S3 E3 Scale Founder CEO Alexandr Wang: in AI your data writes the program

S3 E3 Scale Founder CEO Alexandr Wang: in AI your data writes the program (Host: Pieter Abbeel)

What's in this episode:
00:00:00 - Alexandr Wang
00:02:16 - sponsors: Index Ventures, Weights and Biases
00:03:56 - mission of Scale: accelerating the development of AI
00:09:40 - early days of Scale, data as programming
00:13:40 - defensibility through marriage of technology and operations
00:18:56 - training NNs to accelerate labeling
00:24:19 - early customers
00:27:15 - labeling playbook
00:30:15 - AI for defense
00:37:27 - satellite imagery
00:41:00 - foundation models, LLMs, truthfulness, RLHF
00:59:38 - prompting as programming “cognitive computers” / LLMs
01:05:23 - industries to be revolutionized by AI
01:09:29 - what Alexandr Wang does to relax

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Host: Pieter Abbeel
Production: Bo Obradovic.

[moedemama]

Great series of interviews, amazing to be able to hear these conversations from people who are actually revolutionizing the world

[NobleCaveman]

Fantastic questions by the way, you earned a new subscriber!

[snarkyboojum]

TL;DR ->

Alexander Wang is a self-made billionaire and AI visionary who founded Scale AI in 2016. Scale AI provides AI models and products to businesses for specific use cases, and has been successful in creating a defensible business model. AI has drastically reduced the barriers of entry for many problems, allowing for the true democratization of AI. Peter hosts a podcast about AI innovations, and appreciates Alex for sharing his story and vision for the future of AI.

[Ryan.G.Spalding]

Your voice sounds like Rich Roll sometimes. I thought it was him until I looked at the video. Haha, keep up the excellent work, you are in an amazing niche right now.

[mdummy]

Great convo, thank you. Realistic answer on military though it made me queasy…

[NobleCaveman]

RLHF guidelines... I'm scared how underlying non conscious human bias is feeding into these models and the level of discretion being taken to stay attuned to the 'ethical performance' of them as they are more and more trained

[TheLionrazor]

These defensive technologies have massive implications. Ultimately I think Alex is right with a lot of his observations, but there is so much US centric good guy bad guy rhetoric mixed in that it's concerning. Why is this not a global conversation?

[hsiaowanglin]

No matter what party got in the future, we have to use new technology to run this world, learning other countries best part, like medical, education, health, traveling or research space, …., not only this few years, but save lots data from many years ago. The best wishes not harm other people, not separated different skins, respect self and others, since population drops so much. If still divided, that’s just wasted money time, cause like air flight each time only a few travel, why don’t we just have good design, do the building or public transportation or public bridge New clear factory for electricity facilities only do the things we should do. I did many learn every day, , and all USA last year investment on Eastern all details.

[hsiaowanglin]

I still do community Line dance, three times a week to maintain my health, when I over 70 years old, why need do such

[hsiaowanglin]

I heard Jensen Huang’s Super computer, but I can’t pay his over 200, 000, cause I am not CEO of company like he think. Those people who follow me is not I follow them, They got so much budget, and I never get things,

[hsiaowanglin]

Yesterday Indian Google leader introduced all world leaders included Biden president, Ukraine country with all western countries president. Every one, I will on those links write something, but as the reality world, looks all those people playing political, also on my all links, I just can’t balance my mind, this things happened so many years, I just see President very sad on one of links, I really think if After president work so many years, we should give him a National medal and give him some benefit for his retirement.

[getgal]

Repeats: like, sort of like, hundreds of times. Distracts from an otherwise great interview.