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Carl Shulman: belief

14 Jun 2023 Dwarkesh Podcast Carl Shulman (Pt 1) — Intelligence explosion, primate evolution, robot doublings, & alignment

“I think that that is one of the ways in which partial automation can fail to really translate into a lot of economic value.”

— Carl Shulman

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Speaker
Carl Shulman
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
14 Jun 2023
Publisher
Dwarkesh Podcast

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…Yeah. Why is that not a good objection? I think that that is one of the ways in which partial automation can fail to really translate into a lot of economic value. That's something that will attenuate as we go on and as the AI is more able to work independently and more able to handle its own screw-ups and get more reliable. But the way in which it becomes more reliable is by AI progress speeding up which happens if AI can contribute to it but if there is some reliability bottleneck that prevents it from contributing to that progress then you don't have the loop, right?…

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