The speaker believes current AI systems can competently match mediocre human researchers in machine-learning research.

“good at some subdomains right so they're like incredibly superhuman at writing kernels incredibly superhuman at everything with very short feedback loops and then like um you know pretty good at all the other stuff and like you know just totally able to match other people and like i think we are seeing this now like i would say that when i look at ais right now i think it's already the case that they can pretty competently match like”

“humans who are mediocre at ML research are doing ML research.”