It was all quiet. Then it wasn’t.

Note the timestamps on both of these.

Dwarkesh Patel did a podcast with Mark Zuckerberg on the 18th. It was timed to coincide with the release of much of Llama-3, very much the approach of telling your story directly. Dwarkesh is now the true tech media. A meteoric rise, and well earned.

This is two related posts in one. First I cover the podcast, then I cover Llama-3 itself.

My notes are edited to incorporate context from later explorations of Llama-3, as I judged that the readability benefits exceeded the purity costs.

Podcast Notes: Llama-3 Capabilities

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Outline:

(00:51) Podcast Notes: Llama-3 Capabilities

(03:09) The Need for Inference

(07:08) Great Expectations

(11:29) Open Source and Existential and Other Risks

(30:50) Interview Overview

(33:22) A Few Reactions

(47:53) Safety First

(54:15) Core Capability Claims

(56:11) How Good are the 8B and 70B Models in Practice?

(01:02:31) Architecture and Data

(01:05:08) Training Day

(01:09:17) What Happens Next With Meta's Products?

(01:12:24) What Happens Next With AI Thanks To These Two Models?

(01:14:04) The Bigger One: It's Coming

(01:14:59) Who Wins?

(01:17:21) Who Loses?

(01:21:49) How Unsafe Will It Be to Release Llama-3 400B?

(01:24:12) The Efficient Market Hypothesis is False

(01:27:09) What Next?

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.