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Tyler Cowen

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Dwarkesh Podcast
Tyler Cowen - the #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans

Typical rate of economic growth during that period was about 1.5%.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Tyler Cowen - the #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans

And the future is about compounding and sticking with it and, you know, seeing things pay off in the long run.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Tyler Cowen - the #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans

Just human beings are not going to change that much.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Tyler Cowen - the #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans

And I don't think that property of our world will change that much, even with a lot more IQ and conscientiousness.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Tyler Cowen - the #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans

You know, I don't remember what I thought in what month, but I would say on the whole, I see more potential in AI than I did a year ago.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Tyler Cowen - the #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans

And I think it has made progress more quickly than I had been expecting.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Tyler Cowen - the #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans

And I was pretty bullish on it back then.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Tyler Cowen - the #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans

The 01 model to me is very impressive.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Tyler Cowen - the #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans

And I think further extensions in that direction will make a big, big difference.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Tyler Cowen - the #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans

And the rate at which they come is hard to say.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Tyler Cowen - the #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans

But it's something we have.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Tyler Cowen - the #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans

And we just have to make it better.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Tyler Cowen - the #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans

Those questions were too easy.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Tyler Cowen - the #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans

They were for GPT-4, and it's like abandoned, those questions.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Tyler Cowen - the #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans

You know, 100 questions of economics, how well does a human do on them?

Dwarkesh Podcast
Tyler Cowen - the #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans

They're hard, but it's like pointless.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Tyler Cowen - the #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans

So I would not be shocked if somebody's AI model in less than three years beat human experts on a regular basis.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Tyler Cowen - the #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans

Let's put it that way.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Tyler Cowen - the #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans

I feel like Kasparov, the first time he met Deep Blue, you know, there were two matches, and the first one, Kasparov won.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Tyler Cowen - the #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans

And I lived through that first match.