Tue. 09/24 – Sam Altman’s Few Thousand Days

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🗓️ 24 September 2024

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Sam Altman has a manifesto. Kinda. Telegram is beginning to walk things back a bit. Cloudflare wants to help you block the AI bots. New streaming device from Roku. And I guess TikTok can’t win at everything. Sponsors: Lumen.me/ride Links: The Intelligence Age (Sam Altman) Sam Altman catapults past founder mode into ‘god mode’ with latest AI post (TechCrunch) OpenAI CEO: We may have AI superintelligence in “a few thousand days” (ArsTechnica) Some Kaspersky customers receive surprise forced-update to new antivirus software (TechCrunch) Telegram CEO Durov Says App to Provide More Data to Governments (Bloomberg) New Cloudflare Tools Let Sites Detect and Block AI Bots for Free (Wired) The new Roku Ultra is faster, has better Wi-Fi, and comes with a backlit remote (The Verge) Spotify’s AI playlist builder is now available in the US (The Verge) TikTok to Shut Down its Music Streaming Business in November (Bloomberg) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Tuesday, September 24th,
0:07.0	2024. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:09.0	Sam Altman has a manifesto around AI, kind of.
0:13.6	Telegram is beginning to walk things back a bit.
0:16.6	Cloudflare wants to help you block the AI bots,
0:19.0	new streaming device from Roku,
0:20.6	and I guess Tik-Tok can't win at everything.
0:23.2	Here's what you missed today in the world of Tech. Sam Altman released an essay yesterday where he said that
0:36.2	Super Intelligence is right around the corner.
0:39.0	Quote, this may turn out to be the most consequential fact about all of history so far.
0:45.1	It is possible that we will have super intelligence in a few thousand days.
0:49.9	It may take longer, but I'm confident we'll get there.
0:52.3	How did we get to the doorstep of the next leap in prosperity?
0:55.9	In three words, Deep Learning Worked.
0:58.3	In 15 words, Deep Learning Worked, got predictably better with scale, and we dedicated increasing resources to it.
1:05.3	That's really it.
1:06.3	Humanity discovered an algorithm that could really truly learn any distribution of data,
1:10.5	or really the underlying rules that produce any distribution of data to a
1:14.4	shocking degree of precision the more compute and data available the better it gets at
1:19.3	helping people solve hard problems. I find that no matter how much time I spend thinking about
1:23.7	this I can never really internalize how consequential that is. There are a lot of
1:28.8	details we still have to figure out but it's a mistake to get distracted by any particular challenge.
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