AI systems are especially capable at research and development (R&D), in part because companies are actively optimizing them for R&D and because R&D has properties that suit current AI-development methods.

“I think it's worth noting that R&D is a type of task at which the AIs are especially good because both the companies are trying really hard to make their AIs good at R&D and it's the kind of domain,”

“it has a lot of nice properties from the perspective of how.”

“how AI development works right now.”