Natural Language
topic on 6 shows · 8 statements across 8 episodes
Masters of Scale 
Latent Space 
Lenny's Podcast 
No Priors 
the MAD Podcast 
20VC
8 statements about Natural Language, every show
Gomez-Bombarelli: Pure language representation is not required for scientific superintelligence
“I don't think it's necessary. I don't think that's a necessary condition for a scientific super intelligence.”
Chase: AI builder differentiation lies in domain knowledge, not harness infrastructure
“I think a lot of the differentiation is in like the instructions and the tools and the skills and that basically, yeah, knowledge of how to do a process that you encode into natural language and give the agent and then the tools and the skills that you let it …”
Masad: Future developers will program entirely in natural language
“I think there are people that are going to be entirely programming in natural language.”
White: Natural language is the only way to connect all scientific data
“And so I think that that, for that reason, natural language is the only possible way to connect all the different pieces of data we need in biology, medicine, or any domain for that matter.”
Stein: The biggest shift in Search is users asking long, complex questions
“That's the biggest shift we're seeing people asking real long, hard, complex questions.”
Socher: Natural language is not the best interface for all AI tasks
“As much as I love natural language is not the single best interface for a lot of different types of answers. Sometimes you want to see a map. Like sometimes you want to see a table. Sometimes you want to see a map with a bunch of specific overlays.”
Slootman: Natural language interfaces will massively expand enterprise data demand
“Going to natural language is like, it's like the last mile here. And that is, is an enormous thing. I mean, the effect on demand will be just enormous because every mortal, if you're semi literate, maybe not even literate, you can just talk, you know, you can …”