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Public recognition lags far behind actual AI progress
  • Amodei finds it 'absolutely wild' that people still debate traditional political issues while transformative AI looms
  • The exponential progress in AI capabilities continues roughly as predicted since 2017
  • Frontier models have progressed from high school to PhD-level capabilities, with coding surpassing human professionals
Dario AmodeiDwarkesh Patel00:00:55

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What has been the most surprising thing is the lack of public recognition of how close we are to the end of the exponential. Dario Amodei
To me, it is absolutely wild that you have people — within the bubble and outside the bubble — talking about the same tired, old hot-button political issues, when we are near the end of the exponential. Dario Amodei

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The End of the Exponential

Amodei argues we're nearing the end of exponential AI progress, with capabilities reaching human-level across many domains much sooner than most people expect. He discusses why public recognition lags behind technical reality.

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