Safety-Critical AI: Engineering the Physical World's Future
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Resources & Recommendations
Books
- "Loonshots" by Safi Bahcall - This book discusses the challenges of innovation within organizations and the idea of a maximum effective team size.
People Mentioned
- Sam Altman (President of Y Combinator, co-founder of OpenAI) - Referenced for his views on AI's capabilities and its role in software development.
- Tucker Carlson - Mentioned in context of an interview with Sam Altman about AI sentience.
- Toby Lutke (CEO of Shopify) - Referenced for his strong stance on hiring practices related to AI's capabilities.
- Fiverr CEO - Mentioned for making bold pronouncements about AI's impact on work.
- Duolingo CEO - Mentioned for making bold pronouncements about AI's impact on work.
- Dina (Product lead at Applied Intuition) - Mentioned for her work on an internal "brain version" of the company's software.
Organizations & Institutions
- Applied Intuition - The company co-founded by the podcast guests, which focuses on AI for safety-critical systems in vehicles and heavy machinery.
- Y Combinator - An organization where Sam Altman was president and OpenAI originated as a research project.
- OpenAI - An AI research and deployment company, mentioned in the context of its origins and the development of LLMs like ChatGPT.
- Google - Referenced as a large tech company that developed AI technology but didn't monetize it like OpenAI, and also for its "moonshot" projects like Waymo and X.
- Tesla - Mentioned in the context of its Full Self-Driving (FSD) system and the ongoing legal debate surrounding it.
- Waymo - An autonomous driving technology company that originated from Google's moonshot projects.
- Anthropic - An AI safety and research company, noted for its success with Claude in enterprise use cases, particularly AI coding tools.
- Komatsu - A Japanese company that manufactures mining and construction equipment, highlighted as a partner of Applied Intuition for AI applications in industrial settings.
- Microsoft - Used as an example of a company that evolved from tooling to operating systems to applications.
- General Motors Institute (GMI) - An educational institution, mentioned as the alma mater of one of the podcast guests.
- General Motors - Mentioned as a large automotive company and its contribution to the talent pool for self-driving technology.
- Doordash - Referenced as an alternative employment option for workers seeking flexibility.
- Uber - Referenced as an alternative employment option for workers seeking flexibility.
- Salesforce - Mentioned as an example of a cloud enterprise company from the 2000s.
- Slack - Mentioned as a common work application.
- Workday - Mentioned as a common work application.
- Rippling - Mentioned as a common work application.
- Steam - Mentioned for having experimented with managerless office structures.
Products & Technologies
- ChatGPT - An AI chatbot, frequently referenced for its capabilities, limitations, and comparison to Google for information retrieval.
- Tesla FSD (Full Self-Driving) - Tesla's autonomous driving system, mentioned for its current legal status and its representation of assisted driving.
- Stable Diffusion - A deep learning model for generating images, mentioned as an example of AI research powering new systems.
- Claude - An AI assistant developed by Anthropic, noted for its success in AI coding tools.
- Ask Jeeves - An older search engine, humorously referenced by one of the hosts.
- Google Search - The search engine, used as a point of comparison for ChatGPT's function as an information retrieval system.
- Google Video - Referenced in a hypothetical scenario about YouTube's development if it had been integrated into Google.
- YouTube - Highlighted as a successful case study of a company that thrived because it was left alone to grow rather than being absorbed by a larger entity.