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The speaker's rough estimate was that a superintelligent AI researcher might yield an overall speedup of several hundred to about one thousand times.

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“And then I think we, I forget what we say for a super intelligent AI researcher, but off the top of my head, it's probably something like.”
“in the hundreds or maybe like a thousand X overall speed up.”
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