Cal Newport
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
A model like Mythos is going to have
Hundreds of billions, if not a trillion parameters.
And they use a three to five billion parameter off the shelf.
You could run this model on a chip inside your- Sorry, 10 trillion.
10 trillion.
Oh, okay.
10 trillion parameter.
Is that true?
Oh, my God.
10 trillion parameters is insane.
Like, you better be โ that better be either gaming the stock market and creating billions of dollars a day and, like, fancy option returns or changing lead into gold.
Because to run something that has 10 trillion parameters to do almost anything else is a โ it's like โ
we're going to launch ourselves in this space to do something and then land every time.
That's so incredibly expensive.
But the real fear then is like, well, wait a second.
If they could do most of this stuff with a free, cheap model that I could just run on a machine at home, that's what keeps, I think, Dario Amadei up at night.
That's what keeps Sam Altman up at night.
It's the future.
Look, I've been pitching this, right?
I think the useful and the only ethical and sustainable future for AI is