"Nobody Lost Their Job to AI, Just the Promise of AI" - This Week in AI Ep 15
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The episode discusses the impact of AI on jobs, the GPU market, and the rise of new technologies in the AI space.
The AI jobs panic is here. Meta cut 8,000. Intuit cut 3,000. CapEx went up. Nobody can agree if anyone has actually lost a job to AI, or just to the promise of it. We dug into the GPU squeeze, the new craft of "reward engineering," Pope Leo's call to disarm AI, and why Chinese open-source models just blew past American ones in token usage. This week's roundtable: Erik Bernhardsson (CEO of Modal Labs, the serverless GPU cloud), Tanay Kothari (CEO of Wispr Flow, the voice dictation app every VC in the valley uses), and Richard Socher (CEO of Recursive Superintelligence and You.com). Thank you to our exclusive sponsor: PayPal Open, One Platform for All Business: http://paypalopen.com/ Timestamps: 0:00 Cold open 0:53 Welcome to Episode 15 5:53 Recursive's plan to build a self-improving "Eureka machine" 8:10 Token spend now exceeds headcount at the frontier 9:56 GPU crunch, Hopper prices, and the Anthropic-Colossus shockwave 12:23 Wispr Flow's 90% gross margin playbook 14:30 Running $100M in marketing with two humans and a swarm of agents 18:29 Reward hacking, paperclips, and the rise of the "reward engineer" 24:39 Why CEOs put one person in charge…
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