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The speaker describes a hypothetical AGI trajectory in which an AI trained across many games could master an unseen game zero-shot and then be taught English and coding tasks.

Daniel Kokotajlo · AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo · 3 Apr 2025

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“So imagine like instead of just training on Starcraft or Dota, you basically train on.”
“train on all the games in the theme library and then you get this awesome player of games ai that”
“can just like zero shot crush a new game that has never seen before and then you take it into the real world and you start teaching it english and you start like you know training it to like do coding tasks for you and stuff like that and if that had been the trajectory that we took to get to ai summarizing like the agency first and then world understanding trajectory”
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