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Dwarkesh Patel

Dwarkesh Patel hosts the Dwarkesh Podcast, asking researchers and other guests to explain and defend their ideas.

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Adoption can move fast and still take work

Amodei expects AI to spread through the economy unusually quickly, while procurement, permissions and organizational change still take time. He separates models writing code from complete job automation and reduced demand for workers.

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More agents can buy speed. The savings still need measuring.

Brown argues that parallel agents can reduce waiting time while increasing total compute. He expects better models to organize themselves more effectively and credits the underlying model with most of the mathematical result, while saying very large teams remain poorly compared with smaller ones.

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Dwarkesh Podcast

Follow extended conversations with researchers, builders and historians into specific claims and disagreements.

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Interview statements belong to their speakers; an appearance does not establish expertise on every topic.

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