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Published · transcript-backedTyler Cowen: evaluation
9 Jan 2025 Dwarkesh Podcast Tyler Cowen — The #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans
“I don't think AIs are that funny yet. They're better on humor than many people allege, but I don't use them for humor.”
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- Tyler Cowen
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- evaluation
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- 9 Jan 2025
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
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…What part of your persona will be least captured by the AIs if they're only going by your writing? I think I should ask that as a question to you. What's your answer? I don't think AIs are that funny yet. They're better on humor than many people allege, but I don't use them for humor. It's interesting that you learn so much about a person when you're interviewing them for a job or for Emergent Ventures. You can read their application, but just in the first 10 minutes, their vibe—three minutes, but yes. Whatever's going on there that's so informative, the AIs won't have, just from the writing.…
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