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Eric Schmidt

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All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Eric Schmidt on AI, the Battle with China, and the Future of America

And the way they define it is basically a savant, a chemist savant, a physics savant, a mathematician savant.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Eric Schmidt on AI, the Battle with China, and the Future of America

I don't agree with the three years, but I do agree that it'll be maybe six or seven years.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Eric Schmidt on AI, the Battle with China, and the Future of America

It's not general intelligence yet.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Eric Schmidt on AI, the Battle with China, and the Future of America

General intelligence is when it can set its own objective function.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Eric Schmidt on AI, the Battle with China, and the Future of America

Right.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Eric Schmidt on AI, the Battle with China, and the Future of America

There's no evidence right now of the ability to set your own objective function.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Eric Schmidt on AI, the Battle with China, and the Future of America

The thinking, and I'm writing a paper on this, so I've been studying it, is that the technical problem is non-stationarity of mathematical proofs.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Eric Schmidt on AI, the Battle with China, and the Future of America

And what you're doing is you're trying to solve against the objective function, but the objective function keeps changing, which is how humans operate.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Eric Schmidt on AI, the Battle with China, and the Future of America

Your goal changes every day, whereas computers have trouble with that.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Eric Schmidt on AI, the Battle with China, and the Future of America

As a math problem, we don't have an algorithm yet for LLMs that can do that.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Eric Schmidt on AI, the Battle with China, and the Future of America

People are working on it.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Eric Schmidt on AI, the Battle with China, and the Future of America

And the test will be, can you basically, using the information available in 1902, can you derive the same thing that Einstein did with special relativity followed by general relativity?

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Eric Schmidt on AI, the Battle with China, and the Future of America

We cannot do that today.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Eric Schmidt on AI, the Battle with China, and the Future of America

And most people believe that the way this will be solved is through analogy.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Eric Schmidt on AI, the Battle with China, and the Future of America

So the theory of great geniuses is that they understand one area extremely well and they're so brilliant, the lady or man, can then take their ideas and apply it to a completely different domain.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Eric Schmidt on AI, the Battle with China, and the Future of America

If we can solve that problem, then I think it's over.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Eric Schmidt on AI, the Battle with China, and the Future of America

Then we get to AGI and then it's a whole different world.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Eric Schmidt on AI, the Battle with China, and the Future of America

What you just said is exactly what's going to happen for the next few years.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Eric Schmidt on AI, the Battle with China, and the Future of America

that each of us will have assistance which on our command and our prompting will be incredibly helpful to whatever problem we have you know personal you have people who are using these things for relationship advice for you know talking to their kids i mean it's all crazy stuff but the fact that matters that's it to me the real question is when does it cross over to having its own volition its own ability to seek information and solve new problems that's a different animal but have we seen any evidence of recursive self-improvement yet

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Eric Schmidt on AI, the Battle with China, and the Future of America

Not yet.