The speaker says current AI systems provide more generalizable intelligence in a single entity than self-driving systems, which address a special-purpose task.

“a lot of gaps in understanding in what we are getting um i'm we're definitely getting more generalizable intelligence in a single entity uh whereas self-driving is a very special purpose task that requires in some sense building a special purpose task is maybe even harder in a certain sense because it doesn't like fall out from a more general thing that you're doing at scale if that makes sense so um”