
Ep 2 - When will AGI arrive? - Alex Browne (Machine Learning Engineer)
01/10/23 • 58 min
In this episode, we speak with ML Engineer Alex Browne about his forecasted timelines for the potential arrival of AGI. He also speaks to how we might get there and some of the implications.
Hosted by Soroush Pour. Follow me for more AGI content:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/soroushjp
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/soroushjp/
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-- About Alex Browne --
* Bio: Alex is a software engineer & tech founder with 10 years of experience. Alex and I (Soroush) have worked together at multiple companies and I can safely say Alex is one of the most talented software engineers I have ever come across. In the last 3 years, his work has been focused on AI/ML engineering at Edge Analytics, including working closely with GPT-3 for real world applications, including for Google products.
* GitHub: https://github.com/albrow
* Medium: https://medium.com/@albrow
-- Further resources--
ChatGPT: https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/
Stable Diffusion: https://stability.ai/blog/stablediffusion2-1-release7-dec-2022
In this episode, we speak with ML Engineer Alex Browne about his forecasted timelines for the potential arrival of AGI. He also speaks to how we might get there and some of the implications.
Hosted by Soroush Pour. Follow me for more AGI content:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/soroushjp
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/soroushjp/
== Show links ==
-- About Alex Browne --
* Bio: Alex is a software engineer & tech founder with 10 years of experience. Alex and I (Soroush) have worked together at multiple companies and I can safely say Alex is one of the most talented software engineers I have ever come across. In the last 3 years, his work has been focused on AI/ML engineering at Edge Analytics, including working closely with GPT-3 for real world applications, including for Google products.
* GitHub: https://github.com/albrow
* Medium: https://medium.com/@albrow
-- Further resources--
ChatGPT: https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/
Stable Diffusion: https://stability.ai/blog/stablediffusion2-1-release7-dec-2022
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Ep 1 - When will AGI arrive? - Logan Riggs Smith (AGI alignment researcher)
We speak with AGI alignment researcher Logan Riggs Smith about his timelines for AGI. He also speaks to how we might get there and some of the implications.
Hosted by Hunter Jay and Soroush Pour
Show links
- Further writings from Logan Riggs Smith
- Cotra report on AGI timelines:
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Ep 3 - When will AGI arrive? - Jack Kendall (CTO, Rain.AI, maker of neural net chips)
In this episode, we speak with Rain.AI CTO Jack Kendall about his timelines for the arrival of AGI. He also speaks to how we might get there and some of the implications.
Hosted by Soroush Pour. Follow me for more AGI content:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/soroushjp
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/soroushjp/
Show links
- Jack Kendall
- Bio: Jack invented a new method for connecting artificial silicon neurons using coaxial nanowires at the U. Florida before starting Rain as co-founder and CTO.
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-kendall-21072887/
- Website: https://rain.ai
- Further resources
- Try out ChatGPT: https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/
- Judea Pearl's book, "The Book of Why"
- [Paper] https://www.deepmind.com/publications/causal-reasoning-from-meta-reinforcement-learning
- [Paper] Backpropagation and the Brain: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41583-020-0277-3
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