Dwarkesh Patel
12 statements across 3 episodes · 5 bullish · 5 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement May 15, 2024 by Dwarkesh Patel · said 51 times in 19 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
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2026 26 mentions in 9 episodes 3 per episode
- Jensen On The Ropes, Sam Altman’s Conflicts, Allbirds’ GPU Pivot
- Can NVIDIA Keep Its Lead? — With Anissa Gardizy, Max Cherney, and Lauren Goode
- Big Technology AI Summit (full): Greg Brockman, Mike Krieger, Aaron Levie & Friends of The Podcast
- PwC’s Dallas Dolen: AI Hardware’s Advantage, TokenMaxxing, Automation’s Impact
- AI Agents: Mirage Or Real Revolution? — With Dmitry Shevelenko
- OpenAI’s User Growth Miss, Musk vs. Altman In Court, Prediction Market Ban
- Apple After Tim Cook, OpenAI’s New Mojo, Meta’s Internal Tracking Escapade
- OpenAI vs. Anthropic's Direct Faceoff + Future of Agents — With Aaron Levie
- 1 more episode that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 22 mentions in 9 episodes 2 per episode
- Is The U.S. Losing Trump's Trade War? — Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen
- Sam Altman’s Gentle Singularity, Zuck’s AI Power Play, Burning Of The Waymos
- AI Bubble Special Report: Debt, Depreciation, and Losses — With Gil Luria
- Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei: AI's Potential, OpenAI Rivalry, GenAI Business, Doomerism
- The ‘AI-First Company,’ Big Tech Mega Earnings, NVIDIA vs. Anthropic
- Why Can't AI Make Its Own Discoveries? — With Yann LeCun
- Sora 2 & AI’s Slop Era, Death Of The Creator Economy?, Apple’s SmartGlasses Roadmap
- The Web’s ‘Existential’ AI Threat, OpenAI’s Microsoft Office Competitor, Tesla Robotaxi Launch
- 1 more episode that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 3 mentions in 1 episode
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May 15, 2024 bullish
The median future outcome of artificial intelligence will likely be positive
“And I mean, I'm still expecting a great future because of AI. My expectation is like the median outcome is good. I think we should worry about the cases where things go really off the rails and do what we can to reduce the odds of that.”
May 15, 2024
AGI should be defined operationally as an AI that automates AI research
“The way I've been thinking about it, which is, which has less to do with like maybe AGI in the world and more so about, I think it's long-term impact is the kind of model which can automate or significantly speed up AI research.”
May 15, 2024 bullish
GPT-5 will enable autonomous agents to execute UI tasks for hours
“Then we're gonna see much more multimodal data, and I think that'll look a lot like the equivalent of supervised fine-tuning, but for a bunch of people recording their screen and doing workflows with their screen, navigating UIs. So I think you'll have agents …”
May 15, 2024 positive
Podcasting creates a knowledge flywheel where smarter listeners educate the host
“I think the main flywheel, honestly, is that I make the podcast better, smarter people listen, some of those smart people I become friends with, and they teach me a bunch of things. And now I can do an even better interview. Now I have a bunch, I can get conne…”
May 15, 2024 positive
GPT-5 will have noticeably improved reasoning capabilities from step-by-step training
“I think it'll definitely be better at reasoning, which is trivial to say, because the training methods that we've seen them talk about, like you, I'm sure you heard the talk about Q star and what it seems to be is training the model to rewarding it on getting …”
Jun 18, 2025 bearish
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Jun 18, 2025 bearish
Dwarkesh: AGI requires further algorithmic progress, not just current model scaling
“I don't think we're just right around our corner from AGI and it's just a little additional dash of something. That's all it's going to take. I think, you know, people often ask if all AI progress stopped right now and all you could do is collect more data or …”