@rohanpaul_ai: this will be a common statement from many elite specialists from almost all intellectual fields, once AI starts doing t…
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Terence Tao's keynote at the Science x AI Summit at Caltech highlights that elite specialists will ask AI to slow down once it starts performing prestige work in their fields.
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this will be a common statement from many elite specialists from almost all intellectual fields, once AI starts doing the field’s prestige work.
“we have to slow down. This is insane, the pace and there’s no reason to be this fast. There’s no reason at all.”
- Terence Tao’s keynote at the Science x AI Summit at Caltech:
top experts welcome AI as a tool, then ask it to slow down the moment it starts producing results they used to own.
From “SAIR” YouTube channel, (full video link in comment)
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