0:00 If you had asked me earlier this year how far away we are from superintelligence, I'd probably have said at least the better part of a decade. But over the last three months, I've updated my views a ton. I've been debating people both on and off the podcast about this question, and of course, I've been watching the progress of AI on verifiable domains and thinking about what that implies for AI research itself. And I've come to the view that we're only a couple of years away, and possibly only a couple of months away, from AIs that are as good as the best humans at AI research.
0:30 And I've also come to believe that automating AI research will compress so much progress into a single year that soon thereafter, so by 2030, and plausibly as early as next year, we'll have AIs that are at least as good as the best human experts in every field. I know this is a wild claim, and it's one that I myself didn't believe even a couple months ago. Let me walk you through how my thinking has changed. Before we get into the more speculative arguments about what will happen in the future, I want
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