Reasoning, robots and how to prepare for AGI on the Future of Life Institute podcast
I recently joined Gus Docker on the Future of Life Institute Podcast. We debated many of the recent themes of this Substack:| benjamintodd.substack.com
I recently joined Gus Docker on the Future of Life Institute Podcast. We debated many of the recent themes of this Substack:| benjamintodd.substack.com
7 charts about AI deployment| benjamintodd.substack.com
The skills AI will make more valuable (and how to learn them)| benjamintodd.substack.com
In five years, we could have AI systems capable of accelerating science and automating skilled jobs.| Benjamin Todd
As a non-expert, it would be great if there were experts who could tell us when we should expect artificial general intelligence (AGI) to arrive.| Benjamin Todd
In recent months, the CEOs of leading AI companies have grown increasingly confident about rapid progress:| Benjamin Todd
To understand how close we are to transformative AI, here’s the metric I find most interesting right now: how long are the tasks AI can do?| Benjamin Todd
The AI safety community has grown rapidly since the ChatGPT wake-up call, but available funding doesn’t seem to have kept pace.| Benjamin Todd
I just returned to China after 8 years away (after visiting a lot 2008-2016). Here's the changes I noticed.| Benjamin Todd
My recent two weeks in China suggested something surprising about its AI landscape: the biggest bottleneck isn't compute – it's commitment.| Benjamin Todd
If transformative AI might come soon and you want to help that go well, one strategy you might adopt is building something that will improve as AI gets more capable.| Benjamin Todd
Here’s the funding gap that gets me the most emotionally worked up:| Benjamin Todd
Does that seem high or low to you?| benjamintodd.substack.com
I’m writing a new guide to careers to help AGI go well. Here's a summary of the key messages as they stand.| benjamintodd.substack.com
Most people think of AI as a pattern-matching chatbot – good at writing emails, terrible at real thinking.| benjamintodd.substack.com
The problem of criticising AI using outdated models| benjamintodd.substack.com
Some notes on robot economics.| benjamintodd.substack.com
What if artificial general intelligence (AGI) arrives in just a couple of years, triggering an explosion in science and technology that transforms life as we know it?| benjamintodd.substack.com
