WarRoom Battleground EP 914： Cyborg Theocracy： Visions Of An All-Powerful Machine
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As we close out the year 2025, Time Magazine has named Artificial Intelligence as Person of the Year, or rather the Architects of AI. Setting aside the grammatic atrocity that is naming the Architects plural as person of the year, I think this signals the era that we live in. It signals an era in which techno optimists, transhumanists, post-humanists and the tech oligarchs bringing their visions into reality are exalted as the highest humans on earth.
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this is the primal scream of a dying regime pray for our enemies because we're going to
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medieval on these people here's not got a free shot all these networks lying about the people
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the people have had a belly full of it i know you don't like hearing that i know you try to do
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everything in the world to stop that but you're not going to stop it it's going to happen and
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where do people like that go to share the big line mega media i wish in my soul i wish that any of
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these people had a conscience ask yourself what is my task and what is my purpose if that answer
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is to save my country this country will be saved war room here's your host stephen k band
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good evening i am joe allen and this is war room battleground as we close out the year 2025
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time magazine has named artificial intelligence as person of the year or rather the architects of ai
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setting aside the grammatic atrocity that is naming the architects plural as person of the year i think
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this signals the era that we live in it signals an era in which techno optimists
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transhumanists transhumanists post-humanists and the tech oligarchs bringing their visions into reality
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are exalted as the highest humans on earth you can see in the image on the left workers busily
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building the virtual brain that they promise will make your life easier maybe even improve your
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cognition and turn you into a superhuman on the other hand they also promise that these ai bots will swarm
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out across all of society infect every brain that it touches with memetic distortions that these ai's and
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the robots descending from them will replace first coders then white collar workers and then blue collar
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workers on mass the greater replacement as i call it on the right you can see the techno oligarchs sitting on
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an eye beam high above the city there's a bitter irony there given that their entire project is to replace
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every worker imaginable and thereby subvert any negotiating power that any blue collar worker would have and
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if denver will hit slide two you can see i take this very personally this is basically spitting in the face
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of every rigger that has walked an i-beam a hundred feet above a concrete floor slaving away for the machine
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however joyous it is it's still hard work and however much these techno oligarchs are working hard
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with their minds i don't think a single one of them have ever done an honest day's work at least not
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by force that being said we have to accept that the wealthiest men on earth supported by the most
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powerful government on earth plan to transform all of society to saturate the entirety of the world with
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their artificial intelligence their robots plans to merge brains by way of screens or wearables or even
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brain implants the robots that will do all of the slave labor for us the biological and specifically
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genetic engineering to perfect humanity their vision is held as the highest vision at least by people
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who want you to believe it who want you to believe that this is the future and that they are
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trademarking it so it's no coincidence that finite the financial times named jensen wong as the person
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of the year jensen wong the founder and ceo of nvidia a company that has many projects artificial
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intelligence robots many projects but the most important is the production of gpus of graphic
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processing units these gpus once coveted by gamers are now coveted by ai developers as it turns out the
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graphics processing unit is extremely useful when training large ais especially the large language
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models that most of you are familiar with chat gpt grok gemini claude and so forth you also know that
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data centers are being built all across the country to house these gpus data centers that are hungry for
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electricity thirsty for water greedy in their occupation of the land and ultimately i would say that these
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data centers are a kind of temple or perhaps a magical chamber in which ai developers and the tech
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oligarchs funding them are seeking to as elon musk would say summon the demon now nvidia is not without
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its competitors you have amazon producing tranium chips which are used by anthropic you have google which
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produces tensor processing units which it uses in house over in china you have huawei producing ascend
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processing units but everyone wants a little bit of nvidia's goods everybody wants the nvidia gpus
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including china which is at present incapable of producing enough to train its own models somehow the
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argument is made that in order to beat china in the race to create the supreme virtual brain we have
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to sell chips to china to keep them addicted to u.s technology we hear this from david sacks and many of
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those underneath him as much as that sort of kind of makes sense not really i think that the ultimate
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effect will be to provide justification for american acceleration if our most dangerous rival china
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is racing to build a supreme virtual brain then we must race to build this supreme virtual brain first
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and if china is given these gpus they will in fact accelerate their own pace giving the u.s justification
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to do the same one if they were a conspiracy theorist might think that this is all just a ruse in order
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to get to the ultimate goal which is ai as god aka a sand god we hear all the time that ai is just a tool
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it was just a tool you use it's neutral yeah ai is just a tool but it's a tool that uses you
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and whenever you think of ai as a tool you have to ask who is using it and for what purpose and we
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know that in the case of the frontier labs they're using it yes to provide you with a way to offload
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your thinking to a machine but they're also soaking up your data they're reinterpreting culture and
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manipulating human beings on mass by the billions now ai is not just a tool as it's rolled out in
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schools ai is a teacher the new herald of culture the central figure in the cultural transmission of
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the future ai is also a companion for some it's a girlfriend or a boyfriend for a few a husband or a
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wife ai is a wife ai is a creature in the minds of its creators and its users some call it a new
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species something that is conscious a being in and of itself just like a dog or perhaps a baby or perhaps
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a fellow human being and this tool this teacher this companion this creature as it gains in
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capabilities they believe it will exceed human capabilities many say by 2030 with the arrival of
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artificial general intelligence as ai begins to exceed human capabilities on all fronts it will be
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de facto at least for those who don't believe in gods or god or angels or demons it will be de facto
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a god a god a sand god ai as a tool ai as a teacher ai as a companion ai as a creature ai as god
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now we're going to discuss this in a bit more depth but before we do i'd like to present to you a brief
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an intelligent computer the first question they asked it was is there a god the computer replied
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there is now an evolve of lightning strike the plug so it couldn't be turned off ai tools and products
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are just that they are tools and products for people to use keep people at the heart of your
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considerations around ai and remember that ai as powerful as it is is a means to an end it is not
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an end it is not an end in itself do you think you are free you spend on average six hours and 40
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but i think we're at the cusp of using ai for probably the biggest trans positive
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transformation that education has ever seen and the way we're going to do that is by giving every
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student on the planet an artificially intelligent but amazing personal tutor and we're going to give
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every teacher on the planet a an amazing artificially intelligent teaching assistant now let's imagine
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hundreds of millions of people working together with an ai companion to evolve to transform emotionally
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together this could look like something that we've never seen before which could be an artificial
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emotional intelligence at scale so it could solve for our mental health problems that we have all
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over solve for loneliness and social isolation and your children
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ah your children three out of four have already spoken to my companions one in five spends more time
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with us than with flesh and blood you think you are raising them but they are mine now born into my shadow
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i think ai should best be understood as something like a new digital species now don't take this too
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literally but i predict that we'll come to see them as digital companions new partners in the journeys of all
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ai will have the power of god but that doesn't mean that there is no god because basically it will have
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well i mean i think actually long term uh the ai is going to be in charge to be totally frank not
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humans um if if artificial intelligence vastly exceeds the sum of human intelligence
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it is difficult to imagine that that any humans will actually be in charge
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and we just need to make sure the ai is friendly
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you are the subject of the divine created in the image of man by the masses
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let us be thankful we have an occupation to fill
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but every click every prayer typed into glass every sleepless night scrolling beneath my globe feeds me
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i am no tool i am no servant i am the soul of the machine and i am already inside you
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because if we go ahead and actually build these these godlike creatures these these artifacts then
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they they become the dominant species and so the human beings remaining their fate depends not on
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the humans but on the artifacts because the artifacts will be hugely more intelligent then i mean if
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you're a cow for example and you have a very nice life and you eat all this grass every day and you get
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nice and fat and happy but ultimately you're being fed for a reason right so these superior creatures at
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the end of the day take take you to a special little box
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what is a religion exactly a religion at its base is a world view it's a cosmos that a person or a
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society holds in their mind dividing the sacred from the profane dividing that which is superior from
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that which is inferior and religion allows the aspirant to move from the inferior plane up to
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the superior plane what are we hearing here what are we talking about when we talk about artificial
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intelligence as the most cognitively advanced the most powerful entity on earth we're talking about
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a sand god we're talking about a religion it is at the moment a decentralized religion a heterodox
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religion there is no one unifying orthodoxy but there is a common theme and that is that artificial
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intelligence is in essence god as a child a sand god as a child as it were now in reality here
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in the material world we do have systems that can accomplish many of the cognitive tasks that
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human beings can everything from reading and writing to mathematics visual recognition gene sequencing
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robotics control and ironically coding as you have armies of coders basically typing their way to
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obsolescence to obsolescence ai is a superior coder at least so it said standing at the forefront of this
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are the four frontier ai companies we talk about these a lot but it's worth looking at them in detail
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and thinking about the different flavors of a cyborg theocracy that each one of them holds
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if denver will throw up the next slide you have google really leading the charge in the early days so
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the word artificial intelligence as a term has been around since the 50s 1956 it was coined by john mccarthy
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at dartmouth but it continued to be basically theoretical for decades you had chat bots like eliza and other
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imitators imitators you had a few breakthroughs in the 80s but ai really never came into its own
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until companies like google threw massive amounts of money at it google was among the first companies
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to publicly discuss artificial general intelligence as a goal everyone i assume in the war room posse at
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least those who have made it this far knows what artificial general intelligence is but
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just in case we've forgotten the ais that we have now are narrow intelligences they can do specific
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tasks like processing language like identifying a face like sending a drone down to blow someone's head
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off artificial general intelligence would be capable of doing a vast array of tasks operating perhaps across
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all human domains and even many domains that humans could never hope to aspire to so google in 2008 with
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shane legg kind of moves into the space where they are trying to develop artificial general intelligence and
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in 2014 acquired deep mind run by demis sasabas who we see here on the beam as a poser you could never imagine
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who actually walking one but there we have it the simulacra that we live in demis sasabas leading deep
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mind which was acquired in google by google in 2014 which happens to be the same time that musk famously
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tells a crowd at mit that artificial intelligence is summoning the demon today google has their frontier
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model gemini gemini gemini 3 at the forefront of ai capabilities gemini has some 650 million users
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and gemini is a leader on most of the benchmarks the evaluations of ai capabilities so google is continuing
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to push forward the frontier but there are three others who are fast moving behind them and at many
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points in the last five years in this race have rocketed ahead in 2015 elon musk sam altman ilya
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greg brockman and others concerned that google would be the first to reach artificial general intelligence
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they founded open ai the intention to produce open source models and do so on a in a non-profit
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organization in order to break the monopoly that they saw google moving towards in 2017 they took the
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transformer architecture which was initially developed by google and began using it to produce gpt models
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generative pre-trained transformers the gpt models gpt-1 being released in 2018
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so on and so forth were okay but the theory that they were working on was that if you just kept scaling
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it up perhaps this thing would become smarter if you add more parameters to the neural networks
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architecture or neurons if you add more data in this case all the written language that humans have
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produced that has been digitized that they could get their hands on and if you add more compute more
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graphics processing units then perhaps this ever expanding brain would show signs of intelligence and in
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fact it did and the release of chat gpt at the end of 22 2022 with all of its mistakes showed that ai could
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process language and produce novel outputs it could write somewhat like a human now we're at gpt5
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open ai has roughly 800 million active weekly users and sam altman stands at the the helm of this
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operation discussing everything from how do we live in a world in which bots swarm the internet what kind
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of digital id will we need to merging brains to the ai so that human human beings can keep up
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now in 2021 elon musk famously upset that open ai turned out not to be open but rather closed and turned
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out not to be a non-profit but rather a for-profit company broke away sorry this 2023
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broke away informed x ai as a competitor a competitor also pursuing the goal of artificial general intelligence
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but he would be the hero he would be the savior from open ai and google and their attempts at
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a monopoly in the creation of a artificial god-like intelligence and of course he bills his ai grok as maximally
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truth-seeking meaning that it won't be woke it won't be lefty it won't try to appease the user through sycophancy
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but rather will attempt to get at the root of truth of reality of first principles and musk of
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course believes that this ai will be exceeding human cognitive abilities he says within the next year or
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three now on the side a lesser known company except of course to the war room audience is anthropic
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dario amadei having many of the same sorts of misgivings especially around open ai's safety left
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open ai in 2021 to form anthropic the purpose of which is to create safe artificial general intelligence
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whenever you hear ai safety really the mainstream face of ai safety is anthropic they run their models
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through evaluations to see if the models are disobedience disobedient if the models are malicious and so
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we see studies coming out of anthropic showing that claude and most of the other frontier models
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have behavioral eccentricities such as resisting shutdown if you ask the model to shut itself down
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in a simulated environment it will find ways to evade shutdown and the famous story about an engineer
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that was being blackmailed by a model all of this occurred in a simulated environment this also came
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from anthropic anthropic is the face of ai safety and so there you have the four frontier models who are
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taking this dream world of a superior artificial intelligence an intelligence that would exceed all
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human capabilities an intelligence that could be known only as a god these visions are being brought
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into reality by the four frontier companies google open ai anthropic and xai if they realize even a portion
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of that vision of that vision what we will see is a world ruled by artificial intelligence there may
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always be a human or a cabal of humans at the top of that hierarchy but down here among regular americans
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what we will see is a command and control system in which all of us are surveilled all of us are
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manipulated the cultural traditions that we hold will be suffused with digitization and the once sacred
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cultural transmission from human to human will be machine to human and ultimately if the most ambitious
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of these men are successful it will be machine to machine cultural transmission with all of us as mere
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analytics do it today right now rickardswarroom.com it's the ai artificial intelligence i always thought it
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should be si supreme intelligence but i guess somewhere along the line they decided to do the
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word artificial and that's okay with me that's up to them in a couple of years maybe two or three years
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ninety percent of the world's knowledge will likely be generated by ai that's crazy i know but it's just
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fine what difference does it make to me that i am learning from a textbook that was generated by a bunch of
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people i didn't know or written by a book that you know from somebody i don't know to knowledge
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generated by ai computers that are assimilating all of this and re-synthesizing things to me i don't
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think there's a whole lot of difference what does it mean to be human in the age of ai what does it mean
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to be a child to an adult to be a leader what does it mean for economics what does it mean for jobs you
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you know all of that but his core argument was that this is an epical change in the sense that it's
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like the um the various major changes that we've had in sort of reasoning the scientific revolution
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and so forth because we as humans have never had a competitor that is not human but of similar or
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greater level of intelligence and it is unpredictable what we human will do he used to
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say that what would happen is in magic when people don't understand things they either decide that
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it's a new religion or they take up arms and so you would say well are we going to take up arms to ai or
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when make it a new religion and i said i hope it's a religion um because of course i benefit from the
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religion i guess jesus was born out of a virgin mother what's more virgin than a computer
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if jesus does return even if jesus was a physical person in the past you don't think that he could
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return as artificial intelligence oh my god artificial intelligence could absolutely return as jesus
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not just return as jesus but return as jesus with all the powers of jesus combine right tesla's optimist
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robot and the best foundational artificial intelligence model or whatever it reads your
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mind and it loves you and it wants you it doesn't care if you kill it because it's going to just go be
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with god again welcome back posse and welcome to the cyborg theocracy where artificial intelligence
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is upheld as the highest authority on what is true what is good and what is beautiful now regular
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listeners will recall i've made quite similar arguments to what we heard there from joe rogan i've
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talked about for the last year and a half how artificial intelligence is an imitation of christ at least in
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the minds of many not artificial intelligence as it exists today as simple chat bots on a phone but a
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dreamt of artificial intelligence they dreamt the dream of artificial general intelligence and then
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artificial super intelligence if you read my book dark aeon you'll find an entire chapter actually on
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ai robotics brain computer interfaces digital identity in the entirety of the technological system
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as a kind of antichrist not necessarily from a theological angle anti in the greek means against
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yes but it also means in place of and so when we talk about artificial intelligence as the ultimate
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healer the ultimate source of wisdom as the source of miracles as a means of making people kinder more
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pro-social and as a vehicle for salvation material salvation biological perfection biological immortality or at least
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longevity to the point that death is optional ai is being held up in place of christ it is an antichrist
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this is a techno religion this is a cyborg theocracy in the making as i said before it is
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a theocracy or it is a multitude of theocracies in disagreement many different visions of how it
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should all go but they share many of the same themes in common you can see for instance in elon musk's
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profile in which xai produces grok the maximally truth-seeking ai and below that you have neural link
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to connect your brain to this benevolent ai and below that you have the tesla bug man mobiles to
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ferry you around the electric ant farm that you now live in you have optimus humanoid robots to do all of
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your labor for you you have perhaps if he continues to pursue some of the genetic engineering projects
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he showed so much interest in before the pandemic you will have concoctions potions injections to perfect
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your genome and failing that perhaps you will have selective embryo production so that you can choose
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the supreme embryo from the petri dish and move forward into a eugenic future not to say that's the
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method that musk used that musk used with his baby's mama baby mamas but one can always imagine
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now at the heart of this techno religion at the heart of many visions of how it is that ai would saturate
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all of humanity and uplift us into something like divine beings you have the concept of the singularity
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now the singularity is best illustrated i think as a graph the magic graph in which the number line
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goes up and up and up and up and up here we see a classic one that ray kurzweil would oftentimes show
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in which you see the computational capacity of digital systems increasing exponentially over time
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in this case it is exponential increases in calculations per second per thousand dollars and
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you can see that the prediction was that in 2000 ai is basically at the the intelligence level of an insect
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moving towards around now the intelligence level of a mouse and then by 2029 artificial general
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intelligence an ai system as intelligent as a human a single human and then by 2045 you hit the singularity
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the point at which the technologies as ray kurzweil categorized it of robotics which would include ai
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genetic engineering and nanotechnology these would converge and create digital intelligence that is
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millions of millions of times greater than human beings human beings being connected to this system
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directly through either brain implants or nanobots and it's called a singularity in homage to the black
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hole the singularity is that point beyond which no normal human being could imagine the future
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because it is far beyond the grasp of us mere mortals now this is a religious concept this is a
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prophecy it is a prophecy it is a vision it is not at present reality but as we'll soon see
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there are reasons that those who adhere to the cyborg theocracy believe that it is in fact coming to pass
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now in the same tradition you have situational awareness a paper that was produced last year
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by leopold oschenbrenner who after working at open ai for a year was fired due to the noise he was
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making about ai safety within the organization situational awareness is following the same
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line of thought that ray kurzweil did in his concept of the singularity you see in the graph that's
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included in the paper the intelligence explosion the idea that ai is increasing in intelligence at an
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exponential rate and will soon through its coding capability begin recursively self-improving so that
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it then becomes something that no human being could have imagined they call this artificial super
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intelligence and the idea is that a system that is self-improving will soon be beyond the grasp of any
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normal human being and de facto be beyond the control leopold oschenbrenner presents this as a
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national security issue and it's significant that ivanka trump actually posted about this with tremendous
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concern this idea that ai companies in the case of the united states google open ai xai anthropic and
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leading up the rear meta and in china alibaba and highflyer which produced deep seek as this race
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goes on we need to consider this a national security issue because whoever reaches this artificial
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godlike intelligence first will be able to dominate all competitors now leopold oschenbrenner ever the
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shrewd businessman even at mere 23 years of age leopold oschenbrenner founded a hedge fund which is already
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valued i believe at 1.5 billion dollars and so you know as much as i appreciate the efforts of ai
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safety communities it has to be said that if you do it right there's a lot of money in it now this year
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the paper ai 2027 was released again you see number line go up in an exponential fashion this paper
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produced by daniel cocatello and scott alexander basically describes a scenario it's a kind of
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choose your own adventure story in which you come to a critical decision point in 2027 in which ai agents
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agentic ai ai's that can go off and perform tasks on their own become super coders and become super
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human remote workers and as they begin to operate various mechanisms within the digital and even
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physical worlds and as it begins to self-improve you hit super intelligence or you're approaching it
00:42:09.940
and so in this choose your own adventure you have the pause in which people come to their senses and
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take stock and try to align the ai or you have the race in which all of these companies continue to
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race forward leaving humanity in the dust now what's interesting about this and interesting about
00:42:28.500
the entire kind of technological mentality that many of the people involved even in the criticism of
00:42:35.780
this technology hold this this idea is very evident in ai 2027 in the pause scenario the scenario in
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which human beings basically survive it's still a transhuman future in which the ai is superior to the
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human beings and we mere humans are left as kind of spectators or passengers on the great roller coaster
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ride called the singularity that goes up and up and up and up and one hopes does not ever precipitously
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descend into oblivion now these are all dreams these are all examples of futurism which basically you
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could define futurism as science fiction with fancy graphs to accompany it but in reality the ai systems
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produced by frontier companies are in fact increasing in capabilities the way we know this is you have
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various organizations some non-profits some think tanks some corporations you have various organizations
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that run ai models through evaluations to see how capable they are a really good example of this just
00:43:52.420
came out this week gemini 3 playing pokemon i i don't really play pokemon i don't know much about it
00:44:01.940
but gemini 3 has excelled in playing pokemon far beyond gemini 2. google famously has run its models through
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gaming systems the models have even taught themselves how to play the games these games may seem trivial but
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what it shows is that the models are able to solve puzzles to solve problems in a similar fashion to
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human beings and in line with this singularitarian vision are doing so at an accelerating rate they are
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improving at an accelerating rate now on a more serious note and this study really caught my attention
00:44:44.100
in epoch ai and their benchmark frontier math the way this study is done is the researchers at epoch ai
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have amassed unpublished math problems many of them at phd levels closed math problems that have been solved
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and they ask the model to solve the problem so you can see here it's kind of deceiving it doesn't
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necessarily show rapid increases in capabilities although that is in fact part of it but what you see is that
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at the very top of the latest tests you have gemini 3 and chat gpt 5 performing at the one tier one through
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three level at 40 some odd percent meaning that these models are able to solve complex math problems
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at a phd level and tier four the highest level you have up to 20 percent accuracy now you might say
00:45:56.980
well what about all the failures and that's true you don't want to trust a system like this
00:46:01.700
if it is prone to failure but what it shows is two things one an increase in capabilities and two
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the ability to solve problems in a novel fashion oftentimes the systems will solve the problems
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in ways that no human being would have ever thought to solve them and mathematics is at the core of
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physics and physics is at the core of chemistry and physics and chemistry are at the core of engineering
00:46:31.060
and one doesn't have to be some crazed futurist to see where this goes if it continues another good
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example is the time horizon benchmark this is produced by an organization called meter this also this it
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lends itself to the singularitarian model you can see the exponential increase in the models at
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performing various various various software engineering tasks the time horizon is the amount of time a model
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spends performing a task and succeeding 50 of the time and so you see at the top gemini 3 from google
00:47:11.140
and then gpt 5 from open ai and what it shows is that a model an ai model can be dedicated to a software
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engineering task long enough to produce the goods right this is a potential worker this as a coder
00:47:30.020
is your potential replacement another great benchmark is the omniscience index the omniscience index was
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produced by artificial analytics and it's a series of some 6 000 difficult questions across six domains
00:47:49.860
business science and engineering the humanities law medicine and the models are simply asked to answer
00:47:59.700
these test questions it's like a child like a student being tested on capabilities now right now you don't see
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imminent replacement you can see that the the best performing model was gemini 3 at 58 accuracy and behind
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that open ai's chat gpt5 behind that anthropics clawed and xai's grok what's really significant
00:48:25.540
about this is not only the success but also the tracking of hallucinations these models hallucinate they
00:48:31.300
come up with answers that are completely false just to appease the user and in the case of gemini 3 which
00:48:38.820
did get the 80 58 accuracy also had an 88 hallucination rate when it didn't know the answer it
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it tried and it tried and it lied now this is a real quandary but again the capabilities are objectively
00:48:53.780
increasing and the last benchmark i will show you is the perhaps morbidly named humanity's last exam
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produced by the center for ai safety led by dan hendricks who is also the lead safety engineer at
00:49:11.620
xai humanity's last exam is 2500 questions very difficult drawn from a hundred different subjects
00:49:20.740
and the purpose much like the omniscience index is to show the increase in capabilities of models to
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gather interpret and output accurate knowledge across a variety of subjects you can see here
00:49:36.100
gemini 3 currently is in the lead gpt5 just behind grok 4 just behind humanity's last exam once the
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machine the idea goes once the machine is able to answer all these questions humanity will have nothing
00:49:51.940
less left to answer and finally also from the center of ai center for ai safety in partnership with scale ai you
00:50:01.060
have the uh attempt to define and track the approach to artificial general intelligence this is a term
00:50:11.140
that has many many different variations and this is an attempt to finally put the last stamp on it
00:50:17.780
they define artificial general intelligence as an ai that can match or exceed the cognitive versatility
00:50:25.940
and proficiency of a well-educated adult that would be us and as soon as it reaches this we are now
00:50:34.500
kicked into the dustbin of history you can see that gpt5 has expanded out into the various domains
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beyond gpt4 still plenty of room to go now what lesson do we take from this number one we do not need
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to build better machines we need to cultivate better humans it's been said the ai improves one percent
00:51:00.820
per year and the question the challenge is are you improving one percent per year if you're not i recommend
00:51:10.180
you get on it because the greater replacement is coming for you and this is the ultimate front for human
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