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The speaker believes models can be made as capable as an 18-year-old high-school student at some job, even with an unsophisticated approach.
Alex Zhang · Academia is for Ambition — Alex Zhang, MIT · 2 Oct 2026
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“like these models are so smart that even if it's like a silly way i think that it genuinely is a skill issue of you can get a model to be as good as let's say like just some 18 year old high school kid”Play from 1:22:32Report a misattribution
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