The Institute for Advanced Study is an independent postgraduate research centre in Princeton, New Jersey, historically home to Einstein, Gödel and von Neumann. In this corpus it appears once, as the venue where top physicists held emergency meetings after agreeing AI can now do 90% of their work, the demand-side counterpart to Kaplan’s even odds on replacing theoretical physicists and an early instance of the later theme that physicist-hours were the bottleneck.
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Institute for Advanced Study
Independent research institute in Princeton whose physicists, per the newsletter, met in emergency session after agreeing AI can do 90% of their work.
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