Richard Socher joins the mates on Recursive’s $670M bet, P(Doom) at zero, Sonnet 5.5, and a Pentagon AI push.
Chapters
- 0:00 Recursive self-improvement, and what is ahead.
- 4:48 The Eureka Machine and scientific discovery.
- 23:22 Decoding the brain, and BCIs.
- 39:05 Gene editing and mosquitoes.
- 47:14 Tavus, the Turing test, and avatars.
- 1:00:15 The road to ASI.
- 1:17:07 Washington moves to ban recursive AI.
- 1:35:31 Gemini 4 and the model race.
- 1:43:38 Sonnet 5.5 hits 70% on a coding bench.
- 1:48:01 The compute crunch.
- 2:01:41 Project Meridian and warfare.
- 2:23:30 Close, back on the Eureka Machine.
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People
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Peter Diamandis
Host. 0:00
Alexander Wissner-Gross
Host. 0:00
Salim Ismail
Host. 0:00
Richard Socher
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People mentioned
Dave Blundin
Named with the mates. Not on this episode.
Elon Musk
Co-leading Project Meridian. 2:01:41
Palmer Luckey
Co-leading Project Meridian. 2:01:41
Ro Khanna
The bill to ban recursive self-improvement. 1:17:07
Marc Benioff
Named as a friend of the pod, from Richard’s Salesforce years.
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Products
The Eureka Machine (Richard Socher) — Richard’s new book, just released. Amazon 3:51
The China Syndrome [Blu-ray] — The nuclear-fear movie they name. Amazon 43:53
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines [Blu-ray] — Named as how Skynet gets started. Amazon 2:03:22
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Overview
Richard Socher joins the mates on Recursive’s $670M bet, P(Doom) at zero, Sonnet 5.5, and a Pentagon AI push.
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