Lex Fridman Podcast / episode intelligence
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32 published records
01 / belief
“The fact it is the first technology will dramatically accelerate creation itself, like creating things, building new things, can improve and achieve things on its own, I think puts it in a different.”
02 / belief
“The big unlock will be as we make the agentic capabilities much more robust, right? I think that’s what unlocks that next big wave.”
03 / belief
“Look, if you can use these tools to generate better code, I think that’s an asset.”
04 / belief
“I forget the full list that’s on there. But I think that’s so far from the human experience that my intuition about, let’s say productivity multipliers of those particular inventions completely breaks down, and a different framework is needed to understand the impact of these inventions of evolution.”
05 / belief
“We have it set up to translate from Russian to English. I think I get to wear the glasses and you speak to me, if you don’t mind.”
06 / belief
“I think the big thing is that it makes it accessible. It unlocks the cognitive capabilities of the entire 8 billion.”
07 / belief
“Trying to get yourself in a position where you’re working with people who you feel are stretching your abilities is what helps you grow, I think, so putting yourself in uncomfortable situations.”
08 / belief
“I think one of the good insights here has been as the models are getting more capable, the models are really good at this stuff.”
09 / belief
“Both the right new questions to ask and the answers to them and the self-discovery process, which it’ll drive, I think.”
10 / belief
“Look, I think [inaudible 01:48:19] the essence of humanity, there’s something about the consciousness we have, what makes us uniquely human, maybe the lines will blur over time.”
11 / belief
“When the internet created blogs, you heard from so many more people. But with AI, I think that number won’t be in the few hundreds of thousands.”
12 / belief
“We are pretty committed to it, right? So I think making sure that ecosystem, in fact, I think we’ll be able to differentiate ourselves as a company over time because of our commitment there.”
13 / belief
“I think even for a large code base that’s touching a lot of users like Google’s does, I’m imagining, very soon, that productivity should be going up even more.”
14 / belief
“I agree. Think about 40 years ago, maybe in the US there were five people who could do what you were doing.”
15 / belief
“Like, I think about transportation, the opportunity space, the Waymo driver is a general purpose technology we can apply in many situations.”
16 / belief
“I think there is also the obvious thing of maybe it helps us understand the universe better in a way that expands the frontiers of our understanding of the world.”
17 / belief
“I think on the personal level, asking questions about yourself, a sequence of questions like that about what makes me happy, I think we would be very surprised to learn through a sequence of questions and answers, we might explore some profound truths in a way that sometimes art reveals to us, great books reveal to us, great conversations with loved ones reveal.”
18 / observation
“I would have to go all the way to the hospital to get blood test records, and it would take two hours to go and they would say, “Sorry, it’s not ready.”
19 / evaluation
“As leaders, you’re making a lot of decisions, many of them are inconsequential it feels like, but over time you learn that most of the decisions you’re making on a day-to-day basis doesn’t matter.”
20 / uncertainty
“Of course, the argument is the journalists are still valuable, but then, I don’t know, the crowdsourced journalism that we get on the open internet is also very, very powerful.”
21 / belief
“I lead the Google Beam team and we’re going to be excited to show you a demo. We’re going to show you, I think, a glimpse of something new.”
22 / belief
“I agree with you totally. I’m truly grateful to be alive in this moment. And I’m also really excited for the future, and the work you and the incredible teams here are doing is one of the big reasons I’m excited for the future.”
23 / prediction
“We expect to have classes in the hands of developers later this year and in consumer science next year.”
24 / preference
“I think, for me, I’ve been asking just a much larger number of questions of this black box machine, let’s say, whatever it is, and with the AI overview, it’s interesting because I still value the human… I still ultimately want to end up on the human created web, but like you said, the context really helps.”
25 / prediction
“We will see a lot more progress in the next couple of years as I think AI itself on a self-improving track for UI itself.”
26 / evaluation
“A little bit scary that it might change the internet because Google has been dominating with a very specific look and idea of what it means to have the internet.”
27 / evaluation
“AdSense revolutionized advertisement. It’s one of the greatest inventions in recent history because it allows us, for free, to have access to all these kinds of services.”
28 / preference
“On the podcasting front, I’m a fan of podcasts much more than I am a fan of being a host or whatever.”
29 / evaluation
“Because of that, I think I’m optimistic on the p(doom) scenarios, but that doesn’t mean I think the underlying risk is actually pretty high.”
30 / prediction
“I don’t think we’ll quite get there by 2030, so my sense is it’s slightly after that, but I would stress it doesn’t matter what that definition is because you will have mind-blowing progress on many dimensions.”
31 / evaluation
“Like, now, across the company, we’ve accomplished a 10% engineering velocity increase using AI, but we plan to hire more engineers next year, right?”
32 / commitment
“I think that’s going to be an important value we have, so I think we will provide tools and put it in the hands of artists for them to use and put out their work.”