Is AI Safe? A Conversation with Christopher Penn

Can AI translate better than humans? Can I trust AI? Is my data safe?

Christopher Penn, co-founder of truthinsights.ai, answers all of these questions and more on this week's episode of Merging Minds. Gabriel and Chris discuss what is real vs. what is hype in terms of security, AI adoption, LLMs, and the changing landscape of knowledge work in the age of AI.

They discuss:

• LLAMA 3.1: Blowing the doors open on mass adoption
• Hype vs. actual usage
• Informal adoption vs. institutional adoption
• Internalized infrastructure vs. Cloud infrastructure
• The security of local files vs. cloud-based files
• Hybrid approach to data security
• Technological evolution
• Prompting LLMs for better translations
• Humans are still the best translators
• LLMs as "second opinions" for translators
• Sparsity and Risk in translation
• The emergent properties of language
• Language technology influencing the nature of reason
• Language is a symbolic compression
• "We and our machines are more similar than we think"
• Culture begets language- How can technology reflect this?
• Linguistic curators
• Reconstructing the Algonquin language with AI
• Coding in natural language for translators
• Translators are like farmers
• The supply chain of translation after automation

And more!

Click play to hear a great conversation between Christopher and Gabriel!

You can learn more about Christopher Penn here, and trustinsights.ai here.

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