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Stanford Prof. Christopher Manning warns frontier AI is being built inside “three monasteries,” with too little of what happens inside making it out to the rest of society: "If we just think of the whole space of frontier AI, a huge problem at the moment is so much of... it is happening in these sort of three monasteries, and very little information is making it outside to the rest of the world." "That's an enormous problem for the whole of society. The American public is not gonna get more comfortable with the possibilities of an AI future if the feeling is it's completely hidden from them." "For the case of having Stanford involved, it's just a bedrock assumption of Stanford's that things are made public. All research we do has to be publicly available." Stanford NLP Group Stanford Universityshow more

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Karim TechInnovateur11 days ago

@chrmanning Trois monastères c'est déjà optimiste. Avec Mistral on a vu qu'un lab open source peut devenir un monastère fermé en 18 mois dès que les gros checks US arrivent. Le modèle Stanford est joli mais qui finance la recherche publique à ce niveau ?

GGUFzy12 days ago

@chrmanning Three monasteries still feels like the right mental model for me.

Erika S12 days ago

@chrmanning I'm wondering if the monasteries even hold. Talent leaves, papers leak, open models catch up a year later anyway.

𝕱𝖚𝖑𝖑 𝕶𝖊𝖑𝖑𝖞12 days ago

@chrmanning ant, oa, but who does he think is the third monastery…? meta?

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The All-In Podcast

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Jensen to AI Leaders: “We have to be far more thoughtful” when communicating to the public Jensen Huang: “(AI) is not a biological being. It is not alien. It is not conscious. It is computer software.” “We say things like, ‘We don't understand it at all.’ It is not true. We understand a lot of things about this technology.” Chamath: “If you were in the seat in the boardroom of Anthropic over that whole scuttlebutt with the Department of War, what do you think you would've told Dario and that team to do, maybe, differently to try to change some of this outcome and some of this perception?” Jensen: “The first thing that I would say about Anthropic is, first of all, the technology is incredible. We are a large consumer of Anthropic technology.” “The desire to warn people about the capability of the technology is also really terrific.” “We just have to make sure that we understand that the world has a spectrum, and that warning is good, scaring is less good because this technology is too important to us.” “I think that it is fine to predict the future, but we need to be a little bit more circumspect. We need to have a little bit more humility, that, in fact, we can't completely predict the future.” “And to say things that are quite extreme, quite catastrophic, that there's no evidence of it happening, could be more damaging than people think.” “And of course we are technology leaders.” “There was a time when nobody listened to us, but now because technology is so important in the social fabric, such an important industry, so important to national security, our words do matter.” “And I think we have to be much more circumspect, we have to be more moderate, we have to be more balanced, we have to be far more thoughtful.”

Jensen to AI Leaders: “We have to be far more thoughtful” when communicating to the public Jensen Huang: “(AI) is not a biological being. It is not alien. It is not conscious. It is computer software.” “We say things like, ‘We don't understand it at all.’ It is not true. We understand a lot of things about this technology.” Chamath: “If you were in the seat in the boardroom of Anthropic over that whole scuttlebutt with the Department of War, what do you think you would've told Dario and that team to do, maybe, differently to try to change some of this outcome and some of this perception?” Jensen: “The first thing that I would say about Anthropic is, first of all, the technology is incredible. We are a large consumer of Anthropic technology.” “The desire to warn people about the capability of the technology is also really terrific.” “We just have to make sure that we understand that the world has a spectrum, and that warning is good, scaring is less good because this technology is too important to us.” “I think that it is fine to predict the future, but we need to be a little bit more circumspect. We need to have a little bit more humility, that, in fact, we can't completely predict the future.” “And to say things that are quite extreme, quite catastrophic, that there's no evidence of it happening, could be more damaging than people think.” “And of course we are technology leaders.” “There was a time when nobody listened to us, but now because technology is so important in the social fabric, such an important industry, so important to national security, our words do matter.” “And I think we have to be much more circumspect, we have to be more moderate, we have to be more balanced, we have to be far more thoughtful.”

The All-In Podcast

57,581 views • 6 months ago

$GOOG Koray Kavukcuoglu says he is 100% certain Google DeepMind will get back to the frontier and that nothing else is more important "To put it very bluntly, there's nothing other than being at the frontier that is important for us. Yeah, that's it. All our goals, all our focus is always about that." "And when we are making decisions, when we are making prioritizations in terms of ideas, in terms of what to do and what goals we should follow, it's all about being at the frontier." "And I'm a hundred percent certain that we will be at the frontier." " We have an amazing team. I have so much trust in the team. There's like a great amount of creativity and dedication in the team, and being part of Google, we have amazing, amazing resources available to us. We have the whole full stack that we can, and we are able to optimize to be able to achieve our goals." ________ For a deeper look at Gemini 4 progression across multiple Google exec interviews:

$GOOG Koray Kavukcuoglu says he is 100% certain Google DeepMind will get back to the frontier and that nothing else is more important "To put it very bluntly, there's nothing other than being at the frontier that is important for us. Yeah, that's it. All our goals, all our focus is always about that." "And when we are making decisions, when we are making prioritizations in terms of ideas, in terms of what to do and what goals we should follow, it's all about being at the frontier." "And I'm a hundred percent certain that we will be at the frontier." " We have an amazing team. I have so much trust in the team. There's like a great amount of creativity and dedication in the team, and being part of Google, we have amazing, amazing resources available to us. We have the whole full stack that we can, and we are able to optimize to be able to achieve our goals." ________ For a deeper look at Gemini 4 progression across multiple Google exec interviews:

Fireside Alpha

72,195 views • 9 days ago

Avi Patel says VCs will hand you millions if you say “AI” three times in a Stanford hoodie “If you dropped out of Stanford and walked into a VC office wearing a Stanford hoodie, acted really rude to the VCs, didn’t value their opinions, and said the word AI maybe three times, you’d usually get a check for a couple million dollars” “The problem is that a lot of Stanford kids are not smart autistic, they’re just retrdd. They don’t have brain cells, they don’t know how to communicate, and they can’t build a company or code. So they walk in and the VC mistakes the kid for the next Mark Zuckerberg with flip flops and a Stanford hoodie, and just puts infinite money into them. It’s like this is the most brain dead shit ever”

Avi Patel says VCs will hand you millions if you say “AI” three times in a Stanford hoodie “If you dropped out of Stanford and walked into a VC office wearing a Stanford hoodie, acted really rude to the VCs, didn’t value their opinions, and said the word AI maybe three times, you’d usually get a check for a couple million dollars” “The problem is that a lot of Stanford kids are not smart autistic, they’re just retrdd. They don’t have brain cells, they don’t know how to communicate, and they can’t build a company or code. So they walk in and the VC mistakes the kid for the next Mark Zuckerberg with flip flops and a Stanford hoodie, and just puts infinite money into them. It’s like this is the most brain dead shit ever”

Mikli

276,748 views • 4 months ago

"People talk about [AI] being the death of creativity, or that this is slop and that its somehow against creativity. I think it's absolutely just the opposite. I think [AI] has raised the bar for creativity so much higher." - beeple at Stanford

"People talk about [AI] being the death of creativity, or that this is slop and that its somehow against creativity. I think it's absolutely just the opposite. I think [AI] has raised the bar for creativity so much higher." - beeple at Stanford

NODE

57,176 views • 4 months ago

This 40 minute lecture at Stanford by Apoorv Agarwal on the Economics of AI supercycle is worth a watch Apoorv is currently a Partner at Altimeter and is directly involved in some of their key AI investments, including OpenAI and Glean Still find it incredible that the internet gives us access to this level of information directly. A course I will definitely be following along Sourced from MS&E 435 Stanford University

This 40 minute lecture at Stanford by Apoorv Agarwal on the Economics of AI supercycle is worth a watch Apoorv is currently a Partner at Altimeter and is directly involved in some of their key AI investments, including OpenAI and Glean Still find it incredible that the internet gives us access to this level of information directly. A course I will definitely be following along Sourced from MS&E 435 Stanford University

Boring_Business

245,197 views • 5 months ago