"The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

Hollywood Strike Update and AI Roundup with Trey Kollmer


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In this episode, Trey Kollmer, WGA Writer and Co-Executive of the show Ghosts, returns to the show to discuss updates to the Hollywood Strikes, including news on SAG-AFTRA and WGA. Trey and Nathan chat why actors are joining the strikes, how AI will change acting as a profession, Trey’s views on reasoning and how he’s experimenting with GPT-4, and much, much more.


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TIMESTAMPS:

(00:04:01) Hollywood and AI: updates on SAG-AFTRA and the WGA

(00:15:20) Sponsors: NetSuite | Omneky

(00:18:56) Studio approach to copyright and compensation with generative AI

(00:22:17) Hollywood receptiveness to using AI and protections guild members are asking for

(00:24:56) Models implementing gradient descent in the weights

(00:29:14) How Nathan uses models to write for the podcast

(00:34:15) Generating and mining jokes in the writer’s room

(00:40:18) Untraining models

(00:44:20) AI writing tools and writer perception of them

(00:46:34) Context length and pooling layers

(00:51:11) Microsoft China

(01:00:02) Actors’ strike

(01:05:45) Using 1 million DALL-E images to create an AI short film

(01:09:11) Deepfakes

(01:12:51) The future where anyone can be a reasonable synthetic actor

(01:17:33) Trey’s take on reasoning and why Hollywood should be more open to AI

(01:25:49) A monk’s experience with Chat-GPT

(01:28:56) Outdatedness of stochastic parrot notion; reasoning and synthesis

(01:36:14) Model vs human susceptibility to adversarial attacks because of human robustness

(01:47:30) Performance jumping with abstraction

(01:49:22) Language model self-delegation

(01:51:04) NVIDIA’s margins compared to TSMC and ASML

(02:07:35) Adding an AI layer and competing with incumbents

(02:13:10) Rewind AI

(02:19:27) Big tech vs old school studios

(02:14:52) Dramatic ironies from the picketing lines

(02:21:38) AI development moments that feel like a movie

(02:26:34) CEO of Inflection’s views on misuse being a greater threat than the AI itself


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