The speaker’s takeoff model progresses from a superhuman coder, to fully automated AI R&D at approximately the level of the best human researchers, and then to qualitatively superior superintelligence.

“so previously i talked about sort of three stages of our takeoff model first is like you get the superhuman coder second is when you fully automated ai r&d but it's still at like basically human level like it's as good as your best humans and then third is like now you're in superintelligence territory and it's qualitatively better in our like guesstimates of”