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AI trained on a sufficiently broad distribution could transfer its skills to learning engineering work at TSMC on the job, even if TSMC itself is not represented in the training distribution.

Ryan Greenblatt · Ryan Greenblatt – What happens once AI can automate AI research? · 11 Aug 2026

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“And then those AIs could then be put on the job at TSMC.”
“And then even though TSMC is not like literally in their data distribution,”
“their data distribution is really wide and the AIs are extremely good on their data distribution such that it transfers to picking up being good at, you know, being an engineer at TSMC and learning that on the fly where it looks more like the way the AI gets good at being a TSMC engineer isn't that it has a ton of cash knowledge on being a good TSMC engineer. It's that it like.”
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