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AI Keynote: Six Bold Predictions About The Future Of Artificial Intelligence
- ▶ 16:41 Alex Kantrowitz I spoke with the founding product manager of Lambda, which is Google's original chatbot, and he said to me that they were exploring some use cases around how technology like that could be used for powering
Why Google Never Shipped LaMDA Its ChatGPT Predecessor
- ▶ 0:59 Alex Kantrowitz But before that, he was the first product manager on Lambda, which is Google's effectively the precursor to 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:26 Gaurav Nemade Uh, for example, a lot of things that I worked on at, uh, earlier in the times, like with Meena and Lambda, I couldn't predict like where things would go, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:05 Gaurav Nemade So interestingly, Mina, uh, was the precursor to Lambda. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:32 Gaurav Nemade So I actually was involved in the MENA slash Lambda product project from early 2019 to I would say mid 2020.
- ▶ 34:08 Alex Kantrowitz It had sort of transitioned to Lambda. 6 times in the scene
Big Technology's New Release, AI Bubble Looms, Apple's Next Event — With Brian McCullough
- ▶ 1:59 Alex Kantrowitz So our first episode, which is going to be running next week, is with Gaurav Nemada, who is the first product manager on Google's Lambda chatbot.
Blake Lemoine and Gary Marcus Debate AI Chatbots
- ▶ 4:43 Gary Marcus But what we do know is that those systems, as far as I can tell, um, and Lambda's a different category maybe, um, but for ChatGPT, we, we know that it doesn't, for example, go out to Wikipedia or go out to the web at large in order to…
- ▶ 8:21 Blake Lemoine And it has been turned off, at least in the case of Lambda, as a safety feature because they're worried about what will happen if these systems learn too much about individual people. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:46 Blake Lemoine So Lambda was never that malicious. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:41 Blake Lemoine One of the guardrails that Lambda had was that it was supposed to be helping users with the task that they needed.
- ▶ 22:31 Alex Kantrowitz Just a piece of evidence on Blake's side here, and by the way, I'm totally neutral on this, but I was speaking with Lambda, not Lambda, with Bing, and told it that I was a journalist and would like to publish parts of our conversation. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:01 Alex Kantrowitz And we're back here on Big Technology Podcast with Blake Lemoyne, the ex Google engineer, who's concluded that the company's Lambda chatbot sentient, and Gary Marcus, who's an academic author, and he wrote Rebooting AI. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:03 Gary Marcus And as Blake points out, like we, you know, whether it's Lambda or the next system, at some point,
- ▶ 42:58 Gary Marcus Now, again, I haven't looked inside of Lambda and I don't really know what's going on there. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:07 Blake Lemoine So, like, Lambda came out of Ray Kurzweil's lab, and his lab's explicit corporate mission was to pass the Turing test.
- ▶ 50:54 Alex Kantrowitz Lambda isn't out yet.