The Centralization of Power in AI

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Uploaded: 2023-10-09

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# Centralization

# Power in AI

# Contrary

speakers

Kyle Harrison

General Partner @ Contrary

Kyle Harrison is a General Partner at Contrary, where he leads Series A and growth-stage investing. He joined Contrary from Index where he was a Partner, and before that, he was a growth investor at Coatue. His portfolio includes iconic startups and public companies including Ramp, Replit, Cohere, Snowflake, and Databricks. He also regularly shares his analysis of the venture capital landscape via his Substack Investing 101.

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Demetrios Brinkmann

Chief Happiness Engineer @ MLOps Community

At the moment Demetrios is immersing himself in Machine Learning by interviewing experts from around the world in the weekly MLOps.community meetups. Demetrios is constantly learning and engaging in new activities to get uncomfortable and learn from his mistakes. He tries to bring creativity into every aspect of his life, whether that be analyzing the best paths forward, overcoming obstacles, or building lego houses with his daughter.

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SUMMARY

Kyle Harrison delves into the limitations imposed by language, underscoring how it can impede our grasp and manipulation of reality while stressing the critical need for improved language model performance for real-time applications. He further explores the perils of centralizing power in AI, with a specific focus on the "Openness of AI", where concerns about privacy are brought to the forefront, prompting his call for businesses to reconsider their reliance on it. The discussion also traverses the evolving landscape of AI, drawing comparisons between prominent machine learning frameworks such as TensorFlow and PyTorch. Notably, the episode underscores the vital role of open-source initiatives within the AI community and highlights the unexpected involvement of Meta in driving open-source development.

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