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EPISODE · Jun 8, 2026 · 12 MIN

Why Today's AI Is Just "Average" — And How It Becomes Superintelligent — Dr. Craig Kaplan

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Today's AI sounds smart because it knows a little about everything. But the moment you ask it about something you're an expert in, the cracks show up fast.So how does it become genuinely smarter than the smartest human?Craig Kaplan — Wall Street veteran, AI researcher, and founder of SuperIntelligence.com — joins The Four Fs Podcast to break down the path from "average intelligence" to actual superintelligence in language anyone can understand. No PhD required.In this 10-minute conversation, Craig shares:• Why current AI is the average of the internet — and why that ceiling is lower than people think• The "two heads are better than one" idea, scaled to 2 million heads working together• How AI can train on top-quality experts to leapfrog the average• Why playing itself a million times turned chess and Go AI into unbeatable champions• Synthetic data: how AI generates its own new thoughts to bootstrap higher intelligence• The speed advantage — a lifetime of reasoning in the time it takes you to sip coffee• Why your brain has to fit through a birth canal, and AI doesn't• The 1,000+ pages of designs Craig is giving away for free at SuperIntelligence.com• How knocking AI tail-risk from 20% down to 1% becomes everyone's jobWhether you're an AI skeptic, an AI optimist, or just trying to keep up, this is the simplest explanation you'll hear of where this is actually going.Learn more: https://superintelligence.com—Four Fs Podcast: 10-Minute Wins delivers a daily short clip from in-depth conversations with founders, veterans, executives, and world-class experts you won't hear on every other show — on leadership, entrepreneurship, failure, and personal reinvention.Full episodes available on the Four Fs Podcast feed on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube.

Today's AI sounds smart because it knows a little about everything. But the moment you ask it about something you're an expert in, the cracks show up fast.So how does it become genuinely smarter than the smartest human?Craig Kaplan — Wall Street veteran, AI researcher, and founder of SuperIntelligence.com — joins The Four Fs Podcast to break down the path from "average intelligence" to actual superintelligence in language anyone can understand. No PhD required.In this 10-minute conversation, Craig shares:• Why current AI is the average of the internet — and why that ceiling is lower than people think• The "two heads are better than one" idea, scaled to 2 million heads working together• How AI can train on top-quality experts to leapfrog the average• Why playing itself a million times turned chess and Go AI into unbeatable champions• Synthetic data: how AI generates its own new thoughts to bootstrap higher intelligence• The speed advantage — a lifetime of reasoning in the time it takes you to sip coffee• Why your brain has to fit through a birth canal, and AI doesn't• The 1,000+ pages of designs Craig is giving away for free at SuperIntelligence.com• How knocking AI tail-risk from 20% down to 1% becomes everyone's jobWhether you're an AI skeptic, an AI optimist, or just trying to keep up, this is the simplest explanation you'll hear of where this is actually going.Learn more: https://superintelligence.com—Four Fs Podcast: 10-Minute Wins delivers a daily short clip from in-depth conversations with founders, veterans, executives, and world-class experts you won't hear on every other show — on leadership, entrepreneurship, failure, and personal reinvention.Full episodes available on the Four Fs Podcast feed on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube.

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