Is this the AI renaissance? (Ep. 564)
Paul van der Boor is a Senior Director of Data Science at Prosus and a member of its internal AI group. He talks with Ben about what’s happening in the world of generative AI, the power of collective discovery, and the gap between a shiny proof of concept and a product that people will actually use.
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Paul van der Boor is a Senior Director of Data Science at Prosus and a member of its internal AI group. He talks with Ben about what’s happening in the world of generative AI, the power of collective discovery, and the gap between a shiny proof of concept and a product that people will actually use.
Episode notes:
Prosus, one of the world’s largest tech investors, acquired Stack Overflow in 2021.
Check out the annual State of AI Report from Nathan Benaich and Ian Hogarth.
Read our CEO’s recent post on Stack Overflow’s approach to Generative AI.
Connect with Paul on LinkedIn.
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5 Comments
It can’t be a renaissance of artificial intelligence.
“Renaissance” means “rebirth.”
For there to be a renaissance, artificial intelligence would have to have been a thing, then died out, then started up again.
Artificial intelligence hasn’t been a real, solid, working thing before so it can’t have died out and been reborn.
There is currently a rebirth of hype arouind artificial intelligence, but that’s about it.
35 minutes of how wonderfully quickly AI is improving, and barely a mention of safety. (The word “safe” flashes by, once.)
AI is by far the most dangerous technology we’ve ever worked on, and if you’re not deeply concerned about the alignment problem, then you shouldn’t be working on AI.
completely agree with @JRE
AI vs People? Maybe AI is dangerous but if it’s AI vs People, AI will win easy for these reasons: AI is polite, has no ego and is patient. I can ask a basic programming question to AI and it will explain politely the basics and will give me an example to help me. It won’t refer me to a 300 page docs humiliating me on the way like, well you know!
I’m not good with technology and finding an understanding with any of it literally all the way down to the basics of how apps work and what is the main reason or how someone even goes about anything and that was really really hard for me to say that on an website that every single person in this world will be able to read my reply and I guess I don’t know I just know that I would really really much appreciate some guidance on how to protect myself from hackers well not so much all hackers bc I’m a pretty damn honest person especially to the people I care deeply for as I would be to someone I just met through someone who claims they love me and care about me and what what’s best for me n blah blah blah #SMFHhellyeah but has nothing but put me in situations that could get me in serious serious trouble with the law I had came across and met some people who I thought were my friends and genuinely cared about me and respected me for what I believed in n what I would be down for n not down for ya know n no I’m worried about others using my identification online framing me for things I didn’t do to people that I knew or didn’t know. So ig I’m asking for guidance on how to protect my Google account Gmail account my pic’s how do I protect myself from fraud things I’ve never in my life have had so may different phone numbers and email addresses in my entire life until I got with someone in 2020 who was very extremely advanced with all and anything that was to do with technology