We're spending a lot more time playing around with models.

In Episode #469 of Musings, Juan and I discuss: why we think Agentic AI will be extremely useful, whether open source models can compete with closed source, why I believe they are necessary for privacy/freedom of expression/anti-advertising reasons, the bitter lesson with regards to compute, why governments will regulate and try to control the industry and similarities to cases with big tech.

No boostagrams again, very sad puppy :'(

Timeline:
(00:00:00) Intro
(00:04:12) Decentralised Vs Closed Source AI
(00:14:20) Open Source AI: Current Trends and Challenges
(00:24:01) The Future of AI: Predictions and Speculations
(00:31:00) Boostagram Lounge
(00:32:48) AGI: Company Or Lone Genius?
(00:39:04) Compute Power: Ethereum Beats Data Centres
(00:45:03) Government Regulations
(00:54:01) Conclusion And Future Discussions

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