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The speaker says switching AI providers under continual learning would mean losing an AI system's accumulated organizational context and starting over with a newly trained system.
Dwarkesh Patel · 8 Predictions for the Era of Continual Learning · 7 Aug 2026
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“If you want to change the AI they're using,”
“you basically have to fire an employee that has accumulated months of context on your organization and you replace them with a very fresh,”
“very unexperienced new intern that you got to retrain from scratch.”Play from 5:31Report a misattribution
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