Richard Socher

Like we have an incredible team

Yeah, it's kind of a cheat code.

The best way to predict the future is to just work on it.

And so try to do that when no one else is doing it.

Sometimes people are doing it already.

So like robotics, for instance, I think a lot of people are working robotics.

I predict that in the next few years, probably not this year, maybe even not next year.

But like the next few years, we're going to get robotics to be good enough

like just the mechanics of it, so that then putting really real intelligence into those robots will enable a lot of people to do boring physical work.

But, you know, they will cost quite a lot.

So it's going to take a while.

I think already self-driving cars are saving lots of lives where they are like deployed at scale.

So that's exciting to see.

And there's so many predictions.

I listed like 20 or so.

That's why it's stealth, you know, can't share them all.

Yeah.

Yeah, I almost miss sometimes the contrarian days, which is like me and a bunch of other like intellectuals, like researchers, like wanting to build something cool, even though no one cared about it.

But it's also really exciting to see, obviously, like how many folks are now in the field and how many novel ideas are coming and how much brainpower is, you know, making improvements happen.

I think there's maybe a little bit of controversy around recursive self-improvement, right, as a great path towards superintelligence.