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Richard Socher says an AI system intended to invent everything would need knowledge of prior inventions to avoid reinventing them.
Richard Socher · Humanity’s Last Invention — Richard Socher of Recursive · 14 Sept 2026
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“especially even we'll get there maybe later if you want to invent a Eureka machine that invents everything for us, it needs to know how not to reinvent the wheel,”
“and to know what has been invented,”Play from 16:50Report a misattribution
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