Ben Horowitz

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3,643 appearances 14 recordings 1 series first heard Oct 2024 last heard 15 Jan

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The Ben & Marc Show · New AI Policy Update on Safety, Censorship & Unexpected Risks · 6 Nov 2024 podcast

And you have takeoff where it becomes like this super all powerful, all knowing, godlike thing. podcast-host

There's a massive distance between those two things. podcast-host

Uh and the history of AI has been, it turns out to be much more narrow than you think, uh, in terms of what it can do. podcast-host

uh even though like you know we've made amazing progress and so forth, it still like is a lot more specific in many ways and will likely continue to be more specific in the area of self improvement than one thinks. podcast-host

I mean if you look at the work that's going on in the field on self-improvement, it's not podcast-host

re-architect myself entirely and you know, come up with like this genius machine. podcast-host

It's like little things to make more iterations on reasoning and in these kinds of things, which aren't really down the path for super takeoff. podcast-host

And then you don't have enough GPUs and then you don't have enough power and then you don't have enough cooling and and and podcast-host

I'm pretty comfortable, you know, based on my knowledge going like it's it's probably unlikely not to be like a one step kaboom. podcast-host

Nope. podcast-host

Right. podcast-host

Yeah. podcast-host

If you and then if you look at like the improvement from GPT uh 2.0 to GPT three to three point five, and then compare that from like three point five to four. podcast-host

you know, we really slowed down in terms of the amount of improvement. podcast-host

And the thing to note on that is the GPU increase was comparable. podcast-host

So we're increasing GPUs at the same like rate, but we're not getting the intelligence improvements at all out of it. podcast-host

And that's, you know, look there, you know, we're running out of data and this and that. podcast-host

And there, you know, there's a lot of things behind that. podcast-host

constraint. podcast-host

It reminds me of E Mycin, remember the the old uh expert system that did medical diagnosis? podcast-host

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