Aidan Gomez

14 statements across 1 episodes · 9 bullish · 4 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Oct 30, 2024 by Aidan Gomez · said 5 times in 2 episodes since 2024 · across every show →

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Oct 30, 2024 negative
Disclosure
Gomez: I Refused to Sign the AI Existential Risk Open Letter
“I did not sign that letter.”
Aidan Gomez Oct 30, 2024 ▶ 20:39 The Next Gen AI Models: Reliable, Consistent, Trustworthy — With Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez
Oct 30, 2024 bearish
Insight
Gomez: AI Self-Improvement Plateaus and Won't Cause Intelligence Explosion
“Not happening. It's not happening. It improves for, it can self-improve for a while, and then it tapers off. And so, yeah, you get some good improvement out of it, which is why we use it, but then it plateaus. It doesn't just keep going forever.”
Aidan Gomez Oct 30, 2024 ▶ 24:46 The Next Gen AI Models: Reliable, Consistent, Trustworthy — With Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez
Oct 30, 2024 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Gomez: Next-Gen AI Models Will Break Far Less Frequently
“I expect them to be far more robust, reliable and I expect that they'll just be more capable. There's lots of things today that models break in unsupp, in surprising ways, and I think that's going to start to become rarer and rarer. We're going to be able to p…”
Aidan Gomez Oct 30, 2024 ▶ 4:54 The Next Gen AI Models: Reliable, Consistent, Trustworthy — With Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez
Oct 30, 2024 neutral
Insight
Gomez: LLMs Interpolate Known Skills But Do Not Generalize Beyond Them
“I think they can interpolate between skills, and so if they've seen how to do A, and they've seen how to do B, they can get kind of the average of A and B but they don't just go completely beyond anything that they've seen.”
Aidan Gomez Oct 30, 2024 ▶ 23:10 The Next Gen AI Models: Reliable, Consistent, Trustworthy — With Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez
Oct 30, 2024 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Gomez: Cohere Has Zero Examples of Enterprise Customers Replacing Staff
“I am not aware of it. I don't think I have any example of that happening. It's very assistive actually. So it's less about replacement. It's more about augmentation. Like at the moment, what everyone's building are tools to augment their workforce to make them…”
Aidan Gomez Oct 30, 2024 ▶ 45:13 The Next Gen AI Models: Reliable, Consistent, Trustworthy — With Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez
Oct 30, 2024 positive
Insight
Gomez: 2023 Was AI Proof of Concept; 2024 Is Scale Production
“So last year was very much the year of the proof of concept. People were getting familiar with the technology. It was their first time working with it. And so there were a lot of small tests and experiments, but this year is very much one of going to productio…”
Aidan Gomez Oct 30, 2024 ▶ 2:10 The Next Gen AI Models: Reliable, Consistent, Trustworthy — With Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez
Oct 30, 2024 bullish
Opinion
Gomez: AI Training Costs Are Small Relative to Long-Term Value
“I certainly understand the urge for people to see the numbers being spent on training and be concerned that it's not going to recoup in value, but I think that Those numbers are actually small relative to the long-term value that the technology will deliver.”
Aidan Gomez Oct 30, 2024 ▶ 1:46 The Next Gen AI Models: Reliable, Consistent, Trustworthy — With Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez
Oct 30, 2024 positive
Opinion
Gomez: AGI Matching Human Performance Is Achievable and Reasonable
“I mean, with that definition of AGI, I think it's both Achievable and a fairly reasonable target.”
Aidan Gomez Oct 30, 2024 ▶ 12:47 The Next Gen AI Models: Reliable, Consistent, Trustworthy — With Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez
Oct 30, 2024 bullish
Insight
Gomez: Inner Monologues Are Crucial for Reliable AI Assistants
“I think the notion of using reasoning or letting the model have an inner monologue to work through problems, think through them make mistakes, but then realize that catch mistakes and correct them. I think that's a crucial piece in improving not only the accur…”
Aidan Gomez Oct 30, 2024 ▶ 17:38 The Next Gen AI Models: Reliable, Consistent, Trustworthy — With Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez
Oct 30, 2024 positive
Insight
Gomez: Frozen AI Tech Would Still Yield Incredible Economic Value
“Even if, you know, like just as a hypothetical even if the technology froze and what we have today is all we get, there's so much good to be done. There is so much work to go do. To implement this technology across the economy really boost productivity, drive …”
Aidan Gomez Oct 30, 2024 ▶ 8:25 The Next Gen AI Models: Reliable, Consistent, Trustworthy — With Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez
Oct 30, 2024 bearish
Opinion
Gomez: AI Industry Is Building Useful Tools, Not an AGI God
“I don't know about God. Like, I don't think I'd ever use that term to describe what's coming. I think we're going to have some really powerful and useful tools. Emerge. I think that's what's coming. The idea that we're building AGI or something that's just gon…”
Aidan Gomez Oct 30, 2024 ▶ 4:09 The Next Gen AI Models: Reliable, Consistent, Trustworthy — With Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez
Oct 30, 2024 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Gomez: AI will never cause mass unemployment of humans
“Well, because I think that we will never see mass unemployment of humans. I think that this technology is going to unlock more opportunities. It will let us do more as opposed to Scaling back what we do.”
Aidan Gomez Oct 30, 2024 ▶ 14:50 The Next Gen AI Models: Reliable, Consistent, Trustworthy — With Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez
Oct 30, 2024 bullish
Opinion
Gomez: AI Can Reach AGI Through The Internet Without Physical Embodiment
“I actually take, I think the less popular view, which is The internet is enough, and by observation, you can actually learn enough to be extremely, extremely compelling. I think that's if we're talking about AGI and doing things as well as humans do, I think t…”
Aidan Gomez Oct 30, 2024 ▶ 30:07 The Next Gen AI Models: Reliable, Consistent, Trustworthy — With Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez
Oct 30, 2024 bullish
Insight
Gomez: AI Productivity Expands Total Output in a Supply-Constrained World
“Humanity is very supply side constrained, not demand side. We always, we want more. We want better. We want to be healthier. We want to do more. We want to have things be cheaper. And so we have all this demand and we're trying to keep up with our own society'…”
Aidan Gomez Oct 30, 2024 ▶ 15:09 The Next Gen AI Models: Reliable, Consistent, Trustworthy — With Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez
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