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The speaker considers routine, time-consuming scientific or technical tasks that are easy to automate more promising automation targets.
Liam Fedus · Synthesis Superintelligence: from Semiconductors to Superconductors — Periodic Labs’ Liam Fedus and Ekin Dogus Cubuk · 8 Oct 2026
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“And maybe like a more promising thing is something very routine that takes up a huge amount of scientists and technicians.”Play from 51:11Report a misattribution
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