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Holden Karnofsky - Transformative AI & Most Important Century

Dwarkesh Podcast

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The Hardest Things to Automate in AI

In general, I see the progress in AI as being mostly on the software front, not the hardware front. It might just be that even if an AI system has all the same intellectual capabilities as a human, it doesn't look like a human. And we aren't seeing the same kind of progress there. So some of this stuff I think is very counterintuitive, but I could imagine worlds where you get really wacky stuff before you get self driving cars out on the road.

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