Dr. Alexander Wissner-Gross

I think

I sometimes wonder as a thought experiment, given that there was quite a bit of experimentation early on in the Thomas Edison era with different battery chemistries, whether we could have arrived at much more advanced chemistries much earlier, like 100 years ago.

and whether the history of the internal combustion engine would have been vastly different if we had seen more investment and more experimentation upfront with different battery chemistries.

But overall, obviously, this is a positive development.

I think there's an element missing.

So I would love to be able to just replace teachers, human teachers with AI.

I think it's basically a cliche at this point that at least in the U.S., education is subject to Belmal's cost disease and would love for AI to just replace teachers.

education, both primary, secondary, and higher ed.

What I suspect is missing, certainly for the most self-motivated students, AI, I think at this point, in the style of Neal Stephenson's Young Ladies Illustrated Primer from Diamond Age, it's already here.

A well-motivated student can already have a conversation with

with a model from whichever frontier vendor and teach themselves far more quickly than they can through human instruction.

But for the students that aren't as self-motivated, what I think we're missing right now is an AI embodiment that holds their attention and motivates them where they lack the motivation.

It's like dreaming.

Yeah, maybe.

Maybe.

So I assume, Peter, by gaming, you're referring to sort of a quasi addictive or video games.

People have been building edutainment games for decades at this point.

I grew up with...

like math blaster or whatever back back when i was growing up but the problem is i suspect so as a user of these games you're not motivating the the users children or students with the exact outcomes what would have been utterly transformative for me would be not like motivating some math problem with some arguably disconnected animation on the screen motivate them by actually empowering them

To do really amazing things in the real world.