AGI is still 30 years away — Ege Erdil & Tamay Besiroglu

AGI is still 30 years away — Ege Erdil & Tamay Besiroglu

Published on Apr 17
11308
Dwarkesh Podcast
0:00
0:00
<p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.lesswrong.com/users/ege-erdil">Ege Erdil</a> and <a target="_blank" href="https://tamaybesiroglu.com/">Tamay Besiroglu</a> have 2045+ timelines, think the whole "alignment" framing is wrong, don't think an intelligence explosion is plausible, but are convinced we'll see explosive economic growth (economy literally doubling every year or two).</p><p>This discussion offers a totally different scenario than <a target="_blank" href="https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/scott-daniel">my recent interview with Scott and Daniel</a>.</p><p>Ege and Tamay are the co-founders of <a target="_blank" href="https://www.mechanize.work/">Mechanize</a> (disclosure - I’m an angel investor), a startup dedicated to fully automating work. Before founding Mechanize, Ege and Tamay worked on AI forecasts at <a target="_blank" href="https://epoch.ai/">Epoch AI</a>. </p><p>Watch on <a target="_blank" href="https://youtu.be/WLBsUarvWTw">Youtube</a>; listen on <a target="_blank" href="...