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Noam Shazeer

11 statements across 1 episodes · 8 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Sep 25, 2023 by Noam Shazeer · said 4 times in 4 episodes since 2024 · across every show →

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Sep 25, 2023 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Theory of mind in AI is an emergent property of scale
“Yeah, just make the thing smarter. It's gonna have a better theory of mind, and I think that's definitely something massively, massively important. It seems like one of these emergent properties that just Is gonna, going to come with scale.”
Noam Shazeer Sep 25, 2023 ▶ 13:03 Universally Accessible Intelligence with Character.ai's Noam Shazeer
Sep 25, 2023 bullish
Insight
LLM hallucination is a feature, not a bug, for AI companions
“Like you want to launch something that's a doctor, It's going to be a lot slower because you want to be really, really, really careful about not providing like false information, but friend, you can do like really fast. Like it's just entertainment. It makes t…”
Noam Shazeer Sep 25, 2023 ▶ 8:21 Universally Accessible Intelligence with Character.ai's Noam Shazeer
Sep 25, 2023 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
AI companion entertainment is ready for immediate explosive adoption
“If I, like, I want to push this technology ahead fast, like, that's what I want to go with, because like, A, it's, you know, it's ready for an explosion, like right now, not like in five years when we solve all the problems, but like, now.”
Noam Shazeer Sep 25, 2023 ▶ 9:11 Universally Accessible Intelligence with Character.ai's Noam Shazeer
Sep 25, 2023 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
AI capable of curing cancer is only a few years away
“I'd love to get to the point where you can just ask it how to cure cancer or something, you know. I mean, it's, you know, it seems a few years away for now, but, you know, like.”
Noam Shazeer Sep 25, 2023 ▶ 15:43 Universally Accessible Intelligence with Character.ai's Noam Shazeer
Sep 25, 2023 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
AI scaling laws show no signs of stopping
“I don't think anyone's seen like these scaling laws, you know, stop. I think as far as anybody has experimented, stuff just gets, keeps, keeps getting smarter.”
Noam Shazeer Sep 25, 2023 ▶ 16:05 Universally Accessible Intelligence with Character.ai's Noam Shazeer
Sep 25, 2023
Insight
Entertainment is a $2T industry built on imaginary friends
“Entertainment is like this two trillion dollar a year industry. And like the dirty secret is that entertainment Is imaginary friends that don't know you exist.”
Noam Shazeer Sep 25, 2023 ▶ 7:34 Universally Accessible Intelligence with Character.ai's Noam Shazeer
Sep 25, 2023 positive
Opinion
Shazeer is not currently afraid of AGI destroying humanity
“No. Not yet. Not yet. I think there's a lot of possibility of you know, a lot of potential benefits and yeah, we're going to work on it as the technology improves.”
Noam Shazeer Sep 25, 2023 ▶ 4:31 Universally Accessible Intelligence with Character.ai's Noam Shazeer
Sep 25, 2023 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
AI will improve massively from scaling without new breakthroughs
“And without any breakthroughs, like it's going to get like massively better as everyone just Kind of scales up to use it, and there will be more breakthroughs because now, you know, like all the scientists in the world are like working on like making this stuf…”
Noam Shazeer Sep 25, 2023 ▶ 14:59 Universally Accessible Intelligence with Character.ai's Noam Shazeer
Sep 25, 2023 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Top-tier AI capabilities will reach academic labs in a few years
“Like, you know, we're going to see like a huge amount of innovation and, you know, what, what's possible in the largest companies now can be possible in, you know, in somebody's academic lab or garage in a few years.”
Noam Shazeer Sep 25, 2023 ▶ 15:16 Universally Accessible Intelligence with Character.ai's Noam Shazeer
Sep 25, 2023 negative
Disclosure
Frustration over inability to launch AI products drove Google exit
“You know, some people are motivated by publishing, you know, like, I was frustrated I couldn't launch at Google.”
Noam Shazeer Sep 25, 2023 ▶ 12:29 Universally Accessible Intelligence with Character.ai's Noam Shazeer
Sep 25, 2023 negative
Insight
Narrow AI use cases tempt builders into non-generalizable rules
“The more you get to like mission critical, you know, particular use case, the more you get tempted into like writing particular rules and like doing things that will not generalize well.”
Noam Shazeer Sep 25, 2023 ▶ 10:44 Universally Accessible Intelligence with Character.ai's Noam Shazeer
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