Frontier Feud Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta FAIR, Thinking Machines — Barr Yaron, Amplify
AI Summary
Summary of the Video: Frontier Feud
Host Introduction
- Host: Bar Yourone, Partner at Amplify
- Event: Frontier Feud in New York City
- Purpose: A game show format where teams compete based on AI-related survey responses from 100 AI engineers.
Team Introductions
- Participants: Members from various AI companies, sharing tech hot takes:
- M: Anthropics; predictions about model training
- John: Anthropics; AI therapists
- Tina: Reflection AI; importance of non-AI thoughts
- Sha: Gemini developer apis; future AI models necessity
- Paige: Google DeepMind; trend towards deploying smaller models
- Colin: Augment; AI in dating and model architectures
- Petra: Google; preference for multi-bot conversations
- Stephen: Thinking Machines; addressing token wall issues
Game Overview
- Format: Participants guess responses to survey questions to earn points.
- Question Examples:
- Name the most influential AI researcher:
- Guesses included Ilia Sutskever, Jeff Hinton, Yosua Bengio, and others.
- Top considerations when choosing a model:
- Key factors: Cost, latency, accuracy.
- Buzzwords AI engineers are tired of:
- Responses included AGI, prompt engineering, etc.
Final Questions
- Fast Money Round with quick, consecutive questions about AI tools, jobs at risk, influential papers, and nightmares faced by AI engineers.
- Responses indicated tools like Cursor, job risks in software development, and top papers like “Attention is All You Need.”
Conclusion and Prizes
- Teams received various prizes, including AI engineering books and gift cards.
- Announcement of an upcoming survey on the state of AI engineering to be presented at the June AI Engineer World Fair with a QR code for participation.