What podcasts say about AI technological progress
Every statement, with the speaker, the exact quote and the moment it was said.
What experts have said about AI technological progress
9 statements · 7 positive · 1 negative · 1 neutral
Compute will eventually stop being the main bottleneck for AI progress.
“at some point compute stops being the bottleneck in all of these things”
Open the episode · What VCs Really Think About Personal AI Agents | E2347Listen at 17:26
AI progress and societal change will accelerate over the next six months.
“probably the next 6 months will be even crazier.”
Open the episode · OpenAI DevDay | Sam Altman, Alexander Embiricos, Andrew Ambrosino, Peter Steinberger, Tibo Sottiaux, Kath Korevec, Casey NeistatListen at 11:42
AI progress should continue accelerating.
“Yes, we want to continue accelerating.”
Open the episode · Should we slow down AI progress? | MOONSHOTS #288Listen at 29:04
AI progress will not be meaningfully slowed.
“progress in all of this will not be stopped. It won't be slowed down a jot.”
Open the episode · Frontier Labs Want to Slow Down, OpenAI Delays Its 2026 IPO, Anthropic Flags 5 Bioweapon Cases | EP #291Listen at 47:45
AI progress has already accelerated research and development relative to last year.
“I do feel confident in saying that things are going faster now than they were even a year ago because of AI progress.”
Open the episode · Noam Brown – Agent swarms, alignment, & recursive self-improvementListen at 37:56
Rapid AI progress could cause substantial job displacement and labor-market chaos.
“I think we shouldn't like if things are moving really fast, you might see a lot of people put out of jobs and then be unable to relocate if things are moving like it's going to be chaos.”
Open the episode · The Great AI Debate: Is Artificial Intelligence an Extinction Threat? Debating the True Risks of Advanced ModelsListen at 1:09:17
AI progress has been consistently underestimated, making continued underestimation a mistake.
“We have been lowballing AI progress for as long as you've been looking at it and as long as I've been looking at it. And it's probably a mistake to keep lowballing it.”
Open the episode · AI Debate Ed Zitron, Andrew McAfee, Nate Soares, Roman YampolskiyListen at 1:36:55
AI progress is primarily driven by better data and greater data-generation compute.
“The main way that AIs have been getting better is from adding more and better data and scaling the compute required to develop that data in the first place.”
Open the episode · The data black hole at the center of AIListen at 0:18
AI’s underlying technological progress will continue exponentially beyond current advanced capabilities.
“the exponential of the underlying technology will continue as it has before”
Open the episode · Dario Amodei — The highest-stakes financial model in historyListen at 1:51:42
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