Exponential View by Azeem Azhar

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.exponentialview.coFour years ago — some of you may remember — I spoke with the renowned cardiologist and researcher . On that occasion, he shared that “AI could restore the care in healthcare”. Fast forward to 2024, Eric and I come together to compare our notes — on the pandemic, the AI wave, and the major technological developments shaping healthcare and medical science today. Eric’s newsletter Ground Truths is the place to go for

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.exponentialview.coThis week, I spoke with Sasha Luccioni, an AI researcher and climate lead at Hugging Face, whose recent paper Watts Driving the Cost of AI Deployment? offers the first systematic comparison of the ongoing inference costs of various categories of machine learning systems. I wanted to speak with her about the energy cost of AI training and deployment, but also to go into the question of real AI risks, which was the

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.exponentialview.coAs I shared yesterday, I met up with the co-founder and CEO of Wayve, Alex Kendall, to test out Wayve’s self-driving car on some of the toughest streets of London — and to sit down for a longer chat about the technology and the company. His team is breaking some impressive ground — just six months ago, they released a 9-billion parameter world model that uses video, text, and action inputs to train the systems for

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.exponentialview.coJust a couple of hours ago, I sat down with the brilliant Karen Hao, whose reporting on OpenAI has been the light in the fog of the OpenAI crisis in the past week. She’s kept a close eye on AI developments over the past several years, most recently at The Atlantic, and is currently in the process of writing a book on AI.Members of Exponential View can listen to the whole conversation and read the transcript below

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.exponentialview.coAn exciting paper on the impact of generative AI on labour productivity: https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.11771 I spoke with authors Erik Brynjolfsson (Director of Stanford Digital Economy Lab) and Lindsey Raymond (MIT).Notes:* Generative AI systems can improve productivity by 14% in certain office roles and raise the performance of lower-performing employees.* AI accelerates the learning curve, allowing workers to gain

We’re hearing more about genome sequencing. More than 12M people have taken very basic genetic tests through direct-to-consumer services like 23andme. Last month, the British Health Secretary, Matt Hancock, laid out plans to undertake whole genome sequencing for all children at birth.I took the opportunity to speak to a couple of friends who understand this topic to explore what it really meant:* Martin Varsavsky is one of Spain’s leading entrepreneurs, who most recently founded two businesses in