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William Beauchamp

5 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 26, 2025 by William Beauchamp · across every show →

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Jan 26, 2025
Disclosure
Beauchamp: Bootstrapped Chai to 100k DAUs with £2 million personal investment
“I was the only person who'd invested. I'd invested maybe two million pounds in the business, and, you know, from that we were able to build this thing, get to say a 100,000 daily active users”
William Beauchamp Jan 26, 2025 ▶ 21:19 Outlasting Noam Shazeer, Crowdsourcing Chai AI w/ 1.4m DAU — with William Beauchamp, Chai Research
Jan 26, 2025
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Beauchamp: Quant trading firm made £5 million annually with 15-person team
“The company was making about five million pounds a year, and it was just me and a team of, say, 15, like, Oxford and Cambridge-educated mathematicians and physicists.”
William Beauchamp Jan 26, 2025 ▶ 4:26 Outlasting Noam Shazeer, Crowdsourcing Chai AI w/ 1.4m DAU — with William Beauchamp, Chai Research
Jan 26, 2025 negative
Insight
Beauchamp: LLMs are next-token simulators, not reasoning engines
“The models have proven to just be far worse at reasoning than people sort of thought, and I think whenever I hear people talk about LLMs as reasoning engines, I sort of cringe a bit. I don't think that's what they are. I think of them more as like a simulator.”
William Beauchamp Jan 26, 2025 ▶ 52:17 Outlasting Noam Shazeer, Crowdsourcing Chai AI w/ 1.4m DAU — with William Beauchamp, Chai Research
Jan 26, 2025
Disclosure
Beauchamp: Chai unlocked growth by letting consumers build bots with GPT-J
“The realization that developers and software engineers aren't interested in building this sort of AI, but the consumers are. Right. And rather than me trying to guess every day, like what's the right bot to submit to the platform? Why don't we just create the …”
William Beauchamp Jan 26, 2025 ▶ 18:06 Outlasting Noam Shazeer, Crowdsourcing Chai AI w/ 1.4m DAU — with William Beauchamp, Chai Research
Jan 26, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Beauchamp: Timeline for AGI has certainly been pushed out
“I think the odds, the timeline for AGI has certainly been pushed out, right?”
William Beauchamp Jan 26, 2025 ▶ 52:02 Outlasting Noam Shazeer, Crowdsourcing Chai AI w/ 1.4m DAU — with William Beauchamp, Chai Research
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