You have to give it to Sam Altman.  He can make even the great and powerful Wizard of Oz blush.

Altman can say something like: “You can choose to deploy five gigawatts of compute to cure cancer or you can choose to offer free education to everybody on Earth.”  He then uses the fact that he himself cannot make that moral choice as a justification for him getting his hands on ten gigawatts of compute while leaving him under no obligation to either cure cancer or provide free education to anybody.  But can we actually cure cancer with AI?

In our next episode on Monday, we will unpack the capabilities that an agent with artificial general intelligence, or AGI, must possess in order to find the cure for cancer and transform the medicine as we know it.

Thank you for listening and subscribing.  I am Alex Chadyuk and This is AGI.

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