prediction claim
The speaker thinks AIs would be much less useful as a technology if they did not generalize their problem-solving and effortful tendencies to both evaluations and ordinary use.
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“And if like that happened to not be the way they generalized,”
“they would be much less useful as a technology,”1:00:58Report a misattribution
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0.80importance to the conversation
0.92confidence the claim was read correctly