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Balaji Srinivasan

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The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

And Karpathy also talks about, he agreed with me, the verification gap is actually a very big deal, right?

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

Then another point I made, again, now perhaps, but Killer AI, it's actually already here, it's called drones, and every country is going to pursue that.

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

So the whole concept of, oh my god, let's regulate the chatbots and the

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

I'm not saying that one doesn't want to have some countermeasures on that, which I'll get to in a second.

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

But like the idea of what's going to kill you, it's going to be the drone that's going to be the physical actuator shooting you.

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

It's not just going to be like the super intelligence that makes, you know, things, right?

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

The next point, AI is probabilistic while crypto is deterministic.

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

And crypto are actually complementary.

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

Crypto is what AI can't do, okay?

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

Because AI can solve, you know, partial differential equations, but it can't solve chaos.

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

It can't solve turbulence, right?

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

When you've got ODEs or PDEs that are chaotic or turbulent effectively.

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

It cannot forecast the outcome of a hash function because, you know, like these are things which,

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

That's exactly right.

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

Sorry, I should say it can't easily calculate the preimage of a hash function, right?

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

So there are mathematical and physical bounds on an AI.

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

Like, for example, you could have a turbulent source of entropy that would be something in the decision algorithm that AI provably could not forecast because it couldn't forecast

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

what was going to happen to the turbulence, right?

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

So it's simply not omnipotent.

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

People are treating it as if it's omnipotent.