2009
Ali Ghodsi said he came to the United States in 2009 and worked in the AMP Lab at UC Berkeley.
“I came to United States in 2009 at UC Berkeley, not far away from here. And, uh, I was in a AI lab, it was called AMP lab”
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Ali Ghodsi
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Ghodsi said the frontier labs' superintelligence quest rests on the scaling-laws idea that whoever has the most GPUs and data will win.
“It comes from the scaling laws mentality, which is whoever has the most GPUs and the most data, uh, is gonna win the quest for superintelligence.”
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Ghodsi said the skeptical researchers in his second camp believe superintelligence is about 20 years away.
“Those guys, by the way, they say it's 20 years out, so they're saying, hey, it's a physics problem and it's gonna take 20 years to get there.”
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Ali Ghodsi argued that artificial general intelligence already exists, saying the goalposts for its definition have moved.
“I think we have AGI, I think we have artificial general intelligence, we really have it, we absolutely have it.”
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Ghodsi used a gas-station analogy to argue that large language models are interchangeable commodities.
“when I took took econ classes, commodity was when it's interchangeable. Like you can get gas from this gas station, or you can get gas from that gas station”
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Ghodsi said some AI startups with no revenue are valued at $10 to $30 billion, which he called a bubble.
“I mean, there are startups with zero revenue, worth, you know, ten, twenty, 30 billion, that's a bubble.”
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Nathan says Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi told him the continued pre-training product was discontinued and Mosaic became an in-house research unit.
“and he said, we killed that product, so they basically turned Mosaic into a in-house research unit.”
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