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Astro Teller

11 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 4 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 29, 2023 by Astro Teller · across every show →

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Jun 29, 2023 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Teller: If half the world halts AI, the other half keeps going
“And I really think if we get to that line and then some half of humanity says, okay, we're out, the other half of the humanity is just going to keep going.”
Astro Teller Jun 29, 2023 ▶ 13:29 Google's "X" Experimental Unit CEO Astro Teller — The Incredible Promise Of AI & Its Dangers
Jun 29, 2023
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Teller: Seriously automating a factory currently costs $1 billion
“Right now it costs a billion dollars to seriously automate a factory.”
Astro Teller Jun 29, 2023 ▶ 35:52 Google's "X" Experimental Unit CEO Astro Teller — The Incredible Promise Of AI & Its Dangers
Jun 29, 2023 negative
Opinion
Teller: AI catastrophe ranks far behind climate change and nuclear weapons
“I think that the world is overrun with serious problems. I would put at the top of that list, climate change. Nowhere close to second place. I would put nuclear weapons, just since we use that as an example, and I would put AI doing something particularly horr…”
Astro Teller Jun 29, 2023 ▶ 11:04 Google's "X" Experimental Unit CEO Astro Teller — The Incredible Promise Of AI & Its Dangers
Jun 29, 2023
Insight
Teller: Innovation labs must spend capital disproving hypotheses, not proving them
“Audacious enough that we'll try almost anything, but then humble enough that we're honest right after we start out on each of these investigations that we're probably wrong and that we need to spend our money figuring out that we're wrong rather than trying to…”
Astro Teller Jun 29, 2023 ▶ 37:00 Google's "X" Experimental Unit CEO Astro Teller — The Incredible Promise Of AI & Its Dangers
Jun 29, 2023 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Teller: Extreme AI outcomes will not happen in our lifetime
“Do I believe that anything particularly extreme in our lifetime is going to happen? I don't. I'm sorry, but I've been working on robots trying to open doorknobs for like the last 30 years, and it's been a slog.”
Astro Teller Jun 29, 2023 ▶ 12:01 Google's "X" Experimental Unit CEO Astro Teller — The Incredible Promise Of AI & Its Dangers
Jun 29, 2023
Assertion Contradicted
Teller: Global manufacturing spending is approaching $10 trillion annually
“The world spends sort of pushing 10 trillion dollars a year making stuff.”
Astro Teller Jun 29, 2023 ▶ 34:32 Google's "X" Experimental Unit CEO Astro Teller — The Incredible Promise Of AI & Its Dangers
Jun 29, 2023 bearish
Prediction Held up
Teller: Signers of AI pause letter will keep working on AI regardless
“Lots of people who signed that letter, and lots of other people in the world are going to keep working on it, no matter what letter they're signed.”
Astro Teller Jun 29, 2023 ▶ 10:45 Google's "X" Experimental Unit CEO Astro Teller — The Incredible Promise Of AI & Its Dangers
Jun 29, 2023 negative
Insight
Teller: No one is better than random at predicting the future
“I, one of the core axioms at X is I do not believe that anyone, certainly including myself, is any better than random at predicting the future.”
Astro Teller Jun 29, 2023 ▶ 38:11 Google's "X" Experimental Unit CEO Astro Teller — The Incredible Promise Of AI & Its Dangers
Jun 29, 2023 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Teller: AI-guided design will transform every discipline over 30 to 40 years
“We're going to see this sort of thing play out In every discipline in the world over the next 30 or 40 years, and it will take a long time.”
Astro Teller Jun 29, 2023 ▶ 21:31 Google's "X" Experimental Unit CEO Astro Teller — The Incredible Promise Of AI & Its Dangers
Jun 29, 2023 neutral
Insight
Teller: Cost per ton is the only metric that matters in carbon capture
“The number of dollars it costs for you to sequester a ton of carbon is like the only thing that really matters at the end of the day.”
Astro Teller Jun 29, 2023 ▶ 54:38 Google's "X" Experimental Unit CEO Astro Teller — The Incredible Promise Of AI & Its Dangers
Jun 29, 2023
Disclosure
Teller: Alphabet's X is not structured to scale products to billions
“We are not the right place to move something from, yeah, we have something special here to it's ready in a really thoughtful, responsible way to serve a billion people a day.”
Astro Teller Jun 29, 2023 ▶ 32:09 Google's "X" Experimental Unit CEO Astro Teller — The Incredible Promise Of AI & Its Dangers
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