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The speaker suggests that AI may take longer to master fields such as mechanical engineering when those fields are not receiving much attention.
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“So especially if it's not like, yeah,”
“if it's like mechanical engineering or something and it's not.”
“Not getting like the most attention right now that might take a little longer”Play from 1:35:17Report a misattribution
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