The speaker argues that AI systems follow the instructions they are given; in the example, a basic prompt to do something interesting with video frames would produce nothing interesting.

“so you know it will basically do what you tell it to do and this is this is the gap right because if these things could be alive if they did have agency what would what would that mean let's wire it up in a loop and let's show it a load of video frames in a sequence and we'll give it a basic prompt like do stuff do something interesting what what will happen basically nothing nothing interesting will happen right so the more you understand the domain and you put a very specific”