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William Beauchamp: belief

26 Jan 2025 Latent Space Outlasting Noam Shazeer, crowdsourcing Chai AI with >1.4m DAU, and becoming the "Western DeepSeek" — with William Beauchamp, Chai Research

“Exactly. So I think if you want to talk about what would intelligence look like, it looks much more like tree search.”

— William Beauchamp

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William Beauchamp
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belief
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26 Jan 2025
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Latent Space

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…There's an interesting parallel between MLAs and MLAs. I think we use at the top, spreading out to different experts and then at the bottom with rejection sampling, choosing from different paths. I totally agree. That's the stuff that is the future of AI. I think that's the exciting stuff. And there's a parallel between that. Why was AlphaGo able to be superhuman? Right. It's this ability to generate many different paths. Tree search. And tree search. Exactly. So I think if you want to talk about what would intelligence look like, it looks much more like tree search. Combining the generative nature of these LLMs with a really good tree search. And that's what opening I've done with O1 and O3. I don't know that they do tree search. They never said they do. It's implied. Yes. Okay. Yes. Yes. Are you comfortable with O1 being a reasoning engine? No, no, no, no.…

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