Blaise Agüera y Arcas: belief

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…Thumb Phalem, I'm the co founder and CEO of Prolific. And, Prolific is a human data infrastructure company. So we make it easy for people developing frontier AI models, and running research to get access to trustworthy high quality participants for high quality online data collection. I'm at Google. I've been there for about 12 years now and, I am their CTO of technology and society and also the founder of a new research group. Well, newish. We've been around for a couple of years called Paradigms of Intelligence or PIE. It's much smaller than the previous organization that I, that I ran at Google Research. It's about 50 people, so, you know, enough to do some real damage. And the idea is to really focus on fundamentals of, of artificial intelligence and go beyond the the sort of exploiting of the current models and paradigms that are working well. We we believe in those, but we also think that we have to sort of refill the bucket with with new insights and new ideas as well. I've just watched your talk and you said that life and intelligence are the same thing.…

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