Cal Newport
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Here is our coding tool.
We have to justify for you why we think it's worth the money it costs.
And of course, if we're responsible for any harms, like any other consumer product company, right?
Here is our product for, you know, memo writing, and we want to justify why it's worth the cost.
And of course we are responsible for any harms.
You get narrow and responsible.
That is the future of AI that is going to be way more predictable.
It's going to be way less distressing.
It's going to be way more safe.
It's going to have a lot of variety.
The giant AI companies hate this model because, hey, guess what?
When you start releasing specific products, you don't need a 10 trillion parameter model.
I don't think the AI companies want you to know that these frontier models are F1 cars.
It's like McLaren or whatever, or Ferrari or Red Bull, whatever, an F1.
You put out these $20 million cars to try to win this sort of ludicrous race where you go 180 miles per hour so that people in general are like, oh, I like that car company.
That's a good car company.
So I'm more likely to buy the $60,000 car, which is all I need.
That's what they're trying to do here.
These models are F1 cars.
For most of people's needs, much cheaper models would suffice.