Anthropic's New Hire Should WORRY You, AI is a Math Genius, Live Callers! — Livestream (May 22)

About this episode

The episode discusses Anthropic's new hire, AI advancements in mathematics, and features live callers engaging with the doom argument.

***ATTENTION: We’re looking for paid help at LessOnline from June 5-7. Apply now!*** OpenAI pushes the frontier of mathematics, Anthropic hires Andrej Karpathy to work on recursive self-improvement, live callers challenge the doom argument, and we've got a soundboard! Doom Debates Paid Gig in Berkeley! Doom Debates is proudly sponsoring The LessOnline conference this year and we got a merch table in the courtyard! We need 2 people to help represent the show — hand out T-shirts, talk to attendees, and spread the good word about Doom Debates. If you’re a regular viewer of the show, you probably know enough. Just be knowledgeable, friendly and helpful! * 💰We pay you $500 to help out during the entire Fri-Sun event * 🎟️ Plus you get FREE admission to the conference ($675 value) This is best suited for someone local to the SF Bay Area or who can arrange accommodations. If you’re interested, send an email to internship@doomdebates.com or DM Producer Ori on Discord . Tell us a little about yourself and your availability for all 3 days. Thanks! Links Less Online conference (June 5–7, Berkeley) — https://less.online Doom Debates Discord — https://discord.gg/g2X8h5UCrU OpenAI — “An…

People in this episode

Host: Liron Shapira

Topics covered

• AI
• mathematics
• recursive self-improvement
• live callers
• Doom Debates
• LessOnline conference

Keywords

• Andrej Karpathy
• OpenAI
• AI mathematics
• Doom Debates
• LessOnline conference
• recursive self-improvement
• live callers

Sponsors

Doom Debates, LessOnline

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: OpenAI

Places: Berkeley

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