Dwarkesh
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1,722 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard 25 Nov
Dwarkesh’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Every single visual that you see, from the photorealistic humans to the claymation octopuses, were all generated by VO2, which is Google's state-of-the-art video generation model.
couple months ago, and then I had this idea that we should try to turn it into a video.
And so I worked with this wonderful director, Peter Salaba, who was able to use VO2 to turn all of these ideas into the kind of video that would have previously taken us a full team of cinematographers and animators to make.
For example, one of the things I wanted to show is what an AGI hive mind might look like.
And so Peter had this idea that you could have a FPV drone fly through an anthill that's full of working ants.
Vio gave him a bunch of tasteful candidates for this and a bunch of other prompts that we then stitched together into the final cut.
We literally could not have made a video like this without Veo.
And now Veo 2 is available in the Gemini app.
You can try it by going to gemini.google.com, selecting it from the dropdown, and typing your own idea into the prompt bar.
By the way, we made this whole video with Veo before we even started chatting with Google, so it was especially exciting that we could then have them as a sponsor.
All right, back to the essay.
The most profound difference between AI firms and human firms will be their evolvability, as Gwern Brandwin observes.
The scale of difference between currently existing human firms and fully automated firms will be like the gulf in complexity between prokaryotes and eukaryotes.
Prokaryotic organisms, such as bacteria, are relatively simple and have remained structurally similar for over 3 billion years.
In contrast, the emergence of eukaryotic cells, which possess more complex internal structures like nuclei and organelles, enabled a dramatic leap in biological complexity.
and gave rise to all the other astonishing organisms with trillions of cells working together tight-knits.
This evolvability is also the key difference between AI and human firms.
As Guerin points out, human firms simply cannot replicate themselves effectively.
They're made of people, not code that can be copied.
So would a fully automated company simply become the last company standing?
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