Episode description

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