4 sources healthy · latest episode 9 Nov 2026
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The speaker envisions a general-purpose system that can be directed conversationally to explore small problems, such as automating research to optimize easy parts of a problem without necessarily finding highly novel solutions.

Alex Zhang · Academia is for Ambition — Alex Zhang, MIT · 2 Oct 2026

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“So, so for example,”
“like if I wanted.”
“a general system that i could kind of talk i can talk to it like i would talk to an intern and basically just ask it to do to explore some small things so maybe an example of this is like very silly auto research is maybe an example of this of like not necessarily finding super super novel solutions but at least optimizing all of the easy parts of”
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