Benjamin Todd
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4,140 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2023
last heard 28 May
Benjamin Todd’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And they were just saying like, well, we have like 30 amazing projects, but we only have the staff capacity to do one or two next quarter.
And like this requires technical staff who could earn huge salaries working directly on capabilities.
And they also need lots of computes to do these experiments.
And so additional money just, it kind of means they can just hire better staff, have more computes, do more of these really useful benchmark results.
And that just seems like it's a perfectly impactful thing to fund.
Yeah, there's still, especially in these few years, there's a lot that can be done with money.
Yeah, and I mean, I think...
like if you can change career that will have an even bigger impact but you can like in a way it's kind of amazing that it's possible for anyone to help with even this like very technical and like difficult question as AI um you really like it's the old argument you can you can like via the invention of money you can like transform your labor into someone else's labor it's an incredible thing have people heard about this
Yeah, so that one is like, that's the money side.
Though, I mean, I think maybe even more neglected is just thinking about spreading these ideas in society.
Like, it's a very weird situation in a way because it does feel like everyone is talking about AI all the time.
But I feel like very few people have actually internalized what's happening.
It's kind of like, there's just like a lot of like frothy hype, but like not that much actual like...
oh, like this is what's happening, I need to do something about this.
So I think there's a lot that can be done by just helping people understand these ideas, like correcting common misconceptions on X even, I think is actually quite useful and something that anyone can help with.
And then the fourth one would be kind of politics because
i think we do eventually want to be able to we want at some point there to be a strategic pause to ai like if we were facing an algorithmic feedback loop i don't think we just want to let that run as fast as it possibly could run which is the default that will happen now
If we could pause even for a year or two, that would be really helpful.
And that's going to be difficult to have unless there's a lot of political will for such a thing to happen, because there's a good chance the companies won't just do it themselves.
So we do also start to need to build political support for this being a big problem.
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