Dwarkesh

This will change our understanding of which abilities are scarce.

Future AI firms won't be constrained by what's rare or abundant in human skill distributions.

They can optimize for whatever abilities are most valuable.

Want Steve Wozniak-level engineering talent?

Cool.

Once you've got one, the marginal copy costs pennies.

Need a thousand world-class researchers?

Just spin them up.

The limiting factor isn't finding or training rare talent.

It's just compute.

The more valuable the decisions, the more compute you'll want to throw at them.

A single strategic insight from Mega Steve could be worth billions.

One of the coolest things about this video is that we did not shoot a single frame of video for it.

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.