FOD#33: 2024 Priorities and Predictions from Yoshua Bengio and other prominent AI researchers and thinkers

The next year will be exceptional: the pace of innovation has never been so fast and multidirectional.

Recently, we reached out to you asking to share what your expectations are for 2024. Though making predictions is hard, people love this game, and today’s newsletter is lengthy. For your convenience, we have categorized the replies: jump to those that might be most interesting to you!

These responses are varied, coming from specialists with different perspectives. We recommend reading them all as a whole, to get a wider picture. So buckle up and get ready for 2024.

Table of Contents

• From Researchers

  • Yoshua Bengio*: AI Safety Priorities for 2024

  • Sara Hooker, Cohere’s VP Research, Head of Cohere …

  • Rajiv Shah, Machine Learning Engineer at Hugging F …

  • Vincenzo Manzoni, Data Science Director at Tenaris …

• From VC

  • S. Somasegar, Managing Director at Madrona Venture …

  • Apoorva Pandhi, Managing Director at Zetta VP

• From infrastructure builders

  • Max Hjelm, VP of Sales at CoreWeave

  • Mike Del Balso, Founder and CEO of Tecton 

  • From Responsible AI specialists

    • Antonia Bierwirth, Responsible Innovation Manager …

    • Subho Majumdar, Advocate and Practitioner of Respo …

  • Misc

    • Ricardo Acuña, the Principal of Psycognet

    • Antonin Delobre, a student at ESSEC, a business sc …

    • Ollie Carmichael, a Product Manager at Adarga Limi …

  • Twitter Library

  • Other news, categorized for your convenience

    • Enhancements in LLM Techniques and Efficiency

    • LLM Alignment, Honesty, and Safety

    • AI Applications and Dataset Creation

    • LLM Evaluation, Open Source, and Future Directions