Jeff Bezos quotes on AI, with sources
Founder and Executive Chair, Amazon · 5 quotes · latest Dec 14, 2023
- But what’s interesting is that just scaling things up, and I put just in quotes because it’s actually hard to scale things up, but just scaling things up also appears to pay huge dividends.
- I think we humans have a lot of ways of we can make ourselves go extinct. These things may help us not do that, so they may actually save us.
- It’s interesting to me that large language models in their current form are not inventions, they’re discoveries. The telescope was an invention, but looking through it at Jupiter, knowing that it had moons, was a discovery.
- So even in the face of all this uncertainty, my own view is that these powerful tools are much more likely to help us and save us even than they are to on balance hurt us and destroy us.
- The human brain does remarkable things and it does it on about 20 watts of power. And the AI techniques we use today use many kilowatts of power to do equivalent tasks.
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