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Why I don’t think AGI is right around the corner

Jun 2, 2025 • Dwarkesh Patel

Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away

Oct 17, 2025 • Dwarkesh Patel

Dario Amodei — "We are near the end of the exponential"

Feb 13 • Dwarkesh Patel

Jensen Huang – TPU competition, why we should sell chips to China, & Nvidia’s supply chain moat

Apr 15 • Dwarkesh Patel

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Grant Sanderson – AI and the future of math

Watch now (94 mins) | Math is where we’ll see superintelligence first. What will it look like?

22 hrs ago • Dwarkesh Patel

Ada Palmer – Machiavelli is the most misunderstood thinker of all time

"He begged to work for the regime that tortured him."

Jun 16 • Dwarkesh Patel

2:08:20

Alex Imas and Phil Trammell – What remains scarce after AGI?

“One robot now turns into many robots next year, but the number of ballerinas is the same.”

Jun 4 • Dwarkesh Patel

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Reiner Pope – Chip design from the bottom up

Working up from basic logic gates to why GPUs, TPUs, FPGAs, and the human brain each look the way they do.

May 22 • Dwarkesh Patel

1:20:30

Eric Jang – Building AlphaGo from scratch

AlphaGo is still the cleanest worked example of the primitives of intelligence: search, learning from experience, and self-play.

May 15 • Dwarkesh Patel

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The mistake of conflating intelligence and power

If your definition of intelligence is "the ability to achieve your goals across a wide variety of domains", then Stalin was the most intelligent person…

May 16 • Dwarkesh Patel

Notes on pretraining parallelisms and failed training runs.

Deeply researched interviews

May 16 • Dwarkesh Patel

RLVR might be disproportionately bad at science

the verification loop for theories can be on the order of decades and centuries, and even then we know today as the better theory can often actually…

May 16 • Dwarkesh Patel

More open questions about AI

Hodge podge of things I was thinking about this weekend.

Apr 27 • Dwarkesh Patel