20VC: OpenAI's Newest Board Member, Zico Colter on The Biggest Bottlenecks to the Performance of Foundation Models | The Biggest Questions and Concerns in AI Safety | How to Regulate an AI-Centric World
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The real negative outcome is that people are not going to believe anything that they see anymore. Arguably, we are already well along this way where people basically don't believe anything that they read or that they see or anything else. It doesn't already conform to their current beliefs. It didn't even need AI to get there, but AI is absolutely an accelerant for this process. It is a relatively new phenomenon that we have sort of a record of objective fact in the world. I mean, things like video didn't exist more than 100 years ago. Humans evolved at a time during an environment where all we could do was trust our close associates. That's how we believed things.
This is 20VC with me, Harry Stebbings, and today we are joined by OpenAI's newest board member and Carnegie Mellon's head of machine learning, Zico Coulter, from the bottlenecks in AI today to open versus closed systems to the biggest dangers of AI. This is an incredible discussion. But before we dive in, when a promising startup files for an IPO or a venture capital firm loses its marquee partner, being the first to know gives you an advantage and time to plan your strategic response. Chances are the information reported it first. The information is the trusted source for that important first look at actionable news across technology and finance, driving decisions with breaking stories, proprietary data tools and a spotlight on industry trends. With a subscription, you will join an elite community that includes leaders from the top VC firms, CEOs from Fortune 500 companies and esteemed banking and investment professionals.
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Great. Thanks. Wonderful to be here.
Now we're going to discuss some pretty meaty topics before we do dive in. Can you just give me the 60 second context on why you're so well versed to discuss them and your roles today?
Sure. Absolutely. So I seem to have be collecting jobs here. I have a number of different roles. I'm first and foremost, a professor and the head of the machine learning department. at Carnegie Mellon. I've been here for about 12 years. And here, the machine learning department is really kind of unique because it's a whole department just for machine learning.
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