Transcript: ‘What It Will Mean to Be Human When AI Can Do Everything’

The transcript of AI & I with Edwin Chen, founder and CEO of Surge AI, is below. Watch on X or YouTube, or listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.

Timestamps

1. Introduction: 00:00:54
2. Surge as a “school for AGI”: 00:01:49
3. What AI’s capacity for novel mathematics says about human achievement: 00:04:46
4. Motivation in an era when AI can do everything: 00:07:29
5. The trap of optimizing AI models for engagement: 00:14:34
6. Training using datasets versus training using environments: 00:29:34
7. The value of personal data: 00:35:09
8. Why models are bad at writing: 00:39:40
9. Chen’s AGI timeline: 00:42:00

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