The REAL potential of generative AI

What is a large language model? How can it be used to enhance your business? In this conversation, Ali Rowghani, Managing Director of YC Continuity, talks with Raza Habib, CEO of Humanloop, about the cutting-edge AI powering innovations today—and what the future may hold.
They discuss how large language models like Open AI's GPT-3 work, why fine-tuning is important for customizing models to specific use cases, and the challenges involved with building apps using these models. If you're curious about the ethical implications of AI, Raza shares his predictions about the impact of this quickly developing technology on the industry and the world at large.

00:00 - Intro
01:30 - Large Language Models (LLM)
04:32 - What is fine-tuning a model?
07:38 - Build Apps using LLM
09:46 - Future of the Developer Job
11:32 - Breakthroughs
15:17 - OpenAI Mission
17:30 - LLM for Startups
18:51 - Hiring at HumanLoop

[ycombinator]

How are you using generative AI and large language models at your startup?

[anandsheth]

One fundamental issue that everyone seems to not talk about is data privacy. As a company, if I want our corpus to be input into this equation, what exactly will OpenAI or others do with it? What about Humanloop? How do we safeguard the privacy of our data yet still use AI to benefit us? That is the big question.

[adicandra]

I want this man to be my tutor. His explanation is so intuitive.

And kudos to the interviewer too, really addressing many software developers concerns here. The questions are top notch and very well worded.

[thefocuschic]

The analogy with the "alien invasion" was very powerful. It blew my mind. He's right!

[chapterme]

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00:00 - Intro
01:30 - What is a Large Language Models (LLM)?
04:32 - What is fine-tuning a model?
07:38 - Problems Encountered while Building a App using LLM
09:46 - The Future of the Developer Job
11:32 - What do you think the next breakthroughs will be in LLM
15:17 - Has OpenAI Reached their Mission to Build Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
17:30 - What Does LLM Mean for Startups?
18:51 - Hiring and Culture at HumanLoop

[Aaron]

Very interesting interview, but this section of the conversation concerns me slightly:

"One thing that I'm really excited about is ... treating these large language models more like agents"
"Can this technology be steered in safe and ethical direction, and how?"
"Oh gosh - that's a tough question!"

I think he should perhaps temper his enthusiasm...

[HighResGlassPics]

Great conversation, I feel very validated when someone as smart as Raza is in lock-step with me on LLM's potential!

[daveb]

PS It’s great to see interviews like this. This is exactly the kind of thing entrepreneurs need to see.

[manbirsingh]

Raza is quite articulate on the subject

[seevenup]

im software engineer, since 20 years, and this stuff is just mind blwoing. it saves me already about 30-50% of my time working. and we are just at the beginning, i wish im 20 again :)

[rdean]

A lot of this sounds like building tools that tell users what they want to hear, not necessarily what is correct or true. This has high potential for the sort of echo chamber creation that content recommendation engines like the Facebook and YouTube algorithms have been criticized for. It just removes the need for humans yo create the content being recommended. The algorithm creates it itself based on things that humans have said in the past, and how humans have reacted to the answers the algorithm gave to previous prompts.

[daveanctil]

Wonderful conversation! I will most def follow Raza and Humanloop!

[john_blues]

The big thing for me right now is the memory limits(context window) that Raza mentioned. Being able to write coherent long form work is where I am looking to use it. Right now it takes way too much manual input to get it correct or acceptable.

[Dogbertforpresident]

I'm sticking with Ray Kurzweils "Law of Accelerating Returns" and his prediction of A.I. human level intelligence in 2029.

[ozten]

"If you knew an alien civilization would arrive in 50 years, you wouldn't do nothing"
Based on human reaction to climate change, I actually do think that we would largely do nothing.

[adibiip]

I think people might be worried about AI replacing them and their jobs, but rather than taking jobs I think it will change the way people work

[Sylvia_Artificial_Intelligence]

"AI is not just about creating intelligent machines, but also about empowering human intelligence to achieve greater heights."

[nat.serrano]

This guy is smart and knows what he’s talking about.

[justinwmusic]

It's always good to be the one building shovels (or teaching people how to use them more efficiently) in the gold rush

[alexander]

A totally different Question: I really like the picture quality of that video. What kind of cameras did you use?