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Adam Leventhal

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
2937 total appearances

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Oxide and Friends
Predictions 2026!!

Yeah, that would be, you know, I already find it to be slightly off-putting and also like delightfully off-putting, you know, when these things show their work, especially because, and Adam, we talked about this in our DeepSeek episode with the streamers folks, we're watching DeepSeek like kind of have like a nervous breakdown as it's trying to answer your question.

Oxide and Friends
Predictions 2026!!

And then like occasionally like lapse into Chinese, come back.

Oxide and Friends
Predictions 2026!!

It's so cool when that happens.

Oxide and Friends
Predictions 2026!!

But Adam, you think this is going to happen for a non-natural language?

Oxide and Friends
Predictions 2026!!

It'll be a synthetic language that they will.

Oxide and Friends
Predictions 2026!!

Interpretability, safety, and so on.

Oxide and Friends
Predictions 2026!!

Yeah, yeah, yeah, right.

Oxide and Friends
Predictions 2026!!

Yeah, that you will be.

Oxide and Friends
Predictions 2026!!

So maybe there will be a tension where this thing is trying to invent the synthetic language and it's constantly being apprehended by its frontier model overlords.

Oxide and Friends
Predictions 2026!!

Yeah, maybe I'm overly influenced by my reading list.

Oxide and Friends
Predictions 2026!!

So I, um, I think that the, um, one of my several one-year predictions, I, um, I think that, um, AI has created some real public perception problems for itself.

Oxide and Friends
Predictions 2026!!

Um, and I think that, um, you are going to have one of the frontier model companies this year have a white paper explaining how the proliferation of AI will mean prosperity for every

Oxide and Friends
Predictions 2026!!

So that there will be trying to make some economic model, some economic argument, because I think that, and maybe this kind of dovetails my other prediction, that this is going to be a 2026 election issue is going to be how we think of these things and how they are regulated.

Oxide and Friends
Predictions 2026!!

And it's a big mess.

Oxide and Friends
Predictions 2026!!

And there's more heat than light on this debate, I would say.