Lex Fridman: commitment

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…I think the younger generation is always really creative and enthusiastic and inventive. It’s a pleasure working with young students. The progress of science tells us that the problems that used to be really difficult can become trivial to solve. Like navigation, just knowing where you work on the planet was this horrendous problem. People died or lost fortunes because they couldn’t navigate. And we have devices in our pockets that do this automatically for us, like it is a completely solved problem. So things that seem unfeasible for us now, could be maybe just homework exercises. Yeah. One of the things I find really sad about the finiteness of life is that I won’t get to see all the cool things we create as a civilization because in the next 100 years, 200 years, just imagine showing up in 200 years. Yeah, well, already plenty has happened. If you could go back in time and talk to your teenage self or something, the internet and now AI, again, they’re getting to internalize and yeah, of course, AI can understand our voice and give reasonable slightly incorrect answers to any question. But yeah, this was mind-blowing even two years ago.…

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