AI Global Odyssey: REAL Situational Awareness — #63

Steve talks about AI in light of his recent travels to SF, Singapore, Manila, Berkeley, and Silicon Valley.

Chapters:

0:00 Overview: SF, Singapore, Manila, Berkeley
02:20 AI Bubble in Silicon Valley
04:22 Scaling Laws and AGI
24:14 Global AI: Singapore, Philippines, real Enterprise applications
35:37 AGI: Manhattan Project? Manifest and P(doomers), Situational Awareness
52:03 China LLMs, Huawei vs Nvidia GPUs, US vs China AI race

Links:

Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2001.08361
AI rollout in Philippines Call Centers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kps3M1wMHUM
LLM rankings and Qwen2: https://huggingface.co/spaces/open-llm-leaderboard/blog
The Economist on China LLMs: https://archive.ph/nW7ch
Situational Awareness summary: https://x.com/hsu_steve/status/1803414701159714825


Music used with permission from Blade Runner Blues Livestream improvisation by State Azure.



Steve Hsu is Professor of Theoretical Physics and of Computational Mathematics, Science, and Engineering at Michigan State University. Previously, he was Senior Vice President for Research and Innovation at MSU and Director of the Institute of Theoretical Science at the University of Oregon. Hsu is a startup founder (SuperFocus.ai., SafeWeb, Genomic Prediction, Othram) and advisor to venture capital and other investment firms. He was educated at Caltech and Berkeley, was a Harvard Junior Fellow, and has held faculty positions at Yale, the University of Oregon, and MSU.

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