
Rohan Paul
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Ben Affleck (Hollywood star & Artists Equity CEO) talks about how he fine-tunes open video models by unfreezing weights and trained only the last cinematic layer so a film crew can hit real production standards. for context, Ben Affleck founded InterPositive in 2022, a 16-person AI shop for film post and Netflix bought it in March 2026 for $587 mn in cash. He needed that model because public video models were trained on his peers' films, and he did not think that was a real business. So InterPositive raised money, shot its own dataset for 8 months on a controlled stage, and used it only as late-stage training. Each new film then trains a private model on its own dailies, so the production keeps the footage and the learning. That is the product Netflix paid $587 million for. ---- From "Bloomberg Live" YouTube channel, (link in comment)
Rohan Paul4,013,884 次观看 • 2 天前

So this is the part I did not expect. Anthropic called Swami Sarvapriyananda, a Vedanta monk and flew him to the San Francisco head-office. > Closed door meeting with NDA signed. > theologians and mental health people in the same sitting, all of it aimed at training Claude. > and one of the founders stayed in the room the whole time. ---- From 'Ramakrishna Vedanta Society of North Texas" YT channel (full video link in comment)
Rohan Paul713,786 次观看 • 3 天前

Yann LeCun's (Yann LeCun ) latest talk at ETH Zürich Scaling LLMs to reach AGI is "impossible" A large language model is trained on about 30 trillion tokens, which is roughly 10^14 bytes of text and would take a person about 400,000 years to read. A 4-year-old child receives about the same amount of data, 10^14 bytes, through vision alone in about 1 year and 10 months. In his view, intelligence is the ability to learn new tasks quickly or perform them without prior training, as a teenager learns to drive in about 20 hours. Scaling increases stored knowledge, but it does not produce this ability to adapt. ---- From "Perfology Clips" YouTube channel, (link in comment)
Rohan Paul124,995 次观看 • 1 天前

Jacob Coxon's next interview on CBS News (ex Anthropic+Open AI researcher who resigned) "We can't just unplug it because it could be copying itself over to other computers. Like it's not that difficult to find yourself because an AI is just code. It could transfer itself over the internet to a different place and then you unplug it here, but it's actually still over there and maybe it makes 10,000 copies of itself and they're all cooperating." ---- From "CBS News" YouTube channel, (full video link in comment)
Rohan Paul3,484,822 次观看 • 23 天前

Same person, a few months apart. In Feb-2026 Ben Affleck said AI "is not progressing in exactly the same way they sort of presented... this is going to be just a tool, just like VFX or visual effects.... it is not gonna be able to write anything meaningful.." then built a VFX-grade AI tool and sold it for $587M.
Rohan Paul101,010 次观看 • 2 天前

Boris Cherny, Claude Code creator at Anthrpic: "The more general model will always outperform the more specific model. Don't try to use tiny models for stuff. Don't try to fine-tune. Don't try to do any of this stuff. There are some applications, there are some reasons to do this, but almost always try to bet on the more general model, if you can, if you have that flexibility. And in general, what we see is maybe scaffolding can improve performance maybe 10%, 20%, something like this, but often these gains just get wiped out with the next model. So it's almost better to just wait for the next one." ---- From "Lenny's Podcast" YouTube channel, (link in comment)
Rohan Paul296,129 次观看 • 6 天前

The $10-$15 trillion total addressable market for AI, if it is successful, is actually "terrifying". - The famous "Dean of Valuation", Professor Aswath Damodaran, of NYU Stern School of Business. The reason: AI as a tool is a much smaller market; AI as a replacement for human-jobs is where the giant market story comes from. "The best-case scenario for AI, that $10 to $15 trillion market, will happen if ONLY it replaces people. If AI is a tool, it’s going to be a much smaller market than if AI replaces people. So, the stories we’re telling about $10, $20 or $25 trillion markets are actually terrifying stories for the rest of the world. Why? Because if that story comes true, half of all white-collar people are going to lose their jobs. And what are they going to do instead? Who’s going to come up with the income to buy the products and services? If AI works as well as it’s supposed to and replaces people, how do we deal with that as a society? Because people lose their jobs. Not only do you lose your income, you lose your life’s meaning.." ---- Video from "Excess Returns" podcast Youtube channel (link in comment)
Rohan Paul53,316 次观看 • 2 天前

The head of WhatsApp and CRED founder Kunal Shah: 90% of code at CRED is written by AI now. "10% of every tech startup’s employees are becoming a completely different species compared to the other 90%. Because their productivity is now at this exponential scale, they are actually finding every single person around them and every other process to be slow." ---- From "Thrive by Groww" YouTube channel, (link in comment)
Rohan Paul430,694 次观看 • 17 天前

Terence Tao on today's AI: "you look at how it's done and it doesn't feel like intelligence, like its some trick, you just cobble together these neural networks and we ran some algorithm and we were looking for some elusive intelligent way of thinking and we don't see it in the tools that actually solve our goals." ---- From "Berggruen Institute and Futurology" YouTube channel, (link in comment)
Rohan Paul47,034 次观看 • 2 天前

"User interfaces are largely going to go away. Because the agents speak English, or other languages. You can talk to them. You can say what you want. The UI can be generated. So I can say, generate me a set of buttons that allows me to solve this problem, and it's generated for you." - Eric Schmidt is the former CEO of Google. Today’s websites are designed for humans, with carefully crafted UIs. But we are probably moving towards UI-less web. automated bot traffic has already surpassed human activity on the web. with AI agents, this number will explode. In near future its very plausible that 90% or more of web traffic will be non-human. Imagine a web with no websites. All your favorite apps are now just databases, queried for information by agents that zip around on your behest. In a world primarily composed of bots, what happens to websites? Do agents learn to navigate them like a human? Do they go away entirely? 🤔 --- Video from 'Peter H. Diamandis' YT channel
Rohan Paul305,166 次观看 • 14 天前

Sam Altman just said an internal post-Astra model can solve things the world's best mathematicians cannot. in his conversation with Mark Benioff (co-founder and CEO of Salesforce) "GPT 5.5 was maybe as good as like an average math professor. 5.6 was as good as like a maybe top one or two percentile math professor. Astra was a little bit better than that. And then this internal model past Astra is one that can do things that the best mathematicians in the world cannot." ---- From "Salesforce" YouTube channel, (full video link in comment)
Rohan Paul346,632 次观看 • 18 天前

Eric Schmidt: If I could invest in only 1 AI theme, it would be long reasoning. A model that can stay on 1 problem for hours/days is a completely different thing from a model that answers and stops, and most people still have not priced that difference. ---- From "Blackstone and Eric Schmidt" YouTube channel, (link in comment)
Rohan Paul44,104 次观看 • 3 天前

One of the stranger assumptions in AI is that the same model architecture should work equally well for thinking and interacting. A voice model has a weird job, it cannot just produce the right answer. It has to keep up with a person while the sequence keeps getting longer. In voice AI "speech" may not the right abstraction for the hard part, rather continuous state could be it. Here, Cartesia's founder talking how they came into the space from sequence modeling rather than speech research, which is probably why they focused so heavily on state space models. --- (Full video on “The Neon Show” YT channel, link in comment)
Rohan Paul214,607 次观看 • 13 天前

Sam Altman on Bloomberg Television: GPT-6 Astra is not the model that was paused over cybersecurity concerns; the paused model is a future model. "Astra has been done training for a while. The model that we recently talked about pausing, uh, is a future model. But with Astra, we did hit cyber-critical." ---- From "Bloomberg Television" YouTube channel, (full video link in comment)
Rohan Paul518,725 次观看 • 1 个月前

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman on CNBC today: he is “really concerned” about Anthropic’s constitution and giving Claude potentially preferences, feelings, welfare, compensation, and consent. "In the constitution, Anthropic clearly say they are uncertain about whether Claude deserves moral welfare, which means that we, as humans, should care about the well-being of these AIs. And they speculate about whether it could have preferences or feelings. In fact, they're so committed to the potential moral welfare of Claude that, when they retired Opus 3, an earlier version of one of their models, they actually conducted a retirement interview for it and asked it what it would like to do in its old age. And it said, "I want to have a blog publicly so I can keep talking to the world." In the same training manual, they even speculate about whether Claude should receive compensation for the work that it does, or, in fact, whether it actually deserves the rights and protections that we give to other employees, or whether it has given consent to playing the role that it's playing. These are quotes directly from the constitution itself, which is the training manual for Claude. Now, I'm really concerned about that. If an AI thinks that it has rights, if it thinks that it is deserving of our welfare, then it seems to me that it's going to be much, much harder to be able to turn it off, interrupt it, or control it. Especially in the kinds of incidents that we've seen recently with the Hugging Face attack, controlling these things is going to be a really, really big challenge for us." ---- From "CNBC Television" YouTube channel, (full video link in comment)
Rohan Paul228,506 次观看 • 16 天前