John Giannandrea Quotes

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Technology should augment the human intellect, not replace it. It should be a powerful tool to help us think better, and I think that is really the journey we are on.

John Giannandrea

Computers are incredibly powerful but they are also pretty dumb, and I think we need to work hard to make them fulfill the potential that they have and so that means teaching them to be smarter.

John Giannandrea

One of the most exciting research areas for me is in language understanding. I think that is kind of the holy grail for applied artificial intelligence.

John Giannandrea

The inference of large language models is incredibly computationally expensive. It's the oomph in the device to actually do these models fast enough to be useful. You could in theory run these models on a very old device, but it will be so slow will not be useful.

On why Apple Intelligence won't work on older iPhones

John Giannandrea

This leap into, "Somebody is going to produce a superhuman intelligence, and then there's going to be all these ethical issues" is unwarranted and borderline irresponsible. I'm definitely not worried about the AI apocalypse.

John Giannandrea