What podcasts say about Dave Blundin
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What Dave Blundin has said on podcasts
221 statements · 143 positive · 59 negative · 7 mixed · 12 neutral
Discovering biological learning mechanisms could make neural-network training vastly more efficient.
“if we discover that, we might find that neural net training can be 10, 100, 1,000, 1 million times more efficient.”
Open the episode · Recursive's $670M Bet on Self-Improving AI, Sonnet 5.5 Hits 70%, Elon Co-Leads Pentagon Push | EP #299Listen at 32:14
Marsh-adjacent real estate will sharply increase in value as biting-insect solutions spread.
“it's gonna go through the roof in value.”
Open the episode · Recursive's $670M Bet on Self-Improving AI, Sonnet 5.5 Hits 70%, Elon Co-Leads Pentagon Push | EP #299Listen at 43:18
Corporate liability poses a greater AI progress risk than arrests.
“The real risk is not so much getting arrested, it's corporate liability”
Open the episode · Recursive's $670M Bet on Self-Improving AI, Sonnet 5.5 Hits 70%, Elon Co-Leads Pentagon Push | EP #299Listen at 1:26:55
Anthropic launched Sonnet 5.5 partly to compete with China and retain enterprise users before open-source adoption.
“My theory would be that they're trying to compete with, you know, China, which is about 3 months behind, and fill that gap before a lot of enterprises go to open source models.”
Open the episode · Recursive's $670M Bet on Self-Improving AI, Sonnet 5.5 Hits 70%, Elon Co-Leads Pentagon Push | EP #299Listen at 1:47:15
Data centers can make host towns wealthier through taxes, donations, and jobs.
“between the tax revenue, the donations, and the job creation, the town is thriving.”
Open the episode · Recursive's $670M Bet on Self-Improving AI, Sonnet 5.5 Hits 70%, Elon Co-Leads Pentagon Push | EP #299Listen at 2:13:05
AI will soon make prosocial and healthy behavior feel rewarding.
“AI is going to be one of the highest callings of AI very, very soon, is to make you feel really good about doing good things and happy as you're doing it.”
Open the episode · Recursive's $670M Bet on Self-Improving AI, Sonnet 5.5 Hits 70%, Elon Co-Leads Pentagon Push | EP #299Listen at 2:23:14
The accord has no mechanism to slow AI development.
“There's no mechanism for slowing any of this down.”
Open the episode · Can We Still Build AI Safely? The White House Thinks So | MOONSHOTS #298Listen at 14:51
Free medical AIs will become widely available to everyone.
“There will be an abundance of free medical AIs available, uh, for anybody”
Open the episode · Can We Still Build AI Safely? The White House Thinks So | MOONSHOTS #298Listen at 46:36
AI will produce broadly positive outcomes regardless of government or industry restrictions.
“this is going to happen. And that's what gets me excited, is no matter what happens, we're going to end up with an amazing set of outcomes in a whole bunch of areas.”
Open the episode · Can We Still Build AI Safely? The White House Thinks So | MOONSHOTS #298Listen at 47:03
Anthropic’s current core business is risky.
“their core business is somewhat risky”
Open the episode · Can We Still Build AI Safely? The White House Thinks So | MOONSHOTS #298Listen at 58:50
Anthropic will have a very bright future.
“I think they'll have a very bright future”
Open the episode · Can We Still Build AI Safely? The White House Thinks So | MOONSHOTS #298Listen at 59:38
AI workflow automation exposes ambiguities previously hidden by human workers.
“as we automate workflows and with quote-unquote agents, it's exposing a lot of ambiguity that humans cover for”
Open the episode · Can We Still Build AI Safely? The White House Thinks So | MOONSHOTS #298Listen at 1:11:59
World models can sharply reduce physical-economy experimentation costs.
“you can radically drop the cost of experimentation across the physical economy.”
Open the episode · Can We Still Build AI Safely? The White House Thinks So | MOONSHOTS #298Listen at 1:32:03
AI systems should maintain epistemic neutrality and transparency.
“have it have neutrality from an epistemic perspective and transparency.”
Open the episode · Can We Still Build AI Safely? The White House Thinks So | MOONSHOTS #298Listen at 1:53:48
Capitalism is highly effective at creating abundance.
“Capitalism is an incredibly powerful engine for creating abundance.”
Open the episode · Can We Still Build AI Safely? The White House Thinks So | MOONSHOTS #298Listen at 2:10:45
AI governance should combine common protections with distributed experimentation.
“I would prefer common protections but distributed experimentation.”
Open the episode · Can We Still Build AI Safely? The White House Thinks So | MOONSHOTS #298Listen at 2:16:37
The Vestmark–Envestnet merger aims to create a $10 trillion AI-enabled asset platform.
“the thesis of the merger actually is to create a company now that has $10 trillion of assets and can AI-ify the entire tech stack.”
Open the episode · Should we slow down AI progress? | MOONSHOTS #288Listen at 5:17
An AI-related national panic cycle is coming, and such cycles prove unfounded in hindsight.
“the country always goes through these panic cycles and I think one's coming up related to AI and they're, they're always unfounded in hindsight.”
Open the episode · Should we slow down AI progress? | MOONSHOTS #288Listen at 7:07
AI’s ability to improve the world will not be slowed
“The ability to make the world just a dramatically better place is right in front of us. Nothing's going to slow that down.”
Open the episode · Why Jensen and Zuck think the doomers are wrong (plus AI get’s a rebrand) | #294 MOONSHOTS LiveListen at 11:20
Specialized models trained on specific data can outperform foundation models in their use cases.
“there's a very good chance that it'll outperform the Foundation Lab models in that use case”
Open the episode · Should we slow down AI progress? | MOONSHOTS #288Listen at 14:12
Entrepreneurs with specific use-case data can build multibillion-dollar companies.
“any entrepreneur with specific use case data has an opportunity to build a multi-billion dollar company.”
Open the episode · Should we slow down AI progress? | MOONSHOTS #288Listen at 14:25
Every technology company needs to pivot constantly to remain viable.
“every tech company needs to pivot constantly.”
Open the episode · Should we slow down AI progress? | MOONSHOTS #288Listen at 18:21
Rebranding AI may deflect political opposition to its expansion
“if there is an agenda, it's to try and deflect the inevitable wave that's coming from the Bernie Sanders world.”
Open the episode · Why Jensen and Zuck think the doomers are wrong (plus AI get’s a rebrand) | #294 MOONSHOTS LiveListen at 22:14
US AI strategy aims to accelerate, outpace China, and reduce panic
“the whole goal there is to keep moving at full speed, stay ahead of China, and reduce panic as much as possible.”
Open the episode · Why Jensen and Zuck think the doomers are wrong (plus AI get’s a rebrand) | #294 MOONSHOTS LiveListen at 22:29
AI-enabled bioweapons and China’s lead are greater risks than AI pauses
“the things you should be worried about, like terrorists using AI to build bioweapons or China getting miles ahead of the US. Those are the real things to worry about.”
Open the episode · Why Jensen and Zuck think the doomers are wrong (plus AI get’s a rebrand) | #294 MOONSHOTS LiveListen at 27:47
Lost data-center investment and infrastructure cannot be recovered
“Once the ground is broken, the chips are there, the investment's made, that's the part you'll never get back.”
Open the episode · Why Jensen and Zuck think the doomers are wrong (plus AI get’s a rebrand) | #294 MOONSHOTS LiveListen at 29:49
Consumer AI will replace search and other internet interfaces
“consumer AI, which is insanely valuable. I mean, will completely replace search and all the other ways you interact with the internet.”
Open the episode · Why Jensen and Zuck think the doomers are wrong (plus AI get’s a rebrand) | #294 MOONSHOTS LiveListen at 32:59
Slowing AI progress would waste time while foreign governments improve.
“all that would happen if we, quote unquote, slowed down is we would fritter away the time.”
Open the episode · Should we slow down AI progress? | MOONSHOTS #288Listen at 33:08
Meta Muse will become a life copilot
“that definitely is going to happen.”
Open the episode · Why Jensen and Zuck think the doomers are wrong (plus AI get’s a rebrand) | #294 MOONSHOTS LiveListen at 33:56
Scaling AI systems sharply reduces hallucination error rates
“we've just scaled out of it. And you see the error rate just plummets. With pure scale.”
Open the episode · Why Jensen and Zuck think the doomers are wrong (plus AI get’s a rebrand) | #294 MOONSHOTS LiveListen at 38:49
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