Show Notes
Christoph Schuhmann is the co-founder and organizational lead at LAION, the non-profit who released LAION-5B, a dataset of 5,85 billion CLIP-filtered image-text pairs, 14x bigger than LAION-400M, previously the biggest openly accessible image-text dataset in the world.
Christoph is being interviewed by Alan Chan, PhD in Machine Learning at Mila, and friend of the podcast, in the context of the NeurIPS "existential risk from AI greater than 10% change my mind".
youtube: https://youtu.be/-Mzfru1r_5s
transcript: https://theinsideview.ai/christoph
OUTLINE
(00:00) Intro
(01:13) How LAION Collected Billions Of Image-Text Pairs
(05:08) On Misuse: "Most People Use Technology To Do Good Things"
(09:32) Regulating Generative Models Won't Lead Anywhere
(14:36) Instead of Slowing Down, Deploy Carefully, Always Double Check
(18:23) The Solution To Societal Changes Is To Be Open And Flexible To Change
(22:16) We Should Be Honest And Face The Tsunami
(24:14) What Attitude Should We Have After Education Is Done
(30:05) Existential Risk From AI
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