4 sources healthy · latest episode 9 Nov 2026
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The speaker identifies as the only hope that deep learning cannot produce AI capable of dominating human research and development, including the creation of new paradigms.

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“The only hope really is if deep learning just can't get us to an AI,”
“which is at least.”
“can dominate human research and human development including the human ability to come up with new paradigms and so forth or like i don't know maybe human maybe humans would also never have discovered the the next learning architecture but um to the extent human sort of discovered it eventually but it just seems like i don't know if if you just look at the progress this happens in 2012 till now”
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