Dwarkesh Patel

For the last 50 years, people have argued that growth is stagnated.

Population in frontier countries is also stagnated.

I think we go back on the hyper exponential growth in population and output.

Sorry, exponential growth in population that causes hyper-exponential growth in output.

So we just got access to Google's VO 3.1, and it's been really cool to play around with.

The first thing we did was run a bunch of problems through both VO 3 and 3.1 to see what's changed in the new version.

So here's VO 3.

Hi, I'm Max, and I got stuck in a local minimum again.

And here's VO 3.1.

Hi, I'm Max, and I got stuck in a local minimum again.

3.1's output is just consistently more coherent, and the audio is noticeably higher quality.

We've been using Vio for a while now, actually.

We released an essay earlier this year about AI firms fully animated by Vio 2, and it's been amazing to see how fast these models are improving.

This update makes Vio even more useful in terms of animating our ideas and our explainers.

You can try Vio right now in the Gemini app.

with pro and ultra subscriptions.

You can also access it through the Gemini API or through Google Flow.

You recommended Nick Lane's book to me, and then on that basis, I also find it super interesting, and I interviewed him.

And so I actually have some questions about sort of thinking about intelligence in evolutionary history.

Now that you, over the last 20 years of doing AI research, you maybe have a more tangible sense of what intelligence is, what it takes to develop it.