Nikolai Yakovenko – Razib Khan
Nikolai Yakovenko is a computer scientist and an entrepreneur. Razib Khan is an essayist and interview host. We found 4 podcast interviews connecting Nikolai Yakovenko and Razib Khan.
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Episodes with Nikolai Yakovenko & Razib Khan
Nikolai Yakovenko: the stillborn promise of the LLM age
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Nikolai Yakovenko, a returning guest to the podcast, about his new AI startup, DeepNewz, and the state of the LLM-driven AI landscape circa the summer of 2024, where we are in relation to earlier expectations and where we might be in the next decade. Yakovenko is
Nikolai Yakovenko: OpenAI in chaos, the future of artificial intelligence and effective accelerationism
Today, Razib interviews Nikolai Yakovenko, already a three-time guest on his podcasts (A Twitter engineer on machine learning and his former company's prospects, GPT-3 and the rise of the thinking machines and AI and Biology). An artificial intelligence researcher based in Miami who has worked at Google and Nvidia, Yak
Nikolai Yakovenko: GPT-3 and the rise of the thinking machines
As 2022 draws to a close, the chat AI based on GPT-3 (Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3) has been taking the internet by storm, with millions of users beginning to ask it questions. Is humanity on the way to birthing a true artificial general intelligence (AGI)? I asked GPT-3 that particular question, and this was t
Nikolai Yakovenko: a Twitter engineer on machine learning and his former company's prospects
When Jack Dorsey stepped down as Twitter CEO last year, I wondered what we could expect from the new leader, Parag Agrawal. Luckily, I knew Nikolai Yakovenko, who worked at Twitter on deep neural networks in the mid-teens. Yakovenko told me Agrawal was not a rock-the-boat kind of guy, and perhaps that’s why Dorsey tapp