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Mayya: AI outpaces humans because human learning is rate-limited
“The problem I have is that if a human gets inspired by something, that's okay, because we're rate limited at a particular speed, but an AI can go crawl through the entire internet and be trained on the entire internet and beat everyone.”
Mayya: Rule-based AI alignment fails because edge cases cannot be enumerated
“Alignment is about figuring out all these edge cases and saying, don't do this, basically putting it in a sheet. And the problem is we just don't know what it'll end up doing even this world. So nobody can write all the edge cases.”
Mayya: ChatGPT is a computer whose programming language is English
“The best way to think about it is, like, GPT or ChatGPT is a new type of computer with a new programming language, and that programming language is English.”
Mayya: Influencers will become more powerful as AI lowers content costs
“I think they'll get even more powerful, I tell you why. Not because of the content itself, but because of the channel. So once you have the channel, your cost of content creation is now zero. So you're able to get much bigger.”
Mayya: Prompt engineering effectiveness stems from life experience, not vocabulary
“I think prompting is more an expression of your life experience and knowing what would happen. Like if Nikhil was making a new app tomorrow, you were making another version of Koo tomorrow, you already know what works, what doesn't. So you'll be able to prompt…”