Nathan Labenz on the State of AI and Progress since GPT-4

Future of Life Institute Podcast

Nathan Labenz joins the podcast to provide a comprehensive overview of AI progress since the release of GPT-4.

You can find Nathan's podcast here: https://www.cognitiverevolution.ai

Timestamps:

00:00 AI progress since GPT-4

10:50 Multimodality

19:06 Low-cost models

27:58 Coding versus medicine/law

36:09 AI agents

45:29 How much are people using AI?

53:39 Open source

01:15:22 AI industry analysis

01:29:27 Are some AI models kept internal?

01:41:00 Money is not the limiting factor in AI

01:59:43 AI and biology

02:08:42 Robotics and self-driving

02:24:14 Inference-time compute

02:31:56 AI governance

02:36:29 Big-picture overview of AI progress and safety