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The speaker thinks AI progress could accelerate quickly once critical ideas are found, analogous to the rapid progress in molecular biology after Watson and Crick figured out DNA.
Tim Scarfe · Three Red Lines We're About to Cross Toward AGI (Daniel Kokotajlo, Gary Marcus, Dan Hendrycks) · 24 Jun 2025
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“But when we get those critical ideas,”
“they could go fast, just like molecular biology.”
“Once Watson and Crick figured out DNA,”
“things move pretty fast. In 40 years, you know, now we can do CRISPR and stuff like that.”Play from 2:02:36Report a misattribution
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