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Dan Roberts expects more AI-driven math and science breakthroughs within six months
“For the next six months. Like, I think we'll see more of these sorts of math and science breakthroughs.”
Dan Roberts Jun 4, 2026 ▶ 47:22 OpenAI's Dan Roberts: Why AI Can Now Make Discoveries
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AI systems evolving into fully fledged scientists will be a gradual transition
“The, there's no sharp point, or I don't think there will be a sharp point where we'll say that systems didn't, weren't able to be useful for scientific, the scientific process to their fully fledged scientists. There'll be sort of a gradual shift.”
Dan Roberts Jun 4, 2026 ▶ 7:32 OpenAI's Dan Roberts: Why AI Can Now Make Discoveries
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OpenAI will release reinforcement learning products for consulting, banking, and legal
“I definitely think OpenAI will have amazing products that will be relevant in those domains, and some amount of RL will play a role in there.”
Dan Roberts Jun 4, 2026 ▶ 37:01 OpenAI's Dan Roberts: Why AI Can Now Make Discoveries
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Continuous AI improvements render multi-year autonomous agent runs highly inefficient
“In, in general, we're not just going to like set up a system and let it think autonomously for eight years, if anything, because like the system's eight years. After will be so much more powerful that it probably doesn't make sense to let a system think for a …”
Dan Roberts Jun 4, 2026 ▶ 44:03 OpenAI's Dan Roberts: Why AI Can Now Make Discoveries
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