Aravind Srinivas: observation

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…That would be a cool moment when an AI publicly demonstrates a really new perspective on a truth, a discovery of a truth, of a novel truth. Yeah. Elon’s trying to figure out how to go to Mars and obviously redesigned from Falcon to Starship. If an AI had given him that insight when he started the company itself said, “Look, Elon, I know you’re going to work hard on Falcon, but you need to redesign it for higher payloads and this is the way to go. ” That sort of thing will be way more valuable. And it doesn’t seem like it’s easy to estimate when it will happen. All we can say for sure is it’s likely to happen at some point. There’s nothing fundamentally impossible about designing system of this nature. And when it happens, it’ll have incredible, incredible impact. That’s true. Yeah. If you have high power thinkers like Elon or I imagine when I’ve had conversation with Ilya Sutskever like just talking about any topic, the ability to think through a thing, I mean, you mentioned PhD student, we can just go to that. But to have an AI system that can legitimately be an assistant to Ilya Sutskever or Andrej Karpathy when they’re thinking through an idea.…

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