This week, Dwarkesh Podcast explored competing pressures shaping AI's near future: the possibility that smarter models could dramatically increase computational costs rather than reduce them, and the emerging paradigm of continual learning systems that adapt and improve over time. These episodes surface a fundamental tension between scaling existing approaches and fundamentally rethinking how AI systems learn and operate.
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