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9 Jan 2025 Dwarkesh Podcast Tyler Cowen — The #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans
“I don't remember what I thought in what month, but I would say on the whole, I see more potential in AI than I did a year ago.”
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- Tyler Cowen
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- 9 Jan 2025
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
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…I interviewed you nine months ago, and I was asking you about AI then. I think your attitude was like, "Eh." How has your attitude changed since we talked nine months ago? I don't remember what I thought in what month, but I would say on the whole, I see more potential in AI than I did a year ago. I think it has made progress more quickly than I had been expecting, and I was pretty bullish on it back then. The 01 model, to me, is very impressive. I think further extensions in that direction will make a big, big difference. The rate at which they come is hard to say, but it's something we have, and we just have to make it better. You showed me your document of different questions that you came up with for 01 for economic reasoning.…
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