Does AI Progress Have a Speed Limit?—Asterisk
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A conversation about the factors that might slow down the pace of AI development, what could happen next, and whether we’ll be able to see it coming.
Does AI Progress Have a Speed Limit?—Asterisk A conversation about the factors that might slow down the pace of AI development, what could happen next, and whether we’ll be able to see it coming. Ajeya Cotra: I'm interested in something you mentioned in your recent paper, AI as Normal Technology , and on Twitter — the idea that the external world puts a speed limit on AI development. With applications like self-driving cars or travel booking agents, you need to test them in real-world conditions so they encounter failures they can learn from. This creates a speed limit in two ways: first, you
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