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ChatGPT, Obesity Drugs, Exoplanet Images, and Medical Miracles: The Most Amazing Breakthroughs of 2022

Plain English with Derek Thompson

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Is It Superhuman Performance or Subhuman Performance?

I think about AI in sort of a two by two matrix, right? Or two dimensions. One is superhuman performance and the other is economically useful or not. So we have chess AIs that are superhuman performance but not economically useful. Whereas something like writing or art potentially could be useful even if it's subhuman performance. And I'm really interested insort of like the,. the economically useful and, and superhuman performance quadrant of that. The ability to actually start designing things by placing atoms exactly where we want them to be would be revolutionary for humanity.

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