Scaffolding
topic on 4 shows · 6 statements across 5 episodes
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6 statements about Scaffolding, every show
Brown: Modern AI Models Can Run Scaffolded Experiments for Months
“We're seeing now with the most recent models that you can actually scaffold, for example, 5.5 into doing a series of experiments that can run for weeks, for months.”
Becker: AI Scaffolding Value Does Not Persist Across Model Generations
“Within model generation, it's valuable, and across model generations, it's not so valuable.”
Soldaini: AI scaffolding allows people outside frontier labs to drive capabilities
“If the scaffolding is what really moves a lot of like from, you know, broad capability model to like something that actually has meaningful impact, that scaffolding is not just like, oh, only the labs of people are trained models can do it. Like the number of …”
Kamradt Predicts AGI Will Require Heavy Scaffolding and Cooperating Components
“Now I know that sounds kind of like a weird question, but my current hypothesis that AGI will be heavily scaffolded. And why do you have that? Well, my hypothesis is that you're going to need different components that are working together in order to get the e…”
Kozinsky: Enduring Ventures evaluated a Midwestern scaffolding firm at 4x EBITDA
“And the one we looked at in, in in the Midwest was doing about Four million of EBITDA. We could have bought it at, what was it Xavier? Maybe four times EBITDA at the time?”
Helgeson: Scaffolding rental businesses uniquely profit from construction delays
“You get paid to put up, you get, you have, you get paid to put up the scaffolding, you get paid a rate, day rate, well it's up, so any construction delays just go in your favor, and then you get paid to take down the scaffolding.”