Why a New Class of AI “Judgment Models” Could Have Big Business Implications

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What are AI judgment models and how do they differ from traditional language models?

Nathaniel Whittemore 0:00
It's not every day that we get a new model to play around with, and it's certainly not every day that we get an entirely new approach to model building with some fairly different implications for how we even use it. Today though, we are talking about a new class of models which you might refer to as AI judgment models. Rather than producing long strings of text, these judgment models, like the one we're discussing today, Jev from TypeSafe, produce probabilities around specific questions. Is this customer angry? Is there a new dependency in this email? Do we need to change the operational plan because of this? Today we're exploring the idea behind these models, how they're trained differently, how they can produce these judgments much more quickly and much less expensively, and most importantly, where they're going to fit in your overall model stack.
Nathaniel Whittemore 0:43
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Nathaniel Whittemore 1:29
With that in mind, after staying quiet over the weekend, Mark Zuckerberg has made his thoughts known on this idea of an AI slowdown. On Tuesday, Zuckerberg wrote in a post on X, every lab has the responsibility and incentive to move at the Pace required to train its models safely, and the ability to take its own actions to ensure that happens. Basically, his view is that pacing is the responsibility of individual labs, rather than a collective action. And that view hinges on two core ideas. First, that quote, People don't want to use agents that are misaligned with them and that don't do what they ask, so labs have a strong natural incentive to make their models more aligned. And two, labs face significant liability if their models cause harm, so they have a strong incentive to prevent this as well.
Nathaniel Whittemore 2:12
Emphasizing the point, Zuckerberg said that Meta had delayed the release of Muse by several months to work on safety. He continued. We didn't call for everyone else to do this before we would. We just did it as part of our day-to-day work because it was clearly the right thing for people and for us. Essentially, Zuckerberg is saying that the individual incentives and consequences that are already in place are enough to force AI labs to work on alignment and to pace the frontier correctly, rather than needing some exogenous government enforced slowdown. Now, Zuckerberg did support the idea of independent evaluators and advisors as a matter of best practice rather than regulation. He claimed that Meta has already engaged outside evaluators, not because it's required of them, but because it helps produce better work.

How is Mark Zuckerberg responding to calls for an AI development slowdown?

Nathaniel Whittemore 2:54
Finally, he concluded committing the significant majority of compute towards serving people rather than racing towards recursive self improvement is one of the best ways to ensure that we develop this technology safely. Meta has made this commitment, and other labs can do it. this as well. I believe the key to building a positive future for everyone is maintaining the right balance of power. This is within our power to do. It's carefully worded, but basically this whole thing says, Come on guys, let's please stop with the theatrics. And a lot of people frankly found this a breath of fresh air. YouTuber Joseph Carlson wrote Hold up a minute, you are telling me companies can slow down, make sure things are safe, without telling all their competitors to slow down?

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