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The speaker notes that AI may need to learn information on the fly to become superhuman in roles such as engineering at TSMC, where the field has relatively little available data.

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“but it also doesn't include fields where there is relatively little data because of the nature of the field and it has to like learn that data on the fly for example it has to become superhuman at like being an engineer at tsmc or something”
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