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The speaker says AI could receive the same onboarding materials as a human, but longer-horizon learning would still need to be addressed.
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“So you would have to assume that like the onboarding, yeah,”
“you can give the AI the same onboarding material and then there's some like something has to be solved about like sort of longer horizon learning.”Play from 1:35:42Report a misattribution
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