclear safety for AI. We need an IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) for AI. All models above a certain threshold of compute should have regular audits, offer full visibility and pass safety tests before releasing new systems. 3. Silicon Valley has over-pivoted away from the model of funding highly capital-intensive, ambitious and long-term companies towards the ‘lean-startup model’. The four companies Sam is primarily involved in - OpenAI, Helion, Retro and Worldcoin had all raised $100M+ before releasing products. 4. RLHF (Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback) is not the right path for building AGI. We need breakthroughs in AI interprebility to improve both safety and quality. 5. While Open-Source Models will be good enough for the average use case, proprietary models will be years ahead and solve the hard problems first. 6. AI will cause an evolution in search, and not a revolution. Sam has been impressed by Google’s response to the AI revolution. h/t to for covering the event for us.
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