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“They feel more alone a lot of the time than they would like. So I think a lot of these things — things that today might have a little bit of stigma around them — over time, we'll find the vocabulary as a society to articulate why they are valuable, why the people who are doing them are rational for doing it, and how it is actually adding value to their lives.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“We can talk about that too because we’re experimenting with some new ideas in there that I think are novel and worth talking through.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“We need to get to the point where the average quality of the hypotheses that the AI is generating is better than all the things above the line that we’re actually able to test that the best humans on the team have been able to do, before it will even be marginally useful for it. We'll get there I think pretty quickly.”
- Publisher
- Dwarkesh Podcast
“Being able to mix that in with the right personalization is going to lead toward a product experience where… If you fast-forward a few years, I think we're just going to be talking to AI throughout the day about different things we're wondering about.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“I think you're going to start seeing more specialization between different groups, if I had to guess.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“DeepSeek has the MIT license, whereas I think a couple of the contingencies in the Llama license require you to say "built with Llama" on applications using it or any model that you train using Llama has to begin with the word "Llama.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“On the point of what the different labs are optimizing for — to steelman their view — I think a lot of them believe that once you fully automate software engineering and AI research, then you can kick off an intelligence explosion.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“My view on this is that he's the President of the United States. Our default, as an American company, should be to try to have a productive relationship with whoever is running the government.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“I think we're probably in the early innings on that, and it's very hard to know.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“You and others donated to his inaugural event and were on stage with him and I think you settled a lawsuit that resulted in them getting $25 million.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“For that, I'm sure we'll end up having a premium service. But I think our basic values on this are that we want to serve as many people in the world as possible.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“AI is interesting because, more than some of the other stuff that we do, it is more research and model-led than really product-led.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“Sometimes these benchmarks just don't quite line up. I think a lot of them are quite easily gameable.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“I'm very interested in studying this because I think one of the main things that's interesting about open source is the ability to distill models.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“I'm sure there will continue to be debates around this. But if you’re spending many billions of dollars training these models, I think asking the other companies — the huge ones that are similar in size and can easily afford to have a relationship with us — to talk to us before they use it seems like a pretty reasonable thing.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“This is the beauty of distillation. It's one of the things that I think has really emerged as a very powerful technique over the last year, since the last time we sat down.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“If two of us are physically together and we have a third friend who’s hologramming in, they can participate too. But in that world too — just as you don't want your physical space to be cluttered because it wears on you psychologically — I don't think people are going to want their digital-physical space to feel that way either.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“In general, the prediction that this would be the year open source generally overtakes closed source as the most used models out there, I think that's generally on track to be true.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“Over time, Android has just gotten more and more closed. So if you're us, you need to worry that if we stop pushing the industry in this direction, all these other people… Maybe they’re only really doing it because they're trying to compete with us and the direction we’re pushing things.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“I think we will continue building that stuff out, and that has been net positive.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast