Neel Nanda on Math, Tech Progress, Aging, Living up to Our Values, and Generative AI
Future of Life Institute Podcast
Is There a Future for AI?
I do not at all keep up with the field of AI theorem proving, but I gather it's moving pretty fast and going in interesting directions. But one of the depressing things about AI is it gets better a lot faster than humans get better. If you find doing comets fun and you're afraid that mathematicians are going to be outdated in 20 years, I'll keep you doing more maths now before you're made obsolete. OK, what do you think are the key drivers of technological progress? This does not feel like a thing that I have unique answers on. Human capital, new ideas, good social structures, like property rights and incentives for innovation to get people to do things.
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