4 sources healthy · latest episode 9 Nov 2026
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The speaker says there is currently nowhere enough money to build the large number of AIs needed to work on difficult problems at a level comparable to humanity.

Richard Socher · Humanity’s Last Invention — Richard Socher of Recursive · 14 Sep 2026

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“on that substrate like are close and similar to human intelligence like and you want like you know thousands and thousands of ai's to think about really hard problems uh in a similar fashion to humanity like yeah that that's you know that's a lot of money to do the math it's like a lot we don't have that amount of money right now anywhere to like build that um now obviously things can get more efficient you will have i think soon better algorithms that won't be and better hardware that won't be”
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