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The speaker believes AI systems are not close to matching a top software engineer, because that requires understanding the problem, the human goals behind it, and multiple domains.
Tim Scarfe · Three Red Lines We're About to Cross Toward AGI (Daniel Kokotajlo, Gary Marcus, Dan Hendrycks) · 24 Jun 2025
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“But top software engineer, I don't think we're close.”
“I think that that requires an understanding of the problem,”
“what humans want solved by the problem.”
“It requires a deep understanding of various domains.”
“means.”
“I just don't think that we're that close to that.”Play from 1:53:08Report a misattribution
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