Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedBrendan Foody: belief
7 Jan 2026 Conversations with Tyler Brendan Foody on Teaching AI and the Future of Knowledge Work
“I think what you’re getting at is there’re two key things the models struggle at that humans tend to be very good at.”
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- Brendan Foody
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- belief
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- 7 Jan 2026
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…But isn’t there something about switching from task to task which the models can’t do at all? So, the model would beat me on a test. The model might even run better podcast questions than I do. But somehow, combining those all in a single entity, I can do. Even the best model — it’s still basically at zero as far as I can tell. The economic value is, in a way, still at zero? It’s interesting. I think what you’re getting at is there’re two key things the models struggle at that humans tend to be very good at. The first is these longer horizon tasks of not just something that we could do in a few hours, but something that might take us 50 or 100 hours to do. Then the second thing is integrating multiple tools with our response and going about doing these things, maybe interacting with people as one of those elements. I think that that’s coming very soon. The next version of APEX — What does “very soon” mean? Your best guess.…
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