Dwarkesh Patel

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.

Are you more or less surprised as a result that evolution just sort of spontaneously stumbled upon it?

Okay, so there's actually a couple of interesting follow-ups.

If you buy the Sun perspective, that actually the crux of intelligence is animal intelligence.

What the quote he said is, if you got to the squirrel, you'd be most of the way to AGI.