The speaker thought that applying the AlphaGo approach to economically valuable tasks would make continued system improvement a question of how much money to invest for further gains.

“And I thought that, well, if you figure out how to apply that recipe to stuff that is economically valuable,”

“then at that point it becomes an economic question of how much money do I want to put in to get.”

“And yet, just keep improving the system.”

“And we as a field are there.”