Ben Thompson
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41,192 appearances
118 recordings
2 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 21 Aug
Ben Thompson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The reason why AI can it is
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You know, is it truly fully generalizable?
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I think not as much as sort of the advocates claim, but it's pretty darn generalizable.
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And the reason it is, is precisely because it's not deterministically designed to handle every sort of thing.
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And we see this in like self-driving cars, right?
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The for the reason why self-driving cars took forever to actually be viable is because people spent years trying to hard code everything.
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Every single scenario that a car might encounter.
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And there's so many variables in a car that like you can't do that.
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What you need to do is you need to have an end-to-end model that is basically it's not exactly the same as an LM, but it's the same concept of sort of a neural net that generalizes from being exposed to tons and tons and tons and tons of scenarios and develops its own sort of internal heuristics and probabilities.
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Distributions such that when something new happens, it kind of knows how to react without being told what to do.
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And you think about this, it's not just that it's not deterministic, it's that putting in deterministic rules into that functionality makes it worse in many respects because you're you're you're actually limiting it artificially in its capability to understand different situations.
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And we're
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We're just moving into this fundamentally new paradigm that's totally different.
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And it's really easy for people to look at AI as a fancy search engine.
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Yeah.
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We had this conversation a few years ago.
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You used AI for for the greatest of all talk, looked up some stats.
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Oh yeah.
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Right.
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And what I what I told you at the time is like, no, that's the exact wrong function that you're trying to do.
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