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“Notes on Dwarkesh Patel’s Podcast with Demis Hassabis” by Zvi


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Demis Hassabis was interviewed twice this past week.

First, he was interviewed on Hard Fork. Then he had a much more interesting interview with Dwarkesh Patel.

This post covers my notes from both interviews, mostly the one with Dwarkesh.

Hard Fork

Hard Fork was less fruitful, because they mostly asked what for me are the wrong questions and mostly get answers I presume Demis has given many times. So I only noticed two things, neither of which is ultimately surprising.

  1. They do ask about The Gemini Incident, although only about the particular issue with image generation. Demis gives the generic ‘it should do what the user wants and this was dumb’ answer, which I buy he likely personally believes.
  2. When asked about p(doom) he expresses dismay about the state of discourse and says around 42:00 that ‘well Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun [...]
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    Outline:

    (00:25) Hard Fork

    (02:21) Dwarkesh Patel

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    First published:

    March 1st, 2024

    Source:

    https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/b5eoocpqedkp9RazL/notes-on-dwarkesh-patel-s-podcast-with-demis-hassabis

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