Cal Newport

There's an AI now that can beat professional poker players at Texas Hold'em No Limit.

They're all different systems with their own pieces in them.

And a lot of them have some language models in them as well, but a lot of other pieces as well.

It's distributed AGI.

That's what it's going to be like.

We're just going to wake up one day and say,

There's fewer and fewer things where we say humans can do this better than computers.

And it's a different model than HAL 9000.

There's one giant, it's a really inefficient way to imagine solving this problem.

If we just have a big enough language model, it's going to do all activity.

It's going to power all agents.

It's going to automate all systems.

That really doesn't make sense.

I think it's going to be a much more distributed path towards AGI and AI.

I think you need to begin thinking about the feeling of cognitive strain, the way that, you know, a weightlifter thinks about the burn of a muscle or a runner thinks about burning lungs as a thing that is uncomfortable in the moment.

But man, I'm excited about this feeling because I'm getting stronger.

you got to make yourself really comfortable thinking hard.

That is the differentiating factor.

I mean, obviously I've been saying this since 10 years now, but that's, that's even more now going to be the differentiating factor.

Right.