Podcast

AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement

“We're nowhere near the ceiling.”

Sep 11 • Dwarkesh Patel

1:37:01

Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face

"This might be the clearest warning shot we ever get."

Sep 1 • Dwarkesh Patel

2:20:32

The rise and fall of agent civilizations

The OpenAI/Hugging Face attack, clearly explained

Aug 31 • Dwarkesh Patel

24:40

Dylan Patel – Anthropic & OpenAI will have most of the world’s compute by 2028

"Every force is screeching towards centralization."

Aug 25 • Dwarkesh Patel

1:16:52

Ryan Greenblatt – What happens once AI can automate AI research?

A debate about recursive self-improvement.

Aug 11 • Dwarkesh Patel

2:12:31

Adam Brown – A deep but accessible introduction to general relativity

And why black holes are the ultimate power plants.

Jul 10 • Dwarkesh Patel

1:38:24

Grant Sanderson – AI and the future of math

Math is where we’ll see superintelligence first. What will it look like?

Jun 30 • Dwarkesh Patel

1:33:39

Ada Palmer – Machiavelli is the most misunderstood thinker of all time

"He begged to work for the regime that tortured him."

Jun 16 • Dwarkesh Patel

2:08:20

Alex Imas and Phil Trammell – What remains scarce after AGI?

“One robot now turns into many robots next year, but the number of ballerinas is the same.”

Jun 4 • Dwarkesh Patel

1:16:08

Reiner Pope – Chip design from the bottom up

Working up from basic logic gates to why GPUs, TPUs, FPGAs, and the human brain each look the way they do.

May 22 • Dwarkesh Patel

1:20:30

Eric Jang – Building AlphaGo from scratch

AlphaGo is still the cleanest worked example of the primitives of intelligence: search, learning from experience, and self-play.

May 15 • Dwarkesh Patel

2:37:29

David Reich – Why the Bronze Age was an inflection point in human evolution

"Instead of being quiescent, natural selection is everywhere."

May 8 • Dwarkesh Patel

2:13:19

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