AI will make money sooner than you think, says Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez
06/10/24 • 70 min
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Cohere is one of the buzziest AI startups around right now. It's not making consumer products; it's focused on the enterprise market and making AI products for big companies. And there's a huge tension there: up until recently, computers have been deterministic. If you give computers a certain input, you usually know exactly what output you’re going to get. There’s a logic to it. But if we all start talking to computers with human language and getting human language back, well, human language is messy. And that makes the entire process of knowing what to put in and what exactly we’re going to get out of our computers different than it ever has been before.
Links:
- Attention is all you need
- On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots
- Introducing the AI Mirror Test, which very smart people keep failing | The Verge
- AI isn’t close to becoming sentient | The Conversation
- These are Microsoft’s Bing AI secret rules and why it says it’s named Sydney | The Verge
- ‘Godfather of AI’ quits Google with regrets and fears about his life’s work | The Verge
- Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott on Bing’s quest to beat Google | The Verge
- Top AI researchers and CEOs warn against ‘risk of extinction’ | The Verge
- Google Zero is here — now what? | The Verge
- Cara grew from 40k to 650k in a week because artists are fed up with Meta’s AI policies | TechCrunch
- How AI copyright lawsuits could make the whole industry go extinct | The Verge
Transcript: https://www.theverge.com/e/23937899
Credits:
Decoder is a production of The Verge and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
Our producers are Kate Cox and Nick Statt. Our editor is Callie Wright. Our supervising producer is Liam James.
The Decoder music is by Breakmaster Cylinder.
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Cohere is one of the buzziest AI startups around right now. It's not making consumer products; it's focused on the enterprise market and making AI products for big companies. And there's a huge tension there: up until recently, computers have been deterministic. If you give computers a certain input, you usually know exactly what output you’re going to get. There’s a logic to it. But if we all start talking to computers with human language and getting human language back, well, human language is messy. And that makes the entire process of knowing what to put in and what exactly we’re going to get out of our computers different than it ever has been before.
Links:
- Attention is all you need
- On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots
- Introducing the AI Mirror Test, which very smart people keep failing | The Verge
- AI isn’t close to becoming sentient | The Conversation
- These are Microsoft’s Bing AI secret rules and why it says it’s named Sydney | The Verge
- ‘Godfather of AI’ quits Google with regrets and fears about his life’s work | The Verge
- Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott on Bing’s quest to beat Google | The Verge
- Top AI researchers and CEOs warn against ‘risk of extinction’ | The Verge
- Google Zero is here — now what? | The Verge
- Cara grew from 40k to 650k in a week because artists are fed up with Meta’s AI policies | TechCrunch
- How AI copyright lawsuits could make the whole industry go extinct | The Verge
Transcript: https://www.theverge.com/e/23937899
Credits:
Decoder is a production of The Verge and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
Our producers are Kate Cox and Nick Statt. Our editor is Callie Wright. Our supervising producer is Liam James.
The Decoder music is by Breakmaster Cylinder.
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