Eric Schmidt
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first heard Aug 2024
last heard 1 Jul
Eric Schmidt’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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What you just said is exactly what's going to happen for the next few years.
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
Not yet.
I've funded a number of startups which claim to be close to it.
But of course these are startups and you never know.
Which tells me it's five, ten years.
Well, I'm not at Google anymore.
Every issue of Gemini is top of the leaderboard.
So 2.5 just overcame everybody, and I'm sure there's another one coming.
Demis is working really hard on this question about scientific discovery.
So that is a path to getting to AGI.
I am so happy to be part of this.
You created this incredible community, and there's all of these smart people that spend all their time listening to you.
Very concerning.
In 2016, we didn't understand what was now going to happen, but we understood that these algorithms were new and powerful.
There was a new move invented by AI in a game that had been around for 2,500 years that no one had ever seen.
Technically, the way this occurred was that the system of AlphaGo was essentially organized to always maintain a greater than 50 percent chance of winning.
And so it calculated correctly this move, which was this great mystery among all of the Go players, who are obviously insanely brilliant mathematical and intuitive players.
The question that Henry, Craig Mundy and I started to discuss, right,
is what does this mean?
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