The speaker thinks focusing on the human-level point on an AI scaling curve is probably not useful in general, though its usefulness depends on one's goals.

“if you just look at the scaling curve it's just like just goes up and there's some human level somewhere but like the human level is not privileged in any sense so the question is like is it a useful thing to be thinking about and the answer is probably not depends on what you care about um so i'm not saying we shouldn't focus on trying to make the system smarter than humans are like i think that's a good thing to focus on”