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The speaker suggests avoiding substantial automation effort on dexterity tasks that humans perform well when automating them would take months.
Liam Fedus · Synthesis Superintelligence: from Semiconductors to Superconductors — Periodic Labs’ Liam Fedus and Ekin Dogus Cubuk · 8 Oct 2026
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“And so for example, if there's some really tricky dexterity task that humans are excellent at, but you'd have to spend months automating machine,”
“maybe don't spend a ton of time there.”Play from 51:00Report a misattribution
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