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AI models are becoming increasingly adaptive and capable.
Tim Scarfe · Every Exponential Ends — Silicon Valley Forgot — Adam Becker · 20 Aug 2026
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“physical property of stuff in the universe and we can create an abstraction that seems to work reasonably well for abstract domains like playing chess and so on and you know these models are becoming quite adaptive and they have a lot of capabilities and so on and you see it's just so deceptive it might be the most deceptive time in human history because it seems like it is intelligent”Play from 26:48Report a misattribution
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