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Kevin Roose

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1391 total appearances

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Our Field Trip to Google I/O + A Sit-Down With Sundar Pichai + System Update

Honestly, if you emailed to us, we would flash it on the screen.

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Our Field Trip to Google I/O + A Sit-Down With Sundar Pichai + System Update

No, we want that.

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Our Field Trip to Google I/O + A Sit-Down With Sundar Pichai + System Update

We want that.

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Our Field Trip to Google I/O + A Sit-Down With Sundar Pichai + System Update

We want to know how Gemini dragged us.

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Our Field Trip to Google I/O + A Sit-Down With Sundar Pichai + System Update

Another sort of safety-related question.

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Our Field Trip to Google I/O + A Sit-Down With Sundar Pichai + System Update

All of the big labs are racing toward what you call recursive self-improvement, so building AI systems that improve themselves rapidly.

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Our Field Trip to Google I/O + A Sit-Down With Sundar Pichai + System Update

Do you think that can be done safely?

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Our Field Trip to Google I/O + A Sit-Down With Sundar Pichai + System Update

And do you feel like you have a line of sight to it right now?

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Our Field Trip to Google I/O + A Sit-Down With Sundar Pichai + System Update

Is there like a plan for like, I mean, great news.

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Our Field Trip to Google I/O + A Sit-Down With Sundar Pichai + System Update

And like, we just hit RSI.

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Our Field Trip to Google I/O + A Sit-Down With Sundar Pichai + System Update

Like, is there a sort of do we do we break glass or what happens then?

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Our Field Trip to Google I/O + A Sit-Down With Sundar Pichai + System Update

Maybe as a last question, one of the more memorable phrases I think from the keynote this year did come from Demis when he said that we're in the foothills of the singularity.

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Our Field Trip to Google I/O + A Sit-Down With Sundar Pichai + System Update

Can you tell us concretely what that means from Google's perspective?

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Our Field Trip to Google I/O + A Sit-Down With Sundar Pichai + System Update

And should people be excited about that or afraid or both?

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Our Field Trip to Google I/O + A Sit-Down With Sundar Pichai + System Update

When we come back, a few more highlights from this week in our system update.

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Our Field Trip to Google I/O + A Sit-Down With Sundar Pichai + System Update

Yeah.

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Our Field Trip to Google I/O + A Sit-Down With Sundar Pichai + System Update

Yes.

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Our Field Trip to Google I/O + A Sit-Down With Sundar Pichai + System Update

Where we just sort of had a steady drip of new lore and it kept us all very entertained.

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Our Field Trip to Google I/O + A Sit-Down With Sundar Pichai + System Update

I don't know that we learned very much that, you know, truly affected public sentiment one way or the other.

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Our Field Trip to Google I/O + A Sit-Down With Sundar Pichai + System Update

But I definitely learned things from this trial that I'll never forget.