

MacroVoices #549 Matt Barrie: AI-gent Provocateur
MacroVoices Erik Townsend & Patrick Ceresna welcome, Matt Barrie. They discuss the rise of agentic AI and cheap open‑source models, how running AI on your own hardware will reshape enterprises and how this shift will massively disrupt white‑collar work. ✅Sign up for a FREE 14-day trial at Big Picture Trading:…

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“"obliterate the models" obliterated models are much dumber, so you use it only when you actually have a refusal. obliteration is basically lobotomy. you test a lot of prompts that lead to refusal and delete the "neurons" that activated the…”
“Moving customer support to AI is resulting in less customers even asking support, because lot of people don't like to talk to LLMs. There is not just upsides to it. Talking to AI was cool when it was new, but a shift is happening, chat usag…”
“"The biggest thing is agentic AI" "agentic" is a buzzword which you can look for to see who has no clue about AI. it'S probably ok to use it here for this audience. An "AI Agent" is a simple piece of software that prompts an AI instead of y…”
“"how running AI on your own hardware will reshape enterprises " this is like building you own car, very expensive. with local hardware the utilization ratio is much less than 100% therefore local AI is more expensive because the inference m…”
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