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Francois Chollet, Mike Knoop - LLMs won’t lead to AGI - $1,000,000 Prize to find true solution
Here is my conversation with Francois Chollet and Mike Knoop on the $1 million ARC-AGI Prize they're launching today.
I did a bunch of socratic grilling throughout, but Francois’s arguments about why LLMs won’t lead to AGI are very interesting and worth thinking through.
It was really fun discussing/debating the cruxes. Enjoy!
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Timestamps
(00:00:00) – The ARC benchmark
(00:11:10) – Why LLMs struggle with ARC
(00:19:00) – Skill vs intelligence
(00:27:55) - Do we need “AGI” to automate most jobs?
(00:48:28) – Future of AI progress: deep learning + program synthesis
(01:00:40) – How Mike Knoop got nerd-sniped by ARC
(01:08:37) – Million $ ARC Prize
(01:10:33) – Resisting benchmark saturation
(01:18:08) – ARC scores on frontier vs open source models
(01:26:19) – Possible solutions to ARC Prize
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Leopold Aschenbrenner - China/US Super Intelligence Race, 2027 AGI, & The Return of History
Chatted with my friend Leopold Aschenbrenner on the trillion dollar nationalized cluster, CCP espionage at AI labs, how unhobblings and scaling can lead to 2027 AGI, dangers of outsourcing clusters to Middle East, leaving OpenAI, and situational awareness.
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Timestamps
(00:00:00) – The trillion-dollar cluster and unhobbling
(00:20:31) – AI 2028: The return of history
(00:40:26) – Espionage & American AI superiority
(01:08:20) – Geopolitical implications of AI
(01:31:23) – State-led vs. private-led AI
(02:12:23) – Becoming Valedictorian of Columbia at 19
(02:30:35) – What happened at OpenAI
(02:45:11) – Accelerating AI research progress
(03:25:58) – Alignment
(03:41:26) – On Germany, and understanding foreign perspectives
(03:57:04) – Dwarkesh’s immigration story and path to the podcast
(04:07:58) – Launching an AGI hedge fund
(04:19:14) – Lessons from WWII
(04:29:08) – Coda: Frederick the Great
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John Schulman (OpenAI Cofounder) - Reasoning, RLHF, & Plan for 2027 AGI
Chatted with John Schulman (cofounded OpenAI and led ChatGPT creation) on how posttraining tames the shoggoth, and the nature of the progress to come...
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Timestamps
(00:00:00) - Pre-training, post-training, and future capabilities
(00:16:57) - Plan for AGI 2025
(00:29:19) - Teaching models to reason
(00:40:50) - The Road to ChatGPT
(00:52:13) - What makes for a good RL researcher?
(01:00:58) - Keeping humans in the loop
(01:15:15) - State of research, plateaus, and moats
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Mark Zuckerberg - Llama 3, Open Sourcing $10b Models, & Caesar Augustus
Mark Zuckerberg on:
- Llama 3
- open sourcing towards AGI
- custom silicon, synthetic data, & energy constraints on scaling
- Caesar Augustus, intelligence explosion, bioweapons, $10b models, & much more
Enjoy!
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Timestamps
(00:00:00) - Llama 3
(00:08:32) - Coding on path to AGI
(00:25:24) - Energy bottlenecks
(00:33:20) - Is AI the most important technology ever?
(00:37:21) - Dangers of open source
(00:53:57) - Caesar Augustus and metaverse
(01:04:53) - Open sourcing the $10b model & custom silicon
(01:15:19) - Zuck as CEO of Google+
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Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken - How to Build & Understand GPT-7's Mind
Had so much fun chatting with my good friends Trenton Bricken and Sholto Douglas on the podcast.
No way to summarize it, except:
This is the best context dump out there on how LLMs are trained, what capabilities they're likely to soon have, and what exactly is going on inside them.
You would be shocked how much of what I know about this field, I've learned just from talking with them.
To the extent that you've enjoyed my other AI interviews, now you know why.
So excited to put this out. Enjoy! I certainly did :)
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There's a transcript with links to all the papers the boys were throwing down - may help you follow along.
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Timestamps
(00:00:00) - Long contexts
(00:16:12) - Intelligence is just associations
(00:32:35) - Intelligence explosion & great researchers
(01:06:52) - Superposition & secret communication
(01:22:34) - Agents & true reasoning
(01:34:40) - How Sholto & Trenton got into AI research
(02:07:16) - Are feature spaces the wrong way to think about intelligence?
(02:21:12) - Will interp actually work on superhuman models
(02:45:05) - Sholto’s technical challenge for the audience
(03:03:57) - Rapid fire
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Demis Hassabis - Scaling, Superhuman AIs, AlphaZero atop LLMs, Rogue Nations Threat
Here is my episode with Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind
We discuss:
* Why scaling is an artform
* Adding search, planning, & AlphaZero type training atop LLMs
* Making sure rogue nations can't steal weights
* The right way to align superhuman AIs and do an intelligence explosion
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Timestamps
(0:00:00) - Nature of intelligence
(0:05:56) - RL atop LLMs
(0:16:31) - Scaling and alignment
(0:24:13) - Timelines and intelligence explosion
(0:28:42) - Gemini training
(0:35:30) - Governance of superhuman AIs
(0:40:42) - Safety, open source, and security of weights
(0:47:00) - Multimodal and further progress
(0:54:18) - Inside Google DeepMind
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