Jeremy Howard

14 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 8 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement May 15, 2025 by Jeremy Howard · said 6 times in 2 episodes since 2013 · across every show →

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May 15, 2025 neutral
Opinion
Jeremy Howard: Autonomous AI agents are only useful for small, simple tasks
“There are certainly situations where, like, Scripts, spreadsheets, VBA, access databases are useful, you know, but nobody like builds them as the components of their technology, you know, strategy. They're the things you use for little tools. It's small, well-…”
Jeremy Howard May 15, 2025 ▶ 32:22 Jeremy Howard on Building 5,000 AI Products with 14 People (Answer AI Deep-Dive)
May 15, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Jeremy Howard sees no reason to believe Artificial Superintelligence will occur
“I have no particular reason to believe that will happen, and for every point until we get there, if we ever get there, by definition, there's going to be humans interacting with AI, and so that's what I care about, is how do we do that In an optimal way.”
Jeremy Howard May 15, 2025 ▶ 34:12 Jeremy Howard on Building 5,000 AI Products with 14 People (Answer AI Deep-Dive)
May 15, 2025 bearish
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Howard: No more evidence for near-term ASI today than 15 years ago
“I don't think we have any more evidence that ASI might be close now than we did 15 years ago, 15 years before that.”
Jeremy Howard May 15, 2025 ▶ 11:11 Jeremy Howard on Building 5,000 AI Products with 14 People (Answer AI Deep-Dive)
May 15, 2025 negative
Opinion
Howard: Traditional AI labs favor paper citations over bold innovation
“It's very different to a research lab, which is like, hey, let's try and get lots of citations on a paper in a field that's so highly recognizable to its peers that they recognize it as being something they want to appear at their next conference, you know, wh…”
Jeremy Howard May 15, 2025 ▶ 26:22 Jeremy Howard on Building 5,000 AI Products with 14 People (Answer AI Deep-Dive)
May 15, 2025 bullish
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Howard: Non-autoregressive AI architectures will deliver major performance gains
“But I think it probably will work. And I think that'll probably be a significant jump in performance when you can sketch out the entirety of the solution first, and then fill in the blocks and gradually increasing levels of specificity.”
Jeremy Howard May 15, 2025 ▶ 14:47 Jeremy Howard on Building 5,000 AI Products with 14 People (Answer AI Deep-Dive)
May 15, 2025 negative
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Howard: Test-time compute scaling will hit diminishing returns within two years
“It's a thing where you get most of the juice out of it in the first year or two, so we're still in that. Phase at the moment, and we'll start to hit the curve off point pretty soon. Just like we did for training.”
Jeremy Howard May 15, 2025 ▶ 9:56 Jeremy Howard on Building 5,000 AI Products with 14 People (Answer AI Deep-Dive)
May 15, 2025 bearish
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Howard: AI growth will continue tailing off as low-hanging fruit disappears
“The amount of people and money being put into AI, it's going to keep going up, but again, the low hanging fruits being done now. So yeah, I think we'll continue to see the tailing off of growth.”
Jeremy Howard May 15, 2025 ▶ 13:24 Jeremy Howard on Building 5,000 AI Products with 14 People (Answer AI Deep-Dive)
May 15, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Howard: Answer.ai is an Edison-inspired R&D lab, not a research lab
“So it's definitely not a research lab. This might sound minor, but it's an R and D lab, but they feel and look extremely different as was Edison's Menlo Park lab was an R and D lab.”
Jeremy Howard May 15, 2025 ▶ 23:29 Jeremy Howard on Building 5,000 AI Products with 14 People (Answer AI Deep-Dive)
May 15, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Jeremy Howard: Academic approaches to predictive modeling are far less successful than practical experience
“Much to my surprise, the academic approach is, was way less successful.”
Jeremy Howard May 15, 2025 ▶ 19:56 Jeremy Howard on Building 5,000 AI Products with 14 People (Answer AI Deep-Dive)
May 15, 2025 negative
Opinion
Howard: There was no technological breakthrough 'DeepSeek moment'
“For me, there was no technology DeepSeek moment.”
Jeremy Howard May 15, 2025 ▶ 7:25 Jeremy Howard on Building 5,000 AI Products with 14 People (Answer AI Deep-Dive)
May 15, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Answer.ai has 14 employees but aims to operate with only 12
“Yeah, maybe 14 now. 14 We're kind of aiming to be around 12. There was a couple of people we found we couldn't say no to.”
Jeremy Howard May 15, 2025 ▶ 29:50 Jeremy Howard on Building 5,000 AI Products with 14 People (Answer AI Deep-Dive)
May 15, 2025
Disclosure
Howard: Answer.ai operates with no offices, roles, or professional managers
“We're not going to have offices and departments. We don't, you know, we don't have any roles. We don't have any professional managers.”
Jeremy Howard May 15, 2025 ▶ 51:01 Jeremy Howard on Building 5,000 AI Products with 14 People (Answer AI Deep-Dive)
May 15, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Howard: Autonomous AI coding agent Devin produces low-quality, useless software
“Devon's an agent you know, a bunch of tools, tool calls, and tied together with an OpenAI model, if I understand correctly. Yeah, and it actually ended up definitely supporting our thesis, which is, there are so many places we wished we could have got involved…”
Jeremy Howard May 15, 2025 ▶ 31:41 Jeremy Howard on Building 5,000 AI Products with 14 People (Answer AI Deep-Dive)
May 15, 2025 positive
Insight
Jeremy Howard: Humans and AI produce better results collaborating in shared environments
“Humans and computers work better together than separately, and then there are various things that kind of come out of that, and one key one, for example, is that the human and the computer should be able to see all of each other's work and be operating in the …”
Jeremy Howard May 15, 2025 ▶ 30:50 Jeremy Howard on Building 5,000 AI Products with 14 People (Answer AI Deep-Dive)
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