CEO of Zoom: what if we take deepfake fraud, right, and make it a push-button feature of Zoom

2 years ago by David Gerard to c/techtakes

Why have fewer meetings when you could just send your AI clone instead?
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FermiEstimate 45 points 2 years ago

lmao, Zoom is cooked. Their CEO has no idea how LLMs work or why they aren't fit for purpose, but he's 100% certain someone else will somehow solve this problem:

So is the AI model hallucination problem down there in the stack, or are you investing in making sure that the rate of hallucinations goes down?

I think solving the AI hallucination problem — I think that’ll be fixed. 

But I guess my question is by who? Is it by you, or is it somewhere down the stack?

It’s someone down the stack. 

Okay.

I think either from the chip level or from the LLM itself.

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pennomi 34 points 2 years ago
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MajorHavoc 27 points 2 years ago

What’s he smoking?

Whatever he's smoking, it's strength rating is at least: "make it seem like a good idea to call employees back from remote work despite remote work facilitation being the one thing we sell".

So that's gotta be some strong stuff.

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VirtualOdour 1 point 2 years ago

Custom hardware designed with ai pipelines in mind similar to how gpu architecture solved a lot of render issues due to how memory can be accessed and what operations are prioritized. The idea people have been talking about is basically the llm on one part of the chip and other NNs beside it that can modify its biases - basically setting the 'mood' and focusing things as the answer is created should help enable creativity in some areas while locking it out in others. Coding for example requires creativity in structure or variable names but needs to be very factual about function names or mathematical operations.

I think it's very unlikely to be the way things go based on progress with pure llms and llm architecture but maybe in the future it'll turn out to be a more efficient way of solving the problem, especially with ai designed chips.

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LesserAbe 19 points 2 years ago

Lol I like how they put the author's note at the beginning of the article, "this was a very special interview" as if it's special because of the unique insights instead of special because it sounds coked up.

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Soyweiser 12 points 2 years ago

I think solving the AI hallucination problem — I think that’ll be fixed.

Wasn't this an unsolvable problem?

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Amoeba_Girl 20 points 2 years ago

it's unsolvable because it's literally how LLMs work lol.

though to be fair i would indeed love for them to solve the LLMs-outputting-text problem.

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