It's not just that AI is getting smarter — humans are getting dumber too, because relying on AI to explain papers and do the thinking makes people lazy about actually understanding things themselves.

56:41don't know doing an exam or or copying somebody else's work like you might feel like you wrote it but you don't like your brain didn't go through the motions. Um and yeah I think it's dangerous also for like if you're worried about um sort of AI taking over you know because it's not like it's not just that it's getting smarter. It's also that humans are getting dumber like

57:04we no longer >> um like know and like we get we get lazy in terms of understanding stuff. We don't read the papers. You just put them in AI and be like, "Oh, explain this paper to me or something." Um but yeah, it's it's it's it's strange, right? Because on the other hand, I mean, it is it can be like this big um level like speed like it can speed you up so much.

57:25So, it's like it's it's hard to not use it, but like finding out when you should stop uh and when you should start using it again. Um I know I mean it's reminiscent of the Elon Musk tweet, you know, he said there there are no researchers at Tesla that there's only engineers. And this for me is is the big problem actually. It's it's a paradox because you can use language models to

57:47increase your knowledge. That's a fact, right? If the purpose is to increase your knowledge, then you know if you're a curious person, you can just dig and dig and dig and and you can learn a hell of a lot. So why is it the case that on average they erode our knowledge? And I think I think it's Elon's fault, not not his fault, but you know, he says that

58:05engineering is like, you know, this is a means to an end. So we are building this thing and it needs to pass these tests. And in a sense, I don't care if if your knowledge erodess during the process because that's not what I'm measuring you on. And you know, we shouldn't be binary about it because clearly engineers, they they trip up on things and they learn a lot along the way, but

58:24it seems to be quite convergent, you know, like when when you're pursuing knowledge for its own purpose, you seem to um you you seem to build deeper foundations and and discover new things. >> Yeah. And I guess that's like a tension with like in capitalism or something, you know, that that that the companies they they don't they're not trying to necessarily uh develop their employees. Uh I mean maybe if they can see a pro a