Dwarkesh Patel is a writer, researcher & podcaster.
The rise of AI marks the next great technological revolution, one that could reshape every aspect of our lives in just a few years. But how close are we to its golden age? And what warnings does the global AI race hold about the double-edged nature of progress?
Expect to learn what Dwarkesh has realised about human learning and human intelligence from architecting AI learning, if AGI is right around the corner and how far away it might be, if most Job Displacement Predictions right or wrong, why recent studies show that tools such as ChatGPT make our brains less active and our writing less original, what Dwarkesh’s favourite answer to AI’s creativity question, what he biggest things about America/West that China doesn’t understand, the best bull case for AI growth ahead and much more…
Mentioned Books
- Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
- Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
- Mind Children by Hans Moravec
- Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence by Hans Moravec
- Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
- Originality is Undetected Plagiarism by William James (Essay)
- Situational Awareness by Leopold Aschenbrenner (Essay)
- Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom
- The 2 Sigma Problem: Searching for Group Methods as Effective as One-to-One Tutoring by Benjamin Bloom (Essay)
- The April Understudy Universe by Steve Stuart Williams
- The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin
- The E-Myth Revisited by Michael E. Gerber
- The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating by David Buss
- The Will to Believe by William James (Essay)