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The speaker argues that apparent general capability is partly an illusion: models can be shaped into specialized experts in any domain, but that expertise is latent rather than explicit.
Tim Scarfe · AI 2040: Plan A report - Daniel Kokotajlo & Thomas Larsen · 8 Sept 2026
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“model and and you activate the knowledge in a coherent way in that particular domain and the beauty of it is is that many many other people in different domains can do that and you get this kind of i think it's an illusion that the model has this general capability but i think the models can be carved to be specialized experts in any domain but they it's a latent capability rather than an explicit capability does that make sense”Play from 42:00Report a misattribution
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