[FRIAM] Cory Doctorow on AI hype vs Crypto Hype

[Pieter Steenekamp]

Sorry, I forgot to add the url of the interview.
(580) The Current State of Artificial Intelligence with James Wang - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6WL4X6pmCY>


On Mon, 8 May 2023 at 08:27, Pieter Steenekamp <pieters at randcontrols.co.za>
wrote:

> I am very excited about the basic idea that neither Google nor any Big
> Tech company has the Moat as per the hackernews reference above.
> Very interesting around this is the interview with James Wang of Cerebras
> James Wang about this where he makes a strong case (in my view in any case)
> that in future open source large language models are going to be much more
> prominent than those of Big Tech.
>
> I quote from the description on Toutube about the interview:
> "Scaling laws are as important to artificial intelligence (AI) as the law
> of gravity is in the world around us. AI is the empirical science of this
> decade, and Cerebras is a company dedicated to turning state-of-the-art
> research on large language models (LLMs) into open-source data that can be
> reproduced by developers across the world. In this episode, James Wang, an
> ARK alum and product marketing specialist at Cerebras, joins us for a
> discussion centered around the past and the future of LLM development and
> why the generative pre-trained transformer (GPT) innovation taking place in
> this field is like nothing that has ever come before it (and has seemingly
> limitless possibilities). He also explains the motivation behind Cerebras’
> unique approach and the benefits that their architecture and models are
> providing to developers."
>
> On Mon, 8 May 2023 at 01:09, Merle Lefkoff <merlelefkoff at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thank you Roger.
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