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13 facts from 1 episode, in date order. These are what speakers said on the shows, each linked to the moment it was said. They aren't independently verified.
1990s
Robin Li said the internet's rise in the mid to late 1990s produced a huge bubble, which he compared to the current generative AI cycle.
“We've seen this, uh, many times, uh, when the internet took off in in the mid to late Ninety's, uh, and uh, there was a huge bubble.”
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Robin Li said Baidu reduced ERNIE Bot's inference cost by about 99%, to roughly 1% of the original cost.
“being able to reduce the cost by about 99%, meaning the current inference cost is about 1% of the original cost”
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Robin Li said the accuracy problem of large language model answers has pretty much been solved over the past eighteen months.
“I think over the past eighteen months, that problem has pretty much been solved.”
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Robin Li said that with an open source AI model, users basically get only a set of parameters.
“because for an open source model, you what you basically get is is a bunch of parameters.”
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Robin Li said Baidu's robotaxi technology is at level four, meaning driverless operation within defined areas, not level five anywhere and anytime.
“But, uh, for level four, I think we are at this stage, the the we we are at level four”
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Robin Li said the main bottleneck for robotaxis is regulation rather than technology.
“Right now, the the bottleneck is is more about regulation.”
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Robin Li estimated it may take another decade for robotaxi service to become mainstream.
“It's probably gonna take probably ano- another decade for the robotaxi service to be really everywhere to to become mainstream”
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Robin Li said many people compare the generative AI revolution to the industrial revolution, and he is optimistic it will create more jobs than it removes.
“a lot of people compare the generative AI revolution to, uh, the industrial revolution.”
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Robin Li said AI-driven job change will take ten to thirty years to unfold, giving people time to prepare.
“It will take, you know, ten years, maybe twenty years, some maybe thirty years to happen.”
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Robin Li said Baidu has a data compliance committee chaired by high-ranking executives.
“We have, uh, uh, uh, data, uh, compliance committee within, uh, our company with, uh, very, uh, high-ranking executives, um, uh, being the the chair”
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Robin Li argued that the efficiency gains from generative AI will more than offset its power consumption.
“I would argue that, uh, the efficiency gain, the value created through this kind of innovation will more than, uh, you know, offset the the power consumption.”
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Robin Li used a figure of about 200,000 per year as what engineers get paid today, to illustrate the value of programming skills.
“Nowadays, the the the engineers, the programs get paid like, let's say, you know, 200,000 per year”
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Robin Li said that when he was in college he learned programming languages and assembly language.
“when when when I was in college, we we learn programming language, we we then we learn assembly language.”
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