Sasha Luciani
Appearances
Consider This from NPR
AI and the Environment
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.
Consider This from NPR
AI and the Environment
then my partner was like, well, you have a PhD in AI, maybe you can use that to make a difference in the world.
Consider This from NPR
AI and the Environment
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.
Consider This from NPR
AI and the Environment
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.