Amjad Masad
10 statements across 1 episodes · 7 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Sep 21, 2023 by Amjad Masad · across every show →
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Sep 21, 2023 bullish
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Sep 21, 2023 bearish
Masad: Commercial AI providers will not release completion models going forward
“Now all the models are chat models. You know, they're not going to be releasing any completion model going forward. And so if you want to build a completion based product, it's actually fairly difficult to do it using commercial APIs.”
Sep 21, 2023 positive
Masad: The right hacker mindset is just-in-time learning around AI
“I think embedded in their answer is this attitude of like, if it becomes a problem, I will learn it, right? If the AI can't do it, I will learn it. And I think that's the right attitude for hackers is that you learn just in time to be able to do that task.”
Sep 21, 2023 bullish
Sep 21, 2023 negative
Masad: Training models has become a founder status symbol over product needs
“I think a lot of founders now see it as a point of pride or status to train a model. And the moment we put out the three billion parameter model, like three or four copycats came out of after that. And I, I'm not a fan of what's happening in, in the open sourc…”
Sep 21, 2023 positive
Masad: Pitched Zuckerberg in 2022 on open-sourcing LLMs via Open Compute playbook
“And I got a meeting with Zuck actually, and I pitched Zuck on this idea. And I remember around the time he did the open compute project. So what open compute was like Google and AWS are going to keep all their data center secrets because it's a company advanta…”
Sep 21, 2023 bullish
Masad: Programmers will act like managers of AI within 3-5 years
“Like I think software could fundamentally change in the next four, three to five years where it looks totally different to someone sitting, sitting today and looking at it into the future. Maybe it looks something like programmers tend to be more like engineer…”
Sep 21, 2023 positive
Masad: 2012 'Naturalness of Software' paper proved NLP models apply to code
“There was this seminal paper in 2012 called on the naturalness of software. And basically a bunch of researchers try to apply NLP to code. And what they found is that actually code Can be modeled like any language. That's why they call it naturalness is becaus…”
Sep 21, 2023 neutral
Masad: Replit is building container infrastructure to embody AI agents
“Right now we're doing the hard work of building infrastructure on Replit. Like we are building this service that sits inside the container that embodies the AI In the development environment such that it can do things like go to the internet, like install a pa…”