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Most real-world tasks requiring intelligence resemble science because they involve uncertainty, noise, and missing context, requiring an agent to decide what to do next.
Ekin Dogus Cubuk · Synthesis Superintelligence: from Semiconductors to Superconductors — Periodic Labs’ Liam Fedus and Ekin Dogus Cubuk · 8 Oct 2026
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“science because it's easier for your limbs, but in real life most things that require intelligence are actually more like science. Like there's a lot of uncertainty, there's a lot of noise, um there's a lot of missing context, but you have to be the intelligent being and figure out what to do next.”Play from 8:39Report a misattribution
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