AI Safety, The China Problem, LLMs & Job Displacement - Dwarkesh Patel - #979
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What do you think that we've realized about human learning and human intelligence from architecting AI intelligence? Hmm. There's this really interesting thing we've seen where these AI models are making progress first in the domains that we think of as the archetype of the the where humans have their primacy, right? So if you look at um Aristotle, what does he say?
What what makes humans unique? Well, it's reasoning. Humans can reason, other animals can't. And what these models, these AI models, they're just not that useful if you've tried to use them for your work. They're useful in certain domains, but broadly, they're just not widely deployable.
What is the one thing that they can do? They can reason. Um, they but they obviously they uh they can't carry a cup of water, right? Robotics isn't solved. They they can't even like do a job, they can't even do a white-collar job.
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