Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedPaul Graham: belief
9 Aug 2023 Conversations with Tyler Paul Graham on Ambition, Art, and Evaluating Talent
“Maybe there’ll be some solution because it is a very rapidly evolving field, but I think you have to have a large corpus, initially, of examples written in the language.”
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- 9 Aug 2023
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…But you have AI write some code in a perpetual motion machine, train other AIs on that code, and converge to something better, better, better. No? There was some research paper recently, where they trained an AI on the output of AIs, and it converges on crap. Maybe there’ll be some solution because it is a very rapidly evolving field, but I think you have to have a large corpus, initially, of examples written in the language. Other than hackers and hacking, what other human activities are what you have called high-cost interruption? That is, if you’re interrupted, you lose your train of thought, have to start all over again.…
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