Cal Newport
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Podcast Appearances
The program you wrote that you gave access to your files and just said, whatever we get from this prompt...
execute it is a race in your files.
Opus can't do anything.
It can produce tokens.
But here's the other point I want to make about mythos that I don't think is being made.
And it reminds you of the Sherlock Holmes story of the dog that didn't bark, right?
Where the actual piece of evidence that mattered is not what you heard, but what you didn't hear.
This is what I think the real story here is, is you did not hear Dario Amadei in the lead up to the Mythos release in the last year, let's say, or the last two years.
You did not hear him talking about what we're working on and why AI is important is because we're going to be able to find vulnerabilities in software that have been long hidden.
We're going to build the ultimate cybersecurity machine.
This was not discussed.
That's old fashioned stuff.
That's boring stuff.
That's stuff that we were worried at.
Even GPT-2 people are worried about that.
What we've been hearing about steadily was jobs are going to be automated.
We're going to have like whole creative industries wiped out.
We might have sentience coming and at the very least like AGI and these massive disruptions.
This is what they've been focusing on again and again.
And then their biggest, best model, right?