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The speaker believes that eliminating the need for human supervision of AI would require a major, probably transformative breakthrough that makes current LLMs seem as rudimentary as ELIZA.
Adam Becker · Every Exponential Ends — Silicon Valley Forgot — Adam Becker · 20 Aug 2026
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“And so I think that unless we have some sort of major, major breakthrough,”
“and I mean, it would probably have to be a breakthrough that makes, you know, LLMs themselves look like Eliza.”
“You know, short of that kind of really fundamental breakthrough,”
“I don't see us getting around the need for human supervision on these things.”Play from 31:31Report a misattribution
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