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AI technological progress

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What experts have said about AI technological progress

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  1. Noam BrownPositiveSep 17, 2026· Dwarkesh Podcast

    AI progress has already accelerated research and development relative to last year.

    I do feel confident in saying that things are going faster now than they were even a year ago because of AI progress.

    Listen at 37:56

    Open the episode · Noam Brown – Agent swarms, alignment, & recursive self-improvement
  2. AI progress has been consistently underestimated, making continued underestimation a mistake.

    We have been lowballing AI progress for as long as you've been looking at it and as long as I've been looking at it. And it's probably a mistake to keep lowballing it.

    Listen at 1:36:55

    Open the episode · AI Debate Ed Zitron, Andrew McAfee, Nate Soares, Roman Yampolskiy
  3. Aric FloydMixedAug 17, 2026· Modern Wisdom

    AI could compress five centuries of progress into five years.

    if we take that at face value, it means we're gonna have 500 years of progress in five years at some point.

    Listen at 2:29:39

    Open the episode · AI DEBATE: What Will the World Actually Look Like in 2040? - #1138
  4. Dwarkesh PatelPositiveJun 19, 2026· Dwarkesh Podcast

    AI progress is primarily driven by better data and greater data-generation compute.

    The main way that AIs have been getting better is from adding more and better data and scaling the compute required to develop that data in the first place.

    Listen at 0:18

    Open the episode · The data black hole at the center of AI
  5. Dario AmodeiPositiveFeb 13, 2026· Dwarkesh Podcast

    AI’s underlying technological progress will continue exponentially beyond current advanced capabilities.

    the exponential of the underlying technology will continue as it has before

    Listen at 1:51:42

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