These Models
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Shipper: Frontier AI models cannot copy edit like human copy editors
“These models can't do copy edits. They can't do copy edits like a copy editor can. And it's weird because copy editing shouldn't be that hard. At least copy editing to like 70% or something like that.”
Laffont: Narrative that AI models are commodities is thoroughly disproven
“I do think that the narrative of, oh, these models are commodities, and these companies are gonna get, I think, that's been pretty thoroughly disproven now, right?”
Casado: AI models integrate better when treated like human workers
“These models don't integrate well with software. Actually, I think it turns out and what we're learning as an industry is if you view them more like humans and you draft on the mechanisms we put in place for humans, they are much easier to integrate.”
Levie: Generating Beautiful PowerPoint Presentations Remains a Hard Problem for AI
“Building a beautiful PowerPoint presentation. It's still a hard problem for these models. Like we still, you know, like these formats are just, we're not built for.”
Generative Molecular Models Exhibit Dramatic Inference-Time Compute Scaling
“These days we're seeing kind of pretty dramatic inference time scaling of these models where, you know, the more you run them, the better the results are.”
Brichtova: AI image generation models lack artistic taste
“But it is, there's a lot of craft, and there's a lot of taste, right, that you accumulate sometimes over decades, right, and I don't think these models really have taste, right”
Schrittwieser: AI language models are clearly capable of novel output
“For me, as somebody who has been doing research a long time, I think it's pretty clear that these models can do novel things.”
Cacioppo: AI models can generate tailored security blueprints from company context
“These models kind of let you, again, they understand the best practices, you can get them to understand the regulations, and then they can ask you some questions about your company, or you can tell them about your company, and they can kind of merge all of tha…”
Lightcap: Current AI models are honestly not that good
“I think right now expectations are extremely high. Reality is still pretty bad, honestly. These models are not that good.”
Lightcap: AI expectations will dip before rapid model improvements outpace them
“I think very quickly expectations will start to come down as people come into contact with today's models, but then very quickly also these models will get really, really good, and you'll see this inversion of expectations reality where all of a sudden then ex…”