Douwe Kiela
8 statements across 3 episodes · 3 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 30, 2023 by Douwe Kiela · said 2 times in 1 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
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Jun 30, 2023
Jun 30, 2023 negative
Jun 30, 2023 positive
Douwe Kiela: I was wrong to underestimate compute scaling laws and OpenAI
“The strongest belief I had that turned out to be wrong is that I really underestimated how important scale is in artificial intelligence. So I, and I think this is really one of the things that open AI has excelled at is that if you throw an order of magnitude…”
Jun 30, 2023 positive
Douwe Kiela: Model-agnostic AI startups will have a competitive advantage
“At this particular point in time, probably yes, but just because the field is moving so incredibly quickly. And so I think that in the next year, we're going to see lots of other models coming out. And if you can have a language model, agnostic AI company that…”
Jun 30, 2023 negative
Douwe Kiela: Incumbent AI firms promote existential risk to entrench regulatory advantage
“So the people who are pushing this narrative are really the people who are benefiting from this being the narrative. So these are the incumbent AI companies who are, who want to have either the market regulated. Right. Because then they benefit because they ca…”
Sep 15, 2023 positive
Sep 15, 2023 neutral
Douwe Kiela: AI Model Parameter Sizes Will Stop Growing Rapidly
“I think Sam Altman had this interesting quote where he was saying that he thought models would stop growing in size. GPT-IV kind of hit this ceiling. I think that's probably right, but not really because size doesn't matter. It's just that data size matters ev…”
Nov 24, 2023 bearish
Kiela: Believing open-source AI can match OpenAI is incredibly naive
“I would like it to be true that with open source, we could just keep up with all of that. But I think that's just incredibly naive. Open AI has this very deep understanding of how people want to use language models. Basically nobody else has, and they have thi…”