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Matthew Berman· Jul 21, 2023AI News in July 2023: Llama 2, Generated Video and Model BehaviorMatthew Berman · Matthew BermanMatthew Berman surveys a week of AI announcements, research and reporting, from entertainment experiments to enterprise tools and Meta’s Llama 2.
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20VC with Harry Stebbings· Jul 21, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersJean-Denis Greze on Hiring, Product Differentiation and Leading Engineering at PlaidGuest Jean-Denis Greze · Host Harry StebbingsPlaid’s CTO discusses how he assesses talent, balances fast execution with reliability and weighs incremental improvements against long-term bets.
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No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jul 20, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersWhy AI Video Is Still a Four-Second CorgiHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilMeta research director Devi Parikh explains why text-to-video has stalled on short animated images, and what it will take to get past that plateau.
9:40ENMatthew Berman· Jul 20, 2023Testing Llama 2 70B on Coding, Writing and ReasoningMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman tries Meta’s 70-billion-parameter chat model through a hosted interface, highlighting both useful outputs and inconsistent reasoning.
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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jul 19, 2023PodcastGive the Model Time, Memory, and Tools: Nathan Labenz’s 2023 Field Guide to Using GPT-4Host Nathan LabenzPart two of the AI Scouting Report walks from H100 clusters and RLHF through chain-of-thought, retrieval, agents, and mixture-of-experts.
59:59EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Jul 19, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersLauryn Isford on Product Growth, Onboarding and HiringGuest Lauryn Isford · Host Harry StebbingsNotion’s product growth leader explains how to help users find value, measure activation and build growth teams.
8:49ENMatthew Berman· Jul 19, 2023Llama 2’s 2023 Release: Model Sizes, License and SafetyMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews Meta’s Llama 2 paper, its commercial license, model variants and safety evaluations.
5:53ENMatthew Berman· Jul 18, 2023Petals: Distributing Large Language Model Inference Across DevicesMatthew Berman · Forward FutureIn 2023, Matthew Berman explains Petals as a way to use large models through a network of participating computers rather than loading every layer on one device.
9:46ENMatthew Berman· Jul 17, 2023Orca Mini V2 vs. OpenOrca: A 2023 Informal Model ComparisonMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman tests two Orca-inspired models on coding, writing and reasoning, with results shaped by prompt setup and subjective scoring.
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Lex Fridman· Jul 17, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersThe Next Machines Will Steal Intimacy, Not Just AttentionGuest Yuval Noah Harari · Host Lex FridmanHistorian Yuval Noah Harari tells Lex Fridman how stories built civilization, why fascism looks beautiful in the mirror, and why AI is the first tool that takes power away from humans.
1:00:38EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Jul 17, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersDave Clark on Amazon, Flexport and Leading Through GrowthGuest Dave Clark · Host Harry StebbingsThe former Amazon executive discusses ambitious goals, hiring, logistics decisions and protecting time for family.
1:15:41EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Jul 17, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersSheel Mohnot on Venture Fund Size, Founders and FintechGuest Sheel Mohnot · Host Harry StebbingsThe Better Tomorrow Ventures co-founder discusses fund construction, liquidity, early-stage investing and a wedding in the metaverse.
9:55ENMatthew Berman· Jul 14, 2023Building AI Characters With the a16z Companion AppMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman walks through a 2023 starter project for conversational characters, from service configuration and embeddings to editing a companion’s personality.
59:41ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jul 13, 2023PodcastHumans Are Single-Threaded. MULTI·ON Wants 100 Agents Running AnywayHost Nathan LabenzStanford PhD dropout Div Garg put a personal agent in Chrome so it can reuse your logins, ask for help when it stalls, and stop before it hits Buy.
38:53EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Jul 12, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersKevin Egan on Building Enterprise Sales TeamsGuest Kevin Egan · Host Harry StebbingsThe Atlassian sales leader discusses product-led growth, enterprise readiness, hiring, feedback and the discipline behind a healthy pipeline.
1:11:11ENLex Fridman· Jul 12, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersOne of the Most Hated Men in the World Disagrees With the PremiseGuest Benjamin Netanyahu · Host Lex FridmanIn a compressed hour with Lex Fridman, Benjamin Netanyahu recasts hate, judicial reform, AI, and Israeli–Palestinian peace as problems of timing, balance, and sequence.
4:48ENMatthew Berman· Jul 12, 2023PoisonGPT: A Demonstration of Model Supply-Chain RiskMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman discusses Mithril Security’s 2023 demonstration of an edited GPT-J model and a misleading repository name. The experiment illustrates a supply-chain risk, not a breach of the original model provider.
8:04ENMatthew Berman· Jul 11, 2023WizardLM 13B v1.1 Tested on Coding, Writing and LogicMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman tries an instruction-tuned model on a small set of prompts, with mixed results and several subjective scoring choices.
2:42:44ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jul 11, 2023PodcastThe Former Trader Who Writes 10,000 Words a Week Puts AI Doom at 60 PercentHost Nathan LabenzZvi Mowshowitz tells Nathan Labenz why today's language models are a gift, why the default future past human level is extinction or a worthless universe, and who actually moves the AI debate.
1:04:31EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Jul 10, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersSimon Sinek on Trust, Listening and the Work of Being a Better LeaderGuest Simon Sinek · Host Harry StebbingsThe author discusses identity, difficult conversations and how leaders can create space for honest feedback and productive dissent.
12:20ENMatthew Berman· Jul 10, 2023Testing UltraLM 13B: A Small Model’s Strengths and Reasoning ErrorsMatthew Berman · Forward FutureA 2023 local test finds useful writing and simple coding alongside failures in games, arithmetic and logic.
10:44ENMatthew Berman· Jul 9, 2023Can AI Help Humans Align More Powerful AI?Matthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman examines OpenAI’s 2023 Superalignment proposal, its plans for AI-assisted oversight, and the unanswered question of who evaluates the evaluators.
2:28:37ENLex Fridman· Jul 6, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersThe Marshals Came for an Underground City. RFK Jr. Still Wants a President Who Can Say NoGuest Robert F. Kennedy Jr · Host Lex FridmanOn Independence Day 2023, Lex Fridman sat with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for two and a half hours on Cuba, Ukraine, the CIA, pharma, and why the shopping cart still has to go back.
1:33:56ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jul 6, 2023PodcastThe AI Scouting Report: 90 Minutes From GPT-4's Exam Scores to Whether Models UnderstandHost Nathan LabenzNathan Labenz spends a solo episode walking through what general-purpose models can do, how they are trained, how capabilities unlock, and whether they understand anything at all.Load moreShowing 24 of 4,471