The speaker argues that without the bottleneck of experiments, an overnight singularity at OpenAI or superintelligence emerging after an AI solved a major machine-learning problem in 88 hours could occur.

“you'd have some crazy singularity you know overnight at open ai uh or you'd have 88 hours and like you'd solve the millennium price problem equivalent of ml and you'd have the super intelligence um so obviously the experiments are such a big bottleneck that that instead takes you many years rather than 88 hours but the question is like how much of a bottleneck they are”