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SPEAKER_01 said their simple field-of-view capture program produced data that was not useful enough for the lab's needs.
Liam Fedus · Synthesis Superintelligence: from Semiconductors to Superconductors — Periodic Labs’ Liam Fedus and Ekin Dogus Cubuk · 8 Oct 2026
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“The data that was being surfaced from this very simple program where it sort of takes a field of view,”
“captures,”
“zooms in, captures,”
“was just not all that useful.”
“It was a little too dumb for what we really wanted to account.”Play from 46:51Report a misattribution
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