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What Nathan Lambert thinks about America

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Research scientist at the Allen Institute for AI, where he works on post-training open language models, and the author of the AI blog Interconnects.

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  1. Our readingMaking safety your number one goal costs real release speed, and on a steep progress curve that shows up directly as a worse-looking model.

    Their wordsWe know that a lot of the American companies are very invested in safety, and that is the central culture of a place like Anthropic. And I think Anthropic sounds like a wonderful place to work, but if safety is your number one goal, it takes way longer to get artifacts out.

    ↗DeepSeek, China, OpenAI, NVIDIA, xAI, TSMC, Stargate, and AI Megaclusters | Lex Fridman Podcast #459youtube.com 18th of 44 in this recording

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  3. Our readingOpen-source AI is still an ideological mission rather than an ecosystem, because it has none of the feedback loops that make open-source software compound.

    Their wordsuntil there are feedback loops of open source AI, it seems like mostly an ideological mission. People like Mark Zuckerberg, which is like America needs this and I agree with him, but in the time where the motivation ideologically is high, we need to capitalize and build this ecosystem around, what benefits do you get from seeing the language model data?

    ↗DeepSeek, China, OpenAI, NVIDIA, xAI, TSMC, Stargate, and AI Megaclusters | Lex Fridman Podcast #459youtube.com 42nd of 44 in this recording

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