Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedTrenton Bricken: belief
22 May 2025 Dwarkesh Podcast Is RL + LLMs enough for AGI? — Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken
“I think if people care about it… For these edge tasks like taxes once a year, it's so easy to just bite the bullet and do it yourself instead of implementing some system for it.”
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- Trenton Bricken
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- 22 May 2025
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
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…But I guess my question is will the pipes be connected? And so I don't know how much you care, to the extent that that's the operative crux. I think if people care about it… For these edge tasks like taxes once a year, it's so easy to just bite the bullet and do it yourself instead of implementing some system for it. Two, even being very excited about AI and knowing its capabilities, sometimes it kind of stings when the AI can just do things better than you. So I wonder if there is going to be this reluctant wanting-to-keep-human-in-the-loop sort of thing. You're evading my question. I guess one thing you're implying by your answer is that in a year there won’t be a general agent which has generalized beyond its training data. If you don't specifically train it to do taxes, it won't be good at that.…
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