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The speaker says that five years earlier, people would not have expected AI capability to differ between tasks lasting one minute and tasks lasting two hours in terms of time horizon.
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“Where did this come from? Like five years ago,”
“you would not have thought, oh, time horizon AIs will be able to do a bunch of things that last one minute, but not that last two hours.”2:40:32Report a misattribution
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