AI development should be pursued through iterative releases to allow society time to adapt and avoid shocking the world.
“Rather than go build in secret until we got all the way to GPT-5, we decided to talk about GPT 1, 2, 3 and 4. And part of the reason there is, I think, AI and surprise don't go together. And also the world, people, institutions, whatever you wanna call it, need time to adapt and think about these th”
Lex Fridman Podcast · Mar 2024 · 1 episode · 2.5M views on this topicResearch should pivot away from generative AI models that predict every pixel or token and toward joint-embedding predictive architectures that learn abstract world representations.
“I'm telling people everybody is talking about generative AI if you're really interested in human level AI abandon the idea of generate AI”
Lex Fridman Podcast · Mar 2024 · 1 episode · 1.3M views on this topicThe current development of AI systems is the most exciting and transformative moment in computer science history.
“it has been uh just incredible just well you guys all obviously follow all the AI technology but being a computer scientist it is you know the most exciting thing you know of my life just technologically and the exponential nature of this the pace of it dwarfs anything we've seen in our career”
The All-In Podcast · May 2025 · 1 episode · 354K views on this topicExtracted by a model; may misattribute who said what.
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