The Ledger, every show
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Kaplan: AI Will Function as an Autonomous, Alien Intelligence Within Five Years
“When I go out, you know, five plus years, I realize that this is not really a tool. What's happening is we're having a technology that's more like an intelligent entity. It's more, it's closer to an alien intelligence than it is a tool, and this alien intellig…”
Kaplan: Democratic AI Resists Bad Actors Better Than Monolithic Silicon Valley LLMs
“I think that's a much more sort of robust and resistant to bad actor kind of design than having one giant LLM. You don't know how it operates because that's another problem. They're big black boxes and the value system was programmed in by five people at open …”
Kaplan: AI will process a lifetime of human thoughts in seconds within years
“That level of sort of compounding improvement in processing power means that in just a few years, you're going to have systems that, you know, can think a lifetime worth of human thoughts in the time that you and I sort of think one or two thoughts, right?”
Kaplan: Coordinated AI Communities Will Outperform Any Monolithic System
“Each individual entity, whether it's a large language model or human, doesn't need to be a super genius. You can just be kind of okay. But together in aggregate, if you coordinate them in the right way, the community itself will be smarter than anything on the…”
Kaplan: Superhuman Artificial Intelligence Systems Are Inevitable
“Well, I think it's certainly achievable, in my view to make AI systems that appear to be as intelligent in every way as a human and beyond that. I mean, we're gonna have AI systems, I'm fairly confident, that are not only as intelligent as us, but are way smar…”
Kaplan: AI has an 80% chance of massive upside alongside existential risk
“I'd say 80% chance this technology is the best thing ever to come along, and it's really going to lift up everybody's standard of living. It'll make a lot of people a lot of money. It, it'll do great things for the environment. I mean, new, you know, life exte…”
Kaplan: Black-box AI architectures cause hallucinations and unpredictable model behavior
“That means you have a giant black box and the giant black box nature of it is the reason that they hallucinate, make things up and behave in unpredictable ways.”
Kaplan: Post-hoc AI safety guardrails should be dead on arrival
“It's impossible to think of all the different ways that people will try to get around those safeguards, right? So this idea that you can test in safety after the fact, Should be dead on arrival, but everybody's doing it because it's easy and because they're st…”
Kaplan: Retail Investor Sentiment Signals Powered a Top-10 Hedge Fund in 2018
“So we basically got opinions from millions of humans that were just kind of average everyday people, and we were able to process that information and turn it into signals that actually beat the very best hedge funds. We ranked, we powered a hedge fund ultimate…”
Kaplan: Agility and patience give small investors an edge over big funds
“So the ability to move quickly because you're not managing billions, at least typically most of us aren't. And also the ability to have patience are two hugely underrated advantages that really can make you money as a small investor.”
Kaplan: Multi-Agent Coordination Systems Will See Massive Investment in 2026–2027
“If people are looking for investment or what's going to happen next, I think you'll begin to see this year and probably next A huge sort of investment and deployment of systems for coordinating many agents.”