The speaker has not seen convincing evidence that the proposed approaches work in full generality, while acknowledging that closed LLM labs may be doing undisclosed work.

“uh in full generality because when you see these papers they pop up and it's just like a little bit of noisy you know it's cool ideas but i haven't actually seen anyone convincingly uh show that this is possible that said the llm labs are fairly closed uh so who knows what they're doing now but yeah”