Elon v. OpenAI, Google vs Itself (Robert Wright & Timothy B. Lee)

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🗓️ 7 March 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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0:31 The other Tim B. Lee 3:16 Unpacking the Elon v. OpenAI case 14:04 How did Google’s Gemini go wrong? 25:24 The unsung ingenious side of Gemini 34:39 Is AI a bubble? 38:53 Are some LLM issues insoluble? 44:39 How Sora changes the AI picture 51:12 Heading to Overtime

Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True) and Timothy B. Lee (Full Stack Economics, Understanding AI). Recorded March 6, 2024.

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Overtime titles:

0:00 Are LLMs general learning machines? Are human minds? 6:44 The Darwinian dynamics of machine learning 13:37 How to conceptualize how LLMs conceptualize 20:04 Is digital technology’s impact on society overstated?

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0:00.0	You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast.
0:33.0	Hi, Tim.
0:34.7	Hey, Bob.
0:35.6	How are you doing?
0:36.6	I'm doing great.
0:37.4	How are you? Can't complain doing great. How are you?
0:38.6	Can't complain.
0:39.5	Let me introduce us.
0:40.2	I'm Robert Wright, publisher with Non-Zero Newsletter.
0:42.4	This is a Non-Zero podcast.
0:45.1	And you are Timothy B. Lee, author of the Understanding AI newsletter, which I recommend
0:51.1	to everyone.
0:52.5	Now, I have a question for you.
0:53.8	Did you, you call
0:55.6	yourself Timothy B. Lee in hopes that you'll be mixed up with Tim Bernersley, invented the
1:00.5	World Wide Web, and you'll get good seats at restaurants. Some people have accused me of
1:04.8	pretending to be Tim Bernersley, but most people seem to be able to tell the difference between us.
1:10.2	He's, you know, he's British.
1:13.2	He's older.
1:15.3	I interviewed him for several hours for a piece I did a long time ago on Time Magazine.
1:19.3	Nice guy.
1:20.4	No, I've never met him.
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