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The speaker says models have disproportionately strong coding and math abilities and argues that these abilities can be applied to many other domains.
Alex Zhang · Academia is for Ambition — Alex Zhang, MIT · 2 Oct 2026
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“is the easiest form of this but what this is kind of saying is that like we have jagged intelligence on a lot of things like for example models are like disproportionately good at coding and math this is saying like we can translate those abilities to many other things so like”Play from 1:25:25Report a misattribution
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