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The speaker does not know when AI systems might become better across the board and says the timing depends on the length of the tail of capabilities where they remain weak.
Unidentified speaker · Noam Brown – Agent swarms, alignment, & recursive self-improvement · 17 Sept 2026
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“I don't know how long that takes.”
“It depends on how long the long tail is of things that they're bad at.”Play from 27:12Report a misattribution
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