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Shawn Wang: belief

2 Aug 2024 Latent Space The Winds of AI Winter (Q2 Four Wars Recap) + ChatGPT Voice Mode Preview

“I think the opposition has increased enough that it's not going to be a real concern for people.”

— Shawn Wang

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Speaker
Shawn Wang
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
2 Aug 2024
Publisher
Latent Space

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…Do you think GPT-Next and Cloud 4 push it back down because they're coming out with higher intelligence, higher cost? Or is it maybe like the timeline is going down because new frontier models are not really coming out at the same rate? Interesting. I don't know. That's a really good question. Wow. I'm stumped. You're like, wow, you got a good question. I don't have an answer. No, I mean, you have a good question. I thought I had solved this and then now you came along with the first response is something I haven't thought about. Yeah. Yeah. So there's two directions here, right? When the cost of frontier of models are going up, potentially like SB1047 is going to make it illegal to train even larger models. I think the opposition has increased enough that it's not going to be a real concern for people. But I think every lab basically needs a small, medium, large play. And like we said in the sort of model deployment framework, first you choose, you pursue capability, then you pursue generalization, then you pursue efficiency. And what we're talking about here is efficiency. Yeah. Now we care about efficiency.…

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