David Luan
7 statements across 1 episodes · 5 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 27, 2024 by David Luan · said 19 times in 10 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
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2024 10 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
- Agents @ Work: Dust.tt — with Stanislas Polu
- The Winds of AI Winter (Q2 Four Wars of the AI Stack Recap)
- The 10,000x Yolo Researcher Metagame — with Yi Tay of Reka
- How AI is Eating Finance - with Mike Conover of Brightwave
- Supervise the Process of AI Research — with Jungwon Byun and Andreas Stuhlmüller of Elicit
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Mar 27, 2024 neutral
Mar 27, 2024 bullish
Luan: AGI means performing any task a human can do on a computer
“I think agents are just absolutely the correct long-term direction, right? You just go to find what AGI is, right? You're like, hey, like, Well, first off, actually, I don't love AGI definitions that involve human replacement because I don't think that's actua…”
Mar 27, 2024 bullish
Luan: AI will converge into a universal byte model across all modalities
“Multimodal models are becoming more of a thing, we're behavioral cloning the visual world, but really what we're just going to have is this like universal byte model, right? Where like tokens of data that have high signal come in, and then all of those pattern…”
Mar 27, 2024 bullish
Luan: Training foundation models for robotics via behavioral cloning will work
“One, I'm so excited for someone to train a foundation model of robots. Like, it's just, I think it's just gonna work. Like, I will die on this hill. I mean, like, again, this whole time, like, we've been on this podcast, just continually saying, you know, like…”
Mar 27, 2024 bearish
Pure-play foundation model companies will be commoditized by Llama and big tech
“I think pure play foundation model companies are just gonna be pinched by how good The next couple of llamas are going to be, and the next, like, what next good open source thing, and then seeing the really big players put ridiculous amounts of compute behind …”
Mar 27, 2024 positive
Luan: LLMs shortcut evolutionary RL by behaviorally cloning all human knowledge
“Like de novo RL is like a pretty terrible way to get there quickly. Why are we rediscovering all the knowledge about the world? Like years ago, I had a debate with a Berkeley professor as to like what will it actually take to build HCI? And his view is basical…”