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On the speaker's most straightforward account, AI could learn to perform TSMC engineering through a scaled-up form of in-context learning rather than extensive pre-existing job-specific knowledge.
Ryan Greenblatt · Ryan Greenblatt – What happens once AI can automate AI research? · 11 Aug 2026
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“their data distribution is really wide and the AIs are extremely good on their data distribution such that it transfers to picking up being good at, you know, being an engineer at TSMC and learning that on the fly where it looks more like the way the AI gets good at being a TSMC engineer isn't that it has a ton of cash knowledge on being a good TSMC engineer. It's that it like.”
“like does the equivalent of like some scaled up version of in-context learning um there would”
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