Alex Hanna
Director of Research, Distributed AI Research Institute. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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7statements
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Everything Alex Hanna said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Hanna says xAI uses methane generators to power its Memphis supercomputer
“I would also say that speaking about existing effects, there's also a lot of reporting coming out of Memphis right now, especially around the methane generators that XAI has been using to power a particular supercomputer there called Colossus there, and specif…”
Hanna: Employers cut jobs overestimating AI proficiency
“And I think we've already seen such a justification for this as being a place where employers have been Reducing positions by the scores, because there's a notion that these tools can do these jobs suitably and to a certain kind of degree of proficiency, which…”
Hanna argues USMLE scores do not prove Med-PaLM is ready for medicine
“When we get something where you have something like MedPalm II or MedPalm I and II being measured on the US medical licensing exam, that's not really a test that determines whether one is sufficient, you know, is prepared to be a medical practitioner. There's …”
Hanna: People Lack Knowledge to Verify Chatbots Outside Their Specialties
“Once it gets into those areas in which verifiability just escapes me, which is most areas, because we're not professionals in most areas, and although a lot of us want to be jacks of all trades, jacks and jills of all trades, then we lose that ability, and we …”
Hanna: AI efficiency gains will increase doctor appointment pressure, not ease workloads
“And these efficiency gains from doctors isn't going to, like, Make their jobs necessarily easier. It's going to put more of a pressure on them. Not that you're in a position where you don't have to take medical notes. You're going to be running from position t…”
Hanna: Verifying AI transcription is not easier than transcribing directly
“Is verification an easier task than transcription? I guess that's my question. I would proffer no.”
Hanna: Google data center consumed half the water in The Dalles, Oregon
“That is kind of pre AI in which we're focusing on the development of Google's hyperscaling And it wasn't until the Oregonians sued the city that we knew that half of the water consumption in the city was going to Google's data center.”
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 BIG TECHNOLOGYLEDGER | Director of Research, Distributed AI Research Institute | 1 | 7 | 50% 1/2 | full record on Big Technology → |