Lex Fridman

And it's hard to really put a finger on it.

So one way to illustrate that, I speak English and Russian, and I've been reading Dostoevsky in both languages and using LLM to translate back and forth, because I was preparing to have a conversation with the translators of Dostoevsky.

Richard Previer and Larissa Volokonsky.

They're wonderful translators.

And a wonderful love story, too.

But in the translation process, you get to see that LLM is missing some magic.

And that couple of translators are world-class experts capturing the magic.

And I can't quite put that into words.

Because you said totally novel ideas, yes.

But also, this...

magic of the timing, the right word at the right time that captures the human experience.

So they can do some really incredibly human-like, the 90%, like you mentioned, human-like phrasing about like the bulk of the storytelling, but the magic, you know,

whether it's the endings of Red Dead Redemption 1 and 2, the timing of that, the word choice of that, everything around that.

But it's hard to argue because they're incredibly impressive, winning all kinds of math competitions.

But it's, what is that magic?

And again, that could be just the romantic human side of me, just saying that LLMs won't be able to capture that, maybe desperately holding on for hope.

I have to ask you about your writing process, and we could break it up.

On Grand Theft Auto, GTA 4 is when it really started ramping up.

How much writing?

Went into the Grand Theft Auto series.