"What do I think they're going to do with that?" says economics writer Noah Smith. "Fight a war. That's what it's for." ...

Dwarkesh Patel speculates on what OpenAI's ex-chief scientists Ilya Sutskever is building at his Safe Superintelligence company. ...

with more people in the world like some of them will be bad people. Al-Qaeda is people right now. Suppose there were like 10 billion AIs.Suppose the world population just increased by 10 billion and every one of those was a super well educated person, very smart, etc. Would that be net good or net bad. Just to think about the human case. I think it' be like net good cuz I think people are good with you and more people is like more good.And I think like if you had 10 extra 10 billion extra people in the worl ...

Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) OpenAI and Microsoft's tension boils as business relationship grows complex 2) Is Microsoft being anticompetitive? 3) How much money OpenAI owes Microsoft 4) Who holds the power in the relationship? 5) OpenAI discounts ChatGPT enterprise 6) New study shows using ChatGPT leads to eroding critical thinking skills 7) Does ChatGPT help or hurt education? 8) Andy Jassy says AI will replace Amazon workers 9) Is this re ...

Does it worry you that from the reporting it seems like you know these companies the AI Frontier Labs not all of them but some they've raised billions of dollars there is a pressure to deliver to investors. There are reports that safety is becoming less of a priority as market pressure makes them go and ship without the typical reviews. Yeah, I think it's definitely a concern like we might be facing a tragedy the common situation where obviously all of us want our society and civilization to survive.Look, i ...

Let's talk a little bit about the competitive side of things and like just lightning round through the the labs. People said that there's been such a talent drain out of open AI that they would no longer be able to innovate. I think Chad GPT is uh still uh the best product out there.I think using 03 is uh like we both have talked about pretty remarkable watching it go through uh different problems. Um, how have they been able to keep it up. Um, I do think 03 is the smartest model on the market right now.I a ...

I think we totally lose control over the process of training smarter AIs or letting we just like let the AIS loose. Just make a smarter version of yourself. I think we end up in a bad place.There's a bunch of arguments about why, but like you know, you're just like, who knows what could come out the other end and you've just like let it loose, right. So, by default, I would just expect something really strange to come out the other end. Maybe it'd still be economically useful in some situations, but it just ...

Dwarkesh Patel is the host of the Dwarkesh Podcast. He joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss the frontier of AI research, sharing why his timeline for AGI is a bit longer than the most enthusiastic researchers. Tune in for a candid discussion of the limitations of current methods, why AI continuous improvement might help the technology reach AGI, and what an intelligence explosion looks like. We also cover the race between AI labs, the dangers of AI deception, and AI sycophancy. Tune in for a deep discuss ...

Something about the water on Long Island that makes everybody crazy. So, I'll I'll evaluate you at the end of this and I'll determine if you're as nuts as the rest of us. We're close to New York City, but we're not quite in New York City.So, we know we have access to the show, but we know we're not part of it, and that makes us angry. Is that your Long Island. I don't see you that way already.You're giving off a vibe of a comfortable outsider. So, there are uncomfortable outsiders that are angry, but then t ...

Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) Sam Altman's 'Gentle Singularity' essay 2) Is Altman overhyping the technology's current capabilities 3) Why the next few years may see crazy AI development 4) The case for and against humanoid robots 5) OpenAI's o3 pro model and the value of tool use 6) Meta's acquihire-zition of ScaleAI and founder Alexandr Wang 7) The case for the move and the rationale behind Zuck's aggressiveness 8) MetaAI posts 'private' co ...