Ben Thompson
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42,103 appearances
120 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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But a lot of this is downstream from they're just really good at reasoning and it's slow and it takes takes a long time.
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But that's a misalignment.
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It's not aligned necessarily with what they're doing.
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They've done like 47 different things, no focus.
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They have a so they have a research team that also wants to get AGI.
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They see as reasoning as a way to get there.
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That's not necessarily
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aligned with what they're trying to build from a business perspective.
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Uh and so the
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And so then the
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Yeah, well I mean I think their new model you know, I think they're gonna have a new class model, like this Spud model.
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Well it's gonna make Spud unique, is it's like truly uh uh the next generation.
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It's gonna and I actually think it's gonna be really interesting to see how Spud is because if they can have a much better base model with their sort of RL layer and their reasoning capabilities, like it could definitely be very, very capable.
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Uh and so maybe that's gonna drive like the next changing.
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narrative or or sort of whatever.
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I was
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but I do think what what Thomas definitely is right on is anthropic's focus on coding has been hugely beneficial.
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And if open AI just internal alignment has been a challenge for open AI, it's been all the upheaval in inside the team and
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Anthropic sort of gotten that for free and that's a
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