Robert Wright
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard Nov 2024
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you know, instantiated the idea that yeah, there'll be this threshold.
Beyond that you get an intelligence explosion.
Obviously whoever gets there first is gonna be in charge.
That that's kind of widely assumed in certain circles.
we should say probably for kind of lay people, which is a lot of people in my podcast audience.
Um
The assumption here, you know, the term singularity, which you may have heard, refers sometimes to technological acceleration generally, but in particular to the point where the AI starts improving itself.
In a certain sense, it already is.
It's facilitating coding, it's making coding more efficient.
Uh, but but you know, as that gets more as the feedback cycle gets more and more direct, like the AI just saying, hmm, I'll create a better version of myself.
This is the point of technology.
Takeoff people are referring to.
Anyway, go ahead.
Yeah, and can I uh add uh I mean kind of inject a question.
We'll get back to the China question per se, but you know, the context for this is partly just over the last few weeks, there's been a lot of publicity about is AI hitting a wall?
Uh in other words, are the scaling laws uh reaching a point of diminishing return?
And scaling laws refer uh both to like amount of text you feed into it, and as you just mentioned.
Mentioned, uh, there's only so much human-generated text.
You can generate it with AI and try that, blah, blah, blah.
There's issues.
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