prediction claim
The speaker speculates that after recursive self-improvement begins, AI capability or effective labor could grow 100× to 1,000× per year, through a larger AI population, greater intelligence, or both.
Dwarkesh Patel · Dylan Patel – Anthropic & OpenAI will have most of the world’s compute by 2028 · 25 Aug 2026
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“And without RSI, then once you have RSI,”
“Then”
“it's even crazier.”
“it's like maybe growing like 100x year or 1,000x year or their like intelligence is increasing but the population isn't increasing or some mixture of the two,”Play from 1:10:44Report a misattribution
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