Sam Almond recently said that the pace is going to decelerate because we've exhausted the size of the sample trick and we're going to find new stuff. He has two colleagues, Greg Bratman and Ilya Sutskiever, who were respectively the head of engineering and CTO of OpenAI. They have given many, actually several interesting YouTube talks that are available on YouTube.
Marc Andreessen thinks AI will make everything better--if only we get out of the way. He argues that in every aspect of human activity, our ability to understand, synthesize, and generate knowledge results in better outcomes. Listen as the entrepreneur and venture capitalist speaks with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about AI's potential to improve the world and why those who fear that AI will destroy humanity are wildly over-reacting.