#14: The five taboos that Silicon Valley broke - Igor Jablokov

The Deep View: Conversations

I sat down with Igor Jablokov, the founder and chairman of Pryon, to talk about the ways in which the field of AI has grown and changed, and where it might go from here. Igor worked as a program director at IBM, developing an early iteration of IBM Watson, before he struck out on his own. His first startup, Yap, was later acquired by Amazon, where it evolved into Alexa.

Episode Links:

• Self-driving progress: https://www.thedeepview.co/p/progress-predictions-2025-robots-avs-and-technical-advancements
• Reuters copyright lawsuit: https://www.thedeepview.co/p/study-most-people-can-t-identify-deepfakes
• Musk v Altman: https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/musk-v-altman-billionaires-attorneys-face-off-in-court/486647
• Chatbots, mental health and Character AI: https://www.thedeepview.co/p/i-downloaded-character-ai-it-s-profoundly-disturbing
• The AI bubble: https://www.thedeepview.co/p/what-the-trade-war-might-mean-for-ai
• The power struggle of AGI: https://www.thedeepview.co/p/how-big-tech-is-using-the-ai-race-and-the-specter-of-agi-to-cement-its-power-agi-openai-google
• AI in the enterprise: https://www.thedeepview.co/p/humanx-ai-s-inflection-point-conference-artifcial-intelligence

Outline:

0:00 – Intro
2:15 – How the AI field has changed
7:43 – The five taboos Silicon Valley broke
12:11 – The ‘adulting’ of AI
15:27 – How big of a deal might AI be?
17:52 – The hyperscalers won’t get to AGI
21:42 – Digital god and ‘synthetic slaves’
25:19 – X-Risk and the safety debate
32:53 – Brute-forcing intelligence
37:59 – Cracking AI in the enterprise
44:50 – The bubble
48:15 – AI is an orchestra

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Artificial intelligence is a complicated topic, bound by a number of complex threads — technical science, ethics, safety, regulation, neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, investment and — above all — humanity. On The Deep View: Conversations, Ian Krietzberg, host and Editor-in-Chief at The Deep View, breaks it all down, cutting through the hype to make clear what's important and why you should care.