Alex Wissner-Gross

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"I think Opus 5.5 goes a long way to repairing what I've perceived as deficits in Anthropic's models to think about and visually reason."

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"I think, Peter, you and I are both still waiting for our 1X Neo domestic humanoid robots."

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"Thank you, Peter Woit, for popularizing 'not even wrong.'"

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"OpenAI had Sora, dropped it. We've seen other smaller American players develop their own video generation models, but Google is the largest credible remaining American resource for video generation."

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"I think probably everyone here saw the Johnny Depp movie Transcendence, which to my knowledge is the only recent movie that actually does depict a self-replicating data center... It's a pretty sci-fi cool depiction."

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"If you look a little bit more closely on Artificial Analysis, they do a chart measuring the intelligence index versus cost per task by model release. And that one I think is especially striking and instructive."

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"I would argue that was an AGI. GPT-3. I would argue that was an AGI"

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"There was a mini demand shock, more speculative than anything else, from an earlier DeepSeek model, but we've never really seen a strong discontinuity demand shock."

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"I had read in 2000, 2001-ish Vernor Vinge's short story called, I think it was actually called, Win a Nobel Prize, exclamation point. It was published in the Futures column in Nature."

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"Charlie Stross, best British, arguably Scottish I should say, sci-fi author, wrote an entire short story about this called Antibodies. Without spoiling it, the premise is what if AI or progress cause a complexity hierarchy collapse? What does that do to civilization?"

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"I had also read his novel A Deepness in the Sky, and both of them focused on the sci-fi scenario of humans developing electromagnetically actuatable brain proteins. So I had read both of Vernor's pieces and I was very inspired."

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"Starship and its predecessors have brought online an enormous amount of upmass capacity, and all of the existing markets for upmass aren't enough now to saturate what Starship enables."

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"Although I'd love my Figure, and I'm sure 1X Neo, all of these other things that we're on the waiting list for, would love all of these for domestic purposes."

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"Startup Typesafe announces a model called Jev, and Jev they market as so-called system one intelligence... you can ask it to answer in the form of a categorical... And turns out that's a great idea."

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"We talk on the pod all the time about the nanoGPT speedrun world record collapsing... a collapse from like 60 or 70 seconds down to something like 40 seconds."

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"Neuralink just announced their first scaling law studies on pre-training foundation models off of Neuralink electrode data."

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"I'm reminded that in Star Trek Discovery, dots are like... the writers of Star Trek Discovery tried to resolve that in part by retconning in robots. So they retconned in robots called dots."

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"Greg Brockman put out Codex very early and for whatever reason they didn't recognize what a huge deal that could have been"

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"GPT 5.4 turned up to maximum reasoning capability, we're seeing finally math is cooked. 38% of all these problems that are high difficulty professional mathematician research level problems are now solvable by AI"

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"humanity's largest social networking company acquires the largest AI agent social network"