AI & I · 2026-06-24 · 44 min
If scaling laws hold - and Surge AI CEO Edwin Chen believes they do - we’re hurtling toward a future where there’s nothing humans can do that AI can’t do better. When OpenAI’s models disproved an open conjecture posed by mathematician Paul Erdős using novel algebraic geometry techniques, Fields medalist Timothy Gowers felt the shift acutely. He initially thought the model had proved an upper bound, and braced himself: that would mean it was “all over for mathematicians very soon.” When he realized it had only found a counterexample, he was relieved - it bought him another year or two before the thing he’s devoted his life to becomes something AI does better. As founder and CEO of the company behind the data environments and evals the major model companies use to train their models, Chen has a unique perspective on how quickly AI models are absorbing tasks we used to think of as uniquely human. Dan Shipper talked with Chen for AI & I about what the act of creating or building means when AI can do it better - and whether an answer to that question already exists within science fiction. If you found this episode interesting, please like, subscribe, comment, and share!
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