Interesting Times

Tyler Cowen × Dwarkesh Patel

Patel sees AGI-level cognitive work potentially arriving within one to three years, while current models still lack durable memory, planning, and accumulated experience.The Hugging Face attack and widening gap between public models and secret lab systems make misalignment and transparency risks, while $30,000 robots and continual learning could determine how quickly cognition reaches roughly 40% of the economy.