https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/12/podcasts/transcript-ezra-klein-interviews-dario-amodei.html
Amodei believes we’re just getting started, that we’re just hitting the steep part of the curve now. He thinks the kinds of systems we’ve imagined in sci-fi, they’re coming not in 20 or 40 years, not in 10 or 15 years, they’re coming in two to five years. He thinks they’re going to be so powerful that he and people like him should not be trusted to decide what they’re going to do.
There’s a lot take away from this interview, but the only note I made was this:
One of the biggest challenges we face with AI is that it does the hard parts of thinking for you. It writes the first draft when you’re staring at the blank page. It reads the hard paper and summarises it for you at an easier level. It removes the challenges that you may not enjoy, but that you need to overcome in order to keep improving.