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Nathan Labenz on the State of AI and Progress since GPT-4
5 December, 2024
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Nathan Labenz joins the podcast to provide a comprehensive overview of AI progress since the release of GPT-4. You can find Nathan's podcast here: https://www.cognitiverevolution.ai
Timestamps:
00:00 AI progress since GPT-4
10:50 Multimodality
19:06 Low-cost models
27:58 Coding versus medicine/law
36:09 AI agents
45:29 How much are people using AI?
53:39 Open source
01:15:22 AI industry analysis
01:29:27 Are some AI models kept internal?
01:41:00 Money is not the limiting factor in AI
01:59:43 AI and biology
02:08:42 Robotics and self-driving
02:24:14 Inference-time compute
02:31:56 AI governance
02:36:29 Big-picture overview of AI progress and safety
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