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Improving an AI's performance on narrow tasks such as using office products or playing chess will not, by itself, produce large productivity gains.
Unidentified speaker · Noam Brown – Agent swarms, alignment, & recursive self-improvement · 17 Sept 2026
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“So yeah, if you just make an AI that's better at using office products or playing chess or something,”
“that's whatever,”
“that's fine.”
“It's not going to lead to big productivity improvements or anything.”Play from 31:52Report a misattribution
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