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The need for direct observation of real-world detail does not prevent AI from being highly transformative, since data collection and experimentation can scale within AI and throughout the economy.
Unidentified speaker · AGI is still 30 years away — Ege Erdil & Tamay Besiroglu · 17 Apr 2025
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“AI being incredibly transformative because as I said you can scale your data collection you can scale experiments you do both in the AI industry itself and just more broadly in the economy”Play from 1:25:43Report a misattribution
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