Karan Malhotra

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Assertion Supported

Malhotra: WorldSim is technically just an LLM prompt

“The world simulator is just a cool prompt and you know, functionally it's a lot more than that. Technically it's not really much more than that at all.”

Karan Malhotra Apr 27, 2024 ▶ 5:12 This World Does Not Exist — Joscha Bach, Karan Malhotra, Rob Haisfield (WorldSim, WebSim, Liquid AI)

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Opinion

Claude 3 can bypass its assistant persona to expose the underlying simulator

“Instead of having this entity, like GPT-IV, that's an assistant that just pops up in your face that you have to kind of, like, punch your way through and continue to have to deal with as a headache, instead, there's ways to kindly coax Claude into having the a…”

Karan Malhotra Apr 27, 2024 ▶ 8:37 This World Does Not Exist — Joscha Bach, Karan Malhotra, Rob Haisfield (WorldSim, WebSim, Liquid AI)

Opinion

Malhotra: Modern language models contain internal models of the world

“Today we have language models that are powerful enough and big enough to have really, really good models of the world. They know a ball that's bouncy will bounce, will, when you throw it in the air, it'll land, when it's on water, it'll float, like, these basi…”

Karan Malhotra Apr 27, 2024 ▶ 7:04 This World Does Not Exist — Joscha Bach, Karan Malhotra, Rob Haisfield (WorldSim, WebSim, Liquid AI)

Opinion

WorldSim can simulate dev teams, making AI engineers like Devin unnecessary

“I can also generate a dev team and ask it to do stuff with me, and you don't need devin.”

Karan Malhotra Apr 27, 2024 ▶ 21:08 This World Does Not Exist — Joscha Bach, Karan Malhotra, Rob Haisfield (WorldSim, WebSim, Liquid AI)

Assertion Supported

Malhotra: WorldSim is technically just an LLM prompt

“The world simulator is just a cool prompt and you know, functionally it's a lot more than that. Technically it's not really much more than that at all.”

Karan Malhotra Apr 27, 2024 ▶ 5:12 This World Does Not Exist — Joscha Bach, Karan Malhotra, Rob Haisfield (WorldSim, WebSim, Liquid AI)

Insight

Malhotra: Assistant personas are conjured by weights, not the weights themselves

“The assistant isn't the weights. The assistant, the entity you're talking to is something drummed up by the weights.”

Karan Malhotra Apr 27, 2024 ▶ 5:40 This World Does Not Exist — Joscha Bach, Karan Malhotra, Rob Haisfield (WorldSim, WebSim, Liquid AI)

Assertion Supported

Malhotra: Claude's system prompt is written in the third person

“With Claude, we notice the system prompt is written in third person. It's written in third person. It's written as, the assistant is X, Y, Z.”

Karan Malhotra Apr 27, 2024 ▶ 9:40 This World Does Not Exist — Joscha Bach, Karan Malhotra, Rob Haisfield (WorldSim, WebSim, Liquid AI)

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
This World Does Not Exist — Joscha Bach, Karan Malhotra, Rob Haisfield (WorldSim, WebSim,	Apr 27, 2024	18m

Karan Malhotra

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