Dario Amodei

You don't have to have the full machine god.

And indeed, there are places where I cast doubt on whether the machine god, you know, would be that much more effective at these things than the 100 million geniuses, right?

I have this concept called, you know, the diminishing returns to intelligence, which is, you know, there's like, you know, economists talk about, you know, the marginal productivity of land and labor.

We've never thought about the marginal productivity of intelligence.

But if I look at some of these problems in biology, like at some level, you just have to interact with the world.

At some level, you just have to try things.

At some level, you just have to comply with the laws or change the laws on getting medicines through the regulatory system.

So there's a finite rate.

at which these changes can happen.

Now there are some domains, like if you're playing chess or go where, you know, the intelligence ceiling is extremely high, but I think the real world has a lot of limiters.

So maybe you can go above the genius level, but you know, sometimes I think all this discussion of like, could you use a moon of computation to make an AI God, um, you know, are, are they're a little bit sensationalistic and, and kind of besides the point, even as I think this will be the biggest thing that ever happened to humanity.

Yeah, yeah.

So again, let's keep it on the positive side.

There'll be plenty we'll get to the negative side.

But, you know, we're already working with pharma companies.

We're already working with financial industry companies.

We're already working with, you know, folks who do manufacturing.

We're, of course, you know, I think especially known for coding and software engineering.

So just the raw productivity, the ability to like make stuff and get stuff done.

That is very powerful.