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The speaker is fairly certain that about 95% of an agent swarm, or of what it explores, is entirely useless.
Alex Zhang · Academia is for Ambition — Alex Zhang, MIT · 2 Oct 2026
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“And I think in the context of agent swarms, there is a similar thing going on of like, I'm fairly certain that like 95% of the swarm is entirely useless or like what it's exploring is entirely.”Play from 1:05:58Report a misattribution
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