E18: Low Level Barbarians (LLB) - Brief AI Overview, Current State of AI, AGI Speculations, AI Limitations

Low Level Barbarians (LLB)

This episode is a high level dive into the world of AI, featuring a close LLB friend, Ken (Noppadon Kamolvilassatian), an AI practitioner. Part of the episode broadly covers AI so feel free to skip around to what interests you. We also cover how the AI field is developing, recent developments in the hardware and software powering modern AI, the evolution of Large Language Models (LLMs), and even some fun speculation on AGI unfolding. Overall, if you are unfamiliar with AI, this is a great episode to dip your toes in the water and get some exposure. Intro (00:01:04) | Introducing AI (00:5:16) | Modern AI (00:09:37) | Symbolic Logic with Neural Networks (00:13:41) | AI Development (00:18:21) | AI vs ML vs NN vs DL (00:23:49) | AI Hardware/Software (00:25:25) | Large Language Models (00:27:33) | AGI Concern (00:30:11) | Data Hardware Limits on AI (00:39:04) | On OpenAI & GPT (00:42:17) | Speculations on AGI (00:47:41) | Closing Thoughts (00:54:19) | Pre-Show Talk (01:05:17)