Guillaume Verdon

Like, let's say you have a company, you know, if you have a company, I don't know, of 10,000 people that all report to the CEO, even if that CEO is an AI, I think it would struggle to fuse all the information that is coming to it and then predict the whole system and then to enact its will. What has emerged in nature and in corporations and all sorts of systems

Like, let's say you have a company, you know, if you have a company, I don't know, of 10,000 people that all report to the CEO, even if that CEO is an AI, I think it would struggle to fuse all the information that is coming to it and then predict the whole system and then to enact its will. What has emerged in nature and in corporations and all sorts of systems

Like, let's say you have a company, you know, if you have a company, I don't know, of 10,000 people that all report to the CEO, even if that CEO is an AI, I think it would struggle to fuse all the information that is coming to it and then predict the whole system and then to enact its will. What has emerged in nature and in corporations and all sorts of systems

is a notion of sort of hierarchical cybernetic control, right? You have, you know, in a company it would be, you have like the individual contributors, they're self-interested and they're trying to achieve their tasks and they have a fine... in terms of time and space, if you will, control loop and field of perception, right? They have their code base.

is a notion of sort of hierarchical cybernetic control, right? You have, you know, in a company it would be, you have like the individual contributors, they're self-interested and they're trying to achieve their tasks and they have a fine... in terms of time and space, if you will, control loop and field of perception, right? They have their code base.

is a notion of sort of hierarchical cybernetic control, right? You have, you know, in a company it would be, you have like the individual contributors, they're self-interested and they're trying to achieve their tasks and they have a fine... in terms of time and space, if you will, control loop and field of perception, right? They have their code base.

Let's say you're in a software company, they have their code base, they iterate it on it intraday, right? And then the management may be checks in, it has a wider scope. It has, let's say, five reports, right? And then it samples each person's update once per week. And then you can go up the chain and you have larger timescale and greater scope.

Let's say you're in a software company, they have their code base, they iterate it on it intraday, right? And then the management may be checks in, it has a wider scope. It has, let's say, five reports, right? And then it samples each person's update once per week. And then you can go up the chain and you have larger timescale and greater scope.

Let's say you're in a software company, they have their code base, they iterate it on it intraday, right? And then the management may be checks in, it has a wider scope. It has, let's say, five reports, right? And then it samples each person's update once per week. And then you can go up the chain and you have larger timescale and greater scope.

And that seems to have emerged as sort of the optimal way to control systems. And really... That's what capitalism gives us, right? You have these hierarchies and you can even have like parent companies and so on. And so that is far more fault tolerant. In quantum computing, that's my field I came from, we have a concept of this fault tolerance and quantum error correction, right?

And that seems to have emerged as sort of the optimal way to control systems. And really... That's what capitalism gives us, right? You have these hierarchies and you can even have like parent companies and so on. And so that is far more fault tolerant. In quantum computing, that's my field I came from, we have a concept of this fault tolerance and quantum error correction, right?

And that seems to have emerged as sort of the optimal way to control systems. And really... That's what capitalism gives us, right? You have these hierarchies and you can even have like parent companies and so on. And so that is far more fault tolerant. In quantum computing, that's my field I came from, we have a concept of this fault tolerance and quantum error correction, right?

Quantum error correction is detecting a fault that came from noise, predicting how it's propagated through the system and then correcting it, right? So it's a cybernetic loop. And it turns out that decoders that are hierarchical, and at each level the hierarchy are local, perform the best by far and are far more fault tolerant. And the reason is if you have a non-local decoder,

Quantum error correction is detecting a fault that came from noise, predicting how it's propagated through the system and then correcting it, right? So it's a cybernetic loop. And it turns out that decoders that are hierarchical, and at each level the hierarchy are local, perform the best by far and are far more fault tolerant. And the reason is if you have a non-local decoder,

Quantum error correction is detecting a fault that came from noise, predicting how it's propagated through the system and then correcting it, right? So it's a cybernetic loop. And it turns out that decoders that are hierarchical, and at each level the hierarchy are local, perform the best by far and are far more fault tolerant. And the reason is if you have a non-local decoder,

then you have one fault at this control node and the whole system sort of crashes. Similarly to if you have, you know, one CEO that everybody reports to and that CEO goes on vacation, the whole company comes to their crawl.

then you have one fault at this control node and the whole system sort of crashes. Similarly to if you have, you know, one CEO that everybody reports to and that CEO goes on vacation, the whole company comes to their crawl.

then you have one fault at this control node and the whole system sort of crashes. Similarly to if you have, you know, one CEO that everybody reports to and that CEO goes on vacation, the whole company comes to their crawl.

And so to me, I think that yes, we're seeing a tendency towards centralization of AI, but I think there's going to be a correction over time where intelligence is going to go closer to the perception and we're going to break up AI into smaller subsystems that communicate with one another and form a sort of meta system.

And so to me, I think that yes, we're seeing a tendency towards centralization of AI, but I think there's going to be a correction over time where intelligence is going to go closer to the perception and we're going to break up AI into smaller subsystems that communicate with one another and form a sort of meta system.