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The speaker argues that language models should be judged more negatively for failing to make discoveries of this kind, since humans have demonstrated the ability to do so.
Dwarkesh Patel · AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo · 3 Apr 2025
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“You have a blog where you do this. This is your job, Scott.”
“So why shouldn't we hold the fact that language models can't do this more against them?”Play from 17:06Report a misattribution
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