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The speaker says an AI can be given a specified mathematics task and will hill-climb toward solving it, or be asked a knowledge question.
Tim Scarfe · AI 2040: Plan A report - Daniel Kokotajlo & Thomas Larsen · 8 Sept 2026
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“you can give it any specified task. So let's say it's a problem in mathematics and it will hill climb towards it.”
“So it's solving this intelligence problem or you can ask it any knowledge problem.”Play from 42:32Report a misattribution
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