Transcript: 'We Taught AI to Play Games—Now It’s a $3.6 Million Company'

The transcript of AI & I with Every's head of AI training Alex Duffy is below. Watch on X or YouTube, or listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.

Timestamps

1. Introduction: 00:01:48
2. Why evals and benchmarks are broken: 00:04:14
3. The sneakiest LLMs in the market: 00:07:13
4. A competition that turns prompting into a sport: 00:13:00
5. Building a business around using games to make AI better: 00:15:49
6. Can language models learn how to be funny: 00:22:39
7. Why games are a great way to evaluate and train new models: 00:25:31
8. What child psychology tells us about games and AI: 00:26:58
9. Using games to unlock continual learning in AI: 00:30:10
10. Why Alex cares deeply about games: 00:36:42
11. Where Alex sees the most promise in AI: 00:44:37
12. Rethinking how young people start their careers in the age of AI: 00:50:54

Transcript

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Dan Shipper

Alex, welcome to the show.

Alex Duffy