Aravind Srinivas
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3,937 appearances
8 recordings
7 series
first heard Jun 2024
last heard 7 Jul
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It's not your fault.
Right.
Like, it's actually, the reason you're successful now is the exact thing that people told you to shut up about in the past.
Hey, stop bothering my lecture asking all these unrelated questions.
It's mainly a frustration of the teacher that they don't have the answers to you.
And now that bottleneck is gone.
We did this experiment with one instructor at MIT who taught the introduction to biology class where he came and told us that he's gonna give perplexity to all the kids, all the students,
and they would use it as part of the lectures.
So instead of fighting AI, you just give AI to everybody and let them ask whatever questions they want and they can actually use it in the exams too.
So how do you even design questions for an exam in such a world is maybe you just encourage people to pose a question that AI can't answer right now and that becomes your research project.
and you turn everybody into a scientist.
Fundamentally, there's this belief that scientists have to go through a rigorous PhD and you have to get accredited by an amazing university to be that.
Sure, but anyone who's curious can be a scientist.
The only thing that's required to be a good scientist is intellectual humility.
to understand that you could be wrong about things, things that everyone takes for granted, you could still question them.
And when you're presented with new evidence and new data, you're willing to change your mind and you're willing to operate with ambiguity and uncertainty about the world.
That's basically all the qualities you need to be a scientist.
And you can run your experiments, you can gather data, you can gather evidence, and you can consult people, you can bring in experts and talk to them.
And as long as you're uncovering more and more about the world, you are a scientist.
You don't need a PhD to feel that you're allowed to be a scientist or not.
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