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Published · transcript-backedBrendan Foody: belief
7 Jan 2026 Conversations with Tyler Brendan Foody on Teaching AI and the Future of Knowledge Work
“I think the largest takeaway is that the rate of model improvement at economically valuable tasks is incredible.”
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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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…The paper you did with that group of people as your researchers — and many others, I should add — what’s the main thing you all learned from that exercise and from the paper? I think the largest takeaway is that the rate of model improvement at economically valuable tasks is incredible. If you look at the level that GPT-4o scored on this model, a frontier model a year ago, and that against GPT-5 today, the delta is profound. It often gets — Can you put a number on that or somehow break it down for us?…
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