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The speaker thinks that directing models or agents at an expanding context of information might be sufficient to solve very difficult problems.
Alex Zhang · Academia is for Ambition — Alex Zhang, MIT · 2 Oct 2026
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“not what's going to happen but yeah i think this is maybe the more interesting part uh and maybe the claims around like you know did the harness matter is more around this of like just arbitrarily pointing models like or agents at a growing kind of context of information maybe it's just enough to solve very difficult problems um that i can buy”Play from 1:04:01Report a misattribution
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