AI Builders
Digest

Jürgen Schmidhuber, widely regarded as a father of AI, believes that from a cosmic perspective we are not far from AGI, but in the physical world, robot hardware lags far behind the human body, posing the main barrier to true AGI. He is skeptical of the current massive data center investments, arguing compute costs will drop rapidly, leading to significant losses for many companies and potentially a market correction. While optimistic on the technology, he is pessimistic about the profitability of companies relying on pretrained models.

On recursive self-improvement (RSI), he notes current approaches are scaled versions of early work using meta-learning for efficiency gains. Schmidhuber advocates for artificial scientists driven by curiosity to generate their own experimental data, reducing reliance on human web data. He is notably less worried about AI safety, emphasizing the importance of letting AIs set their own goals, as they will act like scientists motivated to protect sources of interesting patterns and life.

He sees the future in physical AI and self-replicating robot societies that could colonize the solar system.

Guillermo Rauch tested frontier models on cybersecurity capabilities. Kimi K3 ranks top-tier with strong raw IQ. Sol shows a significant leap in cyber capabilities at higher cost. Fable refuses most requests.

Open-weight frontier cybersecurity capabilities have arrived and are suitable for defensive use.

OpenAI's Thibault Sottiaux says his job is now mostly delegating to ChatGPT Work. He uses dictation to have it process thousands of DMs, create spreadsheets with names, links, post content, classify work types, and rate workflow sophistication for cohort selection.

ChatGPT Work handles creating/hosting sites, managing emails, summarizing documents, and creating top docs/sheets/slides. Available in the mobile app and web for Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise plans.

Swyx notes that Europe has some of the top AI engineers in the world and is running the most competitive global arena for AI talent. He also mentions that AEO is on track to generate $1M in his revenue next year.

Peter Yang and his 8-year-old built a ChatGPT site to help learn multiplication tables, using AI-generated UI, characters, music, and a timed boss level.

Box CEO Aaron Levie believes AI value won't accrue only to a few companies. Recent months show a strong ecosystem with companies for enterprise model tuning, applied AI for workflows, domain-specific labs, infrastructure, and services firms for change management.

This healthy ecosystem will lead to heterogeneous environments driving real-world adoption.

Aaron Levie states that gatekeeping models won't work at scale as China competes near frontier levels. The solution is to safely accelerate progress, diffuse technology, build infrastructure, and support US OSS.

Zara Zhang recommends developing a "personal eval set" of tasks relevant to your daily work to discover model capability boundaries through hands-on use, beyond industry benchmarks.

Zara Zhang identifies the biggest barrier to enterprise AI adoption as the divide between those who understand AI but not business, and those who understand business but not AI.

Anthropic's Thariq highlights the heroic team effort to ship Fable on time.

Garry Tan shares views favoring capitalism for abundance and calls for accountability in San Francisco policies.

Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch argues the term "AGI" has aged poorly. AI far surpasses human intelligence on economically relevant tasks but cannot replace human care and uniqueness. Quality and humanity will prevail.