Lex Fridman: belief

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…Absolutely. That’s what makes it so successful. When we had to painstakingly hard code in everything, we didn’t have much progress. Now, just spend more money on more compute and it’s a lot more capable. Then the question is when there is emergent intelligent phenomena, what is the ceiling of that? For you, there’s no ceiling. For Yann LeCun, I think there’s a ceiling that happens that we have full control over. Even if we don’t understand the internals of the emergence, how the emergence happens, there’s a sense that we have control and an understanding of the approximate ceiling of capability, the limits of the capability. Let’s say there is a ceiling. It’s not guaranteed to be at the level which is competitive with us. It may be greatly superior to ours.…

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