Elon reminds me very strongly of Edison, which makes his naming of Tesla an interesting case of projection (edit: forgot he didn’t name it, so just ironic, not projection). This is not a deep observation. Even ChatGPT gets it. But if you get past Edison vs Tesla arguments, they simply had very different strengths. Tesla was a genuine idea guy, Edison was a nearly pure execution guy and knew it. The “genius is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration” quote attributed to him describes him, so he had sel…
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At the end of last year, I was at a conference and heard Ryan Greenblatt give a talk on his new paper about AI deception, and I knew right away that we had to have him on the show.
For many years, technologists have been wondering what happens when AI is sufficiently smart or cunning to begin to u…