Nathan Lambert: observation

3 Feb 2025 Lex Fridman Podcast #459 – DeepSeek, China, OpenAI, NVIDIA, xAI, TSMC, Stargate, and AI Megaclusters

“Character AI very likely could be optimizing this where it’s the way that this data is collected is naive, whereas you’re presented a few options and you choose them. But that’s not the only way that these models are going to be trained.”

— Nathan Lambert

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Speaker: Nathan Lambert
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Claim type: observation
Recorded: 3 Feb 2025
Publisher: Lex Fridman Podcast
Episode: #459 – DeepSeek, China, OpenAI, NVIDIA, xAI, TSMC, Stargate, and AI Megaclusters

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…Is that not what Character AI has done? Their time per session is like two hours. Yeah. Character AI very likely could be optimizing this where it’s the way that this data is collected is naive, whereas you’re presented a few options and you choose them. But that’s not the only way that these models are going to be trained. It’s naive stuff, like talk to an anime girl, but it can be. Yeah, this is a risk, right?…

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