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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Yeah, well, maybe that's why we're already at stage five.
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Um no, I think a very timely discussion we had last week about
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the reality that I mean it's inter this actually ties into a long running discussion that we've had, particularly this year, about the uniqueness of programming and code and its suitability for large language models.
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And the fact that um, you know, how do you program?
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You put a bunch of
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Words and symbols together in sort of arcane ways that it can be difficult for a lot of humans to sort of do.
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But uh human uh computers, quite good at it, uh, particularly large language models, can handle large amounts of language, which at the end of the day, all of software is just massive amounts of language.
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And again, that language may not be very understandable to you or I, but it is very predictable.
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Predictable and understandable.
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And to that end, given what we've talked about, this should not be a surprise to us or to our listeners.
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Um, so yeah, here we are.
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Now.
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How here are we?
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Uh
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This is it's it's hard to say, right?
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Because this is anthropic.
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These are the same people who going back.
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It's funny, people are like, oh, open AI did this too.
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No, the anthropic people did this at OpenAI.
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Where they're like, you know, like, why is open AI not open?
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