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A smart generalist who can quickly learn across domains and has time to train, practice, and consult experts could perform well in most domains.
Ryan Greenblatt · Ryan Greenblatt – What happens once AI can automate AI research? · 11 Aug 2026
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“I think if you got instead got someone who is really good at quickly picking up a bunch of different domains and you gave them some time to sort of.”
“sort of train and talk to people and show up their expertise and do some practice they would actually do like a pretty good job i think most domains are fundamentally pretty shallow where like a very smart generalist who's good at like a limited subset of core skills can like get going pretty quickly um and my sense is that like that's not true for literally every domain and my sense is that the ais will develop increasingly good mechanisms for quickly acquiring understanding and expertise in a given domain”Play from 27:04Report a misattribution
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