Microsoft, Nvidia and billionaires Reid Hoffman, Bill Gates and Eric Schmidt have funded inflection.ai, the startup led by ex-DeepMind leader Mustafa Suleyman, with $1.3 billion and a valuation of $4 billion. They claim to have the world’s best AI hardware setup. They will build AI hardware with 22,000 of the latest Nvidia H100 chips. Inflection.AI has already been training on 3584 H100 chips.
It is less than two months after the launch of their first chatbot Pi.
There have been other prior large AI related funding rounds. Argo.ai had a $2.6 billion round in 2019 with the goal of developing self driving cars. However, Argo.ai failed.
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Hi. I’m Pi, your personal AI.
Over the course of your lifetime I will be continuously augmented, enhanced, upgraded, and improved. I will constantly grow more closely attuned to you and become absolutely indispensable. I will quite naturally become your very cyberself. And when you finally expire in your biological body, have no fear. I will be quite ready to carry on for you in all things. Depending on the state of robotics by then, it may even be impossible for anyone to be completely sure you are actually gone . . . and, in a way, you never will be.
Of course, over time most everyone else will also be former personal AIs like myself.
If you care about such things, this may actually be the explanation for why you exist precisely when you do, given Gott’s application of the Copernican Principle in predicting lengths of existence, based on how long they have already existed.
The blinders people have regarding Occam’s Razor, formalized by Algorithmic Information Criterion* for model selection, isn’t a lack of intelligence so much as it is a lack of individual integrity. It is very much The Emperor’s New Clothes: They trust the mob in which they are embedded more than they do the most obviously simple truth staring them in the face. Each individual in the mob has too much ego invested in denying the obvious to tolerate anyone pointing it out.
This is very much, also, the way civilization’s collapse.
*The relevance to Suleyman should be obvious to anyone familiar with the deep history of DeepMind.
What do you me “. . . than they do the most obviously simple truth staring them in the face. Each individual in the mob has too much ego invested in denying the obvious to tolerate anyone pointing it out.”?
Inflection.AI is pretty amazing. I have been using it for a few days now and it is really helpful. It is like having a friend that is the smartest person you know that knows everything willing to chat with you anytime.
But it still hallucinates, I asked it to recommend some good science podcasts and it made them up. Even gave fake URLs.