AI systems can improve R&D in some ways, but they do not have the broad capabilities humans generally have, according to the speaker.

“And what's happening is that we're trying to use AIs for R&D, and they do provide uplift in some ways, but they're just like not.”

“capable in the way that humans are generally capable and the same way that right now if you try to use coding models maybe the coding models of a year ago to like write some application you notice they made a bunch of like mistakes an architecture or whatever which like will bite you in the ass later and you don't understand certain things similarly with frontier AI R&D the same thing will happen but the result of these mistakes is baking in”