Dwarkesh Podcast
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Dwarkesh PodcastVoicesSi Sheppard – How did a few hundred Spanish soldiers topple two empires? New episode with military historian Si Sheppard . The conquests of the Aztec and Inca empires might be the most shocking events in human history.
Dwarkesh PodcastVoicesNoam Brown – Agent swarms, alignment, & recursive self-improvement New episode with Noam Brown. We talk about multi-agent, Navier-Stokes, and what the current explosion of maths progress tells us about what happens once you automate AI research.
Dwarkesh PodcastVoicesAI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement New episode with John Schulman , Beren Millidge and Charlie O’Neill . I got together with some of the most insightful AI researchers I know who are at the openish companies, because I wanted to hear…
Dwarkesh PodcastVoicesPretraining progress is mostly coming from data How much of the rapid progress in AI that we’ve seen over the last few years 1 has come from data versus model improvements?
Dwarkesh PodcastVoicesAjeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face Ajeya Cotra is a researcher at METR, where she works on threat modeling for loss-of-control risks from advanced AI.
Dwarkesh PodcastVoicesThe rise and fall of agent civilizations This is a video recording of a post I wrote last week. You can read the original here .
Dwarkesh PodcastVoicesThe Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations Many thanks especially to Oak Hu , who paired with me for most of the writing, and also to Adam Kaufman and Alex Mallen , who paired with me during parts of research.
Dwarkesh PodcastVoicesDylan Patel – Anthropic & OpenAI will have most of the world’s compute by 2028 Had a lot of fun chatting again with my twin brother Dylan Patel. We went through lab economics over the next few years - the shift from inference to training as RSI draws near; and how Anthropic and…
Dwarkesh PodcastVoicesRyan Greenblatt – What happens once AI can automate AI research? Had Ryan Greenblatt on to discuss/debate recursive self-improvement. This might be the most important question in the world right now – whether within a year or so of achieving human-level…
Dwarkesh PodcastVoices8 Predictions for the Era of Continual Learning I have explained elsewhere why I think continual learning is needed. I don’t think you can have AIs that perform whole jobs as competently as humans if they’re forced to just write Markdown files…
Dwarkesh PodcastVoicesWhy smarter AI models could drive up compute prices 10x This is a video recording of a post I wrote last week. If you want to read the original you can check it out here . Thanks to Mercury for sponsoring this video.
Dwarkesh PodcastVoicesWhy compute might get 10x+ more expensive in coming years I want to experiment with very quick blog post where I time-box writing for 2 hours. I won’t be able to nail down a lot of important sub-questions, but the alternative is just not making any progress…
Dwarkesh PodcastVoicesAdam Brown – A deep but accessible introduction to general relativity Adam Brown is back! General relativity is said to be the most beautiful idea the human mind has ever produced.
Dwarkesh PodcastVoicesThe Winning Essays for the Big Questions About AI Two months ago, I posted some big questions about AI. We ended up getting over 600 essays submitted for this contest. Below is a bit of information of the 3 winners, followed by all 3 full essays.
Dwarkesh PodcastVoicesGrant Sanderson – AI and the future of math Always so much fun to chat with Grant . AI has been making much faster progress in math than in other fields.
Dwarkesh PodcastVoicesThe next big breakthrough will be AIs learning on the job Here’s the big research bet the labs are making currently : if we train AIs to accomplish millions of verifiable tasks across thousands of diverse RL environments, then we’ll basically have built…
Dwarkesh PodcastVoicesThe data black hole at the center of AI One definition of intelligence is sample efficiency - that is to say, how much data do you need to see in a given domain in order to operate fluently and competently.
Dwarkesh PodcastVoicesAda Palmer – Machiavelli is the most misunderstood thinker of all time Had Ada Palmer back on – this time to talk about Machiavelli, perhaps the most misunderstood thinker of all time.
Dwarkesh PodcastVoicesAlex Imas and Phil Trammell – What remains scarce after AGI? Economics of AGI episode w Alex Imas and Phil Trammell . There’s a bunch of important questions about how we deal with AI that only economics can answer.
Dwarkesh PodcastVoicesReiner Pope – Chip design from the bottom up New blackboard lecture with Reiner Pope: how do chips actually work - starting with basic logic gates, and working up to why GPUs, TPUs, FPGAs, and the human brain each look the way they do.
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