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SPEAKER_01 said instrument control must account for physical-process timescales, and that API latency or excessive reasoning and tool calls can make control infeasible when they do not fit those timescales.
Liam Fedus · 🔬 Synthesis Superintelligence: from Semiconductors to Superconductors — Periodic Labs’ Liam Fedus and Ekin Dogus Cubuk · 8 Oct 2026
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“And then there's sort of a timescale associated with different physical processes.”
“And if calling out to an API or something is simply too slow,”
“so the amount of reasoning or tokens or tool calls is just not matched to the latency of that actual process.”
“process then that that's infeasible um”48:13Report a misattribution
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