Sasha Luciani

I essentially was getting more and more climate anxiety. I was really feeling this profound disconnect between my job and my values and the things that I cared about. And so essentially I was like, oh, I should quit my job and go plant trees. I should do something that's really making a difference in the world.

then my partner was like, well, you have a PhD in AI, maybe you can use that to make a difference in the world.

Since Joshua B.T. came out, people were like, oh, we want general purpose models. We want models that can do everything at once, answer questions and write recipes and poetry and whatever. But nowadays... More and more, I think companies especially are like, well, actually, for our intents and purposes, we want to do X, like whatever, summarize PDFs.

So we're having a lot of trouble getting buy-in from companies. There's like such a blanket ban on any kind of transparency because it could either like make you look bad, open you up for whatever legal action, or just kind of give people a sneak peek behind the curtain.

We don't have any mandatory reporting mechanisms for companies, for compute providers, so they tend to give kind of very high-level numbers on a company level, sometimes, not even all the time.

I mean, for what it's worth, Microsoft and Google already failed to meet their own goal last year. So I think that the tendency is going towards no.

I essentially was getting more and more climate anxiety. I was really feeling this profound disconnect between my job and my values and the things that I cared about. And so essentially I was like, oh, I should quit my job and go plant trees. I should do something that's really making a difference in the world. And then my partner was like, well, you have a PhD in AI. Maybe you can use that.

So Sasha quit her job. Wow.

In recent years, we've seen AI models balloon in size because the current trend in AI is bigger is better. But please don't get me started on why that's the case.

It's unfair to say that users want more because users aren't given the choice.

Nowadays, more and more, I think companies especially are like, for our intents and purposes, we want to do X, like whatever, summarize PDFs. But you don't need a general purpose model for that. You can use a model that's task specific and a lot smaller and a lot cheaper.

There's like... such a blanket ban on any kind of transparency because it could either make you look bad, open you up for whatever legal action, or just kind of give people a sneak peek behind the curtain.