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Cal Newport

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

A model like Mythos is going to have

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

Hundreds of billions, if not a trillion parameters.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

And they use a three to five billion parameter off the shelf.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

You could run this model on a chip inside your- Sorry, 10 trillion.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

10 trillion.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

Oh, okay.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

10 trillion parameter.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

Is that true?

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

Oh, my God.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

10 trillion parameters is insane.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

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.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

Because to run something that has 10 trillion parameters to do almost anything else is a โ€“ it's like โ€“

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

we're going to launch ourselves in this space to do something and then land every time.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

That's so incredibly expensive.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

But the real fear then is like, well, wait a second.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

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.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

That's what keeps Sam Altman up at night.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

It's the future.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

Look, I've been pitching this, right?

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

I think the useful and the only ethical and sustainable future for AI is