The speaker guesses that AI agents with sufficiently good capabilities could use a scaffold to compare combinations of known words, record similar-sounding combinations, and investigate unusual patterns.

“at the same time and they kind of connected and the light bulb came on so this isn't about having all the information in your memory so much as the normal process of discovery which is kind of mysterious that seems to come from just kind of having good heuristics and throwing them at things until you kind of get a lucky strike my guess is if we had”

“really good AI agents and we”

“applied them to this task, it would look something like a scaffold where it's like, think of every combination of words that you know of, compare them. If they sound very similar,”

“write it on this scratch pad here.”

“If there's a combination, if a lot of words of the same type show up on this scratch pad,”

“that's pretty strange.”

“Do some kind of thinking around it.”